This is for Ken Harrison & Lisa mainly, but anybody else can add to the theme. I have found by good detective work that Dr. David Geddes Phd. was a direct descendant of my 4xGrGrandfather David Geddes 1751-1811. I have made contact with his daughter and have also read " The Forging of a Family" by Auckland Campbell ( Baron ) Geddes which has expanded my knowledge of this branch of my ancestry - especially since my GrGrGranny, Anne Geddes Strang, came to Lanarkshire and married a miner !!!!! - maybe this is where I inherited my lack of ambition and wealth !!!!! Correction for Lisa is that according to Auckland Campbell Geddes, his Father was George Geddes who married Elizabeth Anderson, daughter of James A. and Barbara Gordon of Rispond ( at Loch Eriboll in Sutherlandshire). But there is no proof that Auckland was correct. What seems to be indisputable is that the family had strong connection with this part of Scotland. It seems that this branch of the Geddes Family experienced wealth, poverty, and wealth and great standing again in the British Empire. Baron Geddes was my GrGranfather's ( John Lyle ) 2nd cousin, but I wonder if he was aware of that ?!! Archie LYLE Gilbert.