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Pulling my hair out with this brick wall. Any clues, help or ideas appreciated.
My great grandmother was Mary Wood (born Sharp). I have sourced her death record in 1927 in Glasgow and I know she was married in Belfast in 1878. From these records and census information for 1881, 1891 and 1901 she was born around 1853-54 in Falkirk. Her death record gives only her mother's name as Agnes Sharp, domestic servant (deceased), with no maiden surname and no details for her father. The Irish marriage record does not provide any parental details of the bride.
I can find no birth record for Mary to Agnes. The closest records are for a Mary born in 1854 to William Sharp and Mary Easton in Polmont and another born to John Sharp and Elizabeth Inglis in Larbert. The 1861 census shows a Mary Sharp aged 7, with John and Elizabeth and another Mary with William and Mary in Bothkennar, but it seems William Sharp and Mary Easton are not married.
Mary's stated mother, Agnes Sharp, therefore remains a mystery.
William Sharp and Mary Easton had a daughter Agnes in 1841, but she does not appear in the 1861 census. There is also an Agnes born to a Joseph Sharp and Agnes Graham in Bothkennar in 1842 and she appears in the 1861 census as an 18 year old with her parents living very close to William Sharp and Mary Easton. It is very tempting to try and connect Mary Sharp to either of those Agnes's as a "secret" birth, but in either case the potential "mother" would be extremely young at around 12!
Don't know where to go next.
Wigtown:Milroy,Paterson,McClelland,Kelly/Miskelly,McPherson,Dodds,McCulloch,Stewart,Broadfoot,Donnan,Carnochan,Agnew,Blair/Blain,Jackson,Brown,McGill,Montgomery,Davidson,Donaldson
Lanark:Kay,Young,McAllister,Muir,Buchanan
Kirkcudbright:Hutchison,Robertson
Renfrew:Loudon,Harper,Miller,Anderson
Fife:Barnett,Mcdonald,Thomson,Lumsden,Wood,Pryde,Melville,Stevenson,Inglis
Moray:Sutherland,Waite
Stirling:Sharp,Grosart,Gray,Mitchell,Morison
Berwick:Craig
Ayr:Kennedy,Barclay,McKenna
Kinross:Henderson