So, your great, great grandmother,
Margaret (Maggie) Walker Barron seems to have had a number of illegitimate children. From what I can see, she was born on 7 July 1870 in Macduff, Banffshire, to Joseph Barron and Mary Reid.
I can find her in the 1871, 1881 and 1891 censuses with her parents in Boyndie, Banffshire. By 1901, she seems to be a patient at the Chalmers Hospital in Banff.
I’ve found five children of Maggie Barron so far, all by different fathers:
- Isabella Raffan Barron, b. 14 Sep 1889, Boyndie - Maggie successfully lodged a paternity suit against the father, George Riddle, farm servant.
- Alexander Barron, b. 17 Mar 1891 Boyndie - no father named
- Colin Fraser Barron, b. 20 Sep 1893, Boyndie - father named in following paternity suit as William Cowie, soldier
- Mary Ann Mitchell Barron, b. 9 Apr 1896, Tarves, Aberdeenshire - father named as John Mitchell, farm servant in following paternity suit
- Margaret (Maggie) Stevenson, b. 5 Nov 1898, Boyndie - father named on the birth registration as John Stevenson, mason, Inverurie
If this is the correct Margaret Walker Barron, it does beg the question of where your information that Margaret (Maggie) Stevenson's father was
George Stevenson came from, as the birth record is clearly
John Stevenson... And he wasn't a farm servant, but a mason. Although the father of Maggie's half sister, Isabella was George and he was a farm servant... You can see where there might be confusion, with so many different fathers...
Ruth