>From: "Valerie/Rowan Henshaw" <[email protected]> > >May I please enlist your help by searching your Whitsome database? I am >looking for any information on the family of my 3xg-grandfather Alexander >FAIRLEY/FAIRLIE. He was born c1805 at Whitsome, BEW, son of Alexander >FAIRLEY, gen. >labourer, and Margaret PATERSON. The IGI shows five siblings for my >Alexander, four christened in Swinton & Simprin and one, Thomas, also >christened in Whitsome on 14 Nov 1809. > There's nothing extra in the OPR index - Thomas bap 14 Nov 1809 and Alexander bap 19 Mar 1807 is all. I see that Alex was registered as "Fairly" so I searched everything on "Fairl". That there's no mention of them in the MI list is not a surprise since they also don't show on the lists of members of the parish church. These don't start until 1834, and as they were so careful to get their kids baptised, I would expect them to appear. One source I don't have (haven't found yet) is the registers of the Free Church, but again, these people bap their kids into the Kirk, so I don't think it would be useful anyway. I assume that this is the couple who married on 24 May 1794 in Ecclesmachan, West Lothian? If so, there's another child - James bap 15 Oct 1797 in Bathgate W.Lothian. It's not an unusual distance to have moved. Sorry there's nothing more. Lesley Robertson _________________________________________________________________ Add photos to your messages with MSN 8. Get 2 months FREE*. http://join.msn.com/?page=features/featuredemail