Nancy CARROLL

[garlands]

Monica,
No, except once-a-month when I assist at a Family Search group at my local library, which is currently cancelled until further notice. I use Find my Past.
That's a fascinating insight into the harsh reality of those times. To say that life was hard is a massive understatement.

[garlands]

Forfarian
Many thanks. I'll have another look

[MonicaL]

BTW, Annie Wilson's parents were Stewart Wilson and Ann Imrie. Her birth entry here:

Annie Watson Wilson 1868 www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:FQ9P-C6T

So from the range of ages we have seen:

1894 - Age 26 at the time of her first marriage which would be correct
1901 - Age 32, fits well with birth year
1911 - Age 48 which is at least 6 years older, should be 43
1922 - She would have been 54 when Annie/Nancy was born. Too old to be her mother as we suspect
1953 - Her age at death showing as 85...which is correct

So, really only her age on the 1911 census it out. I do not think you have checked the original image on SP? It may be that her age reads as 43 not 48.

Monica

[MonicaL]

By 1881. Annie Wilson was already out of the home working. She shows, aged 13, domestic servant in the McIntosh household at 1 Old Ravenscraig Hamlet, Dalziel.

Her family on the same census year:

Stewart Wilson 39 coal miner b. Douglas, Lanark
Ann Wilson 36 b. Wishaw
George Wilson 15
Lizzie Wilson 11
Agnes Wilson 8
Mary Wilson 6
Maggie Wilson 4
Bella Wilson 10 Months

Address: 2 Old Ravenscraig Hamlet, Dalziel (next door to Annie).

Ann Imrie died in 1885. Husband Stewart remarried in 1885 in Edinbugh to a Helen Ferguson. He died in 1901 in Craigneuk.

You should be able to confirm these details on SP.

Monica

[garlands]

I have a print of the original image.Lots of 3's and 8's on the page, all of which are very clear. I suspect the enumerator made a reading/transcription error. I was an enumerator in 1981, and some of the returns were problematic, so it wouldn't surprise me if that's where the error was introduced - we shall never know.
There was an instance in my generation where there was an unexpected new arrival to a 55-year old mother. In Nancy's case, only a DNA test will establish the facts. For the moment, I favour a 'not proven' verdict.

[garlands]

Monica - thanks, I shall

[MonicaL]

There was an instance in my generation where there was an unexpected new arrival to a 55-year old mother. In Nancy's case, only a DNA test will establish the facts. For the moment, I favour a 'not proven' verdict.

You are right. Hopefully facts will be clear when you are able to view her birth cert.

Can I ask something?  How do you connect to these lines?

Monica

[garlands]

Simple answer, I don't!
I have a very good tennis-playing friend who is Mary's daughter and, when she learned of my volunteering at the library, mentioned that she wanted to trace her family but didn't know how to go about it, so I offered to help, and here I am.

[MonicaL]

And here we all are! Let's see what else comes up for her 

Monica