1. Note, the 1881 Ancestry Census, does not have all inmates recorded. There are only 100 names in the Census. The full list, which records 133 residents, can be found in the website http://www.workhouses.org.uk/Kirkcaldy/Kirkcaldy1881.shtml [1881 Census: Residents of Kirkcaldy Combination Poorhouse] In the 1881 census there is a Margaret Wilson, age 35, born in Kirkcaldy, an inmate in Kirkcaldy Poorhouse, Kinghorn. There is also a male child James age 4, born Kirkcaldy, born 1876, a female child Margaret aged less than a month, born Kinghorn, 1881, and also an adult male, James Wilson, aged 61, Quarryman, born Kilmarnock.
Margarets father, James in 1881 is unable to work. As she has been carrying a child, she cant work either. Perhaps this is our Margaret. Margaret is recorded as being unmarried.
A check on Scotlands people finds a James Wilson born 1876, to Margaret Wilson. The child is born Illegitimate, in West Bridge, Kinghorn. This takes care of James.
Cannot find register of birth of young Margaret, born Kinghorn in 1881 in either Scotlands People or LDS. Margaret may not be the daughter of Margaret Wilson!
Record for Margaret Wilson
Name: Margaret Wilson
Age: 35
Estimated Birth Year: abt 1846
Relationship: Inmate
Gender: Female
Where born: Kirkcaldy, Fife
Registration Number: 439
Registration District: Kinghorn
Civil Parish: Kinghorn
County: Fife
Occupation: Mill Lab. Flax
ED: 5
Household Schedule Number: 81/3
Line: 24
Roll: CSSCT1881_121
Household Members:
Name Age
Margaret Wilson 35
1881 Scotland Census http://www.workhouses.org.uk/Kirkcaldy/Kirkcaldy1881.shtml [1881 Census: Residents of Kirkcaldy Combination Poorhouse]
Margaret WILSONU 35 F Inmate Mill Lab FlaxKirkcaldy
James WILSON 4 M Inmate Scholar Kirkcaldy
Margaret WILSON >m F Inmate Kinghorn
Record for Margaret Bird
Name: Margaret Bird
Age: 54
Estimated Birth Year: abt 1847
Relationship: Head
Gender: Female
Where born: Kirkcaldy, Parish St james
Registration Number: 442
Registration district: Kirkcaldy and Abbotshall
Civil parish: Abbotshall
County: Fife
Address: 9 Link Street
Occupation: Housekeeper
ED: 10
Household schedule number: 5
Line: 12
Roll: CSSCT1901_141
Household Members Age Relationship
Margaret Bird 54 Head
James Wilson 26 Son
Christina Wilson 18 Daughter
Mary Bird 13 Daughter
1876 WILSON, JAMES (Statutory registers Births 442/ 78)
James Wilson
(Illegitimate)
1876 January Twenty ninth 8 H AM
West Bridge, Kinghorn M
Parents: No Father recorded
Margaret Wilson
Mill Worker
Inf. Margaret Wilson, Mother
Registered
1876 February 16, Kirkcaldy
SM MacKnight
Registrar
Record for Robert Bird
Name: Robert Bird
Age: 60
Estimated Birth Year: abt 1831
Relationship: Head
Spouse's Name: Margaret Bird
Gender: Male
Where born: Kirkcaldy, Fife
Registration Number: 442
Registration district: Kirkcaldy and Abbotshall
Civil parish: Kirkcaldy and Abbotshall
County: Fife
Address: 357 High Street
Occupation: Yarn Dyer
ED: 3
Household schedule number: 73
Line: 16
Roll: CSSCT1891_135
Household Members Age Relationship
Robert Bird 60 Head
Margaret Bird 47 Wife
Alexr Bird 26 Son
Agnes Bird 17 Daughter
James Wilson 16 Stepson
Christina Wilson 8 Step Daughter
Mary Bird 3 Daughter
1911 BIRD, MARGARET (Census 442/ 10/ 3)
Kirkcaldy and Dysart Parish
9 Links Street
Margaret Bird Head 64 Widowed Kirkcaldy, Fife
James Wilson Son 35 Single Labourer Linoleum works. Kirkcaldy, Fife
1916 WILSON, MARGARET (Statutory registers Deaths 442/ 101)
Deaths in the District of Kirkcaldy in the County of Fife 1916.
Margaret Bird
Widow of Robert Bird
Yarn Dyer
1916 April Ninth 7h.30m. A.M.
9 Links Street, Kirkcaldy. F. Age 69
Parents: James Wilson
Flaxdresser (deceased)
Marjory Wilson
M.S. Aitken (deceased)
COD: Cardiac Disease, Dropsy
As Cert by A. Leslie Civinor
MBCM
Inf. James Wilson, Son (Present)
Registered
1916 April 10th, Kirkcaldy
AA Crowley
Assistant Registrar
W.M.