I just spent a few hours doing some on-site research and think I have narrowed down the Kirkpatrick line I'm trying to track. In MacVeigh's The Scottish Family History, 1891, Dumfries, SCT, I found a reference to the Empress Eugenie. >From other information that I have seen, Eugenie was a descendant of Sir Robert Kirkpatrick who is supposed to be the brother of my ancestress, Roseanne/Anne Kirkpatrick who married William Glendenning. In an aside on the Kirkpatrick family is the following statement in MacVeigh: " From a branch of the Kirkpatricks, styled of Conheath, is descended the Empress Eugenie, consort of Napoleon III, of France. According to one account, this branch springs from Alexander Kirkpatrick of Kirkmichael, 2d son of the 3d Roger de Kirkpatrick of Closeburn; the barony of Conheath having been bestowed on him as the reward of his valour in making a captive of the 9th earl of Douglas at Burnswick in 1484. ... The Empress Eugenie's great-great-grandfather joined the standard of the pretender in 1745,and being taken prisoner, died on the scaffold." (This would have been Sir Robert Kirkpatrick who died in 1746 after having left Scotland for Ireland following the defeat in 1715. He returned to Scotland and supported the Pretender in 1745). Does anyone have information regarding this Kirkpatrick line?