I have been following the Bryson info with interest. My great grandmother was illegitimate and her reputed father was Joseph BRYSON. She used the nane Elizabeth BRYSON and although I have no birth certificate, I have her marriage, death and census records which indicate she was born around 1835 in Gretna. She married George ELLIOT in 1860 in Annan and I have a photo of them taken on that occasion. Her mother's name was Mary STRAITON. Elizabeth named her third son Joseph BRYSON ELLIOT, born 1865 in Annan -- which gives some indication of the link to BRYSON. Jan Taylor Ontario, Canada