Any one interested in a challenging Quetsion

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Please have a read of my research notes for this individual. Am I missing something?  The link to the FamilySearch entry is: 

https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XT6R-KBZ

WikiTree profile: Jane Simpson
in Genealogy Help by Bob Shepherd G2G5 (5.9k points)

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Just curious, exactly what is the question?
by Milton Davis G2G6 Mach 3 (32.1k points)
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I am questioning how someone could find details of a birth including parent's name day, month and year of birth for child that is seemingly not on the Scotlandspeople web site.
by Bob Shepherd G2G5 (5.9k points)
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FamilySearch shows the parents with the same three children as currently on Wikitree. https://www.familysearch.org/tree/person/details/9MHJ-BJN

Their son Andrew appears in the 1881 census in the household of his uncle Andrew McColm at Whitehill Farm, Ayr, Ayrshire, Scotland, age 1.

His birth is on ScotlandsPeople:
SIMPSON      ANDREW      MCCOLM      M      1879      595 / 176      Irvine

The daughter Mary appears with her parents in her Simpson grandmother's household at 2, High Street, Dalmellington, Ayrshire, Scotland, age 0. Jane is not there.

Her birth is on ScotlandsPeople:
SIMPSON      MARY MCCOLM      MCCOLM      F      1881      586 / 45      Dalmellington

They are the only Simpson births with MMN McColm in the relevant period.

None of the three Jane Simpsons, born 1879-1881 in Ayrshire in the 1881 census can be her.

The only evidence for Jane Chalineu Simpson seems to be FamilySearch's entry:

"Scotland Births and Baptisms, 1564-1950", database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XT6R-KBH : 12 February 2020), Jane Chalineu Simpson, 1881.

Source Details v 586 p 15.

Microfilm Number     232664

The microfilm is of  Registers of births, marriages, and deaths, 1855-1875, 1881, 1891; and general index, 1855-1956

Th entry therefore comes from the birth registers for 1881. The detail 586/15 almost matches Mary's entry, and 15 is a plausible transcription error for 45.

My best suggestion is that Jane Chalineu Simpson is a horrible transcription error for Mary McColm Simpson, but you'd have to pay for a copy of Mary's birth registration to confirm that the date and place are the same.

by Andrew Millard G2G6 Pilot (223k points)
Thank you Andrew.  I concur with your conclusions and have removed Jane as a member of James and Mary's WikiTree profiles.

Just checked the other thing I should have thought of last night. The FamilySearch collection Scotland Births and Baptisms, 1564-1950 has no entry for Mary Simpson in 1881 in Dalmellington. I think Jane and Mary are the same person and should be merged.

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