« on: Tuesday 27 November 18 15:36 GMT (UK) »
Hello: i hope you don't mind this long post - I'm trying to give as much information as possible in case anyone can point me in the right direction.
I have been on the trail of my 4X great grandmother- Jane Main. She was born circa 1818-1821 in Roxburgh depending on what sources i use.
On the 1841 census she is 20 years old living with Christina Sutherland 40, Agnes 45( both "independent" ). Also on the census is Robert 20, John 15. No mention of marital status or relationshoips between them all. The recorder started to write Jane Sutherland but changed it to Main. Between 1841 and 1853, Jane married ( or just said she did) John Smith, went to England where she had three boys - William, 1845, Robert Sutherland Smith 1846, John 1848. Then they were back in Edinburgh where she had Christina 1850, and Janet 1851. Jane died 1853 of decline ( no bloody wonder). On her son Robert's marriage certificate he put her MS name as Sutherland but on his death cert it is back to Main ( this from his step mother no less)
On the census they all say they were born in Roxburgh but the only BC for a Jane Main is to George Main and Elizabeth Routledge. I found an entry for that Jane Main and who she married and it was not my 4X great grandfather.
My questions - and I don't expect anyone to research for me, maybe just a suggestion where i could look)
1) would these circumstances mean she was adopted by the Sutherlands ? it seems unlikely to me as she was 20 on the census and if she had been adopted young i would think she would be called Sutherland.
2) She named two of her sons after John and Robert Sutherland. Sutherland is Robert's midde name. She named her daughter Christina so they must have bene close ?
3) Robert thought her MS was sutherland and put it on his marriage certificate. So he knew them too?
This Sutherland group disappear after the 1841 census and I can't find a marriage cert for John Smith and Jane Main. I'm thinking it may have been England.
To be sure there were two other Jane Mains in Roxburgh 1841 but i chose this one due to her son having Sutherland and thinking her MS was Sutherland . But maybe I'm making too many assumptions?
I guess what I'm hoping for is anyone who is connected to the Sutherland family, who may have information as to their movements , birth place, or even deaths. If I can somehow connect the name Sutherland to Main or Smith that may help me.
Sorry again for the long post, and thank you for any assistance. Here is the notes beside her name on the 1841 census under occupation but i can't make it out .
** I don't know why the image is upseide down- it was the right way when i posted it
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Lanarkshire: Dow, Dickson, Duncan, Buchanan, Maclachlan, Wallace, Mitchel, Freckleton, Dollar, Whitten(on),Liverance, Murray, Gibson, Scoular, Telfer, Fisher,Slimman
Bo'ness: Henderson, Wallace, Foot(e)
Irvine: Petrie, Millar, Jaffrey, Allen,Boyd,
Edinburgh: Huldberg, Smith, Main, primrose
Roxburgh: Main, Smith, Sutherland
Wales: Islay, Wilkes, Morris, Ponter
England: Murray ( Windsor), Ponter ( Bath),
Ireland: Whitten, Irvine, Miller, McWilliams,Tremble,Greenaway, Stevenson,Wilson