This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Author: IHall6669 Surnames: WATT, CRICHTON, HARDIE, FETTES Classification: queries Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/localities.britisles.scotland.ans.general/5550.1.2.2/mb.ashx Message Board Post: I hate to keep beating a dead horse, but my curiosity has the better of me. Is the James STEWART who married Ann WATT the same James Skinner Stewart who was christened to James Stewart and Agnes ADAMSON in Feb. of 1829 or not? He is not on the 1841 census with his parents, which could mean he died young. He could also be with other relatives, but a search does not find any "stray" James' of the right age. He is consistent through the census records in his birthplace and age - 20 in 1851, then 30, 40, 50, 60, implying a birthdate about 1831, not early 1829. In the 1861 census he is in Tannadice and the record shows a brother with him, age 27, b. Kirriemuir. A search of the IGI does show a Peter there, ch. 20 April 1834, but the parents are James Stewart and Jean CRICHTON. What makes it interesting is that this James and Jean also had one other child - a James, ch. 7 Oct 1831. The 1841 census shows a James, age 9, and a Peter, age 7, in the household of a James Stewart and Susan (probably HARDIE). A death registration is found in 1894 for James, and wives shown as Jean Crichton and Susan Hardy. So one could be tempted to say that the case was solved. Or not. I have tried unsuccessfully to locate the death registrations for James Stewart or Ann Watt. I last found them on the 1891 census in Dundee, living at 4 Carmichael Street. On both the 1881 and 1891 census Ann uses the full name of Ann Watt Stewart. James' occupation is "beamer." But playing around with those multiple hits on ancestry.com does sometimes pay off. On the 1901 census there is a James Stewart (age is 72, a bit off) who is a jute cloth beamer, b. Kirriemuir, with a wife Isabella. Eureka, they are living at 4 Carmichael Street. So back to Scotlandspeople, this time looking for a marriage (since I couldn't find James' or Ann's deaths) and found James Stewart marrying Isabella DUTHIE (MS REID) on 31 December 1897 at 4 Carmichael Street, which was also the residence given for both of them. And in the 1901 census there is a Duthie "daughter" and grandchild living with them. So - the aha! moment. Who are shown as James' parents on the marriage? James Stewart, farm labourer, deceased, and Agnes FETTES, farm servant, deceased. Whoa, I didn't see that one coming! Could it be a simple error - James at age 66 getting mixed up about his mother's maiden surname? The father's name and the mother's given name match the hoped for link to James and Agnes Adamson. >From the format on the marriage registration it would appear that the senior James Stewart and Agnes Fettes were not married. There was indeed an Agnes Fettes in Kirriemuir in the 1841 census, with two children with different surnames, but neither was a James. She does not seem to be there in 1851 (unless she married?). So nothing is completely solved, there are just more questions. My question to you -- are you tracing back to either James Stewart and Ann Watt, or to a Susan Stewart and George FYFFE? If it's Susan and George and her death registration says her parents are (James) Stewart and Isabella Barrie, then perhaps you no longer care about solving the problem of James Stewart and Ann Watt? Or do you have another connection to James Stewart and Agnes Adamson and are trying to follow their children? And if you are, I think I have located (in the parish register) another child for them - a Jean, ch. 3 October 1831. Difficult to read, so it may have been indexed incorrectly. Where do you want to go from here? Important Note: The author of this message may not be subscribed to this list. If you would like to reply to them, please click on the Message Board URL link above and respond on the board.