confused

[ter153]

hi folks
      my 3x grt gran born as mary fraser 1874 she married john shepherd 1885 , at methlick.entered the aberdeen asylum 1890,she died in said asylum in 1907 under the name of mary MAVER shepherd! where did this name maver come from? i know its the same lady as i have her medical records stating how she died and also a death cert with the same cause of death.have tried to look up her birth cert but there are loads of mary frasers for the time period i want and theyre not shown on scotlands people so dont know which to order!

[lizanne]

Hi ,
Are you sure she was born 1874 ?
If she married 1885 , 11 years old seems a bit young to marry . What age does it say she was on her 1907 death cert ?
Jane

[GR2]

What are her parents' names and her age when she died? Both these pieces of information are given on the death certificate which you have.

Sometimes a middle name suddenly appears later in life. An example is a very distant relative of mine, James Craik. He was called after his grandfather, James Michie. The entry for his baptism just says James Craik, but he later called himself James Michie Craik. Perhaps your Mary was called after a Mary Maver, but the birth certificate might only say Mary. Another distant relative simply invented a middle name for himself as his wife and all his children had one!

Graham.

[cookies4]

1901 census has her born at Old Meldrum 1865 so I wonder if this is her birth from the IGI.

MARY MAVOR   
   
26 JAN 1865     Old Meldrum, Aberdeen, Scotland
            
Parents:
    Mother:    ELIZABETH MAVOR

I'm not readily seeing a marriage for an Elizabeth Mavor to a Mr Fraser though so maybe just coincidence.

[ter153]

thanks cookies4,i had her birth as around 1863 so it will probably be her? also mothers name is elizabeth maver,william fraser down as dad on her death cert,so looks like william and elizabeth werent married.but he was dead at the time of marys death and elizabeth was married to a john glennie.no much wonder im confused   thankyou 

btw have just noticed the difference in the spelling of maver mavor! definitely mavER on my certs etc!!
but certainly sounds like the one you found cookies4 were spelling mistakes often made on certs etc? adds to the confusion even more

[cookies4]

Looks like she was brought up by her father and his wife Ann Thow/Show/Shaw.

Was her father a farmer?

[ter153]

on the death cert her father is down as a farm labourer.where did you get the info on who brought her up cookies4?  thanks

[Flattybasher9]

     " my 3x grt gran born as mary fraser 1874 she married john shepherd 1885 , at methlick.entered the aberdeen asylum 1890,she died in said asylum in 1907 under the name of mary MAVER shepherd! where did this name maver come from? i know its the same lady as i have her medical records stating how she died and also a death cert with the same cause of death.have tried to look up her birth cert but there are loads of mary frasers for the time period i want and theyre not shown on scotlands people so dont know which to order!"



The 1881 census for Methlick shows a Mary Fraser, 16 years old, and a Mary Ann Fraser, 32 years old.


Regards

Malky

[ter153]

thanks malky ill take a look at the census tomorrow when i can get more credits,