Audrey <[email protected]> is having a minor problem with her subscription address(es), meanwhile here's her first contribution ... -----Original Message----- From: Audrey Coulter <[email protected]> To: [email protected] <[email protected]> Date: Saturday, 10 March 2001 14:42 Subject: {not a subscriber} Dickie=McBride >Margaret McBride m. Robert Dickie(farmer) 1783 in Stewarton. She was >born in Kilbride(Lamlash) and two possible IGI dates are 1755 and 1763. >Their four surviving children Robert,Janet,Margaret and William were >born at Gatehead,Kilmaurs. Son Robert b.1788 m.1828 in Ardrossan >Margaret Thomson b.1807 in Kilmorie and she was d.of Lachlan Thomson >(farmer) and Mary McAllister. The Arran connection is my great hope of >trying to penetrate the blank wall of births,deaths and the parents of >Margaret McBride and Robert Dickie.