In his 1796 will James Mather asks his wife to look after his sister Margaret.
In a letter written twenty years later (1816), one of James Mather's sons-in-law asks after James' sister who he believes is living in Jedburgh and goes by the name of Mrs Haig or Mather.
This means that Margaret is probably the Margaret Mather who married John Haig and had children from at least 1770 to 1784 in Jedburgh (Janet, Isabel, Thomas, James, +?), although that remains unproven.
James Mather was born in about 1736 to Alexander Mather, a farmer in 'Twycell, Durham' which fits with the James bap 1737 in Norham, close to Twizel Castle. There is an Alexander who (re?)marries in 1739 and had several children in Felton, some 40 miles away, but I can't find Margaret's baptism, marriage or burial.
Richard
