Hi everyone, Now I am back home, I will show the 3 generations of the MAXWELL family that I have been tracing with our friend who descends directly through this line. Firstly, can anyone please help to clarify the marriage below, which is the earliest point so far for this family we've found: John MAXWELL and Nelly MURRAY 08 Mar 1804 Westerkirk, Dumfries 08 Mar 1805 Westerkirk, Dumfries both these entries appear on the old style familysearch.org website, but as yet I can't find either of them on the new style site. Is anyone able to confirm which year (if either) is correct please? If anyone has access to images of the original parish records, would they be so kind as to let me know any further details that are recorded on the marriage entry please? The next step in my friends family is through a son of John and Nelly/Helen: Thomas MAXWELL was born 05 Dec 1815 at Langholm. We have so far been unable to find his marriage to Elizabeth ARMSTRONG. We did find an entry for the marriage of a John MAXWELL and Elizabeth ARMSTRONG in the mid 1830's, so whether this is an error or not I don't know. It did go through my mind that maybe Thomas was originally written as Tho and somehow ended up as Jno. I've seen the same idea in reverse in my own family where the father was indexed as Thomas and not John. The next step in my friend's family line is through Thomas and Elizabeth's son, John MAXWELL, who was born at Canonbie in 1848. He married Maggie ELDER, the daughter of Alexander ELDER (the Keeper of the Cross Keys hotel), in 1881, and by the 1891 Census they had moved over the border to Carlisle where they continued raising their family. To those who have already replied to my earlier posts, thanks very much, the suggestions you made will definitely be followed up, especially in relation to what happened to Thomas MAXWELL at Canonbie that caused his death 8 weeks later. Once again, if there are any MAXWELL family researchers who have info on this line, we'd dearly like to hear from you. And if there are any family members out there who descend directly from this line, Liz would dearly love to hear from you, so please feel free to get in touch with me and I can put you in touch with her. With kindest regards to all, Jon Nixey