Holdsworth Vick White Arnot Anderson

Birth year is based on reported age at death. Ages provided by this illiterate cohort of people varies and cannot be relied upon for absolute accuracy especially as, in this case there is no other record to check it against. It is simply a general idea of age and thus DOB.

John's birth year is based on an estimate from ages provided at both census returns. Age provided at death makes him so much younger and beyond a normal kind of range compared with the census returns that it has been discounted. Daughter who registered death had not been living with him at the time of the 1911 census, married in 1904 and despite being recorded in both censuses as being able to read and write perhaps had no real idea of his age.

Year of birth is a guesstimate based on the 3 different ages provided at death and the 2 census returns.

Marriage year an estimate based on knowing of birth of 10 children with youngest known one born in 1864. Given her estimated age it is unlikely the marriage occurred much earlier or that or any/many kids preceded the one born in the first year of civil registration.

The land she lived on with her husband Charles became their son Hugh's in 1864 sometime following Charles' death. Land records record widow's names and as hers is absent it suggests she died prior to her husband.