re post from Meg Greenwood.. nice to hear back from you. I have another source of information, listing finlay/finley/findlay http://www.cursiter.com/Finlay.txt This is listed as: findlay: Births & baptisms, Caithness, Orney & Shetland International Genealogical INdex (R) - 1994 Edition - Version 3.06 This gives my gggrandfather Christopher and I assume his father, Christopher Finlay born Mar 1810 Firth and Stenness, Orkney Gives his father as David Finlay. >From your information, My ggg grandma is most likely one of the three Margaret Sinclairs.. This helps alot. thanks muchly please take peek at my web page http://www.island.net/~hme and go to Family Tree and check out the information that I have found on Christopher. >From what you have I suppose that I would have to look at a census from Firth and Stenness.. Monte