This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/BAT.2ACIB/897.903.1 Message Board Post: In your Scottish research, have you come across a Thomas Cairns, who was married to Marguerite Leewood? They had a son John, who was born about 1847, and educated at Edinburgh. There could have been other children. John was disinherited for marrying a girl that Margurite did not approve of. I wondered if John had a brother named Thomas, who had a shipping business in Newcastle and held a seat in Parliament. Cheers, Melinda Knight from Sugar Land, Texas