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Thank you ArgyllGran

Looks like Agnes was Robert Aiton's second wife (unless Jean was perhaps his sister):

Here's Robert in 1841:


1841 Scotland Census about Robert Aiton
Name: Robert Aiton
Age: 55
Estimated Birth Year: abt 1786
Gender: Male
Where born: Scotland
Civil Parish: Hamilton
County: Lanarkshire
Address: Muir Wind
Occupation: Law Agint <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<
Parish Number: 647
Household Members:
Name Age
Robert Aiton 55
Jean Aiton 50
William Aiton 30 - age might be mistranscribed - occupation Retired Sheriff.

(Lots of other people on Ancestry's transcription, but they look like other households.)


So Agnes probably couldn't be Mary's mother.
In any case, Mary's marriage record says her father was Robert Aiton, Joiner

I don't see him in Edinburgh in 1841.

Thank you ArgyllGran

Actually, (next morning, in the cold light of day) Agnes can't have been a second wife. She was already his wife, but away from home in 1841, visiting the Coopers.

So Jean might be Robert's sister.

However . . . .
Robert wasn't Mary's father, who was a joiner living in Edinburgh in 1837 - unless he had a radical change of career direction between 1837 and 1841. Or the parish clerk made a big mistake.

But there must be some relationship between Agnes and Mary, for Agnes to have been visiting Mary in 1841.

I can't see Mary's birth on ScotlandsPeople - but it was before registration was compulsory.

thank you ArgyllGran the information gives me something to start researching again