Chisholm or Chisolm - who?

Margaret Chisholm, our Bain matriarch, enters our story in 1796, when she married one of the Alexander Bains. They married in Dingwall, with the only clue being that her father was the late Don Chisolm "or Millan". 

There is only one Margaret whose father was called Don born in Ross-shire on ScotlandsPeople.  This child was born in 1785 in Kiltearn, so she is is too young to marry in 1796. I have found only one Margaret born on the border of Ross-shire and Inverness-shire whose father was Donald.  She was born on 1 January 1780 in the parish of Kiltarlity, and baptised on 11 January. This girl's parents were Don Chisholm and Margaret Cameron.

Is she the right Margaret? How can we possibly know? One approach is to wonder how likely it is that a girl born in Inverness-shire married a man in Dingwall in Ross-shire? Firstly it is worth realising that Dingwall was the county town of Ross-shire and therefore a place where people might travel to for work, or have contacts in some way.

Dingwall is located on the north coast of Cromarty Firth, across the water from the northern border of the Black Isle. The ancient parish of Fodderty has been absorbed into the later Strathpeffer parish, but can be seen to the west of Dingwall. Also on the map below is the district of Blackwells, just south of Dingwall, where Alexander Bain was a tenant in 1796.

Inverness-shire is immediately south of Ross-shire; in fact the current Muir or Ord parish lies across both counties. Our Bain family lived in this parish for the 1841 census.

Kiltarlity parish sits at the end of the water just visible above the distance scale at the bottom of the image. Is this 15km too far to expect Margaret to move to find a marriage partner? Could her parents have taken her to Dingwall as a child?

Below are the parishes of northern Inverness-shire, showing just how close Kiltarlity is to the area of western Black Isle. The dotted line runs through Cromarty Firth, a body of water. Bordering Kiltarlity is the parish of Kirkhill, where our Bain family were living for the 1851 census. By 1861 Alexander and Catherine Bain moved to be near Inverness town, I think on the edge of Culloden Moor. Both Alexander and Catherine died in Inverness Town - see the post on Census records.

A second approach is to see if this particular Margaret Chisholm, born in Kiltarlity parish, has siblings or other genealogical connections can be linked to our Bain family.