I know this is Peter's topic for March, not February, but I am moving around at present and I might forget. My nominee would have to be my g.g.grandfather, Peter TAYLOR, not because of anything remarkable about his life, but because there are so many questions he could answer for me - if addressed to him with tact. These questions would be mundane, like those that many of us want answered. I would have to hope that we could understand each other - Peter would probably have a strong Scottish burr, whereas I never acquired the dialect of my ancestors and speak like the southern English. 1 You brought your family to Bute from West Kilbride in the late 1830s. What made you make the move? A general hope for betterment or something more specific? 2 Is it coincidental that your sister Catherine (wife of Archibald MALCOM) made the same move at possibly the same time? 3 You appear to have left James, your eldest son, behind. Did he die young? 4 Your three other sons went on to work in Glasgow in the 1850s. How did you feel about this move? Good, bad or inevitable? 5 One of these sons, Robert, was a Blacksmith all his working life. Did he serve his apprenticeship with the Blacksmith, Duncan McVICAR, at whose house in West Princes Street, Rothesay, Annie SHARP (the future wife of Robert's brother, John) was a servant in 1841, and is that how John and Annie met? 6 You worked in Bute as an Agricultural labourer, Gardener and Quarryman. Possibly also as a Victualler and Mason. Did you find it difficult to settle down, or was regular work in short supply? Had you hoped for something better? 7 Did you ever stop to stare across from Bute at Skipness on the Kintyre peninsula where you were born, and was that one of Bute's attractions for you? 8 When and where did your parents die (Gilbert and Elespy) - in Skipness, West Kilbride or Bute? 9 Who were their parents? Please, please, please! Martyn