Hi Edward, Yes - Kilcalmonell is a good way from Campbeltown but I've come to the conclusion that the folk back then travelled on the sea rather like we whizz along the freeway. Even to the extent of relatively frequent drowning accidents of groups of young folk on boats. So many people were drawn to Campbeltown in those days - I know less about Southend. Malcolm McPhail, who married my gg-grandmother's sister from Gigha, was definitely from South Knapdale as it said so at their marriage on Gigha and I'm pretty sure that is him that I found. They went to Campbeltown and he was a farm labourer at the times of the births of his first 3 or 4 children. Then became a mariner and recorded as such on his gravestone. Similarly the subsequent generations were drawn to Glasgow - and I have some sad drownings on the Clyde too. I think it is significant that your Colin's first son was called Duncan. I can't see any Colins born between 1797 and 1803 in Argyll. On her death certificate, were Marion's parents John and Flora, as the naming system suggests to me? Cheers, Mary