William ( younger ) Innes

[Forfarian]

Forfarian that part is still to be proven.

Most of the earlier links are still unproven.

So far there is evidence that William Innes younger, who married Margaret Grant, was the son of William Innes elder.

There is, so far, no EVIDENCE to prove
- that William Innes younger was the son of Elizabeth McDonald
- that Willliam Innes was the widower of Margaret Grant when he married Janet Cameron.

As I have said, I think both these statements are likely to be true, but without EVIDENCE they remain unproven, and no amount of repeating them will make them true.

[Dufftown]

NO COMMENT.

Except to say: You already have what you need to confirm YES or No.

Merry Christmas everyone.

Hope you find what we are all looking for.

Bye and Good Hunting.

[Forfarian]

You are expecting help, but when a gross error is pointed out to you - someone born 145 years before her parents' marriage - you go off in a huff and bury your head in the sand.

I have indeed enough information to say a resounding NO.

[Forfarian]

More errors in the 'Christiana and James' .rtf.

7. George Innes and Ann Grant did not have a daughter named Issobell or Isabella or similar. They did have a daughter Sarah, born and baptised in 1841. According to the family gravestone in Aberlour (Ab691) Sarah died in 1903.

30. The James Innes who married Margaret Stephen in Botriphnie cannot also be the one who married Barbara Stewart because Margaret Stephen’s youngest child was born on 19 July 1805, which is after the marriage of James Innes and Barbara Stewart on 7 October 1804, and just 2½ months before the birth of Barbara Stewart’s first child.

The 1841 census says that Barbara Stewart or Innes was born in Banffshire, not Aberdeenshire, and the 1851 census says that Barbara Stewart, and her older sister Jane with whom she was living, were born in Kirkmichael, not Glenbuckat. They are probably the daughters of James Stuart and Margaret Grant - Jean baptised 1768 and Barbara 1782 in Kirkmichael.

66. Alexander M(a)cPherson, husband of Margaret Innes (1818-1841) was not the son of William M(a)cPherson and Janet Innes. In the 1841 census, Margaret's widower is a blacksmith, aged 28, living at Slateford with William, aged 4. In the same census Alexander M(a)cPherson, son of William M(a)cPherson and Janet Innes, is with his parents at Quirn. He is also in every subsequent census, unmarried, at Mains, Inveravon, until 1871, and in 1881 he is a lodger nearby at Lynebeg in the household of Robert Grant and Isabella McGowan and family. (Isabella was probably the daughter of James McGowan and Jane McPherson. She, her brother James and sister Elizabeth were in the household of William McPherson, Janet Innes and Alexander McPherson in the 1841 census.) Alexander died in the Morayshire Combination Poorhouse in 1885, still unmarried, described as a farmer.

[madchia]

Although I hesitate to question one as illustrious as Sir Thomas Innes of Learney, it does look as if there is some reason to doubt at least some of it?

Do question. Sir Thomas Innes interviewed a relation in 1949 and pretty much went sideways with my own branch.
The line itself is theoretically of a "bastard" grandson of the second marriage of John 5th of Edingight but there are numerous "probably", "likely" and other vague mentions. DNA still holds the Edingight connection a possibility but it needs refining (more testers).

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