Thomas Chalmers & Margaret Smith

[MonicaL]

One more to follow up on.

I think Janet/Jessie married a James Taylor. These are some of their children's birth details from FS www.rootschat.com/links/01ina/

From 1871:

James Taylor 39 spirit dealer b. West Calder, edinr
Jessie Taylor 41 b. West Calder, edinr
Margaret Taylor 14
Helen Taylor 12
Jessie Taylor 10
...and four staff

Address: Main St, West Calder

Maybe they didn't formalise their union by marriage until later? https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XTTR-TMT

Monica

[moo]

Thank you Monical,
I shall certainly look into them all. You mentioned " Maybe they didn't formalise their union by marriage until later" is this something quite common, as I think I may have something similar with another line, the Campbell & Wright proclamations, but no actual marriage.

Regards
Moo

[MonicaL]

Can happen that people co-habited as man and wife and then had a civil marriage later. Always hard to guess at the reasons. Sometimes this happened because one of them wasn't free to marry yet as first spouse may still have been living for example.

Monica

[Forfarian]

It's the Register of Corrected Entries, and it means that there was some sort of investigation after the event into the cause of death. If you can post that part of the page we could maybe decipher it for you.

[moo]

Thank you Forfarian

[moo]

This is the original entry

[Forfarian]

The original seems to read 'Ovarian disease, syncope' and the RCE says 'Syncope ..... disease of the heart' but I am not sure what the ..... is.

There's nothing specific to say that Dr Littlejohn knew what was wrong with her before she died, but it's not unlikely that he did, if he was her regular doctor.

According to my ordinary dictionary, syncope is 'a fainting fit from sudden anaemia of the brain'. I believe that it is associated with irregularity of the rhythm of the heart, which would fit with the reference to 'disease of the heart' in the RCE.

[moo]

Thank you again Forfarian, very much appreciated

Regards
Moo

[moo]

Monical,

I followed up on all your suggestions, and you were spot on, thank you.
Margaret had been married twice.

Regards
Moo