In a message dated 9/10/00 5:10:55 PM GMT Daylight Time, [email protected] writes: << My Gran also had a friend called "Ching" - rather an unusual name so if anyone knows of this legend I'd be delighted to hear. >> Hi I asked my mother. She remembers Ching from Lamlash. She thinks his name was Crawford and he was a tradesman of some sort like plumber or joiner. He was married and older than my parents, (my father was born 1914) She reckons if you wrote to a local paper in Arran you'd find someone who remembered him better. Irene