Mary Ann Walker

[maggie_4_7]

My father's mother's mother's mother

Name:
Mary Ann Walker

Date and place of birth:
25th February 1838 Stevenston, Ayrshire, Scotland

Names of parents:
William Walker and Jane Miller

Date and place of baptism:
4th March 1838 Stevenston, Ayrshire, Scotland

Details of each of his or her marriages:
Marriage to James Wilson on 3rd July 1857 in the Free Church Parish of Dalry, Ayrshire, Scotland

Occupation(s):
Hand Loom Weaver Cotton
Domestic Servant

Addresses where they lived (including county if in UK:
Schoolwell Street, Stevenston,Ayrshire, Scotland
Parish: Stevenston; ED: 5; Page: 8; Line: 1487; Roll ; Year: 1841.

Schoolwell St, Stevenston,Ayrshire, Scotland
Parish: Stevenston; ED: 5; Page: 12; Line: 13; Roll 1004; Year: 1851.

4 Barton Holme Square, Irvine, Ayrshire, Scotland 1861 Scottish Census
Parish: Irvine; ED: 10; Page: 9; Line: 17; Roll CSSCT1861_85; Year: 1861.

No 24, Dreghorn, Ayrshire, Scotland 1871 Scottish Census
Parish: Dreghorn; ED: 2; Page: 7; Line: 12; Roll CSSCT1871_109; Year: 1871


Date, place and cause of death:
28th May 1874 aged 36 in Dreghorn Village, Ayrshire, Scotland of Pthisis two years.


Date and place of burial / cremation:
Not known

Details of will / administration of their estate:
Not known

Memorial inscription:
Not known

[Mary from Italy]

1851 Scottish census:

Mary Ann Walker, born Stevenston, Ayrshire, c. 1838, occupation handloom weaver, cotton, is living at Schoolwell St, Stevenston with John and Janet Con and their children and grandchildren.

[Mary from Italy]

1841 Scottish census:

The only possibility I can see is this one:

William Walker, coal miner, aged 20, living at Schoolwell St, Stevenston with [wife] Jean, 20 and [children] Marrian, 3 and Jean, 6 months. All born Ayrshire.

[Mary from Italy]

1851 Scottish census:

William Walker, 33, ironstone miner, born Stevenson, Ayrshire, is living in Kilbirnie, Ayrshire with wife Jane, 33, born Ardrossan, Ayrshire and children Jane 10, Margt 7, Robt 4 and James 4 months, all born Stevenson, Ayrshire except James, who was born in Kilbirnie.

[maggie_4_7]

Thank you yeah I think that's Mary in the 1851. I also think that must be her parents and family too.

I'm not good with the searching on Scottish census on Ancestry I think I may have looked at the 1851 for Mary but wasn't sure at that time.

Thank you.

[Mary from Italy]

I think you'll find that's her in 1841, too. Jean and Jane seem to be pretty much interchangeable in Scotland, and so is
Marian(ne)/Mary Ann (in England as well).

[maggie_4_7]

Yes I knew about the Jane/Jean thing I have a few Jane/Jean ancestors on my Scottish side.

Because of your help on those census I have now found her husband's second marriage and more children and her father's approximate death (1851-1861) and his wife Mary Ann's mother Jane's second marriage too. :)

I just sometimes don't trust the Scottish census so many names and birth locations the same.

[Mary from Italy]

Ooh, well done!

I don't like the Scottish censuses on Ancestry because of the awful transcriptions and the lack of images, but luckily, although Mary Ann's name seemed quite common, there were no other likely candidates in Ayrshire.

[maggie_4_7]

Ooh, well done!

I don't like the Scottish censuses on Ancestry because of the awful transcriptions and the lack of images, but luckily, although Mary Ann's name seemed quite common, there were no other likely candidates in Ayrshire.

I must admit that I do find census on Ancestry sometimes but I am so loathe to claim them just in case I'm barking up the wrong family which is easy to do in Ayrshire with my lot of names and because I usually can't find them on SP and use too many credits. Its hard to find them on SP even when you've found them on Ancestry.

Its nice to have another eye but if I asked on here everytime I thought I had found one of my Scottish ancestors on a census on Ancestry you'd all shoot yourselves. So the TOGG is a good avenue. :)