> I'm looking for Kate-Maitland (Milly) Hunter. She and her > brothers were sent to Aberlour orphanage in 1882/3 when their > parents > died. She is mentioned in the 1881 census with her mother and > family in > Edinburgh then I have a record of her entering the > orphanage as Catherine. She became a bond servant to someone > while in her > early > teens and died at age 14 according to family lore. I've seen > no death > record for her and the orphanage has no more records for that > early. Well. You don't say when she was born, or what her parents' names were. Is she the one aged 3, with brothers Daniel, 10, Thomas, 5 and John, 2? If so .... I note from the IGI at www.familysearch.org that John Hunter, son of John Hunter and Catherine Fraser, was born 4 March 1879 in Edinburgh; and that there was a marriage of a John Hunter to Catherine Fraser in Edinburgh on 25 June 1875; and that Daniel Fraser, son of Catherine Fraser, was born in Edinburgh on 4 March 1871. From the free index on www.scotlandspeople.gov.uk I see that a Catherine Hunter or Fraser, aged 30, died in 1882. So if Kate was aged 3 in the 1881 census, she must have been born in 1877 or the first quarter of 1878. So she would have turned 14 in 1891 or 1892. Have you found her in the 1891 census? That would seem to me to be the next logical step. It would give you an indication of where she might have died. I see that there are two records on Scotland's People of Catherine Hunters born 1874-1881 and died 1891-1901. Have you checked both of those deaths and eliminated them? How confident are you that she actually died aged 14? Could she have gone into service aged 14 and died an unspecified time later? Ages from 'family lore' are notoriously unreliable. Do you know how the children came to be placed in Aberlour, so far from their home in Edinburgh? If the children were left destitute at their mother's death, it may be that they fell to the Parish Board to look after. Have you looked to see if there are extant Parish Board records from Edinburgh? If not that may be one avenue you could follow. Start with the Edinburgh City Archives http://www.edinburgh.gov.uk/internet/a-z/AZ_archive HTH Anne