I am researching the Cuthbertson family and I am wanting to know if anyone knows if the Cuthbertson families in Ayrshire and Lanarkshire in the early 1700s were related in any fashion to the Inverness Cuthbertsons. Or were these two separate groups of people? Am especially interested if anyone, in their Cuthbertson research, has the ancestry of the Rev John Cuthbertson (1718-1791), born in Ayrshire, who was a Covenanter minister first sent to Ireland, then to the USA as a missionary. I have searched the Ayrshire OPRs and other documents and have found only limited items on the Cuthbertsons, and apparently no good genealogies in those shires of that name. I have been in pursuit of this family for years and have come up empty handed every time. Surely there is someone in Scotland who has a good handle on this family (yes, I've tried the Ayrshire, Lanarkshire, and Cuthbertson lists). Thanks for any direction on this.