This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Riach,Badenoch Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/TeC.2ACE/503.1 Message Board Post: I 've stumbled on your post quite by chance,but I may have some information for you. William Riach was my great grandfather,Jane Garret my great grandmother. Wm was born 1st November 1833 in Bellie,Moray - until I searched,I'd been told he was born in Garmouth,so possibly the family lived there for a time. His parents were Alexander & Margaret Badenoch & so far I've found three siblings of Wm. John,b 28th Oct 1835,Bellie Alexander,b 7th Sept 1837,Thurso,Caithness Margaret Marshall,b 23rd Aug 1840,Thurso,Caithness. Margaret Badenoch's parents were William Badenoch & Margaret Marshall,married 24th Dec 1805,Bellie,Moray & she was christened 26th Feb 1807. William Riach apparently arrived here in NZ in 1866,as his death (he died 21st May,1883) cert gives length of time in NZ as 17 yrs. He & Jane married in Lyttelton on 25th March 1869. They had eight children. I also have a copy of the Riach family tree,but it only goes back as far as William & Jane & some of the information on it is incorrect.