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 Message Board Post: What time span are you looking at ? A quick look up, had Mary Dick, who had a child named William SIMPSON, Baptised in 1785, no Father mentioned. Then Mary Dick, dau. of William Dick & his wife Mary Herd bn 1812. Then there was a Mary Dick in the early 1900's & myself, 1935. As far as I know none of those ( certainly not myself, marr. a McKay / Mackay. However, McKay / MACKAY does show up in the family, in 1812, when Robert Mckay / Mackay married Ann Thomson, in Cuminestown, Monquhitter. I suspect that his Father was James McKay, but, no Archibald, as far as I have seen at this time. Do let me know the time span that you are looking at.