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My brain is hurting. 

From where did the information come that Janet Paton's husband John Beaton had an earlier marriage to Flora Paton and a son called William Pollock?  It is really actually remarkable to find that if John Beaton's father WAS Alexander he did not call his eldest son or ANY of his several sons Alexander.  Assuming it is a fact that Janet Paton did have a stepson called William Pollock Beaton, is it possible - in fact I can answer that straightaway and say yes it is - that the person submitting information about William Pollock Beaton to Ancestry has simply got it wrong, and given the wrong John Beaton as Dad to William Pollock.

The Ancestry trees are always interesting, as long as one remembers that they sometimes do get it terribly wrong.

In any case William Pollock's dad is likely to have been born BEFORE 1813 to tie in with Flora's age and the fact that he died 10 years before Janet Paton.  It doesn't follow for sure - of course not - but it is quite likely.

I will look into possible family connections between Flora's father, James Paton, and Janet's father, John Paton, remembering all the while that there is now a possibility Janet's father was called George!.

Hallo, I placed the Curiousfox ad and have been corresponding with Dollylee.  Finally, I have retrieved my username to join in the Paton chat!

Margaret Cunningham was the second wife of a John Paton born in 1701, the grandson of the famous Captain John Paton 1614-1681.  I am fairly sure the Captain is an ancestor of grieving heiress (or not as the case may be) Janet Paton.

I think that whoever, on Ancestry.com, has given Janet Paton's father a second wife simply got their John Patons muddled and that Janet Paton's mother Margaret Dickie was still alive in 1841 living in Gauze Street, Paisley with the Beatons.

Worth looking at   http://hometown.aol.com/rosecote/myhomepage/heritage.html   showing that the Ayrshire Patons were a breed unto themselves and separate from the Paisley Patons (mine) even though some may later have moved up to live in Paisley alongside the indigenous Paisley Patons, who were, by the way, all drapers to a man.  And the Alloa Patons were another entirely separate branch again.

Gauze Street, Paisley was not a great address.  I don't know why any Paton from Alloa with a connection to factory wealth would choose to live in Gauze Street, Paisley.

Has anybody set out in a list the Christian names of Janet Paton and John Beaton's children.  These can be a great pointer in the right direction.

By the way, I have identified John Beaton's first wife as Florie Paton, daughter of James Paton b 1772 and Jean Paterson, who married 29 November 1806 and had Florie 24 October 1807.  The name of Florie and John Paton's daughter Jean Paterson Beaton clinches it

Hi Tony,

I have followed up Joseph Tucker's daughter Elizabeth by his first wife, and find her full name was Elizabeth Mary French Tucker.  This has been very helpful since it indicates that in fact Joseph came from St Mabyn in Cornwall (not St Stephen in Brannel) and is the Joseph whose parents were John Tucker and Mary French.

I would be really grateful for all the info you have on Joseph Tucker's pre-census years

Hallo Wulliam (or William??),

Did your Maria Hallam nee Woodbine have a brother called John Ebenezer Woodbine, born circa 1811?     He lived in the St George's/Bermondsey area and worked as a painter and/or trowler (??).  He died in the cholera epidemic that swept through Bermondsey in 1849