Hi Gordon and Mark, Thanks - though while this is all so, and the references and appearances of Muschets in various documents, are really interesting, what I need to find just now are 'my' Muschets, and the only way to do that is to work backwards... so I'm on James who married Agnes McEnzie, according to the births of their children in Tulliallan. I'm speculating he (or his parents in turn) was probably from the Dunblane/Doune area because that's where most Muschets were, but he may have been from elsewhere. So anything about Mushets in the area then gives a point to work from. There are various things out there about earlier Mushets/Muschets you mention - I have seen some of those. The James Muschet (father of Henry) from whom I'm descended may have been a descendant of a servant of a Muschet household, or may have himself descended from one of the Muschet landowning families. However, I can't make leaps there, alas. :) It's a pity the Kincardine by Doune records don't start until 1691! Clearly it was a quite persistent name - I've seen the Montefixo and Montfichet possible derivations. Have to reckon, though, that it may be more likely that most Mushets around later were descendants of servants or even tenants rather than masters... All best, Jenny On 12/10/2010 13:44, Mark Sutherland-Fisher wrote: > Just to add to what Gordon has said, the Mushat/Muschet family were closely > related to the Grahams of Calziemuck in the 1600s and I have also seen them > in Aberdeenshire OPRs in the late 1600s/early 1700s. > Regards, > Mark > -- World's winds bending trees: breaths of all those who have lived flow now on the wind.