on 2/2/03 3:35 pm, KADICA@aol.com at KADICA@aol.com wrote: Thanks for the note on the McKellar's.----------(snipped) Right now it appears that his great grandmother's family lived in the Kilmartin area but that his great-grandfather's family lived in Glassary. They always said they were of "no known relation." I can understand that now with all the McKellars living the area. It seems like every other one is a McKellar or married to a McKellar. I have successfully proven that Duncan (b1814) was the son of Duncan and Catharine Deor (Dewar) who lived in Glassary. Duncan, his brother Dougald (who married sisters) along with brother Neil emigrated to Canada when they were very young men. I have had some difficulty finding him in Canada before his marriage to Isabella. We will be making another trip to Canada sometime this summer. There are Dewars living in the Ontario area where they settled so perhaps uncles or cousins also emigrated to Canada. Duncan and Catharine did not. Hi Karen and Listers, From my own SMITH / MCPHAIL /DEWAR or DEOR research, it seems that there were very close links between certain families in the Kilmartin and Glassary parishes. Within the SMITH line there were marriages to : CURRIE CAMPBELL MCKELLAR- Margaret married John SMITH in Kilmartin 16 Mar 1793 GILLIES ORR LAW MCPHAIL-Jane married my great grandfather Neil SMITH(b.1844 in Kilmartin ) in Greenock in 1872. Jane was the daughter of Duncan MCPHAIL and Sarah DEWAR and was born in Lochgair in 1842. Sarah DEWAR was the daughter of John DEWAR and Christina MCGREGOR born abt.1803 in Ballimore, Within the MCPHAIL lines, there are MCTAVISH marriages,too. I am sure there are other families that connect to these lines of mine from this area but at present, I have not researched all of the descendants of William SMITH and Rachel CURRIE who were married in Kilmartin in 1764. If anyone reading this has a SMITH/ MCPHAIL /DEWAR or name above connecting to the SMITH family from the Kilmartin and Glassary area, I would be delighted to hear from you. All the best, Penuel Ellis-Brown