I am trying to trace the genealogy of George Smith and Elizabeth Thomson who married in Old Machar on 1 June 1805. George was born in Aberdeenshire in about 1772 (1841 census)and died on 29 January 1845 in Aberdeen (will details, death certificate not found). I believe he was buried at Belhelvie cemetery on 1 February 1845 but do not know if there is a gravestone. Elizabeth was born about 1776 in Aberdeenshire and died after the 1841 census but before 2 February 1844, when George added a codicil to his will. George was a mason and builder and built houses in Causewayend road near the Aberdeen Canal and at Spital Hill. In 1841 the family were living in Canal road at Greyfriars. George owned a house at Spital which he received from George Smith, a shoemaker of New Deer. This shoemaker was a grand nephew of Alexander Smith, former resident of Spital and thus related to my George, but I don't know how. I have produced a modest biography on George's son Alexander who married Clementina Cobban and became a Congregational minister at Rendall in Orkney and who's children scattered to Glasgow, Forfar, Vancouver and Sydney, Australia. I have also traced George's son George who remained at Causewayend (censuses and IGI only). I'd like to go further back with George and Elizabeth and also trace their other descendants. Can anyone help? regards, Philip