« Reply #3 on: Saturday 20 April 19 05:42 BST (UK) »
Thank you Maidenstone and Lodger
Your replies have just reinforced the mystery - I know that both of your comments are absolutely correct - so herein lies the mystery. The husband Donald Stewart was born Barvas County Ross, in 1885, parents Hugh and Henrietta Stewart, tinkers (married 1875 Peterhead - maybe I should chase this marriage). The wife Johanna McKay born illegitimate to Margaret McKay - bit unsure about her actual birth entry - but we believe born in Lochs, County Ross. From what I can find both Barvas and Lochs were predominantly not Catholic. Must say that I haven't done a really deep search of Catholic records, but will do so now - as much as available. Somehow I have always presumed that maybe Johanna could have had a catholic background - but how do I prove it? And why in their 1914 marriage record do they not have the phrase ….re "having obtained dispensation?" - like some others on same page have? Woops.... have just discovered that I do have a marriage for a Hugh Stewart and Henrietta Stewart in Inverurie Aberdeen both age 39 in 1893... are these the said Hugh and Henrietta I am looking for - marrying actually at a later date than is listed on Donald Stewarts birth? - or have I got the totally wrong couple? Oh dear - complex families these ones! Chasing the 1875 "marriage" now.
McNab, Kenney, Johnstone, Carrigan, (Cargan, Kirgan, Corrigan), Toll, Tracey, McNulty, Reilly, Maguire, Loughlin, Banks, McGonagle, Forsyth, McDonald, Michael, Kennedy, Bagnell, Cronan, Dunleavy, McMullan. - Glasgow, Ireland, British Columbia Canada, Manchester New Hampshire USA.