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. Another possibility is testaments, but they're on Scotlands People now. My favourite source with questions like this is the NAS handbook. I've just treated myself to a new copy as the old one is falling apart. "Tracing your Scottish Ancestors. The Official Guide" by Tristram Clarke ISBN978-1-78027-022-7. I got it from amazon.co.uk. Lesley Robertson > -----Original Message----- > From: angus-bounces@rootsweb.com > [mailto:angus-bounces@rootsweb.com] On Behalf Of Wallace Fullerton > Sent: 28 February 2013 5:14 PM > To: Angus Roots Web > Subject: [ANGUS] Research in Scotland - NAS and elsewhere > > I will be visiting Scotland in June and will have some > unscheduled time to locate records that might help take back > my family research a bit further than I've been able to > accomplish from the U.S. in the several decades I've spent > searching books and microfilm (pre-Internet) and > online resources. I would like to ask this forum for > suggestions. As > most of you know, an increasing amount is available through > online resources (familysearch.org, ancestry.com, > Scotlandspeople, etc.) but its not all there yet. > > While several of the experienced researchers have mentioned > some of their sources in recent days in response to other > queries, I am hoping there might be resources available only > in Scotland that might be useful. So that you don't head in > unproductive directions, here are some of the specifics of my > search to date: > > My 4G-grandparents were George Fullerton and Margaret Pirie, married > 1739 with banns called in Dun and Dunnichen parishes. George > held the tenancy at the Mains of Dun (part of the Erskine > estate near Montrose) from about 1739 through 1757, and all > of their ten children were christened in Dun. About 1757 he > relocated his family to a tenancy near > Benholm, Kincardine. His grave marker at Benholm, placed by a son > about 20 years after his death, suggests he was born in 1707 but > provides no other useful information. The only George > Fullerton I have > found in the OPRs (for any parish in Scotland) for that year > was born in Lunan Parish, the son of a blacksmith but I've > found nothing else > suggesting the two are the same George. Similarly, there > was a young > Fullerton family in Dunnichen about 1700, a John Fullerton in > Glenskinno (near Dun) about the same time, and a Fullerton > family who owned the nearby Kinnaber estate (Quakers, > however.) Some descendents have "claimed" these and others > as "our" family but based solely on the > circumstance of proximity. The Pirie family seems equally > difficult to > find. > > All that said, it was my hope that records from the Erskine > estate (the House of Dun, now a National Trust property) held > by the NAS would provide a clue - there are something like 8 > linear meters of such records which had not been cataloged > when I was previously in Scotland. > Apparently the cataloging has occurred in recent years and, > to my dismay, the online database suggests that NAS has > little to assist me. > While I intend to look through the estate records that might > be promising, I am now trying to identify other resources > available only in Scotland. > > If any of you have suggestions, they would be greatly > appreciated. I have no particular constraints on my travel or > time while there but hope to focus on the most promising > areas. I am fairly experienced and have no difficulty > straining my eyesight on old documents. > > Thanks in advance for your ideas! > > Wallace Fullerton > Kensington, MD > > > > > > > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > ANGUS-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' > without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message >