Tully, Walker & Paterson
I am looking for information on my Gr-Gr-Grandmother, Margaret (Walker)Paterson. On her death certificate, she was shown as having been born in Edinburgh, Scotland, and her parents were John Walker and Margaret Tully.
Margaret was born as early as 20 June 1823 per her death certificate and tombstone. The U.S. censuses show her year of birth closer to 1834. This would mean that her mother, Margaret Tully would have probably been born about 1790-1810.
I looked for possible parents for Margaret in the 1841 census for Scotland and found a family at Sprouston, Roxburghshire - James & Agnes Tully - and also their son, James - both showing daughters named Margaret born about 1823.
Margaret married Robert Spittal Paterson in Glasgow, Scotland in 1856. She was living in England when the 1861 census was taken, but Robert is believed to have already gone to Australia, along with his brother, Andrew. Margaret took the three oldest children Mary Agnes(born in Belfast, Ireland), Margaret Walker (in England), and John Walker Paterson (in England) to Melbourne, Australia, where they lived until around 1872. By 1874, Margaret and then six children (adding Robert Buchanan, James A., and Jessie Spittal Paterson all born in Melbourne)had joined Robert in Grundy County, Illinois (near Chicago).
Any help in identifying Margaret's parents and family will be sincerely appreciated.