Thank you to Michael and Linda for your attempts to solve my problems. However, things do move on. Yes, Julia Ann did marry John McGregor in 1904 in the Mishnish Hotel, Tobermory. A visit to the hotel elicited however that their own records don't go back that far, so no record of the event exists there. A pity! There might have been a guest list. As you eventually discovered, Lancashire was correct, though how interesting that she spoke Gaelic by 1901. In fact she and her young brother Francis John were orphaned in Liverpool as primary age children and were sent to live with the family in Drumfin Farm, Tobermory, where they went to school. John's father Alexander was indeed Inspector of the Poor in Bunessan (I've visited the house he stayed in) and before that on the Isle of Coll where he met his wife Flora, who was in fact Julia Ann's aunt! Who was Ann Roche? She was Julia Ann's mother who married Donald McLean (my ggrancfather) who was Flora's eldest brother. And yes, Linda, I too went down the road of thinking she might have been the daughter of Edward Roche, until I found that she and Donald married at St. Nicholas Church (The 'Seaman's Church'), Liverppool, where the record says her father was Francis Roche (mis-spelled Roach) - hence the name she gave to her third child, John Francis. The marriage was not at St. Peter's Church, Liverpool, as you seem to think, Linda. So who were Ann Ro(a)che's parents? The probability is that they were Francis Roche who married Julia Anna on 26th Oct 1924 in Manchester Cathedral. The interesting thing about the certificate supplied by the Cathedral is that Julia Anna is her full name. So was Anna her surname (very unusual), or was no surname used/recorded in 1824? The genealogical fun continues! Now what happened to John Francis? He like his father went into the Merchant Service. He became a Marine Engineer and married Jean Cameron McLean in 1899 in Glasgow. They had I believe five children, Sarah Cameron, Sheila, Annie Roche, Ian and Christina. Three of the four girls certainly married, though whether they had children I do not yet know. Ian, born in Glasgow on 3Jun 1908 was alive in 1930 when he registered his father's death. Again, whether he married or had children I know not. And I haven't found his death either. Again, my thanks. Donald.