Thanks to Peter, Roslyn and Barbara for helping me. I will contact the Scottish Genealogy Society for MI's for Duntanlich, though this death was between 1788 and 1792 so I know that the chances of a readable tombstone are not great. I did look for a will for an Alexander Forbes in that period, and there were 3, but I'm not sure enough of the courts and the name is pretty common. He probably died young so he may not have made a will. The young were probably just as invincible then as they are now. It states in his widow's obit that she was a widow for over 65 years. I did find a will for his son in PEI which was a great help Thanks again, Catherine Peter Freshwater wrote: A useful site, for viewing digitised wills, is Scottish Documents at http://www.scottishdocuments.com/ A flat fee of GB£5.00 (US$8.00) will purchase you a copy of any will in the database, which now has 520,000 wills dating from 1500 to 1901. The images are excellent, but reading late C18 and early C19 legal handwriting can be tedious and frustrating. Hope this helps. Peter