Father: John MALCOLM, b. ABT 1763
About birth year 20 years prior to marriage. Isabel's parentage is the best possible as no death certificate is available and her marriage listing in parish gives no parents listed. Best possible is based on area, and other excellent clues. John Malcolm and Isabel Patterson are married in Dundee where Isabel is listed as from on her parish marriage record. Also the name Patterson is later chosen by a grandchild Andrew Paterson as a middle name. and also another grandchild John Paterson McDonald is born with that middle name. There is an Isabel Malcom born to William Malcolm and Christian Smart in Tealing in 1781 with a sister named Helen. That is also a possible as her parents. Also Helen Malcolm listed as being born to John Malcolm and Isabel Patterson marries a man named Peter Croll. Isabel Malcolm names a child Peter Croll, which would have been in honoring her brother in law, Helen's husband and this was very, very commonly done. So many clues fit the couple of Isabel Paterson and John Malcolm as being her parents.
Mother: Isabel PATTERSON, b. ABT 1763
About date of birth based on 20 years prior to marriage
Married 16 May 1783, Brechin Angus
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