This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Murchison, MacDermid,McDermid,MacDiarmid,McDermott Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/TeC.2ACE/219.1.1 Message Board Post: I am guessing that we are indeed related. It seems odd that your Catherine is the same age as ours and our Catherine also had a son Donald but our information is that he was born about 1857 and was not 6 in 1851. It all seems too much of a coincidence given that the surnames are correct as well.