Hi! Although I've been doing geneology for several years now researching my parents families, I've now decided to branch out and see if I can get a bit further with my husband's family. It has been a little while since I've done any research, and I am a little rusty, so please be patient with me ;-) My father-in-law was born in Biggar in 1937. His name is James Thomas Gate MCMAHON. He had a brother George Blackadder MCMAHON. Now, I believe their parents were George Blackadder MCMAHON Snr and Agnes Isabella GATES or GATE (So we know where my F-I-L's middle name came from!) I also believe that George Snr had a brother, not surprisingly called James! , and that there were also sisters Hannah and Agnes. Their parents we believe were another James MCMAHON and Lucy OWEN. James was born around 1859, lucy around 1868. This James ALSO had a brother called George, born around 1856. My F-I-L seemed t think that Lucy may have been Welsh and that our MCMAHON's were Scottish through and through. But I actually suspected that James, George and Lucy may have heralded from Ireland. And this is as far as I got! I did have a subscription to Ancestry and Scots origins at the time that I started tracing our MCMAHONs, but that was a few years ago, on another computer - which I no longer have! All my records are gone! I know, silly that I didn't make a back-up, lesson learned the hard way! So I'm on bended knee, asking for any assistance to get me a bit further. Anything at all to help make this tree a wee bit bigger (or should that be Biggar ?) Thanking you all in advance for your help! tRaCeY :)