We have a problem with births for the children of Thomas Brown, miller, from the Blair Atholl OPR:
William Brown, miller, Margaret McIntosh in Haugh of Blair Isabella 4 Feb 1834
(99% certain that this is an error by the registrar)
Thomas Brown, miller, Margaret McIntosh in Haugh of Blair Thomas 17 Apr 1836
Thomas Brown, miller, Margaret McIntosh in Haugh of Blair Jean 1 Apr 1838
Thomas Brown Ann McIntosh in Dunkeld parish Peter 20 Jun 1839 (Dunkeld OPR)
Thomas Brown Ann McIntosh in Clunie parish John 4 Feb 1841 (Clunie OPR)
Thomas Brown Ann McIntosh in Blair Mill Margaret 12 Jan 1846
Thomas Brown Ann McIntosh in Blair Mill Ann 13 Mar 1850
Thomas Brown Ann McIntosh in Blair Mill Thomas 20 Aug 1853
Thomas Brown Ann McIntosh in Blair Atholl James 15 Nov 1855
At first glance one would assume that Margaret McIntosh died and Thomas remarried, and there are marriage entries in Clunie parish which match:
Thomas Brown and Margaret McIntosh, marriage 29 Nov 1830, Clunie OPR
Thomas Brown and Ann McIntosh, marriage 3 May 1839, Clunie OPR
But census return for 1841 and 1851 show no trace of Isabella, Thomas (1) and Jean.
Also The 1855 birth certificate states that Thomas, miller, was born Saucher, Collace parish, around 1817, and would fit with a baptism 29 Jul 1817 (Collace OPR) giving his father as Peter, which is the name of his eldest son by Ann McIntosh. Assuming that this is correct, then he would have been 13 years old in 1830 - rather young to marry Margaret McIntosh.
So we seem to have two Thomas Browns, both millers in Blair Atholl, both married in Clunie parish and both married to a McIntosh. Surely they must be related in some way.
Comments / suggestions appreciated.
Throth
(Ann McIntosh was born in Alvie, Inverness-shire, which doesn't seem to help either!)