This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: McCandliss/McCandless Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/JaB.2ACE/1240.1304 Message Board Post: Patrick, There's a lot about James\William McCandliss, born 1757in Edinburgh, SCT, married to Mary Arters, came to PA in 1790, at: http://www.eff.org/~mech/Cuindlist/GenWeb/d0088/g0000070.html#I3677 Do you have information on where in Scotland and N. Ireland they came from?