It did me too I was used to seeing illegitimate on birth regs in Scotland but once you get into the OPRs you start seeing natural and lawful. It was more common than I think most people realise.

I am curious though because I have a suspicion that Abigail and Alexander never lived together she lived at Burnbrae with Robert Drinnan Alexander's mother's brother with the two children and where they were born and Alexander lived with his parents and other siblings at Tarholm but we only have a snapshot and she died in 1839 so who knows. I am curious though why she had two children and they never married, one is a mistake two is careless as they say but I don't think it was like that. Alexander and his family recognised both children as his and James and Janet knew they weren't married it seems. I think it's weird but maybe not in the farming world of Ayrshire, Scotland in the 1830's!