Hello All Some time back I enquired whether anyone had had contact recently with a Robert Wilkie who was on this list some time back.No replies were received and I assume he is no longer with us. The reason was that he had advised me that he and his wife had been to their library and had established that the parents of my David CLARK/Margaret TAYLOR m Findogask 18 July 1823 were :- 1)Alexander CLARK and Lillias MILLER - (David Christened 05/04/1801 in Fowlis Easter). 2)Thomas TAYLOR and Helen KINNIS - (Margaret Christened 20/07/1799 in Moneydie).The Wilkies claimed an interest in this Taylor connection). This advice I accepted as I had no reason to doubt it although I struggled to make any further progress.A constant irritant in my mind was that in 1867 one of my g.grandfather's siblings was named Margaret SHARP Clark.Furthermore the first child of the above couple from Findogask was born in Auchterarder 23 /08/1823. In March this year I spent some time at "scotlandspeople" site and found a Margaret TAYLOR b.13 Feb. 1803 to John Taylor and Isabel SHARP in Auchterarder. Following on this discovery a lot(lets say all) of relevant information from censuses/naming patterns/known facts geled together. HOWEVER,if item "2)" above is incorrect as I believe it is,the validity of the first item is also dubious and I have thus not determined with certainty who David's parents were.Looks like another day at "scotlandspeople" unless anyone has other advice. Douglas