Greetings to all from down under. As a new list member 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 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. 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 and Co-host with Barbara < babrown@fast.net > of the ButeshireGenWeb mailing list List owner and Co-host with Marion < maripat2@aol.com > of the SCT-RENFREW mailing list.