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Hi Chris,

What an amazing project to have undertaken!  I've recently been given a load of family papers and come across 2 Cadder lair certificates for my great great grandparents and great grandparents and wondered if you had come across them.  They are Robert Rice and Mary Muir and David Muir Rice and Jane (Jean) Bowman. There is also a distant cousin, Robina Muir.  Many thanks for any help you can offer. 

Jo

Thank you so much for finding her death - did you find this on Scotland's People? Strange that she's listed as a domestic servant when I've found evidence of her taking Holy Orders - although it wasn't an official record, so could well be wrong! Hopefully I will get an answer to the email that I sent to the link below!

Jo

Hi, I've just stumbled across the fact that my gt aunt x4 became a nun in the Franciscan Sisters of the Immaculate Conception in Glasgow in 1873.  She was born in Aberdeen in 1849 to James Rice and Jemima Wilson and died in 1898.  Does anyone know anything about the convent and the nuns?  I've found her in the 1871 census and she's listed as a servant at the convent.  I've not found a listing for either her birth or death though.

thanks for any help!
Jo

Thank you for the search 

I've just found her death certificate - died 4 November 1886, aged 66 - so a rough birth date of around 1820 then?  It names her "reputed" father as William Wilson, Master Slater and her mother as Lizzie (or maybe Jessie) Chalmers, domestic servant - both deceased. Where it says widow of James Rice (Combmaker), underneath it says illegitimate.

So I imagine I'm not going to find a marriage cert for William and Lizzie then 

Thanks for that - I posted the other thread as Jemima married James, my gt x3 grandfather!