This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: PHIBBS/FIBBS Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.co.uk/mbexec/msg/5538/EgC.2ACE/9984.1.1.1.1 Message Board Post: Hi, Thank again for that information. That IGI record is the Matthew I am searching for, but it was submitted by an individual and is incorrect as I know for certain that Matthew was born in Ireland. Matthew died between 1854-6, though as yet i have not been able to find a death record for him (I have tried scotlandspeople.gov and there is nothing in the OPR or Statutory records for his death). I have never seen the 1861 Scottish census so i have no idea why they were on their own- they also had another, not much older brother (as his shown in the IGI records you posted- he was called James and also only a child in 1861) so I don't know why they were on their own at all. Was there anybody else given in their household? Matthew's wife Elizabeth remarried in 1861 to a John Keating so perhaps they lived with a John and Elizabeth Keating? I have no idea why their brother James was not with them.. I have also tried desperately to find a copy of Matthew and Elizabeth's original marria! ge record but again to no avail. I imagine they were married in Stirlingshire or Lanarkshire (As their first two children were born in Airdrie according to the orginal OPRs) and it was probably, as the IGI records states about 1845 but without the original marriage record (or Matthew's death record) I cannot find out who Matthews parents were. I have been working on this sometime and have had absolutely no luck whatsoever. Any info or advice is incredibly appreciated. Thanks again. Sarah