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Tatty, just further to this, .. aged 17 your ancestor was probably not considered a child - she could have been working for a while already and may have left her childhood home for work, lodging in Cowcaddens.  The Cowcaddens area was home to a few power loom factories and many women were employed as power loom weavers.  One picture in the Mitchell archive describes the tenements in the area as "slums" (albeit they probably were by the time the photo was taken in 1925).

Pics of 41 Burnside Street:
http://www.mitchelllibrary.org/virtualmitchell/index.php?a=street&s=gallery&key=rYToxOntpOjA7czoxMToiQnVybnNpZGUgU3QiO30=

Check the census for that address in 1871 - were lodgers living there?

OR, Thanks so much for your quick reply.
The scan is the best I've got (sent over from my cousin in NZ) but I'll see if I can get a higher res.  Thanks for confirming the wheel as a trade badge for a wheeler or carpenter - that certainly fits in with his civilian trade.  By driver do you mean a driver of a horse / cart? I'll look again for military docs now that the ASC is a more viable corps (no middle name unfortunately and I've previously looked for service records but couldn't find any).  Thanks again,

Lynn

Hi, I also have an instance of this on a marriage cert - and I suspect it was because the marriage occurred in wartime when men had enlisted and so normally had the civilian job but were in the military at the time of the marriage.

Hi Prue,
the CD is from the Fife Family History Society and is a death index: contains data from OPRs and other sources eg obituaries, some burials and MIs I think.

Still can't find Isa Henderson / Brisbane (infact there are only 2 Brisbanes listed on the whole CD).


I have found an entry for Campbell Swan though:
Campbell SWAN; abode Burntisland; Date of Death: 1 Apr 1850; Occupation: Seaman "Leviathan"; Found Dead - at Granton - Fife (Herald 4 Apr 1850) : Source: Newspaper

hope this helps,

Lynn

Hi,
the only info I have on the Rae / Stevenson connection is as follows:

Cunningham Rae b.c1750 possibly a Tailor, and Agnes Duncan married 1777, Kirkudbright  had children Margaret,1777 William, c1774,  Euphemia, 1795 (probably others), born Kirkudbright.  (evidence for this is via death certs of their children/ info from another contact).

1815: Euphemia Rae married a John Stevenson in Kirkudbright

scotlandspeople show 3 children for this couple: Cunningham 1818, William 1823, Robert 1825, all Kirkudbright.

1841 census in Kelton Dumfries:John Stevenson as aged 56, Ag. Lab   (Euphemia, (listed with "Rae" scored out) aged 40, with younger children, David 10, Agnes 6, Robert 4, John 2, Maitland 2;  all family born in the county (note this includes John snr). Must assume first son Robert died prior to younger Robert's birth.

1841 also shows Cunningam Stevenson, 21, M.S. (male servant) at a farm in Kirkudbright.

1841 - Marriage of Cunningham Stevenson and Jane Robson, Kirkudbright.

1851 shows Euphemia as the Head of the household in Kelton, Dumfries, listed as married (not widowed), "Outdoor work", with a daughter Jane Stevenson 24 and son Maitland, 12

1861 shows Cunningham Stevenson as Head, ploughman in Kirkudbright.  Married to Jane 42, with children: James 15, Hellen 13, Jane 12, Euphemia 10 (born Tongueland,Kirkudbright), Anna 8, Elizabeth 6,Jannet 3, William 1

1864 - death of Euphemia Rae age 64, widow of John Stevenson, Sexton (church official) in Dumfries.  DAUGHTER of Cunningham Rae and Agnes Duncan.  Registered by son Cunningham Stevenson.

1881: Maitland Stevenson appears in the English census, in Cumberland as a corn miller, married to a woman from Penrith.

Additionally, Euphemia Rae's brother William had children: John, Cunningham, Margaret, Agnes, David, James.  William is buried in Dundrennan and his son John in Rerrick.

Hope this all helps!

 - I still cannot say if the John Stevenson that Euphemia Rae marries IS the brother of George, his age does seem to tie in but the 1841 census lists him as born in Kirkudbright.  He died before 1864 and possibly before the 1851 census so we cannot for sure find his parentage.  Next best thing may be to see the marriage entry of 1815 - may say what parish he is from.