Hello jcmac
This sure is more productive having someone to 'puzzle over' the who is and who isnt's. CHEERS.
Lillias sure is a common name and even almost came down to my husbands aunty whose middle name is Lillian. A name that does appear all the way through the family line.
If I have the correct parents for Robert Paterson (1827) who married Ann Wallace. Then Robert Paterson (1782) married Lillias Hamilton and they had
James Paterson
1807 –
Agnes Paterson
1812 –
Lillias Paterson
1814 –
Margaret Paterson
1817 – 1889
Ann Paterson
1824 –
Robert Paterson
1827 – 1902
So I am lost as to how Elizabeth Paterson or Brock fits into the picture. Although I'm sure if we go back a generation they will.
No I hadn't seen that census thanks!, So if our Lillias was born abt 1786 in East Kilbride, Lanarkshire, Scotland. In that census she should have been aged about 65. So does M and L mean mother in law was aged 92. because that could well be right. Yes there would have been a daughter Lillias.
My caution is that there were so so many Patersons I hope we're not on the wrong path.
If Robert Paterson was born at Foulmires/Foulmyres farm just east of Strathaven then I guess as some point his parents must have farmed there.
I also found this and feel that this is our Paterson line..
http://records.ancestry.com.au/lilias_hamilton_records.ashx?pid=128374703 So on this side of the earth... I am working on the details of John Paterson 3 Oct 1874 and how he came about moving to NZ, what ship etc. I also found a James Paterson had lived in Eltham NZ (also where my husbands family are from) where John and his wife lived but the family here do not know of a connection - but now I wonder if there was?
Wishing you well and thank you for your interest in this search. :-) :-) I must go to off to work.