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Thank you for your responses! As I go further back, I'm finding it more difficult to match people as records are missing. I'm currently looking at Peter Grant's father, James (1774? - 1846?), and there is no marriage certificate for him and Christian McPherson (1776?-1847?). The only ones that exist are between a Catherine MacPherson and James MacPherson. The one that does have a James Grant and Catherine MacPherson is too early for it to be them. I'm also having to have a guess at Jame's parents as there is not much to go on in census data since he supposedly died before the 1851 census with more detail. Most trees say Patrick Grant and Elspeth McDonald.

Thanks for all your responses. An example of who I am looking for is James Edgar (born about 1785 in Ireland and died 1855 in Maybole, Ayrshire) who was married to Janet Kean (born about 1791 and died before 1851 unsure where). They had a child called Elizabeth Edgar who died 1877.

Name   Peter Grant
Age   48
Estimated Birth Year   abt 1803
Relationship   Head
Spouse   Jane Grant
Gender   Male
Where born   Abernethy, inverness
Parish Number   90A
Civil parish   Abernethy and Kincardine
County   Inverness
Address   Rymore
Occupation   Farmer Of 20 Ac Ar 25 Ac Pastse
ED   5
Page   9
Household schedule number   38
Line   4
Roll   CSSCT1851_20
Household members
Name   Age
Peter Grant   48
Jane Grant   44
Charles Grant   21
Christina Grant   18
John Grant   13
Peter Grant   10
William Grant   9
Lewis Grant   6
Grigor Grant   4
Gellies Grant   6 Mo

Thought I would respond and hope someone sees! The birth certificate for John Grant (1838-1923) confirms Peter Grant and Jane McPherson as the parents. However, Jane McPherson seems to have multiple name changes from Jean to Janet at different points (e.g., there is no marriage cert for a Jane McPherson to Peter Grant in the 1820s but there is one for Peter Grant and Janet Grant). The only J* McPherson born from 1800-1810 is Jean McPherson - this lines up with the death cert information someone found earlier. Would this be right?
Also, Peter Grant's (1803-1851) parents seem to be a bit of a mystery given how common the name is. Other trees have Christian McPherson and James Grant as the parents but I'm not sure.

As you say so much "fits". As AB says, Jessie can be the diminutive of Janet or Jean.

Jessie's maiden name on the Lancashire Witch is "Struthers" in the alphabetical index at the front of the manifest but "Strathers" elsewhere - and reported as "Strathes" in the newspaper list.

In '61 "Janet Caruthers, age 21, Domestic Servant, born Maybole" is working in Lanarkshire and in '63 a "Jessie Struthers/Strathers/Strathes, Lanarkshire, age 23, Dom Servant" arrives NZ.

Can you find a Janet Carruthers, born Maybole 1839, parents Moses/Elizabeth in OTHER THAN NZ after the '61 Census - eliminate her as "your" Jessie.

Re last post I think I spotted John on a FamilySearch passenger list of '62 - will revisit.   

I looked up on ancestry and I couldn't find any census data, the only thing that comes up for a Janet Carruthers with those details are birth certs for the same person.
Also, where did you find that she was working in Lanarkshire? I can't find any 1861 census data for her.