Eleanor, These entries could be a connection, no wife listed---- Bob Cdn ------------------ SKINNER Isabella Christening Gender: Female Christening Date: 7 May 1860 Recorded in: Dalkeith Midlothian Scotland Collection: Kings Park United Presbyterian Church; Free Church Father: George Skinner Source: FHL Film 889477 Dates: 1843 - 1906 SKINNER David Wishart Christening Gender: Male Christening Date: 3 Mar 1861 Recorded in: Dalkeith Midlothian Scotland Collection: Kings Park United Presbyterian Church; Free Church Father: George Skinner Source: FHL Film 889477 Dates: 1843 - 1906 SKINNER Mary Christening Gender: Female Christening Date: 1 Dec 1863 Recorded in: Dalkeith Midlothian Scotland Collection: Kings Park United Presbyterian Church; Free Church Father: George Skinner Source: FHL Film 889477 Dates: 1843 - 1906 SKINNER George Wishart Christening Gender: Male Christening Date: 4 Jun 1865 Recorded in: Dalkeith Midlothian Scotland Collection: Kings Park United Presbyterian Church; Free Church Father: George Skinner Source: FHL Film 889477 Dates: 1843 - 1906 SKINNER Janet Christening Gender: Female Christening Date: 5 Apr 1868 Recorded in: Dalkeith Midlothian Scotland Collection: Kings Park United Presbyterian Church; Free Church Father: George Skinner Source: FHL Film 889477 Dates: 1843 - 1906 SKINNER Margaret Dickson Christening Gender: Female Christening Date: 4 Jun 1871 Recorded in: Dalkeith Midlothian Scotland Collection: Kings Park United Presbyterian Church; Free Church Father: George W. Skinner Source: FHL Film 889477 Dates: 1843 - 1906 ====================================== Eleanor Robertson wrote:<SNIP>...I am searching for George Skinner on the 1871 census. He was born in Dalkeith September 1861 so would be nine years old. Only have a birth certificate then in 1881 census I find him in Newcraighall giving the wrong age and birthplace.... =======================================