Hello Mary, You say Duncan's mother's 25th December death is not showing up on Scotland's People. I'm sure you've probably thought of this already but, just in case, have you checked 1859 as well? It was a long time before I found my great great grandmother's death, even knowing the name and date and place. She is one of the few ancestors of mine for whom there is a monumental inscription and so I "knew" Duncan McCallum's wife Mary Munro died at Melvich, Sutherland, in December 1814. Still, no sign of her on Scotland's People until, in one of those rare flashes of inspiration that carry our research way forward - or rather, backward - I eventually stumbled upon her down the road in Strathy, registered three weeks later in Reay (Caithness), in January 1915! So, a different month, year and even a different county from where I'd been looking but hardly surprising in retrospect, given shifting administrative boundaries and the bleak winter conditions on the northern coast. Good luck! Katie de Haan The Netherlands MCVEAN SINCLAIR MCKELLAR CLARK MITCHELL MCINTYRE Argyll, Renfrew > LKS MCCALLUM MUNRO BEATON BETHUNE ROSS: Sutherland, Ross & Cromarty > LKS MCCALLUM Perthshire 1700s KING PALMER LANGSTONE CARR POKINS HUTT Oxon/Berks UK KING JACKSON WEEDON Middlesex/London City/East End UK THACKWELL KEAT Worcs/Oxon/Berks/ ----- Original Message ----- From: "Mary Paton" <em.paton86@iinet.net.au> To: "Hardy Plants" <farm@kintaline.co.uk>; <sct-argyll@rootsweb.com> Sent: Friday, July 25, 2008 3:20 AM Subject: [ARGYLL] McPHAIL Duncan (+McNeill, Paterson) > Hi Cliff and Jill, > > Thanks for your ideas. Duncan's mother (as I believe, Catherine > [McNeill] Mc Phail) did erect a memorial for his father and some of > her children in Kilkerran. I'm surprised there's no memorial at least > for Duncan's wife and son but perhaps there was and it was destroyed > by the weather. > > I'll try to find him in England or overseas next I think, but am not > convinced that the record is failing to appear on the website. > > I have been looking (as a check) for his mother's death on > scotlandspeople and it isn't showing up. I know she died December > 25th 1858 and have definitely seen the certificate in Edinburgh so it > exists - must be something wrong with the program. > > Best regards, > Mary > > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > SCT-ARGYLL-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message

Hi Katie and Martyn, Thanks for your suggestions but I have put in a search both for the years 1855 - 1871 and also for the exact year and got no sign of her. I am sure I have spelled the name as recorded and also I found the other two people on the page. As I said I found it when I was actually in Edinburgh a few years ago but want to see and enlarge it online. Her death was registered 30th Dec 1858. Best regards, Mary <<You say Duncan's mother's 25th December death is not showing up on Scotland's People. I'm sure you've probably thought of this already but, just in case, have you checked 1859 as well?>>