Australian cousins, Thanks to the work of Sheila Hale in transcribing the 1881 Census I have been able to pin down the parents of John Walker and Robert Alexander Marjoribanks who emigrated in about 1912. Robert Marchbank (this seems to be the way he spelled his name at the time), described as an "engine stoker," lived with his widowed mother Mary and older sister Christina in Edinburgh and married Jessie Walker later that same year. Oddly enough, I can't as yet find record of the births of John and Robert, which are known, I believe, to have taken place in or about 1884 & 1889. Robert was 32 at the time and had been born at Swinefoot in the Family homeland of Kirkpatrick Juxta, Dumfriesshire. His father William was already 76 when Robert, the youngest in the family, was born & is described in 1851 as "annuitant" (i.e. living on some form of pension). I have ordered a copy of the Certicate of marriage of Robert and Jessie and will put details on this list or send on a copy to those who request it. I'm sorry that I don't have any individual e-mail addresses - all my address book was accidentally wiped a few weeks ago - so could those who read this forward the info. on to those who are not on the List. Roger