William and Margaret Thirlwell late 1700s early 1800s
Has anyone looked carefully at the records/registers to sort out two families in this period:
1) William Thirlwell (aka Thirlway etc)and Margaret Herdman, married Warden 1811
2) William Thirlwell and Margaret Armstrong married Allendale 1797.
I get the feeling looking at some of the trees put up on Ancestry etc that these two have been confused and the families mixed up. In particular, it seems that children of the Warden couple have been linked to the Allendale couple. This shows up where the family in Dilston in the 1841 census is assumed in some of the family trees to be the Allendale family, whereas they are still in Allendale, in Scotch Hall, at least William is, with his family. Margaret, nee Armstrong, appears to have died beforehand.
Ian