Is anyone out there researching Renshaws in Ireland (Northern) or Scotland? This is where my Renshaw's come from and I am having no luck at all. I'm back only so far as about 1885 and am getting no where. Most of the Renshaws from that part of the world seem to be in England. Mine must link back there but as yet I can get no connection. I am seeking information about the family of my great grandfather, Herbert Renshaw, who came to New Zealand in 1926 from Scotland and since then there has been no contact kept with any relations in Scotland or Ireland. Although we have no documented proof, he is believed to have been born in Portadown, Armagh, Ireland in 1885. His parents are listed on his death certificate here in New Zealand as Mark Renshaw and Mary Jane (possibly nee Renshaw). As Herbert died before his wife we are hoping that this information has been given by her and is correct. He had one sister, Bella. His parents died when he was a child and his aunt and uncle, David and Mary (nee McMillen) Renshaw brought him up. I don't know where he was brought up but the family was living in Bothwellhaugh, Lanarkshire, Scotland during WWI. No trace has been found of what happened to Bella. David and Mary (nee McMillen) Renshaw had a family of four children; sons William (married Agnes Hunter, had a daughter called Chrissie), James (killed 25-3-1918 in France in 1st world war), David, and one daughter, Edith. Edith was a school teacher in Scotland and this is is all we know about this family. Herbert, my great-grandfather, married in Bothwell, Lanarkshire, Scotland in 1910 to Elizabeth Speirs Lindsay and had three children born in Scotland; David, Elizabeth and Herbert jnr. Herbert snr served in France during the 1st world war with the Scottish Rifles and we have a photo of him taken during this time on leave with "great-aunt Mary from Canada". We have no idea where this was taken or who great-aunt Mary was. She perhaps could have been the same aunt, Mary (nee McMillen) Renshaw who brought him up as a child but unless we can make contact with any living Renshaw relations to verify this I guess we'll never know. Any information on this family greatly appreciated. Maria Hurrell maria.ross@xtra.co.nz