Hi Simone Have you checked out the births/baptisms on he IGI and then started trying to eliminate people. I did a search for 2 years you say born 1852 could be out a year or more? Don't know what confirmation you have quite a few names come up. Do you have any idea of his parents names to help you in the elimination?? At http://howdiie.com some Scottish records may just strike it lucky. Cheers Jenny > From: gc-gateway@rootsweb.com > To: SCOTLAND-L@rootsweb.com > Date: Fri, 8 Oct 2010 12:53:35 +0000 > Subject: Re: [SCOTLAND] Newbie question for Scotland > > This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. > > Author: elwynsoutter1 > Surnames: > Classification: queries > > Message Board URL: > > http://boards.rootsweb.com/localities.britisles.scotland.general/22214.4.1/mb.ashx > > Message Board Post: > > Be aware that statutory records of births only started in Scotland in 1855. > > Records prior to that - as in your case- are based on parish baptism records. These can be incomplete (some have gone missing), some baptisms were not recorded and in addition many children were not baptised for a variety of reasons. Baptism records, where they exist, rarely contain middle names. > > Important Note: > The author of this message may not be subscribed to this list. If you would like to reply to them, please click on the Message Board URL link above and respond on the board. > > > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to SCOTLAND-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message