This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Phibbs, Fibbs, Keating Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.co.uk/mbexec/msg/rw/EgC.2ACE/9984.1.1.1.1.1 Message Board Post: I have searched the 1861 census index again and I now realise that the children were not on their own. The index does not include the relationship details recorded in the census proper. The family appears to be: KEATINGS, John, 36, born in Ireland KEATINGS, Elizabeth, 40, born Stirling PHIBBS, William, 11, born Stirling PHIBBS, Marion, 9, born Stirling KEATINGS, Elizabeth, 3, born Glasgow KEATINGS, Helen, 1, born Glasgow also, possibly: GUERNY, Marion, 62, born Stirling (you will need to check the microfilm to be sure) Perhaps they were Roman Catholics? Have you tried their registers? If not, see http://www.catholic-heritage.net/archives.htm Many deaths prior to 1855 do not appear in the indexes. There is a current Scottish Association of Family History Societies project to compile an index to burials recorded in the OPR's.