I'm confused. Are you saying that Agnes Elizabeth McGregor, born 1853, who married William Mair, was the daughter of William Reid and Agnes Robertson, not the daughter of Joseph McGregor and Agnes Gillespie Reid? If so, how did she acquire the surname McGregor? I see that a William Reid and Agnes Robertson had a daughter Agnes, born in Glasgow on 4 April 1863, ten years after the birth of Agnes Elizabeth McGregor to Joseph McGregor and Agnes Gillespie Reid.
I see from the index at Scotland's People that Duncan McGregor, son of Joseph McGregor and Agnes Gillespie Reid, was baptised in Stirling on 4 May 1848, and Agnes Elizabeth was baptised in Glasgow on 9 March 1853. Joseph and Agnes were married in Stirling on 21 April 1847.
In the 1851 census (FreeCen transcription) in Forth Place, Stirling are
Joseph McGregor, 36, wood merchant, born Glasgow
Agnes McGregor, wife, 25, born Stirling
Duncan McGregor, son, 3, born Stirling
Duncan McGregor, brother, 19, draper's assistant, born Glasgow
Helen Stewart, servant, 26, born St Ninians.
So Joseph was born in Glasgow in about 1814 or 1815, and his brother Duncan was born there in about 1831 or 1832.
Agnes Elizabeth McGregor married William Mair in Glasgow in 1886.
Have you seen
- the original marriage record of Joseph McGregor and Agnes Gillespie Reid in 1847
- the original baptism record of Duncan McGregor in 1848
- the original of the 1851 census
- the original baptism record of Agnes Elizabeth McGregor in 1853
- the original marriage certificate of Duncan McGregor and Agnes Robertson Winning in 1873
- the original marriage record of William Mair and Agnes Elizabeth McGregor in 1886?
If you have seen them, what else do they tell you?
If you have not yet seen them, you need to go to
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