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Hi I believe I have located the 1851 census for Brantford, in addition to Isabella 18 and Margaret 53 there were also:-
John 26 occ Cabinet Maker
James 24 occ Mason
William 22 occ Mason
Alexander 20 occ Carpenter
All born Scotland
Margaret 15 b Canada
George? 11 b Canada
Keyboard86
This seems to be them again in Brantford, in 1861:
Mrs Dunbar, widow 58 (she seems to be quite creative with her age
)
John, 37
James 35
William 33
Alexander 31
Robert 29
Margaret 24
George 21
I wonder if this might be the family you're looking for:
John Dunbar and
Margaret Bain m. 22 Feb 1824, Keith, Banffshire. They had six children baptised in Keith as follows:
John 25 Apr 1824
James 16 Aug 1826
William 8 Mar 1828
Alexander 25 Apr 1830
Robert 16 Jul 1831
Isobel 6 Dec 1833
There's also a death registered in Michigan on 30 Nov 1918 of Margaret Shaw (nee Dunbar) - her place of birth is stated as Brantford, Ontario - parents John Dunbar and Margaret Bain. Her date of birth on the death record is recorded as 28 Dec 1833 - which is a bit out, but all the censuses she appears on with her husband have her year of birth as 1836 or 1837. She married Sidney Shaw on 6 Sep 1865 in Huron, Ontario.
Ruth
EDIT - just spotted that you've already got most of this with the two threads being merged - sorry for the duplication
McArthur, Milne, Mitchell, Black, Robertson, Morrison, Slessor, Lawrence - Aberdeenshire/Banffshire. Muir, Waddell, Fraser, Orr, Cowden - Lanarkshire/Renfrewshire/Dunbartonshire. Dalziel, Dalzell, Gourley, Cromie, Crombie, Bell - Co Down. Lewis, Corrigan, Morris, Cox, Hay - Monmouthshire/Pembrokeshire. Baker, Ginger, Woodhurst, Swift, Jones - Kent/London.