Sandy in Australia Although I do not intervene much in family history matters, I was a little intrigued by the request to find Lucy McColl. I happened to be in GROS today on other business and thought that I might spend a quarter of an hour having a look at the possibilities of the case. The first point I would make is that the name Lucy is a little unusual for Argyll, but there are some instances, as anyone who checks the Censuses can discover, and there are several in the Appin area. Secondly it has been assumed that this particular Lucy McColl lived in Lismore. I would point out that all this may arise from a misunderstanding of the parishes of North Argyll. The old 18th century civil parish is Lismore and Appin (in earlier times it was called Kilmaluag) and the complication is that, for various reasons, this was converted into three registration districts, Lismore, Duror, and Glencoe and Ballachulish. If one looks for a married woman called Lucy McColl late in life dying in the 1890's there is one in the Registration district of Glencoe and Ballachulish in 1893 who died aged 93 on 13th June. She was not the widow of John McColl but the widow of Duncan McColl, a slate quarrier, and she must have been married before 1855 because the Census of 1861 shows her with children in their 20's.Her maiden name was not McColl but McLachlan. What about the marriage between 1855 and 1861? Interestingly a John McColl, who was the son of Duncan McColl and Lucy McLachlan, married an Ann McColl on 25 November 1857. Have we got a lost generation here? As usual in these cases would that it were all so simple. There is a Lucy McColl married to a John McColl in the 1851 Census of Lismore which means that she was married in the 1840's and she is still in the Census in 1871. All thatI was able to establish about her that she did not die in the 1890s in the Lismore and Appin area. Frank Bigwood