This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Crichton, Creighton, Murray, Brown Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/Zh.2ADE/651.658 Message Board Post: Searching for parentage of Jane Crichton/Creighton born August 2 , 1836 in Bothwell, Lanarkshire, Scotland. Jane married James Murray August 13, 1858 in Whiteside County Illinois. On the 1860 and 1870 census for Jordan Township, Sterling Post Office, Whiteside County, Illinois is the family of Charles D. Crichton and his wife Mary. Also on this census if the family of Jane Crichton/Creighton Murray and James Murray. I believe that Charles D. Crichton b. est. 1817 is a brother of Jane b. 1836. (a family group sheet posting on the LDS site lists Charles Douglas Crichton b. 1817 in Bothwell, Lanark County, Scotland. He is married to Mary Maxwell b. 1819 in Bothwell, Lanark County, Scotland. Listed are three children Ann b. 1849, Archibald b. 1844, and Charles b. 1840. These three children are all on the 1860 census referenced above. Other children in family on 1860 census are John, Jeanette, Ann, George, Mary J, Sholte, William and Mathew. The LDS site lists! James Crichton b. <1791 as the father of Charles Doughlas. B.1817. ) Who was the mother of James Crichton?.....The 1870 census listing above for Jane Crichton Murray and James Murray has a woman named Jane Crichton living in the household. She is 66 years old ( est. date of birth 1804) and was born in Scotland. …James Murray died in 1873, and in 1877 Jane Crichton Murray married Hugh Brown who was a widower. They lived on a farm near Green Mountain, Iowa. In the spring of 1881 they moved near Gladbrook, Tama County, Iowa. Jane Creighton( b. est. 1804) died in 1875 and is buried in the West Union Cemetery, Perry Township, Tama County, Iowa. Please contact me if this is your family line. I have a photo of Jane Crichton Murray Brown which I will send in an email.