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Hello Sharon and Ann
Isabella Robertson and Matthew Paul are on Rootsweb World Connect (shows four children). You may have seen this.
I found six children for Isabella and Matthew by courtesy of Christine Normington's research on Rootweb archives.  They also had a daughter Isabella Paul born c1810 in Paisley married David Swan c1833 in Paisley.
Christine's research is very extensive and you will need to scroll down through the years - almost any mention of Robertson/Paul/Swan is her post.
July 2003 Robertson/Paul
Aug 2003 Poor Laws Isabella Paul (Robertson) 1847 Isabella Swan (Paul) 1849
Oct 2003 John Paul labourer
(Poor law statement for John Paul and his second wife Agnes Johnstone)
Feb 2006 (Renfrew) Paul Family

Kind regards....Rae

Our tree has a Florence Nightingale Lamb - but I feel more for her brother who was named James Barr Lamb.  Whatever were their parents thinking?

Hello Raylene
I have been going to contact you as I have read your posts on Genforum with great interest - I've been searching for Grozet/Grosarts for years - and only recently came across my Robertson girls giving Fraser instead of Groset as their mother's maiden name.  Groset was sometimes spelt Groser so thought maybe it was an error when entering the names in the records.  I had three marriage and two death records giving the name Fraser (Helen was married three times) and decided they weren't our girls after I found them living with their grandmother Agness Groset in 1851.  However, desperation drove me to get Helen's last marriage record, and joy and relief, she named her mother as Elizabeth Grosset.
Alexander Groset and Agnes Stacks would certainly fit the naming pattern as parents of our Elizabeth Groset - she may have been their eldest child - and I wonder if the Agness Groset on the 1841 and 1851 is indeed Agnes Stacks.  I haven't found anything yet to prove this.  I haven't found any further record of Agness Groset after 1851, and Helen Robertson moved to Hutchesontown Glasgow between 1851 and 1855 when she married Mathew McDougall.  They had three children who did not survive infancy, and I presume Mathew died as Helen married a widower Peter Steel in 1862 and they had four children.  Peter died in 1870 before their son was born and Helen married another widower James Harper in 1878.
Rebecca married Alexander Crawford in 1862 Hutchesontown Glasgow and they had six children that I know of, one daughter was named Annie Fraser Crawford so they certainly believed they had a Fraser connection.  I wonder if Agness Stacks called herself Annie Fraser?  So many possibilities.
Both girls lived in Reidvale Street, Helen at 163 in 1878 and Rebecca at 207 in 1897 when Annie was married.
Sorry I can't throw any light on your mysteries, but I am working on the Grosets and will let you know any results I get.

Regards....Rae

Hello Monica

Thanks so much for your prompt reply. High Street is in the general area where the Robertsons were living, so it well may be that Janet was placed with the Morn family as a power loom weaver.  The Robertson family were all working as weavers and dressmakers etc.
The name Jane McLerie doesn't ring any bells as being a family member though of course she may have been an old family friend who took Janet in.

Thanks again for your help.

Cheers....Rae