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Brickwall with hubby's gr-gr-grandparents - James SCOTT & Jane HEWITT, was he married before? Details below. Sorry, but it's rather longwinded! Debbie

1851 census online my big hope for finding these two, either together, or even better with their parents – no such luck!! James SCOTT + Jane HEWITT – info from their children’s birth certs, but have never found a marriage for them, so no father’s names to work back with (grrr) The 1851 has given me James SCOTT 30 Masons Lab, Bewcastle MARY ditto 40 Bobbin Winder, Scotland Ann ditto 19, Corby Hill Cumb? William ditto 15 Hand Loom Weaver, Corby Hill Margaret ditto 10, Hexham NBL John Scott 7, Brampton Cumb Thomas Scott 1 ½ , Brampton Now it’s quite obvious from the ages that all these children aren’t James’s. I have located a marriage in Hexham 1840 for a Mary Forster & James Scott, which would fit in with the birth of Margaret, and a baptism for Margaret in Hexham 1841. There is a Forster family living next door to James & Mary in 1851 BUT I don’t think she was Mary FORSTER! If this is her family, this would suggest a first marriage for Mary. There is another marriage in 1839 in Brampton for James Scott & Mary Scott. This would explain all the children being called Scott. This could have been an oversight on the enumerators part, but can find none of these children listed as FORSTER anywhere. Marriage in Caldbeck 1829 Mary Scott to Joseph Scott. Baptism for Ann Scott 1831 Caldbeck parents Joseph & Mary. Baptism for Margaret 1841 Hexham parents JAMES & Mary Baptism for John Scott 1846 parents James & Mary Death in 1839 for Joseph Scott. Death in 1852 for Mary Scott – Brampton. First child born to James & JANE Scott 1853. Did Mary Scott marry Joseph Scott, had Ann & William. James dies and she remarries to my James Scott. Mary then died, and he ‘married’ Jane c1852/3. The timeline all fits BUT if I have ‘cracked’ it – what happened to all the other children???? You would expect at least the youngest (Thomas) to be with James in 1861, he would have only been 11. Any help with all this, would be most appreciative. Have already decided to send for birth cert for Margaret, but that will take a week, so in the meantime....... I think I need to lie down in a darkened room! Debbie PS - I have James & Jane on all census from 1861 until their deaths.