Hello and many thanks for your welcoming messages/comments/suggestions! It's sometimes hard to make a difficult problem concise. I'll try to be as brief as possible! In the 1871 census Nova Scotia census record our ancestor, born Mariah CAMERON, (later known as Anna Maria Cameron White -there are various permutations and combinations!) shows up as Mariah Cameron, born in Colchester County, NS ca 1848. Her married name was WHITE, husband's name and place/date of marriage unknown. A search on the 1880 census on LDS website reveals Anna Cameron, born 1848 in Nova Scotia, a "married" nurse living in Boston, household E.K. Dunbar. Perhaps she may have said she was "married" because she had an illegitimate daughter in 1871 before moving to MA to study nursing? I don't know the name of the hospital, but the following 1880 census infomation for Boston, taken from LDS search, might help........... By using the "previous or next household" on the LDS website, the information there reveals that a few doors away from where "Anna" lived (in a hotel type situation?) there appears to be a hospital of some sort (perhaps a convent? or hospice?), with a couple of doctors and a pharmacist living between where Anna lived and the hospital. I don't know the street name or names of the hotel or hospital, but perhaps it may be possible to find this out? A land record here in NS in 1906 between she and her sister (her only living sibling at that time) indicates that she was living in Charlestown, MA. In this record she was listed as Maria White. No record of her husband's first name, nor her marriage, has been found. It is also known that she returned to Nova Scotia, probably in early 1900's, and raised her late sister's grandson (her grandson's mother also having died) and that she was still living here ca 1917. Local information indicates that she was still living here ca 1928 and at about that time she because ill with cancer and was nursed by a niece. Anna's daughter, who lived most of her adult life in Worcester, MA would certainly have had the means to see to her mother's burial and headstone. Records for the 3 cemeteries in Anna's home village of Five Islands have been checked and there is nothing to indicate she was buried here. Thus the conclusion is that she likwly died in NS but was buried in MA. Her parents and siblings were Presbyterian, so it is very likely that was her religion. Any help to unravel rhis mystery would certainly be appreciated and if I can repay by reciprocal research I would be pleased to do so. Thank you, Judi Graham