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Re my previous posting, I've been having another look, and I am somewhat confused now. So a bit of thinking aloud here! Apologies if it doesn't make sense!

I have the Census form you mentioned, and I looked at it again, and agree that her age appears to be 45, giving a year of birth of c1796.

On my Genes Reunited tree, for some reason, I had her year of birth as 1776, which would make her 65 in 1841.

Now, I have a number of children for James Sinclair and Margaret Blackadder - as per the following from Scotland's People:

No Date Surname Forename Parent Names/Frame No. Sex Parish City/County GROS Data Image Extract
1 13/02/1817 SINCLAIR ALEXANDER JAMES SINCLAIR/MARGARET BLACKADDER  St Ninians /STIRLING
2 10/08/1815 SINCLAIR BEATRIX JAMES SINCLAIR/MARGARET BLACKADDER  St Ninians /STIRLING
3 18/05/1811 SINCLAIR JANET JAMES SINCLAIR/MARGARET BLACKADDER  St Ninians /STIRLING 
4 24/03/1804 SINCLAIR JEAN JAMES SINCLAIR/MARGARET BLACKADDER  St Ninians /STIRLING 
5 16/04/1805 SINCLAIR JOHN JAMES SINCLAIR/MARGARET BLACKADDER St Ninians /STIRLING 
6 28/07/1813 SINCLAIR MARGARET JAMES SINCLAIR/MARGARET BLACKADDER St Ninians /STIRLING 
7 26/04/1807 SINCLAIR WILLIAM JAMES SINCLAIR/MARGARET BLACKADDER St Ninians /STIRLING


The youngest being born in 1804. Fits with Margaret being born c1776.

However, another relative and I had a theory. Could the Margaret Blackadder on the 1841 Census be a niece rather than a wife? Given the birth in 1804 (and others) with parents John Sinclair and Margaret Blackadder, is it possible the wife died before 1841 and her niece moved in? A niece also called Margaret? Could this explain the use of the name Blackadder rather than Sinclair in the Census?

Any other theories?

David

In relation to this information:

Here is more earlier data,
First Generation

   1.   William Blackadder  was born on 23 Mar 1737 in St Ninians, Stirling, Scotland.

William married Jean Burgess  about 1770 in St Ninians, Stirling, Scotland.

They had the following children:

+   2   M   i.   John Blackadder  was born in 1770.

+   3   M   ii.   James Blackadder  was born in 1778.



My ancestor was Margaret Blackadder, born c1776 in St Ninians. Do you have any information that she could have been a sister to John and James? Or information that she was NOT related?

Regards

David

Hi Catherine,

My Margaret Blackadder was born c1776. She's on the 1841 Census in St Ninians, Stirling with her husband James Sinclair. All their children were born in St Ninians.

She seems to be a couple of generations back from the family you mentioned. I had another search for Blackadders, but there are hundreds of them! A surprisingly common name. Maybe we have a link, but can you get further back with yours? I'd like to talk more about this with you.

If you do one more post here apparently we can "chat" via the site!

davidagourlay and you can find me on g m a i l (dot) c o m

David

Hi Catherine,

Margaret Blackadder is my Gt Gt Gt Gt Grandmother. I have a little bit of information but not much. Your e-mail addrss was blanked out but I'll try and put more information here shortly.

I have my full tree on Genes Reunited and also http://davidagourlay.tribalpages.com/tribe/browse?userid=davidagourlay&view=9&rand=859686195


Regards

David