Just When You Thought The Kids Had Left Home

3*Great Grandfather Adam Forbes reaches the age of 66 when you might expect to be kid free.  No such luck, when the 1881 Census is taken Adam and wife Margaret have two grown up children living with them plus 5 grandchildren.  Two of the grandchildren are the illegitimate offspring of daughter Jane and the other three are the children of widower son Alexander.  All of them living in 2 room accommodation at West Byres Cottage, Ormiston.  The cottage also has 3 other families living there.

1881 Census Entries for Adam Forbes' Household