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Does the marriage cert name Mary's parents?

Mmmm food for thought! I don't see her on the next census where she would be 15 yrs old. There seems to be so many Alexander Mutch and Marys on Ancestry. I have the correct Alexander Mutch born 2 June 1882 at 90 High St. New Pitsligo (Tyrie) parents are Alexander Mutch farm servant and Mary Watt Ross (I have birth document). I see them on the 1881 census with 11 month old son John L Mutch but can t see a birth on sp to confirm. Alexander Mutch and Mary Watt Ross were married 12 June 1880. There is someone on Ancestry who has all the children listed including a Bathia Coutts Mutch born 1890 (I traced a death on sp in 1983 which confirms her mothers maiden name as Ross) but this person has her mothers maiden name as Anderson.. So get both confusing and annoying. I cant seem to trace Mary Watts Ross on census records before 1881 :-(

The Mary being her mother could be an Ancestry assumption - Step-child then could have different meanings to the one we use today.

Scotland's People only has one birth for an Elizabeth G 1875/1876 but it isn't in Tyrie or Aberdeen; 5 births for Elizabeths in Aberdeenshire but none in Tyrie.

It does say stepchild.

Elizabeth G Wood

in the 1881 Scotland Census
Record Image Index-only record

Name: Elizabeth G Wood
Age: 5
Estimated Birth Year: abt 1876
Relationship: Step Child (Child)
Mother's name: Mary Mutch
Gender: Female
Where born: Tyrie, Aberdeen
Registration Number: 241
Registration district: Strichen
Civil Parish: Strichen
County: Aberdeenshire
Address: North St
ED: 2
Household schedule number: 87
LINE: 19
Roll: cssct1881_69
Household Members:
Name Age
Alexander Mutch 24
Mary Mutch 23
Elizabeth G Wood 5
John L Mutch 11 Mo

Hi Jaqueline, I did see that 1881 census on Ancestry where it shows Elizabeth G Wood to be step child, mothers name Mary Mutch

Thanks for the death for Robert Taylor Much Yvonne, I did wonder what happened to him.

Name: Robert Taylor Mutch
Event Type: Death
Event Date: 22 Jul 1968
Event Place: Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Gender: Male
Age: 74
Marital Status: Single
Birth Date: 12 Oct 1893
Birthplace: Aberdeen, Scotland
Father's Name: Alexander Mutch
Mother's Name: Mary Watt Ross

1881 England, Wales & Scotland Census Transcription
North Street, Strichen, Aberdeenshire, Scotland


First name(s) Last name Relationship Marital status Gender Age Birth year Occupation Birth place
Alexander Mutch Head Married Male 24 1857 Farm Servt Tyrie, Aberdeenshire, Scotland Transcription
Mary Mutch Wife Married Female 23 1858 - Tyrie, Aberdeenshire, Scotland Transcription
Elizabeth G Wood - Unmarried Female 5 1876 - Tyrie, Aberdeenshire, Scotland Transcription
John L Mutch Son Unmarried Male 0 1881 - Tyrie, Aberdeenshire, Scotland Transcription


Nothing on the transcription to indicate Elizabeth's relationship to the head of the household

I am tracing Alexander Mutch "farm servant" born c1858 Aberdeen and his wife Mary Watt Ross born c1859 Aberdeen. They were married 12 June 1880 at New Pitsligo Aberdeen. I see them on the 1881 census with a step daughter Elizabeth G Wood born c1876 Tyrie Aberdeen?? Totally thrown as I cant trace a marriage between Mary Watt Ross to a Wood? and she must have been very young to have had daughter Elizabeth, perhaps a marriage didn't take place

Any help appreciated.
:-S