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Not sure if you got your reply, but Camelon is part of Falkirk.

Thanks for the really helpful pointers on William.  The plot thickens because in the scottish census there are two brothers, but the family tree has three, William, Thomas and Samuel.  They changed the spelling to Purdie in Scotland.  Where do the all come from?  I can't find her marriage record, but 3 sons born illegitimate sounds a lot for a family in those times to accept.  I keep wondering if she married another Purdie/y.  I am sure it was not that uncommon.  Perhaps he died and she left the country.  Something often makes us move, something big.  Still puzzling away.  She is the real enigma.  Mind you she married a man, my g grandfather who had 3 wives and 18 children.

 

I am looking into Agnes Purdie who married Peter Bolton in Lanarkshire Scotland in 1900. 31/12/1900.  He had a son very quick as shown in the census later, but also two step sons as noted in the entry, William and George Purdie.  Here I come unstuck.  The entries show mother and sons as being from Ireland and I know she came from Loughconnelly and I know she had a mother Agnes and father Thomas Purdie.  Mother was Agnes McAleese.  WHat I don't know is where did the sons come from, what was her previous marriage?  Why are children called Purdie, like their mother's maiden name, why did she call herself a spinster upon marriage to Peter Bolton?  Why did she leave Ireland, I know some of her siblings did the same, WIlliam being one of them, but John didn't seem to.  Somewhere in my memory I was told there was a Bolton who had 21 children by 3 wives, all but the last dying,can anyone help?  I am stuck.

Catherine Russell