Hi Ray, Could this be your May Moore? Scotland Mary MOAR (F)......................... C: 21 Jan 1849 Father: George MOAR Birsay, Orkney, Scotland Mother: Mary IRVINE I cannot find any James Thomson b. 1847 in Orkney. Could he be maybe from Caithness? There are no Thomson's on Birsay in the 1851 Census at all so it seems that he was certainly not from Birsay. Will let you know if anything further comes up. Jan. -----Original Message----- From: MR RAY S WALLACE <LYXR92A@prodigy.com> To: ORKNEY-L@rootsweb.com <ORKNEY-L@rootsweb.com> Date: Sunday, 4 April 1999 12:02 AM Subject: [ORKNEY-L] ORKNEY-D Digest V99 #74 >Hello Jan, >I haven't researched my thomson connectionat all, really. All I know >at this ppoint is that James Sr. (b. 1847) Married May Moore (b. >1849) in Birsay. James' mother, I am told, was Margaret Shearer. I >don't know if they were fron Birsay or somewhere else in the Orkneys. > It Seems your Isabella would be of the previous generation. I will >let you know if I find anything. > >Ray > >