This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Nicol, Innes, Dey Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/ReC.2ACI/2467 Message Board Post: Thanks to Maeve. (If you read this hope we, as distant cousins through marriage, will keep in touch. ) I now know that my family origins stem from Auchindoun SE of Dufftown. If their is anyone that may recognise this line I would be appreciate hearing from you. Charles Nicol born , July 13, 1791 Newley, Auchindoun Married Elspet Mcdonald ( Daughter of, James Mcdonald and Isobel McConachy) Children Alexander born 20/12 1829 Robert born 1818 Isabel born 13/6/ 1820, Alnaboyle, Auchindoun John born, 3/12/1821 Jane,born, 15/4/1824 Charles,born 18/5/1826 Ann, born, 27/5/1832, Alnaboyle, Auchindoun Elspet, born, 11/5/1834 Margret, born 1836 William , born 31/10/ 1828 Particuarly interested in John Nicol (born 3/12/1821) who married a Margret Innes Dey ( Daughter of Peter Dey and Margret Walker