Annie Douglas Kerrs’ marriage [ born as Ann Douglas McAdam in 1859 ] refers to her parents as John Kerr, Flesher and Jane Kerr M.S McAdam so I cannot assume her mother and John were married.
It certainly looks as if Annie told the registrar that her parents were married. Thst is, of course, no guarantee that they were married; it wasn't unknown for people to bend the truth a little.
I previously had worked out somehow that at approx. Age 10 Annie is with her grandparents Hugh Kerr and Ann McCartney in the 1871 census…they have a son John who I thought could be the man she later claims is her father. In the 1861 census there’s an Annie Kerr wrongly transcribed by Ancestry as daughter of Hugh and Annie and born 1861 but is actually the illegitimate child of their 18yr old daughter Margaret who lives with them also at 61 Main St Kirkcolm.
FreeCEN transcribes this child as granddaughter, aged one month in 1861, which fits with the date of birth if Margaret's child on 20 February 1861.
It's always a good plan to look at the original document on Scotland's People, especially when the transcriptions differ. Usually, if FreeCEN says one thing and Ancestry something different, it's FreeCEN that is correct, but it's not guaranteed.
I am so confused. Clearly this Annie b 1861 is not the one who married my George Meikle
No, I think not.
and Hugh and Ann are not the grandparents of Ann/ Annie D McAdam or Kerr b 1859.
It's stil possible that she is a grandchild but if so I'd have expected them to take her to live with them rather than see her boarded elsewhere.
