Meg I would love a scan if possible. I have looked up both Piere & Petrie on th LDS site and can't find any of them. I do know that there was one family of Petrie's from Orphir and everytime I come across 2 of the girls their ages never seem to fit. One of the sons was a David and he would be old enought to be your David's father. I will keep your email and keep an eye out myself. James should also be listed in the 1881 cenus and my local LDS centre has it on fiche and I will look it up next time I'm there. Thanks for the info. Janine -----Original Message----- From: Greenwood [SMTP ionet.net] Sent: Tuesday, July 20, 1999 8:22 AM To: ORKNEY-L@rootsweb.com Subject: [ORKNEY-L] Re: PIERE - is it PETRIE ? Janine - This name is clearly PIERIE. Have looked for PETRIE, unelss one of these enumerators hen scratchings clears up and becomes PETRIE, there are none on these extra sheets . Apologies ! The only other ' P ' listing is for PEACE. Creative thinking is a necessity when reading some of these names ! I have used the Cursiter site to help me get possibilities for a few - like VELZIAN ! MLSOU becomes WILSON, COSMO might become COCK, BRAION will probably be BROWN, but why is the 'dot' there? My HALCRO was listed as HALERS. There is a name that looks like CASKEY, but that ' K ' is strange. the legs that kick out are really more of a squiggle resembling a ' 3 '. Looks like an ' h ' with a kinked right leg ! And it is written precicely this way 6 times in a row. He was Minister of the Orphir Parish. Guesses are welcomed !!! Look at the listings for PIERIE, and if they are a good fit for your PETRIE family - eMail me, I can easily send a scan - or I can do it anyway if you want to see what it really looks like. Easily done. - Meg Greenwood