Hi Ray, Check out my website on http://freespace.virgin.net/leonard.davies/index.htm You will find a MacDuff database there. Let me know, if it helped Regards Len > > Hello, Listers, > > Is there anyone who could put me on the path to finding my ggf who ran away to sea from a Scottish port, (probably on the Clyde) at age 14 in 1859 or soon thereafter by > stowing away or joining the crew? > I suspect that he was born illegitimately as DUFF, but changed his name soewhere along the way to New Zealand. > > Kind regards, from New Zealand, > mail to:ray.christmas@inspire.net.nz