Hi. Would appreciate any help to find where my great great grandmother and Grandfather are buried A Joseph Watson b. 1809 in Aberdeen and a Jane Dunstan Watson b. 1805 from Banffshire I believe.
Was Watson her maiden name?
I note that FindMyPast's transcription of the 1851 census says that Jane was born in 'Fochabers, Banffshire'. It so happens that Fochabers is not in Banffshire, but in Moray. However it is in the parish of Bellie, which is mainly in Moray but partly in Banffshire. The Banffshire part of the parish of Bellie is also part of the anomalous parish of Enzie (pronounced 'ING-ie') which remained fairly strongly Roman Catholic throughout the 17th and 18th centuries, in defiance of the prevailing Protestantism all round about. So I suspect that your Watsons may have been Roman Catholics.
FreeCEN's transcription has, in my view not very helpfully, amended the birthplace to read 'Morayshire, Fochabers' with a note that the original reads Banffshire.
But at least FreeCEN has managed to state that St Davids is in Glasgow; FindMyPast simply says, 'St David's, Lanarkshire'. And it adds supposed years of birth which do not feature in the original document.
In 1841 (FindMyPast) Joseph, Jane and John are in Church Street, Inverness.
Joseph Watson, journeyman house painter, aged 47, married Margaret Carruthers, aged 20, in Stranraer on 13 April 1857. His parents were William Watson, merchant, and Charlotte Watson maiden surname Shand. Hers were William Carruthers and Margaret ?Strain?.
So Jane must have died between 1851 and 1857. There is no likely-looking death in the SP index so it looks likely that she died before 1855.
Noting that Joseph and Margaret's son was named John, I wonder if Joseph's son John by his first wife had died young?
