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« on: Tuesday 28 November 23 00:40 GMT (UK) »
Lodger,
I have finally pieced together the info you sent me on the Thomson/Smith family.
I do have a question regarding Marion Smith (nee Thomson). You have her as the daughter of William Thomson and Betsy Reid. Which is correct. However, i do question the dates and ask if you can please confirm. You have her interred in No 74 on February 9, 1875 and that she passed away at the age of 52. That would mean she was born about 1823. The Marion that i have was born in 1832. I have found census information that confirms her marriage to William Smith and her children. The census information is from 1841 right up to 1881. In 1881 she was living with William (husband) and Betsy R. who was 20 at the time. That corresponds to Betsy R. Smith death at the age of 21 in the year 1882. Marion can not have passed away in 1875 if she is on the census in 1881. If she did indeed live to the age of 52 then she would have passed away in 1884 and not 1875. The census in 1881 lists her at the age of 48 which makes sense if she passed away in 1884 at the age of 52...three years later.