This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/ReC.2ACI/2720.1.1.1.1 Message Board Post: Hello Dianne, My earliest Dick, is John married to Elizabeth Stevenson / Stivenson, & who had 3 known sons, Walter, William & my line Peter, who was probably born c 1850 / 60, in Banff. John was a Shoemaker, which is all I know about him. Probably he had always been in that area. No names that you mention seem to show. Perhaps if yours had a link to Ireland, they may have settled on the west Coast, being closer to Ireland. Somewhere I read that some Ulster Scots could , on some tides, sail across to the Scottish coast, attend Church, & sail back on the turn of the Tide. Very daring !!