Hi Wally and other listers, Wally wrote: "Can anyone please help me by telling me about Kincardine, is it a town or a province? What about Marykirk and Garvock? Is anyone researching this family that can help.Are there relations of this line still living in these towns today that I may contact." Kincardine was a shire (province in NZ I guess) but now it is part of Aberdeenshire. Marykirk and Garvock are/were towns or villages and also parishes. An interesting site I have found is the Post Office site: http://www.ukvillages.co.uk/ Type in Marykirk (or wherever) and up comes a site centred around this village. Ok there isn't much there yet but I did find a link to Multimap.com which centres on the Marykirk area. I changed the scale to 1:25000 and then by using the arrow keys to scroll around and printing each section of map I was able to cut and paste (the old fashioned way with scissors and the sticky stuff) a modern map of just the areas I was interested in of a scale I could read easily. It was good enough to trace most of the route of the 1861 census enumerator near Laurencekirk. There is also a noticeboard on ukvillages. I was tempted to post a message to see if any descendants of my family were still there but I didn't try it. Not sure if it was appropriate. Has anyone tried leaving a message? Laurencekirk site has a link with photos of the church and other scenes of that area. I have also purchased (in NZ) a map, Victorian Ordnance Survey Maps of Scotland sheet 57 (first edition revised to 1869) which has Marykirk on it. However the writing is very small and not easy for me to read. I am interested in Fettercairn, Benholm, Laurencekirk and am not sure which sheet would have these or whether there is a larger scale map available. Hope this is of some help. Heather Armstrong New Zealand