Posted on: Shire of Dunbarton, Scotland Queries Forum Reply Here: http://cgi.rootsweb.com/~genbbs/genbbs.cgi/Scotland/Dunbarton/666 Surname: McKinlay, M'Kinlay, Mackinlay ------------------------- Dear June, How fortuitous for you to have that information. That's the third source for Dunbartonshire M. I.'s that I know about. First, was the Charles Rogers' 2 volume work of that topic, published by Heritage Press, that presumably had the M. I.'s for most counties in Scotland of yore. I'm actually getting photocopies of the Dunbartonshire M. I's from a library in the U. S. that holds the original volume as a reference item only. However, I don't know how complete or accurate that list will be. Secondly, the Clan Colquhoun Society UK has a gentleman who is researching and producing pamhlets from each of the Dunbartonshire parishes on the M. I.'s in their respective cemeteries. I have those from Rhu, Dumbarton and St. MacKessog's in Luss. As a mattter of fact, I've just gone downstairs and pulled out my third source, which may be that which you have. Is it the Monumental Inscriptions (pre-1855) in Dunbartonshire by John Fowler Mitchell, C.I.E. and Sheila Mitchell, produced for the Scottish Genealogy Society, 1969? If identical, I am still grateful you posted the message and offered to look up names, but I plan to compare that source with the other two sources of M. I.'s to see if there is corroboration in all three. Do let me know about your source of M. I.'s and if you have any other McKinlay information to share. I wonder if you are distantly related to both a Dot Murphy in Australia and to a Barbara Doss McKinlay in Fremont, CA, who also go back in their McKinlay lines to Stirlingshire - and, in Dot's case, to a John Rowatt there. If you'd care to check it out, please visit http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~mckinlay and look for their family histories under _Family Trees Posted by Others_. Many thanks for thinking of me. Kind regards, Bob