Hi Rhoda When I initially started searching for Mary, it was under the name of Campbell because she gave her parents as Henry Campbell and Helen Carbarns on her marriage certificate. I can only imagine that she looked upon Helen as her mother. When her children were born I found they were registered under the name of Hill and Gilbert. I searched back to the 1851 Census and found Helen Campbell, and Mary Gilbert was with her as a 2yo "child nursing". Could that be another term for foster child? The same for the 1861 Census, she was Mary Gilbert, a 12yo pauper. She did emigrate under the name of Gilbert. Laurette -----Original Message----- From: lanark-bounces@rootsweb.com [mailto:lanark-bounces@rootsweb.com] On Behalf Of CandROverson Sent: Monday, 14 June 2010 10:02 PM To: lanark@rootsweb.com Subject: Re: [Lanark] GILBERT Family Hello Laurette I have read through your message (Mary seems to have been quite a woman!), but I can't quite make out where the surname 'GILBERT' comes from. You say she married under the name Mary CAMPBELL and gave Henry Campbell as her father. Did she emigrate under the name 'Gilbert'? Or appear in the censuses as Mary GILBERT? Rhoda ------------------------------- LANARK, SCOTLAND MAILING LIST LIST TOPIC: The discussion and research of genealogy or history information pertaining to Lanark, Scotland at any point in its history. WHEN REPLYING to any list post please remember to snip most of the earlier message before you post any reply LIST INFORMATION PAGE: Contact the List Admin at lanark-admin@rootsweb.com; or to search the list archives, get information on subscribing or unsubscribing, or to obtain other useful information to help you use the list more effectively, please click on the following link to the list information page online: http://lists.rootsweb.ancestry.com/index/intl/SCT/LANARK.html ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to LANARK-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message

Hi Laurette I don't think I can be of much help. But these are my thoughts: I think you are right in thinking that the infant Mary was taken in by Helen Campbell. Perhaps Mary's mother (and father died). There was a cholera epidemic/outbreak in Glasgow in the late 1840s (A couple of days ago, I was looking at a list of 1848 deaths in Glasgow on Scotlands People and many of the deaths on the page were from cholera). Another option is that Mary was her (illegitimate) granddaughter. If Helen did take in this child, you might expect there to have been some relationship - not necessarily a family one - with the child's mother. Mary's birth may not have been recorded in the parish register especially if she was illegitimate. I see that Helen's daughter Sarah was born in Jamaica abt 1838 although the other 2 (older) children were born in Scotland. So Henry was presumably a missionary in the West Indies. Was Helen a widow in 1851? If so, it is interesting that Mary thought of Henry as her father. Rhoda