Good Evening, having spent at least two years trying to find the father of William Grahame in the East Lothian area, I have a glimmer of a clue. he married a Elisabeth Robertson. The only marriage I can find for this time frame is 1843 in Auchtergaven a place I cannot find on my map. However, I am not certain that this is 'my' William as he returns to Melrose where their daughter Janet Graham is born 1847. Why would someone, not born in East Lothian just christened in Ormiston 1833 in adultery so says the cert! go to Auchtergaven. he is on the Haddington 1841 census still with his mother no father recorded thanks, Sheena nee Grahame

On Thu, 2004-12-09 at 13:27, Sheena wrote: > (SNIP) ... Auchtergaven a place I cannot find on my map. (SNIP) http://www.genuki.org.uk/big/sct/PER/Auchtergaven/ "AUCHTERGAVEN, - vulgarly OCHTERGAVEN, - village and parish in Strathtay district, Perthshire. The village stands about 3 miles north-west of Stanley railway station, and about 9 north-north-west of Perth, and is a straggling place. The parish contains also the post office village of Bankfoot, the villages of Cairneyhill and Waterloo, and most of the post office village of Stanley. Its length is 10 miles; its mean breadth is 3 miles; and its area i2 12,941 acres. Real property in 1880-81, £15,048. Pop. 2195. The surface rises from the Tay, up Strathardie, to the summit of a low range of the Grampians, and consists chiefly of swelling knolls and sloping ridges. The seats are Stanley House, Airleywight, and Tullybelton. The poet Nicol was a native, and sang the beauties of the landscape in his 'Bonnie Ordie Braes.' The churches are the parochial, with nearly 1200 sittings, 2 Free, and a United Presbyterian. There are 2 public schools for 5050 scholars, and one of them and an enlargement for 450 are new." Wilson, Rev. John, The Gazetteer of Scotland, 1882. (Stanley has always been of interest as there is no explanation why great-grandfather Alexander would depart from family naming and name my grandfather "Stanley". No associations with other families have been discovered either, unless the Laing or Kerr. So, knowing well where Stanley and Moneydie are located, Auchtergaven is easy. A9 north out of Perth, before you get to Little Dunkeld). So much on the 'net that I will have fun learning all I can via "Google"! - L.D.R.