Hello Family Tree Forum! This is my first post and I wonder if anyone could help me with this birth place. My Great Great Grandmother Mary Morrison has her birth place recorded as Hudson's Bay in the Scotland 1851 Census.
She and her husband Andrew Irvine were living in Queen Street Stromness, Orkney at the time of the 1851 Census. At first I thought there must be a place in the Orkney Islands called Hudson's Bay which wouldn't be surprising given the long association between the Hudson's Bay Company and Orkney. But in the 1841 Census Mary Morrison and her first two children were recorded as not being born in Scotland.
To complicate matters further Mary Morrison's death certificate (1884 in South Melbourne, Victoria, Australia) records her as having been born in New York City around 1814 and having married Andrew Irvine in New York City when she was 19. But according to both the 1841 and 1851 Census records she would have been born in 1820.
So I'm thinking she and her first two children were probably born somewhere in the Hudson's Bay Company's territory in Canada. Is this at all likely?
I am intrigued by this seemingly adventurous woman and would dearly like to know something more about her life so any help would be much appreciated.
She and her husband Andrew Irvine were living in Queen Street Stromness, Orkney at the time of the 1851 Census. At first I thought there must be a place in the Orkney Islands called Hudson's Bay which wouldn't be surprising given the long association between the Hudson's Bay Company and Orkney. But in the 1841 Census Mary Morrison and her first two children were recorded as not being born in Scotland.
To complicate matters further Mary Morrison's death certificate (1884 in South Melbourne, Victoria, Australia) records her as having been born in New York City around 1814 and having married Andrew Irvine in New York City when she was 19. But according to both the 1841 and 1851 Census records she would have been born in 1820.
So I'm thinking she and her first two children were probably born somewhere in the Hudson's Bay Company's territory in Canada. Is this at all likely?
I am intrigued by this seemingly adventurous woman and would dearly like to know something more about her life so any help would be much appreciated.
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