Whilst updating the profile of my and brother David's 3 times removed cousin Dorcas Innes Forbes I found her 1901 Census Record. Dorcas was living with her husband Charles Taylor and their adopted daughter Adelaide JFT McDuatra.
This intrigued me so I did a bit more delving and found that the Census had been transcribed badly and the adopted daughters name was actually Adelaide McCoustra. Adelaide was born in 1900 at Falkirk and was the illegitimate daughter of a Jane Mauchline McCoustra. Adelaide's full name was Adelaide Innes Forbes Taylor McCoustra. 'Innes Forbes' and 'Taylor' being the names of her future adoptive parents!
So what was going on here? Did Jane McCoustra give her daughter these names to embarrass the father of her child, or was this a surrogate birth?
A conundrum worthy of further research when I get time.