Dear Jayne-Ann, You have quite a lot to go on. From her name, I assume that the Lister family was Protestant. Is that correct? If so, you should be able to find the record of her father's marriage (if it was in Ireland) in the Index to Irish Marriages which begins for Protestants in 1845. It is available on microfilm from the LDS(Mormons). Her marriage in Scotland should appear in the Scottish records. The Old Parish Records are available on CD-ROM at LDS Family History Centers. If there is not one near you, there is a web site for Scottish records called Scot Origins. Unfortunately, it is not free. Her marriage record ought to give the names of her parents. You also ought to be able to find her and her mother in the 1881 Census (ALSO available on CD-ROM). Do you know what county they settled in ? The name of the town, by the way, is Castleblaney. There are pretty good records for the Church of Ireland there( Episcopal). Presbyterian records are much more spotty and not available in the US. (Where are you?) If you would like, I am going to my FHC next week which has the above resources and I could take a quick look for your Listers. Good luck, Joan Jayne-Ann wrote: > Greetings All; > > I've just joined and here is the scant info I have about my Irish g grandmother. > > Her name was Margaret Lister b. 25 Jan 1859 and she was from Castleboney (sp?), County Monaghan. Her father was a school teacher and family rumour has it he was from England. Margaret was the product of his second marriage. He had two sons from the first marriage (one possibly John) > > Margaret came to Scotland before 1882 with her mother, and she married in Dundee. > > I do not know her mother or father's names. > > If anyone has info on Margaret or her ancestors, or has advice on how I could proceed in my search for them, I would love to hear it. > > Thank you in advance > Jayne-Ann > > ==== IRL-MONAGHAN Mailing List ==== > If you'd like to read all previous messages that have been sent to this > list, go to the archives of the list that are located at: > http://archiver.rootsweb.com/IRL-MONAGHAN-L/ > and > http://searches.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/listsearch.pl?list=irl-monaghan > and: > http://cgi.rootsweb.com/~genbbs/genbbs.cgi/Ireland/Monagahan > and: > http://cgi.rootsweb.com/~genbbs/genbbs.cgi/Ireland/General © MM