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Title: missing death record for Helen Banks, Canisbay
Post by: Rosezi on Sunday 23 April 17 10:46 BST (UK)

Searching for a Scottish death record for Helen Banks born abt 1791 (nee Mowat) from Canisbay, Caithness.  She married a William Banks in 1807, and is not on the 1861 census, so may have died between 1851-1861. They lived in the Hill Head Canisbay area.

Title: Re: missing death record for Helen Banks, Canisbay
Post by: kris47 on Wednesday 26 April 17 18:31 BST (UK)

this is an entry from Caithness Monumental Inscriptions vol 1 :-
Canisbay 30.     Wm Banks 22.8.1868 89, w Ellen Mowat 20.3.1851 69, ed da Jane, Mey.

Title: Re: missing death record for Helen Banks, Canisbay
Post by: Rosezi on Thursday 27 April 17 08:27 BST (UK)

Many thanks for this, I bought the death cert for William banks for August 1868 a few weks ago, but it says his wife was called Jane Bain and not Helen Mowat. He could have remarried of course after 1851, but I cannot find a marriage for a Wlm Banks and Jane Bain after this date. I have also searched and searched for a death record in the old parish records for Helen/Ellen Banks/Mowat for 1851, but nothing comes up - very frustrating!