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McPherson death record
« on: Friday 29 January 21 22:46 GMT (UK) »
Headstone in Nairn cemetery states that Isabella McLennan, aged 73, wife of John McPherson died 18 March 1891 but I can't locate a death record for her on SP.

Could it have been registered but is not indexed on SP?

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Re: McPherson death record
« Reply #1 on: Friday 29 January 21 22:57 GMT (UK) »


Do you have an image of the headstone?

Is anyone else named on the headstone?

Can you give details of the inscription on the headstone....all the words...to the extent that it is clear enough to read.

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Re: McPherson death record
« Reply #2 on: Friday 29 January 21 23:04 GMT (UK) »
Erected
by
JOHN McPHERSON
Salmon Fisher
Nairn
in memory of
hi
beloved daughter
JANE.
Wife of ANGUS CORBET
who died 15th DECr 1871,
aged 22 years.
Also his son
DONALD McPHERSON
who died 21st March 1873,
aged 26 years
Also their mother BELLA McLENNAN
who died on the 18th March 1891,
aged 73 years.
And her husband, the aforesaid
JOHN McPHERSON who died on the 17th Feb 1892
aged 74 years.

Thy will be done.

Info from Findagrave

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Re: McPherson death record
« Reply #3 on: Friday 29 January 21 23:26 GMT (UK) »

The headstone has been placed some time after the 1892 death.  There would be at least one of the named people buried there. 

"In Memory of"   might name people buried in the plot.....or died / buried somewhere else.


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Re: McPherson death record
« Reply #4 on: Friday 29 January 21 23:37 GMT (UK) »
Agree with wivenhoe but info. may also be slightly out.

However, there have been a few cases here on RC where a DC was elusive on SP.

Does the age on John's death tally with what you know, could Isabella's age be wrong on her death reg. or indexed wrong?

Did they have children living elsewhere who Isabella may have been visiting & died there?

Annie

Add...I did a complete search 1881 - 1900 minus yr, age & maiden name & the closest I could see was for MCPHERSON ISABELLA 70 - 1896 - 123/ 55 Nairn with other surname Grant
South Uist, Inverness-shire, Scotland:- Bowie, Campbell, Cumming, Currie

Ireland:- Cullen, Flannigan (Derry), Donahoe/Donaghue (variants) (Cork), McCrate (Tipperary), Mellon, Tol(l)and (Donegal & Tyrone)

Newcastle-on-Tyne/Durham (Northumberland):- Harrison, Jude, Kemp, Lunn, Mellon, Robson, Stirling

Kettering, Northampton:- MacKinnon

Canada:- Callaghan, Cumming, MacPhee

"OLD GENEALOGISTS NEVER DIE - THEY JUST LOSE THEIR CENSUS"

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Re: McPherson death record
« Reply #5 on: Friday 29 January 21 23:40 GMT (UK) »
The headstone was possibly made using money identified for that use by John McPHERSON, who died 1892.

The headstone might have been placed many years later when those funds were available....and the informant for the date made an error.

At census 1891...do you see John McPHERSON identified as a widower.   I think the census would have been conducted in April?

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Re: McPherson death record
« Reply #6 on: Saturday 30 January 21 00:15 GMT (UK) »
John is listed as widower in 1891 at same address that he was living with Isabella at in 1881

Children all pre-deceased them and her age on headstone is consistent with census records

They married 1845 and I also can't find them on 1851 census

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Re: McPherson death record
« Reply #7 on: Saturday 30 January 21 00:22 GMT (UK) »
Milligan - Jardine – Glencross – Dinwoodie - Brown: (Dumfriesshire & Kirkcudbrightshire)
Clark – Faulds – Cuthbertson – Bryson – Wilson: (Ayrshire & Renfrewshire)
Neale – Cater – Kinder - Harrison: (Warwickshire & Queensland)
Roberts - Spry: (Cornwall, Middlesex & Queensland)
Munster: (Schleswig-Holstein & Queensland) and Plate: (Braunschweig, Neubruck & Queensland & New York)

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Re: McPherson death record
« Reply #8 on: Saturday 30 January 21 00:34 GMT (UK) »
Milligan - Jardine – Glencross – Dinwoodie - Brown: (Dumfriesshire & Kirkcudbrightshire)
Clark – Faulds – Cuthbertson – Bryson – Wilson: (Ayrshire & Renfrewshire)
Neale – Cater – Kinder - Harrison: (Warwickshire & Queensland)
Roberts - Spry: (Cornwall, Middlesex & Queensland)
Munster: (Schleswig-Holstein & Queensland) and Plate: (Braunschweig, Neubruck & Queensland & New York)