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Hi Andy,

I've been at a deadend with my search for a while, so thank you for these leads.  I feel more hopeful now of finding details of my great grandmother.  I'll ring Stirling today and will search the baptism records too. 

I live near Huddersfield, West Yorkshire so Stirling isn't easy but I will ring them tomorrow.
Thanks for your help so far.  I now feel I have more avenues open to me. I've been at a standstill for some time and getting more frustrated.

I think you're right about the mis reading/typing.  Now I see it enlarged as you sent it thru' - I could imagine someone reading it as 'House, Jame at Hamel'.  So I'm back to 'found at Kennet House.'

If they found her and took her in, do you think there would be documents....also, if they didn't formally adopt her, I'm sure I read somewhere that all births had to be registered in Scotland from 1854.  I'm sure she would need her birth certificate for various official thing in later life.  I know she went to France in 1919 to visit The Menin Gate (her eldest son was killed in the Ypres Salient) - so I'd have thought she needed a passport for that.

Hi and thanks for your speedy replies.   I found these people and thought I was onto something - but on the next census (1871) Rachael Mar(r) appears as a boarder in Clackmannan village age 8. So her date of birth should be about 1863.  In 'place of birth' it says 'found at Kennet House'.  So I also assumed that the people you found were her parents. Another factor being the Rachel you found was called Jackson before marriage and my gt.grandmother signed herself Rachel Jackson Marr in many instances.   But there isn't a record of her birth anywhere. Nor does she appear to have lived with these people.   I've been all over the ScotGov. site and nothing. Nothing on the Mormon site.  Ancestry.com adds a rider to her birthplace on the 1871 census which says 'place of birth, House, Jame at Hamel'.  We even visited Kennet last year (lovely village) and the Library at Alloa who were very interested but couldn't help.  
'found at Kennet House' sounds like , on the doorstep....its a strange phrase. Also Jame at Hamel.

I've come to a halt in my research. My gt.grandmother appears on the 1881 and 1871 census in Clackmannan. I know she was born around 1863 and she died in 1952 but she doesn't appear in the Births on any site. I've tried all ways of spelling her name.  On the 1871 census in the birth column it says 'found at Kennet House, Clackmannan'  .I have just found an appendage on the Ancestry.com site which says 'born at House - Jame at Hamel'.  I wonder if she was illegitimate and is there any way to find out.  Hope someone can help me.