This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: MCINNES - MCPHERSON - CAMERON - CHISHOLM Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/TeC.2ACE/1415.1 Message Board Post: Relationships and marital status are not noted in the 1841 census. sometimes a women is noted as widow. The only thing you can do is see if he is head of household. I have a family where the mother was noted in her maiden name. Also you can check on www.familysearch.com for the birth of the lad with a father of that name. Other possibility is: an you find them in the 1851 census? Relationships and marital status are noted in 1851. Kate