5 Apr 1891 census: age 23, flax reeler, unmarried, lodging with her son William, with Robert and Margaret Gowans at Dura Den Hamlet, Kemback, Fife, Scotland. 4
1892: Janet was married from St James Place, Kinghorn, FIF (probably her bridegroom's home at No.13).
31 Mar 1901 census: age 33, wife of James Beatson at 77, Salisbury Street, Kirkcaldy, FIF, Scotland. Before Jessie married, she and her illegitimate son, William Gray, were in lodgings with Robert & Maggie Gowans, and she left William in their care; he was still with them at that census. 5
Janet had a relationship with Unknown [8045] [MRIN: 1820]. (Unknown [8045] was born on an unknown date and died after 1885.)
Janet next married James BEATSON [175] [MRIN: 97], son of James BEATSON [469] and Elizabeth LAWRIE [471], on 30 Dec 1892 in St James Place, Kinghorn, FIF.1 (James BEATSON [175] was born on 25 Mar 1869 in Kinghorn, Fife and died on 17 Mar 1936 in Royal Infirmary, Edinburgh, MLN 6.)
Sources
1
Kinghorn Marriages 1893 437/01. 30th December 1892 at St James Place, Kinghorn. Rites C. of S. JAMES BEATSON 23 bachelor, labourer, St James Place, Kinghorn parents James Beatson labourer. Elizabeth Beatson ms Lawrie decd. JANET SUTTIE GRAY 25 spinster, flax mill hand, St James Place, Kinghorn parents John Gray road labourer decd. Elspeth Gray ms Mitchell decd. witnesses Walter Beatson [groom's brother], Annie Gray [bride's sister]
3
Kinghorn Deaths 1943 439/19. JANET BEATSON 77 widow of James Beatson, rivetter died 18th April 1943 at 24 Baliol Street, Kinghorn parents John Gray coalminer deceased; Elspeth Gray ms Mitchell, deceased arteriosclerosis, cerebral haemorrhage; informant R. Beatson son present.
4
1891 census of Scotland, Fife, Vol.433 Kemback (Dura Den), enumeration district (ED) 1, page 10, schedule no. 46; Robert Gowans 55 M head, stone mason, Kennoway Fife Margaret Gowans 51 M wife, Leslie Fife Jane Hutton 17 niece, flax spinner, Glasgow Jessie Gray 23 U lodger, flax reeler, Cameron Fife William Gray 5 lodger, St Andrews Fife [son of Jessie Gray]
5
1901 census of Scotland, Fife, Vol.442 Kirkcaldy (77 Salisbury Street), enumeration district (ED) 31, page 15, schedule no. 64; James Beatson 32 M head, iron and steel rivetter, Kinghorn Fife Jessie Beatson 33 M wife, Cameron Fife Alice Beatson 6 daughter, Kinghorn James Beatson 4 Kinghorn John Beatson 1 Abbotshall Fife
6
Edinburgh Canongate Deaths 1936 685-5/6444. JAMES BEATSON 67 riveter; married Janet Gray died March 17th 1936 at Royal Infirmary, Edinburgh; usual residence, 22 Broughton Street, Edinburgh parents James Beatson fisherman deceased; Elizabeth Lawrie deceased informant Robert Beatson son, 51 High Street, Kinghorn.
