In a message dated 06/04/2006 2:35:31 AM Pacific Standard Time, mcewanj@xtra.co.nz writes: > Dear Jim > > I have a Janet Calder marrying a Donald McEwing on 30 Jan 1802 in > Kildalton. She was born ~1786 based on census records and died 1855. She > is not a sister or relation by any chance? She is my ggggrandmother. I > don't have her parents and I only know for certain they were married and > that from her census she may have been in Upper Killeyan on the Oa. > > Cheers > > John McEwan John, Please excuse my "butting in". I know nothing about this group, but if you don't already have it you really should get her death certificate. The 1855 certificates are a goldmine of information and it may answer all the questions you listed above. Ken Harrison North Vancouver, Canada Only a genealogist regards a step backwards as PROGRESS ... HARRISON Yorkshire > Staffordshire > London (Highgate/Hampstead) POTCHIT Yorkshire FISHER London (Highgate/Hampstead) GREAVES Yorkshire > London GRIFFIN Staffordshire STANLEY Staffordshire SMELLIE Lanark > Orkney > Glasgow > Canada + Tasmania STIRRAT Ayrshire > Glasgow BAIN Caithness MILLER Caithness > Swaziland + S. Africa SPENCE Orkney FOTHERINGHAM Orkney TRAILL Orkney SELKRIG Lanark WICKETSHAW Lanark MORRISON Perthshire > Dumbarton > Glasgow > Australia (Vic) MORRISON Islay > Ontario BAIRD Renfrew HAM Australia (Vic) THOMPSON Suffolk > Yorkshire AGGUS Suffolk BRIGHTWELL Suffolk LAWSON Clackmannanshire > Ontario McNABB Islay > Ontario MURRAY Dumfries > Renfrew SINCLAIR Perthshire > Renfrew GILLESPIE Dumfries HENDERSON Dumfries TICKET (TAKET) Dumfries + Lanark CALDWELL Tyrone > Renfrew GRAHAM Tyrone > Ontario Genealogists never die ... they just lose their census. Unless specifically stated otherwise in this message, there is no intentional attachment on this e-mail transmission.