Hello Evelyn That Malcolm McCallum's 1752 baptism record can be viewed online at Scotland's People. www.scotlandspeople.gov.uk It's on the same page as someone I thought might be one of my McKellars, so I've seen it. It gives the McCallum/McLugas family's address or location in Kilfinan Parish at the time as Kilbride, which I imagine is near Kilbride Bay, at the very south of the Cowal Peninsula, opposite Arran. It can be found easily on plenty of maps and Googling will turn up images of the Bay if you're interested. The marriage for Archibald and Mary is harder to find, as is Mary's birth: unfortunately, the mentions in the basic IGI search don't refer to actual records but are estimated dates, and untraceable in the OPRs, for me at least. Maybe trawling through the batch numbers might find the records somewhere, as Mc/Lucas/M(a)cLugas may also be recorded as MacLugais etc etc etc... Although I saw no obvious birth for Mary or marriage to Archibald, the page with Malcolm's baptism in 1752 shows no less than 3 children with a McLugas parent, including Malcolm, so there must have been McLugas families in the parish. There are more McLugas records for Kilmodan Parish, though still no Mary in the right time frame. It is possible that some of McLugas families migrated from Kilmodan to Kilfinan, as did some of my ancestors. So no simple answers to your McLugas conundrum, but it may be interesting to look into other McLugas records in the wider area. Horizontal research into siblings of my untraceable relations has found a number of them and, even where a particular record remained unfindable, the wider view enabled me to reconstruct probably developments and migrations. If you want to trawl through the IGI batch numbers looking for records for all possible spellings of McLugas, this link will point you in the right direction. It takes time, but that way you can decide for yourself whether there are any weird spellings that might just be Mary's birth or Mary & Archibald's marriage. http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~hughwallis/IGIBatchNumbers.htm#Page Good luck on your trail, Katie de Haan The Netherlands -- Original Message ---From: "Ken & Evelyn MacCallum" <kemac@llanreath.eclipse.co.uk> To: <SCT-ARGYLL-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Friday, February 20, 2009 10:46 AM Subject: Re: [ARGYLL] Mary McLUCAS / McLUGAS > Hi Lorraine > I'm really grateful for the McLucas information. I have previously searched > IGL but only found Malcolm McCallum's birth. > Thank you - I'll try and get copies of the original parish records. Regards > Evelyn