Jane McAdam's marriage to John Kerr and who are her parents.

[MonicaL]

Don't know if sisters...

1851, matching your family in 1861, William:

Ann Jane Murray 36 lodger b. Dromer C Dem, Ireland (as transcribed)
Betsey Murry 11 b. Ballylagh Dem, Ireland
Robert Murry 10 b. Belfast, Ireland
Ann Mcadam 4 b. Stranraer
Mary Mcadam 1 b. Stranraer

Address:Little Ireland, Stranraer

No sign of a Jane Douglas McAdam within this group is there 

Monica

[Rosinish]

What if Jane McAdam wasn't really who she proclaims on Ann's birth?

There's this, the only Douglas in the area in 1861 

DOUGLAS JEAN
26
887/ 6/ 2 Kirkcolm, Wigtown

I think it would probably be quite difficult to pretend to be someone else in a small rural parish like Kirkcolm

Forfarian, Sorry, I missed your comment above & I should have explained my thoughts & elaborated (was thinking aloud).

I was wondering if perhaps this Jean Douglas may have been using 2 surnames at different times i.e. possibly illegitimate herself using Douglas &/or McAdam or both at some time...a passing thought?

Annie

[Forfarian]

I was wondering if perhaps this Jean Douglas may have been using 2 surnames at different times i.e. possibly illegitimate herself using Douglas &/or McAdam or both at some time...a passing thought

Yes, quite possible, I suppose.

[2Harriet]

OOPS...there is indeed a year and 7 months between Ann and Williamina making it probable that they have the same Jane McAdam as their mother.

[2Harriet]

A public tree on Ancestry has posted the birth, marriage and death certs. of Ann Douglas McAdam/Kerr. I note that on her death cert. only her mother is named - there is not even a father unknown written.

Here is the death record of my Ann/Annie Douglas McAdam  [my Gt Grandmother] showing the claim that her father was a John Kerr.

[Wendy2305]

2 Harriet that is her marriage you have put up do you have her death cert or do you know when and where she died

[2Harriet]

2 Harriet that is her marriage you have put up do you have her death cert or do you know when and where she died

oops again, have attached death record...

[2Harriet]

Monica and Wendy this one attached is Annie D McAdam died 1877

[MonicaL]

The marriage of Jane Douglas McAdam to Hugh McKeil in Galston in 1870: