I am looking for any record of a family of tinkers, name of father Duncan MCPHEE, Mother Elizabeth(Cameron) MCPHEE..children John, James, Elizabeth, Susan...all of the children were brought up in orphanages in Greenock from the late 1920's to 1930's..they were given their parents names, told they were tinkers but no other information was given...they were later told that they had died..this may not have been true at that time...John later emigrated to Chicago, himself and Elizabeth my mother-in-law were re-united as adults after she advertised in a Sunday Newspaper, his landlady recognised the name and contacted Elizabeth to tell her John had joined the RAF and had lodged at her house before emigrating to America...James was found but the reunion was not a success, Susan has never been found, she was last seen in Greenock in 1939..the Scotland GRO searched through all of their records when Elizabeth applied for a Birth Certificate to obtain a passport for a visit to John in the US, they found nothing, no record of births for any of the children..we searched the St Cath's indexes for England and Wales, found nothing also..they may have been born in Ireland or Births may not have been registered as seemed to be commonplace among Travelling families..I have heard that MCPHEE was a very common name among Highland tinkers.....Elizabeth was contacted some time ago by a BBC Researcher who was interested in making a documentary about Elizabeth's search for her roots and sister, she has also been interviewed on BBC Radio Merseyside, in the North Wales Weekly news and a reporter in Greenock contacted us about the story....if anyone has any record of this family or comes across any Memorial Inscription for Duncan and/or Elizabeth, marriage record or anyone who may know or have known Susan, Please contact me at cpwill@globalnet.co.uk..thanks, sorry for this long mail..by the way, have added a page for Old Kilsyth Churchyard Stirlingshire Memorial Inscriptions to the Genealogy Scotland site below..transcribed by Bob Coomber, who first sent them to the Stirlingshire Mailing list..and kindly gave his permission for me to put them on a page, many many, names a wonderful resource, Caryl Williams http://members.tripod.com/~Caryl_Williams/index.html Ancestor Quest UK and Ireland Genealogy http://members.tripod.com/~Caryl_Williams/names-7.html A-Z of Family Surnames From England http://members.tripod.com/~Caryl_Williams/index-2.html Genealogy Wales, Wales/Cymru, the culture, language and history of Wales. http://members.tripod.com/~Caryl_Williams/scot.html Genealogy Scotland~Clans~History http://members.tripod.com/~Caryl_Williams/Eire-7.html Genealogy~History~Ireland http://members.tripod.com/~Caryl_Williams/Eirenames-7.html A-Z of Ireland Family Surnames Pages http://members.tripod.com/~Caryl_Williams/veterans.html British WW2 Reunion Page and tracing your Military Ancestors http://members.tripod.com/~Caryl_Williams/missing-7.html The Missing