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/XeC.2ACI/377.1 Message Board Post: I am also a descendant of Captain Alexander Bain through his son Samuel but have not been able to trace where he came from in Scotland prior to him surviving a shipwreck at the age of 8yrs. Can anyone assist, many thanks.