There is always the possibility that the 71 year old mother was biologically the grandmother but Elisa grew up as her daughter...never knowing her 'sister' Christian was actually her mother. -----Original Message----- >From: Gavin Bell <g.bell@which.net> >Sent: Feb 21, 2010 1:37 PM >To: aberdeen@rootsweb.com >Subject: Re: [ABERDEEN] 1901 census images anyone? > >Lynne Uhler wrote: > >> I've found a transcription on Ancestry.com and believe it's wrong, but >> without the actual image, cannot confirm it. 1901 census living on >> Charlotte St., Fraserburg, household #202. Transcription says: >> Christian Nicol, 42, b. Longside >> Elisa Nicol, 23, b. Savoch >> relationship = daughter >> >> If some kind soul has access to the actual image, would you please check >> Christian Nicol's age for me. If she is mother to Eliza, her age >> should be about 71. If she is instead Eliza's older sister Christian, >> her age would be 55 [and she'd be low-balling her age as 42]. > > >Are you sure about that? > >A mother aged 71 when her daughter was 23 would mean that the daughter >was born when the mother was 48 - not impossible, but unlikely. > >And sisters whose ages differ by 32 years (55 minus 23) is also on the >extreme edge of the biologically feasible. > >I would be more inclined to take the information at face value (even >though it is from an Ancestry transcription) namely that Christian named >was, indeed, 42, and had, aged 19, borne a daughter now aged 23. There >may well be a second "Christian Nichol" aged 71 somewhere, and another >aged 55 - the combination of names is unlikely to be unique. > >> I want to >> confirm that Christian Nicol b. Longside 1830 is still alive in 1901. > >The easiest and most reliable way to confirm the all the relevant >relationships would be via Scotlandspeople (which will also give you >access to the Census image): > >(1) If Christian was aged 42 in 1901, then she would have been born in >1858-9, and her birth will be recorded in the Statutory Registers. > >(2) Elisa's birth will also be recorded, along with the names of her >parents. > >(3) If the Christian who was born in 1830 survived until at least 1855, >then her death should also be recorded. > > >Gavin Bell > > >------------------------------- >To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to ABERDEEN-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message Joanie