Hi List, Just want to thank those people who have been kind enough to respond to my plight in relation to William Henry McGuire/Maguire/Macguire and Isabella Aitken I have been rather quiet lately due to my being busy with my lines, as opposed to my somewhat convict riddled husband's lines!! I have been busy chasing down every possible line I have to see if by chance I have any convict that I can claim of my own... plenty by marriage to husband, but none of my own... Until TONIGHT!!!! I have finally hit the Jackpot!! William Henry Maguire aged 31 could read and write - Presbyterian, a weaver and soldier was court martialled in Edinburgh on 21 January, 1835 for striking a sergeant. He received 14 yrs and 200 lashes (Lady Kennaway 2), was 5'7.5 inches - had a dark sallow and was a little pock pitted, brown hair and hazel eyes... My 3rd Great Grandfather - Bless Him!!! He married Isabella Duncan Aitken (cf Herald 1844) in 1845 Maitland, and somehow ended up in Armidale... I was at the Toowoomba Family History rooms tonight... despite a thunderstorm... and had to stop myself from doing a loud yeehaaa and a happy dance on the tabletops.. (see I have grown up!!) First thing my husband said to me - was - doesnt count if he was court martialled... LOL Like Hell!!! Anyway, just had to share my good news with the List! And - it has rained all night here in Toowoomba - so another great thing!!! Cheers! Liz