This one had ma heid birlin for a wee while .......
In order to answer the original question I started to do a wee bit of digging.........
The 1881 census entry referred to is ..............
Dwelling: Belmont Road Mayfield Front
Census Place: Colinton, Edinburgh, Scotland
Source: FHL Film 0223985 GRO Ref Volume 677 EnumDist 4 Page 24
Marr Age Sex Birthplace
Robert MAY M 65 M Currie, Edinburgh, Scotland
Rel: Head
Occ: Labourer In Mill
Isabella MAY M 59 F Currie, Edinburgh, Scotland
Rel: Wife
Occ: Grocer
Robert MAY U 16 M Currie, Edinburgh, Scotland
Rel: Son
Occ: Clerk
Alexander MAY 12 M Currie, Edinburgh, Scotland
Rel: Son
Occ: Scholar
Robert MC INTOSH 11 M Currie, Edinburgh, Scotland
Rel: G Son
Occ: Scholar
Checking on the birth of Robert MAY shows his parents' names as Robert MAY and Isabella PLENDERLEITH.
The 1872 marriage of Margaret MAY to William RAMSAY shows her parents as Robert MAY and Isabella PLENDERLEITH.
Sooo... always assuming that the above Robert MCINTOSH is Margaret's son, and that seems likely, then this is indeed the same Margaret.
So where is she in the 1881 census? Here she is ..........
Dwelling: John St
Census Place: Penicuik, Edinburgh, Scotland
Source: FHL Film 0224023 GRO Ref Volume 697 EnumDist 6 Page 12
Marr Age Sex Birthplace
James KEARY M 30 M Penicuik, Edinburgh, Scotland
Rel: Head
Occ: Paper Mill Worker
Margaret KEARY M 30 F Currie, Edinburgh, Scotland
Rel: Wife
Robert KEARY 4 M Glasgow
Rel: Son
John KEARY 2 M Glasgow
Rel: Son
Elisabeth KEARY 1 F Penicuik, Edinburgh, Scotland
Rel: Daur
As Margaret MAY, "spinster", parents Robert MAY and Isabella PLENDERLEITH married James KEARY in Camlachie in Glasgow in 1876. So William RAMSAY must have died between 1872 and 1876?, and Margaret was mistakenly described as a spinster - if he did die in Scotland then there's no trace apart from the possibility of two Marine Records, - but he was a Papermaker in 1872.......
Heid birlin?, - saes mines
And wir no feenished yet.
On the 1872 RAMSAY/MAY marriage register entry there's an RCE annotation referring to a divorce, but it's too faint to make out the date ......
Suggestions on a postcard, please, to .....................
Occam's Razor would lead to the RAMSAY marriage followed by divorce followed by remarriage to James KEARY, but Margaret wrongly described as spinster, or hiding her divorce, and young Robert carefully planked out the way with Margaret's parents .............
Other points of interest, Margaret's father was a papermill worker, so were William RAMSAY and his father, as were James KEARY and his father. The 1872 marriage was UP, and the 1876 marriage, - in Glasgow, with both showing addresses there, next door to each other, - was Episcopal.
Neatly tieing it all together is the 1937 death of Margaret KEARY in Glencorse, not far from Currie, shown as the widow of James KEARY, parents Robert and Isabella as previously, informant Rob. MACKINTOSH, Son....... but no reference to william RAMSAY ..........
Getting back to the original question, LDS give prime importance to the date of birth, in this case in 1869, but not registered, for wahtever reason until 1870, so I can only assume that "
This information was generated from another entry that appears in this index. Look for another entry for this person" refers to the register entry not being in 1869 ..........
Davie
