Hi Michelle, Cam and others Thank you both for your input. It sure helps with the bigger picture. Ida Michelle Giza-Vink wrote: >Hi Ida & List > >Yes, Hector 'The Hero' (quite ironic really) MACQUARIE was Charles's >illegitimate son. > >My original info from John Ritchie's biog of Lachlan Macquarie said Hector: >Quit the army to live with him (Charles) on Ulva. Shortly before Charles's >death, Hector had fled his creditors, enlisted in the 55th and sailed with >his wife, Margaret, for India where he died in 1836. (p220) > >Robin Walsh of the Macquarie Room at Macquarie University has obtained new >information which reveals that Hector's wife Margaret Simpson died in >childbirth in India in 1836, but that Hector actually died in Coventry 9th >Jan 1845. You can find this info here: > >http://www.lib.mq.edu.au/all/journeys/people/profiles/hector.html > >Robin also says that Hector was living with his father Charles in Ulva >1829-1930, so he would almost certainly have been the father of Hugh >Maclaine MACQUARIE bapt 26 Jan 1829. Hector seems to have been quite the >tomcat, as evidenced by his behaviour while in his uncle Lachlan's service >in Australia, so I am sure this Hugh would have been illegitimate, as there >is no mention of a marriage to Cursty McLucaish. Furthermore, Hugh Maclaine >MACQUARIE may possibly have been named after his cousin Hugh MACLAINE (b >1781, the 2nd son of Farquhar MACLAINE & Betty MACQUARIE), as Hugh had >recently died in Jamaica 13th Oct 1828. > >So those are my thoughts. I wonder if Hugh appears in the Mull 1841 census? > >Regards >Michelle >