I am still struggling to use the information I've found on Norman and Isabella's marriage record to find his parents. Right now, I have record and know that Norman was married at age 23 in Applecross. He marriage record, I believe, reads "Of Torridon." Would this mean a birth place, or just where his home at the time was?
Warning bells! If the so-called 'record' you have found includes the word 'Of' you
must not trust it. Did you find it on Family Search? What FS does is
index records that come into their hands. If they have a marriage listing, they regularly assume that the people involved are 'Of' wherever they were living at the time of marriage. They also assume that the couple were of certain ages - I thought it was 25 for a man and 21 for a woman but it could be 23 and 21 - at the time of marriage.
BTW don't read anything into variations of spelling, like Norman/Normand, Morison/Morrison, Murdoch,Murdo or Mac/Mc.
warning- the 1841 census for Scotland lists where you were living as where you were from
No, it does
not. The question asked in Scotland in 1841 was whether or not the person was born in the county where they were living, or in England, Ireland, Wales or foreign parts. You get 'Y' if they were born in the same county, 'N' if they were born in the same country but a different county, 'E' for England, 'W' for Wales, 'I' for Ireland, ('S' for Scotland in the E and W census) and 'F' for anywhere else.