On the certificates of my great, great grandmother Margaret Gilbertson her parents are listed as John Gregor Gilbertson, a shoemaker born in Shetland, and Catherine Ross. Although this family is easy to follow through the censuses, going further back has presented some difficulties.
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Researching my great grandfather Alexander Gilbertson did not give any leads on his father but it did for his mother. His birth certificate was not on ScotlandsPeople.com but his marriage and death certificates were. Respectively, they give her as “Margaret Fea, formerly Gilbertson, nee Gilbertson” and “Margaret Gilbertson, previously Fea, nee Gilbertson”. On the same website I looked into this discrepancy and began to piece together a picture of her life.