> > Nichol WHITEHEAD is well documented in a family tree I found online and he > married Elizabeth McKUNE in 1828 when he was 40. But there is no mention > of a previous family with Mary HETHERINGTON. I guess it's possible Mary > may have travelled on one of Nichol WHITEHEAD's trips and stayed "near > Quebec". But who raised young Thomas back in Scotland? Thomas first appears on > record in 1840 when he married, and then can be followed in the census. Why do you assume he stayed behind. He could easily have traveled to Canada with them and moved back later at some pointl Sheila I Hale