At last I have broken down the brick wall surrounding Annie SHARP who married John TAYLOR, my great great uncle, in Bute, in 1848. I knew that they had moved to Glasgow and had a daughter, Mary, before John died in 1856, but what happened to Annie subsequently, and who her parents were, were both unknown. It now turns out that Annie SHARP was born in Kingarth on 28 Feb 1823, one of 11 children of Hugh SHARP, a Sawyer, Gardener and Forester at Scoulag, and Margaret BANNATYNE (Hugh and Margaret were married in Rothesay on 9 Jun 1814). After John's early death Annie married again in Glasgow in 1858 - the marriage was hard to trace as she used only her maiden name. Her second husband was Francis BOWIE, a Warehouseman, and later Pattern maker; she had four children by him, before he too died in 1868. She died in Glasgow in 1895. Does anyone connect with these SHARP or BANNATYNE families? I would be glad to exchange further information. Martyn