Hi Group I am making this query in hopes of the remote possibility that someone from New Zealand may recognize this connection. I am looking for the family of Thomas SMITH b. Jan 16, 1851 in Lady Parish, Sanday,Orkney. His parents were Thomas Smith of Elsness district, Sanday, Orkney and Mary Morin WAUGH b.Jan 30,1823 possibly Kirkmahoe DFS and d.Feb 8,1856 in Elsness.She was buried in the Lady Parish church yard. The parents were married in March 13, 1847 by The RevJohn Anderson who was the minister of Lady Parish and who was also Mary's uncle. She had been either visiting or living with her uncle. His siblings were Catherine b.1848, John b.1849, William b. 1855 and two other sisters all born on Sanday. After Mary Waugh's death and sometime before 1873, it appears the Smith family moved to Londonderry. I have letters from Catherine in 1905 saying that all her siblings were dead except Thomas who had gone to New Zealand around 1887/88 with his oldest daughter after his wife had died.He left his two youngest children,a boy John b.abt 1887 and a girl Bessie b. abt 1885, to be raised by Catherine and her husband, Mr. STEVENSON. The Stevenson family lived on a farm at "Bohillionburt" near Londonderry. Is anyone researching this Smith/Waugh connection? Joanna Waugh Hamilton, Ont.,Canada