Hi Listers, I'd be grateful for any information on a James Cuthbertson (brother of my great great grandmother Janet). He was born to Robert Cuthbertson, a quarryman or stonemason, and Helen Riddell (or Riddle, or similar), and christened at Kilmaurs, Ayrshire on 3/9/1817. He's listed as arriving in December 1854, aged 37, at Port Phillip on the Storm Cloud, with Janet, aged c.23. Family lore has it that they became separated on the goldfields and she never saw him again, and there has been no other information handed down on him. Given that Janet signed her marriage at Ballarat in 1856 with a cross, it's quite possible that he was quite nearby to her, in her long life just outside Maryborough, but that she was deterrred in the effort to find him. James and Jane's siblings were, at least, Marion, c.1819, John c.1822, Margaret Tod, c.1825, Robert c.1827, Helen c.1831, William c.1834 and David c.1836. I'm providing the sibling information in case someone can spot something from the Scottish naming pattern in the children of a James. Unless James was lying, he is NOT the James Cuthbertson who married Jessie Watson on November 1859 at Spring Hill, Pentland Hills, because that James was born in North Sutherland, England, and had the father George. (Much of the rest of the copy of that marriage entry is unreadable, but for any lister who may be interested, the page also includes the marriage of William Grant and Elizabeth Patterson on 23/11/1859 at Bacchus Marsh, and of George Lindsay and Ann(e) Davies on December 5, at what looks like Collingwood, but seems out of territory. Any help would be gratefully received, Tom Woolman _________________________________________________________________ It's simple! Sell your car for just $40 http://a.ninemsn.com.au/b.aspx?URL=http%3A%2F%2Fsecure%2Dau%2Eimrworldwide%2Ecom%2Fcgi%2Dbin%2Fa%2Fci%5F450304%2Fet%5F2%2Fcg%5F801459%2Fpi%5F1004813%2Fai%5F859641&_t=762955845&_r=tig_OCT07&_m=EXT