All the children seem to have been baptisted in Catholilc churches.
On the other information, so supposing she was a Presbyterian and married Denis, a Catholic. From what you say below, is it conceivable she changed her first name to marry him and become catholic? So she could have been born a Presbyterian Law with another first name? Not sure if I'm understanding correctly.
As a sidenote, I always thought it strange that they, nor their children, named anyone Bridget......
" I was wondering if Bridget had turned RC at some stage and this may have been a baptismal name. "
I know, in theory, in the Christian church you can be baptised once, 'all churches are God's churches' (this is an Anglican view) but I do know that the RC church did baptise over the top as this did happen in my g'mother in the early days of their marriage. (In NZ, late 1890s.)
My oldest Aunt & Uncle (2 & 3) were at home with a neighbour looking after them while my g'mother was out helping my g'father when a priest sent by the paternal mother came to the house and baptised these two. My g'mother was the daughter of a fierce Irish Presbyterian, and my g'father who was a lapsed Catholic who had left his studies to be a priest at a NZ seminary to apprentice as a saddler was not pleased either. The aunt had been christened already but my younger uncle had not. He used to tease my g'mother about it but never went to a Catholic church.
Anyway it did used to happen and she may have been blessed with a saints name and took this from then....would be made easier by a move to England where no-one would have known the earlier name.
OP which church did the family go to in Scotland? Are there any female names that you cannot place from the father's family? You have said you have a Mary Anne?
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