In a message dated 28/10/99 1:11:21 PM Central Standard Time, dsaban@trib.com writes: << We are researching a couple who were married in 1739 in Perth. His name was John Sabine, a soldier of this parish, and Ann Deer, of this parish. Since he was listed as soldier, we are presuming he was of the regular army such as the Black Watch. Any ideas on how to trace him and what happened to him? The 42nd was in Flanders at that time. Try the regimental museum in Perth, or the Scottish Museum in Edinburgh. I also have a unique situation that brings up the subject of the Highland migration south. My grandmother was a Meikle, and the family immigrated to the USA around 1875. I have them traced in Lanark, technically a lowland county. The more I learn about Lanark the more I realize how it became the melting pot of Scotland. My grandmother spoke Gaelic as well as English, and had in her possession a set of bagpipes and a blue/green tartan (well worn). It has puzzled me how a Lanark family would be speaking Gaelic and have such things as bagpipes and tartans. Lanark was the sight chosen by "The Utopian Socialists", to attempt to revolutionize society and was the most advance area to live in at the period. (Beginning of Industrial Revolution.) Each worker had a flat, (apartment), each child went to school, each family had medical coverage, and it was all supplied by the company. Perhaps the best known of the group to America is Adam Smith, the father of modern economics, and probably capitalism as we know it. (How to anger an Englishman; Scotland the Birth Place of Adam Smith, England the grave of Karl Marks hehhe) Why Gaels in the area. 1; sheep taking over the land, 2: work in the South. The tenements filled very fast with Highlanders and Islanders who were being driven from the land. Glasgow had Gaelic congregation the churches, the Highland regiments found a right haven of sympathy when the began to mutiny, and there was a great feeling of Republicanism in the area at the time. (Not a political Party, a government without a King.) There is a place called the Highlandman's Umbrella in Glasgow, and it is an arch where the Gaels would gather to exchange news and stories and just to socializes and find out what was going on at home. Hope this helps a little bit. We recently took the Meikle line back to a marriage in Perth in 1750 between James Meikle, of Lesmahagow and Janet Taylor of Perth. Janet was the daughter of George Taylor and Janet Stirling. Would like some suggestions on where to go from here to uncover the Gaelic in this family. Don and Mary in Wyoming