Margaret Smith 1828 -1857
"DURRIS, a parish in the county of Kincardine, Scotland, 7 miles N.W. of Stonehaven. It is situated on the river Dee, under the Grampians. The parish is traversed by the road from Aberdeen to Banchory, and is near the Deeside railway. At Cairnmonearn the land rises 1,020 feet above sea-level. The parish is in the presbytery and synod of Aberdeen. The minister's stipend is £158, in the patronage of A. Mactier, Esq., of Durris House. The village contains the parish church, a Free church, and a non-parochial school. On Castle Hill are the remains of an ancient fortification, and at Red Beard is a chalybeate spring. Three annual cattle fairs are held here."
Description(s) from The National Gazetteer of Great Britain and Ireland (1868)
Durris Church. Margaret & her parents buried here
1828. Margaret Smith born to George Smith & Margaret Smith on 15/7/1828, baptised 12/8/1828 Durris - FS
1841C. Margaret Smith,12 is living Brachmont Durris Kincardineshire with her parents &4 siblings.
| George | Smith | Male | 45 | 1796 | Kincardineshire, Scotland |
| Margaret | Smith | Female | 45 | 1796 | Kincardineshire, Scotland |
| Isobel | Smith | Female | 20 | 1821 | Kincardineshire, Scotland |
| Betty | Smith | Female | 15 | 1826 | Kincardineshire, Scotland |
| Mary | Smith | Female | 14 | 1827 | Kincardineshire, Scotland |
| Margaret | Smith | Female | 12 | 1829 | Kincardineshire, Scotland |
| Jean | Smith | Female | 9 | 1832 | Kincardineshire, Scotland |
| Margaret | Dixon | Female | 1 | 1840 | Kincardineshire, Scotland |
| John | Riddler | Male | 0 | 1841 | Kincardineshire, Scotland |
Margaret Smith "marries" John Morrison - NO: They never married: daughter Jane's d.c. implies no marriage! and in fact this daughter was born as Jane Smith
1855. Jane Smith was born 6/2/1855 to {John Morrison &) single mother, Margaret Smith, aged 26 Durris Kincardineshire, Scotland. FS. Birth cert. on her page - SP purchased
1857. There is a death, Durris, in 1857, aged 27 - SP Purchased This is indeed she!!. Margaret Smith, domestic servant, single, aged 27, father George Smith, farmer, deceased, mother Margaret, maiden name Smith , died 29/1/1857 at Denside, Durris, of Ulceration of the Bowels . Buried in the Churchyard of Durris. Informant, was George Smith, her brother. 
By the 1861C, her daughter is known as Jane Morrison but is brought up in Durris by Margaret's mother & siblings