Is anyone researching YOUNGs in Fordyce area? I am trying to identify Ann YOUNG. My gggg-grandparents are Peter GEDDES and Ann YOUNG who married 17-8-1782 Fordyce parish "both in this parish", the same day their first child Jean was baptised. They were in Yondertown Of Birkenbog, Fordyce, moving to Slogmahole Fordyce in 1793. Ann YOUNG turns up in the 1841 census at Slogmahole age 83 born in county (I would have thought it should be age 85 but 83 it apparently is): this puts her birth year around 1757/8, compared to her husband's birth year of 1749. Her last child was born 1794, which might hint at a birth year for her of 1794-40=1754. The only Young witness was at the baptism of John Geddes in 1792: "John YOUNG in Mains of Glasshaugh". The only candidate I have found for her is d/o Alexander YOUNG and Elizabeth GORDON in Burncrunach Gartly, bpt 25-5-1758. As far as I can make out, Burncrunach (or Burncruinach?) was in the Aberdeenshire portion of Gartly not the Banffshire portion, and anyway as far as ordinary folk would have been concerned surely she would have been recorded as 'not born in county' in 1841 if she was really born (anywhere) in the Gartly area. So I'm looking for her parentage much closer to home, e.g. Glasshaugh. I've fiddled around with naming conventions, and the best I can infer is that her parents might have been Alexander and Ann, Peter and Ann's children being Jean (maybe named after father's mother), Ann, Alexander, Peter (maybe named after father's father), John (is he a maternal-side uncle?), James (is he a paternal-side uncle?). And that's all I have. Howard Geddes