Hello to all on the list. I am a new member researching my husband's Forbes and Mackay ancestors. John Forbes (ploughman) m. Helen Mackay at Kincardine, Ross Shire in 1837 - both born in Kincardine according to census records. They lived at various times in the parishes of Tarbat by Fearn, Fearn, Tain, Edderton and Kincardine in Ross Shire. Children: Donald (b. 1838), Margaret (1840, my husband's great grandmother), Alexander (1841), Hugh (1843), Alexandrina (1853), Catherine (1855), Hector (1857), Helen (1861). Possibly some others. I would love to make contact with anyone else who has an interest in this family. Also I am hoping to find them on the 1851 and 1861 census to confirm whether I have the children correct. They were possibly at or near Fearn in 1851, and were definitely at Ardmore in the parish of Edderton in 1861. Helen Page, from the Sunshine Coast in Queensland.