This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/ReC.2ACI/1358.1551.1553.1 Message Board Post: Hi Wendy - My great grandmother is also Sarah Raffan. Is there any way to find out who your great grandmother married - perhaps it was a David Scott . David Scott was apparently born in Scotland and was a horse dealer in Edinburgh (according to legend) but I had a researcher in Scotland try to find the birth , marriage or death of Sarah Raffan and he couldn't find anything. Where are you getting your information from and would you be able to see if your great grandmother married a David Scott. I figure my great grandmother was born about 1832 according to an unassisted passenger list of David and Sarah going to Australia on Aus 21st 1854 and arriving in Dec of that year. They started having children in Austsralia and subsequently returned to Scotland and had some more. I have the names of the children and can tell you what happened to most of them as they ended up dying in Canada and being buried here in Belleville, Ontario Canada. The researcher did say he thought Sarah Raffan wasn't from Scotland as there was no record of her birth so perhaps your Sarah born in London in 1839 is the same one. I know that my Sarah Raffan died before 1891 as her daughter Catherine listed her mother as deceased on her marriage certificate. I would love to hear from you to see if there is perhaps in deed a connection as I have been very frustrated as I can't seem to find out anything about this woman. Kind regards Heather if you want to email direct that would be okay