Elizabeth, Your instinct was apparently correct that Jane MacLean's father would have married soon after her mother died when Jane was born. I just received a Death Certificate for Jane's half-sister, Anna or Annie. It gives the name of her parents as Charles MacLean and Mary Morrison. In the IGI, I found a marriage between Charles and Mary in Portree on 28 Jan, 1833. (I had guessed that Jane was probably born in 1831.) Annie was born on 24 Aug, 1847 according to the DC, which means she should be on the 1851 census. I appreciate all the work you have done for me on this. I hard a difficult time tracking down Annie and, since she married a MacLean, I didn't know whether it was she or her husband who was related to my grandmother. Im also sending this to the Inverness list in the hope that someone might have some information for me. Several people have been helpful. It's nice, finally, to have a ray of hope. But what do I do next? Marion Markham