On 03/03/2013 12:26, Lesley Robertson wrote: > Have you looked at the tax records? There's partial survival of the Poll tax > between 1693 and 1699 under catalogue E70, for example. It's slightly before > your guy's likely birth, but you may locate possible couples and/or siblings > if you're lucky. I was aware of the (miraculous) survival of the 1696 Poll Tax returns for Aberdeenshire, but knew nothing of other remnants. Could you give us an outline of what exists? Gavin Bell