How do I trace hunter-3750 further back??

Question

And why was she finlayson at one stage?

Answer 1

Finlayson on her marriage record

Scotland, Select Marriages, 1561-1910

Name:	Margaret Hunter Or Finlayson
Gender:	Female
Marriage Date:	14 Jun 1715
Marriage Place:	Kilmarnock,Ayr,Scotland
Spouse:	William Tough
FHL Film Number:	1041386, 1041385
Household Members:	Name Age Jasper Tough William Tough Margaret Hunter Or Finlayson

Source Information:

Ancestry.com. Scotland, Select Marriages, 1561-1910 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2014.

Original Data: Scotland, Marriages, 1561-1910. Salt Lake City, Utah: FamilySearch, 2013.

Comments

Scotland's People indexes the marriage to Tough as only Hunter:

HUNTER

Forename MARGARET

Spouse Name WILLIAM TOUGH/FR1239 (FR1239)

Date 14/06/1715

Parish Number 597/

Ref 50 174

Parish Kilmarnock

Answer 2

Back in September 2015 you edited the profile to add Finlayson as other last name.

Comments

Yes and the image supports that but this image is causing me some puzzlement!

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I had a look at the actual record in Scotland's People and Margaret Hunter, was the relict (widow) of Francis Finlayson when she married William Tough.  There is a record of a Margaret Huntar marrying Francis Finlayson on 3 December 1703 at Kilmarnock, which is probably this first marriage.

Given Scottish women tended not to take their husband's name, explains why she is married for the second time still as Hunter, but whoever transcribed the record for the Scotland, Select Marriages database, presumably thought they should include both names.

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The record in FamilySearch confirms that the Margaret Hunter/Huntar who married Francis Finlayson was the daughter of Hugh Huntar https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XT2C-7TP