Watt family of Brechin

[MonicaL]

Mary Jane Watt, wife of David Lindsay, is still showing as married at the birth of her child Launcelot on 16 Dec 1885. How could she have married a James (Mc)Hardie that year?

Added: Can't see a marriage with these names at any time on SP.

Monica

[Alberbury]

Thanks for your time Monica.

I should of explained better, a marriage from about 1881 to 1911.

If her husband David Lindsay has gone to America after the 1881 census in Brechin and not come back. Sorry I can't find the exact date David Lindsay went to America.

I would think that James Hardie and Mary Jane Lindsay nee Watt on the 1911 census with the children they had together must have got married in this period. 1911 census in the column duration of marriage it is 25 years.

[MonicaL]

Have you looked at any of James and Mary's children's birth regs to see what details and date they gave for their marriage?

There isn't any marriage showing under these names at any time on SP though. It may be that they never married and just passed themselves off as married. With David Lindsay deserting her and going abroad, she may never have been able to confirm if he was alive or deceased. For this reason, she would not have been free to remarry likely.

Monica

[Alberbury]

Thanks for looking Monica. Also good advice.

You are probably right about not marrying.

[Alberbury]

https://www.scotlandspeople.gov.uk


1919 WATT, MARY JANE (Statutory registers Deaths 275/6g)

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1919.  DEATHS in the District of Brechin in the County of Forfar.



                        (1.)                                               (2.)
               Name and Surname.                               
                                                             When and Where Died.
       Rank or Profession, and whether                                                                                                                               
        Single, Married, or Widowed.   

                 Mary Jane                                             1919
                      Hardie                                             June
No.                                                                   Sixteenth
69                                                                   11h 0m  pm
              (Married to                                               36
               James Hardie                                   Montrose Street
               Stone Mason)                                      Brechin


          (3.)       (4.)                                  (5.)
                                           Name, Surname & Rank or Profession
          Sex.       Age.                             of Father.

                                           Name, and Maiden Surname of Mother.
       
           F.          66                            William Watt
                      years                           Butcher
                                                        (deceased)

                                                        Mary Watt
                                                        M.S. Strachan
                                                        (deceased)


                       (6.)                                                   (7.)
    Cause of Death, Duration of            Signature & Qualification of Informant,
  Disease, and Medical Attendant           and Residence, if out of the House in
           by whom certified.                         which the Death occurred.

          Cardiac Syncope                                   James Hardie
          Chronic Valvular                                     Widower
          Disease of Heart                                     (Present)

         as Certified by
         J.a. Leishman
              M.D.

                   (8.)
When and where Registered,
and Signature of Registrar.

                 1919
            June 18th
          At   Brechin

         Charles Mills
                 Registrar.