Hi Nigel I'm wondering if you'd mind sharing a few more details for this Neil Fletcher. Might I ask who his wife and children were? Maybe the wife's information will help you prove your connection. Ida Nigel Boundy wrote: >My Neil Fletcher was at the time of the births of his >children a seaman (was your John Fletcher a seaman?). >By the birth of his youngest child and on the 1841 >census of Banffshire he was a grocer and spice >merchant. The 1841 census indicated he was not born >in Banffshire - born c.1800. He must have died >between 1841 and 1844 when his wife married again in >Banffshire. I can find no MIs, Burial records, >mortcloth records of any sort for Neil. Neil's wife >and new husband together with the only, I think, >surving child, Alexander Fletcher, moved to Aberdeen >where they appear on the 1851 & 1861 censuses. Shortly >after the 1861 census, Alexander with his mother and >step father moved to Nelson, New Zealand. > >His mother died there in 1868. Alexander married >there in 1870 and promptly moved to Melbourne, >Victoria. He is my mother's grand father. > >So, having researched all of the Neil, Niel Fletcher's >born in Scotland 1795-1810 I am left with the view >that my Neil Fletcher may by the one christened at >Torosay in 1799. BUT, without proof? > >Thank you for making contact Bob. If you or any other >listers have any ideas please let me know. > >Nigel Boundy >Western Australia > >Researching: BOUNDY, BICE, COATE, DODMAN, DOHONEY, >DRISCOLL, DYER, FLETCHER, GARDINER, HANNAN, HORAN, >McGEE, PRINCE, QUILL, RETALLACK. >