Jerry, this isn't very specific to your case, but I have a Scottish girl (Janet Shaw) marrying an Irishman (Charles Coll) in Ramelton, Co Donegal in 1817. It is said that agricultural workers used to follow the crop harvest between Ireland and Scotland in those days. Jeanette Some of you will remember my recent postings/queries regarding my Lambert family who were said to have been "from Galloway", according to the 1844 U.S. Naturalization record of my ancestor Joseph Lambert, born ca 1760. Results have been essentially nill for disclosing Lamberts in that region in the 1700's. Still, I have had some success finding the youngest four children of Joseph's children born in Edinburgh between 1820-1827 and to my great surprise those records are Catholic baptisms (St. Mary's)---I say surprise because by at least the 1820's this family was in fact associated with the Hope Park Chapel/St. Leonards/Newington Church of Scotland congregation in Edinburgh. One likely explanation for this is that the couple was of "mixed" religious origins----one Catholic and one Protestant. JOSEPH LAMBERT married (ca 1804?) CATHERINE BACON who is said to have been born in Ireland (ca 1780), but no idea where. Logic tells me that the place to first consider is Ulster and specifically, the coastal areas of Ireland closest to Galloway----Counties Antrim, Londonderry, Down---even northeast Donegal. And farther out, Armagh, Tyrone, Fermanagh, Monagahan (the last in The Republic). At least from my search of Scotlandspeople records I find no Bacon-Lambert marriages, so perhaps they were married in Ireland. Does anyone have any information, thoughts, suggestions---any kind of guidance for tackling the marriage (or anything re. a ) Galloway man marrying a woman from Ireland ca 1804? Any feedback, however general will be greatly apprecitaed. (As a side note, family lore was adamant that Catherine Bacon's ancestry traced to the clan of Sir Francis Bacon; his father was Sir Nicholas Bacon, Lord Chancellor under Elizabeth I.) Jerry Brosious Minneapolis, Minnesota USA ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message