Repost >... I present my three links to Dunbartonshire :- > >1 My mother served as a VAD at Drymen Hospital during WWII > >2 My grandfather E Stewart COOK and family lived in Helensburgh from >before1921, when my younger aunt was born, until the mid 1946 weddings >of his two daughters, after which Grandpa moved to Fife with his elder >daughter and son-in-law. (His wife Jessie BUCHANAN of Renfrew stock, >had died in 1934) > >3 His mother-in-law Isabella BUCHANAN {nee COLQUHOUN} was born in >Row parish (Garelochhead) on 24 April 1857, the youngest of 6 children >born to Richard COLQUHOUN {Engineer in Steamer} and Isabella >BUCHANAN, who were married in Row parish in 1845. > >Genealogically speaking, I am most interested in any links to this >last family - other children were Agnes b 1845, Catherine b 1846, >Christina b 1848, Richard bc 1851 and Margaret bc 1852. The first >three were also born in Row parish, but the last two were christened >in Rothesay, Bute, before the family reappeared in Garelochhead for >Isabella's birth. The parents : Richard COLQUHOUN may have been >born in Glasgow, while Isabella BUCHANAN was born in Kilbrandon, >Argyll. Peter Cook Rossmoyne Western Australia cookfmly@bigpond.com http://users.bigpond.com/cookfmly/ or http://cookfmly.rootsweb.com/ for research names List owner of the ButeshireGenWeb, SCT-RENFREW & SCT-ARGYLL mailing lists.