Still trying to get further back on my MENZIES ancestors of Durisdeer, Rigghouse, Enterkinfoot and Crary (Hill). My MENZIES lived at Woodhouselee and over the various census years from 1841 they list several nephews and nieces staying with them, In 1841 an Agnes FINDLATER aged 6 months was with them, in 1851 it was Andrew FINLATER (sic) aged 10 months and William BROWN aged 2 years. Both boys were still there in 1861 – Andrew was born Penpoint, William born Durisdeer. By 1871 there were just Andrew and Agnes MENZIES living there (brother and sister, both unmarried) but a William BROWN aged 22 was living nearby with wife Mary b Ayrshire and daughter Mary born Durisdeer. I have been in contact with someone researching their McMurdo family and they have a Catherine Menzies McMILLAN marrying into this, she was the daughter of Andrew MCMILLAN and Agnes FINDLATER. It is believed that Agnes’s mother was a MENZIES because of this. The McMILLAN family are in Kirkconnell on the 1871 census with children William, Helen and Catherine. By 1881 they had added John, Rachel and Agnes. If anyone has connections to the above families I would be very happy to share the information I have on the MENZIES and FIN(D)LATER families. Dot Dorothy Holden nee MENZIES Dover Kent England There are three things that can never be retrieved- the spoken word, time past and the neglected opportunity I volunteer for the Random Acts of Genealogical Kindness website www.raogk.org