In a message dated 5/18/2011 12:33:58 A.M. Central Daylight Time, equisand@equiformratings.com writes: I'm curious that you persist with de Buyt. I may have got it wrong but you seem to have Ladhmann alive at the same time as de Buyt, who, if you are right, would have to have been Ladhmann's great great grandfather. I haven't progressed that far with this. I just think the Fearchar reference is interesting and falls into the general time period of the origin of the Lamonts as MacFearchar. I see nothing yet that links the Fearchar of Bute to the Fearchar of the Lamonts (Not yet anyway). Bute is mainly of interest because the Lamonts are said in some sources to have had possessions in Bute. The only date I have for Fearchar of Bute and his brother, Duncan, is prior to 1849. That date came from Memorials of Argyllshire. John