Hi Listers, For a while, I have been fossicking for a Mary McLEAN, who was born Kilbride, Isle of Coll, Argyll, Scotland, 12 June 1809. She married a John McLEAN (yes, birth name and married name the same), and had two children, Effy/Euphemia, born 28 Mar 1840 and Neil, born 10 Sept 1841. Mary appears as a widow in the 1851 Census, living with her mother Flora McLEAN, also a widow, as a House Servant, with her two children, Effy and Neal. *** 1851 Census Coll 254 E2/10 McLean Flora W 80 Head Retired farmer's wife Arl., Coll Farm of Acha 255 E2/10 McLean Mary W 42 Dau. House Servant Arl., Coll Farm of Acha 256 E2/10 McLean Effy U 11 G-dau. Scholar Arl., Coll Farm of Acha 257 E2/10 McLean Niel U 9 G-son Scholar Arl., Coll Farm of Acha *** Mary, Effy/Euphemia and Neil migrated to Melbourne in Oct 1855, on the "James Baines", as Unassisted Migrants. (Mary's age is given there as 40, rather than 45). They moved to Tower Hill, Victoria, where Euphemia married a cousin, John McLEAN (in 1857) and Neil became a farmer, in 1875 marrying my great-aunt, Emma Jane BEASLEY. But, what then happened to Mary? I can't find a death for her, or a remarriage, under any variant spelling I can think of ... and a check of Scotland's People does not find a death or a remarriage for her on Coll. Any assistance gratefully accepted - I am currently at a dead end, with this one. Cheers, Lesley (In grey, overcast Melbourne)