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I don't know how I missed that entry Looby, I swear I searched for all possible surnames...!

Thankyou!

Following all the really helpful responses to my first post, while I wait for a certificate to arrive for that query, I am stuck on another.

In my niece's tree I have an Ellen McColl who was born in 1893 in St Rollox (illegitimate daughter of John Littlehales and Emma McColl).

She married Peter Gemmell as Ellen McColl Littlehales in 1916 in Anderston.

Peter Gemmell died in 1937 in Govan.

I cannot find Ellen after 1946, when her daughter got married (she was not shown as deceased on the certificate).

Not sure if anyone can help with this one?!

I think I'm a bit more confused than I was before...sorry, clearly more of a novice than I thought I was...!

So, I have ordered the marriage certificate for my Mary Parker Docherty, because I needed that for my niece's family tree and it will also confirm her parents (I know I won't have their marriage date from it but I can get that later).

Am I now scrapping the idea that the John Docherty who married in 1911 to Elizabeth Parker the confectioner is my John Docherty?  Or is that marriage right and he was born John Dougherty in 1880, but I've got the John and Elizabeth that I thought were his parents wrong?

I also found this headstone that I think belongs to my original John Docherty and Elizabeth Parker:

https://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=141884248

Sorry!

I have another stumbling block on another branch of the tree, but I'll probably start a new thread on that...

Thanks Dorrie.

I am now questioning the info that I thought I knew that led me down this path. Shamefully have assumed that info given to me further down the tree is correct.

I am starting from a safe birth of a grandparent named Mary Parker Docherty in 1923. I assumed that her parents were therefore a Docherty and a Parker, and pounced on the only marriage I could find with those 2 surnames, which did also match the info I'd been given. But having not seen Mary Parker Docherty's birth or marriage I see now that it's actually a pretty big leap. Looks like I need to spend some money on the 1923 birth and go from there! Thanks so much again for the input and advice, I'm sure I'll be back!

I have seen both a birth and marriage certificate for Elizabeth Marshall, born to Alexander Marshall in 1864 in Govan, Lanarkshire. I guess it's possible that I've got the wrong Elizabeth Marshall to John Docherty marriage (1882) and from that I've gone wrong?