Hello Liz The death certificate for Mary REID should list who her parents were, providing that the informant knew who the parents were. If you obtain a copy of the death cert, that might provide you with the answer to that question. As for the census information; often the enumerators just wrote done whatever the informant told them...the informant might be the farm servant, the owner of the property or even the youngster who was at home when the enumerator got there. Montrose is in Angus. There is a 'Cove Bay' in the parish of Nigg, in the county of Kincardineshire....Kincardineshire borders Aberdeenshire. There are sites on the Internet that show the parish maps for the Northeast of Scotland. This is the best way to figure out where everything is. There should be a link on the following page.... http://www.genuki.org.uk/big/sct/ Kind regards, Linda Lumsden, SK Canada > > > Mary Reid was 81 at the time of the 1881 census, & gave her birthplace as Montrose, Kincardine, (which I thought was in Angus). Her daughter ELIZABETH (born 1831) gives her place of birth as COVE, Kincardine, whilst Scots Origins places it at NIGG. >