What’s In A Name? Most of your family’s names, usually…

OK, so shortest “enigma” ever…

Jessie Anne Inglis’s family, found at 21 Heriot Row in Edinburgh 1851, consists of the following:

Louisa M Inglis, Head, 35, Annuitant wife of officer HEIC, East India, Bengal Presidency Louisa H Inglis, daughter, 14, Scholar at home, East India, Bengal Presidency Emily I (or J) Inglis, daughter, 13, ditto, East India, Bengal Presidency Robert L* Inglis, son, 12, Scholar, East India, Bengal Presidency William D Inglis, son, 8, Scholar, England. Frances M Inglis, daughter, 5, Scholar at home, East India, Bengal Presidency Jessy A Inglis, daughter, 2, – , East India, Bengal Presidency

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Jessie Ann Inglis

For a while we’ve been trying to find out more about Jessie Ann Inglis. She married Alexander Brand Inglis, but hailed from a completely different branch of Inglises (phew!). Until a few days ago all we knew about her was that she was born in India, around 1849, and married Alexander in India in 1868.

Then we realised that www.ancestry.co.uk had made transcriptions of two more Scottish censuses available – 1851 and 1861. We had already looked on www.scotlandspeople.gov.uk but had had no luck in locating Jessie anywhere in Scotland. Trying again on www.ancestry.co.uk and using their new . . . → Read More: Jessie Ann Inglis