Hi List & Wally, I also have NIDDRIEs from the Garvock area, and one who came to New Zealand too. 1-William Niddrie b: 1769, d: 8 Dec 1847, (Garvock, Kincardine, Scotland) sp: Mary Stott b: 1785, d: 8 Oct 1845, (Garvock, Kincardine, Scotland) 2-Alexander Niddrie b: 1819, Garvock, Kincardine, Scotland, d: 10 Sep 1884, (Garvock, Kincardine, Scotland) sp: Helen McPherson b: 1817, Aberlour, Banff, Scotland, d: 17 Oct 1894, Laurencekirk, Kincardine, Scotland 3-Alexander Niddrie b: Abt 1842, d: 1880 sp: Annie Crow b: Abt 1832, Fordoun, Kincardine, Scotland |--4-Ann Niddrie b: 25 Jul 1865, Glasgow, Lanark, Scotland |--4-Helen McPherson Niddrie b: 6 Dec 1867, Stirling, Stirling, Scotland, | d: 27 Jun 1952, Christchurch, New Zealand | sp: John Barr b: 1 Jan 1867, d: 7 Dec 1930, Christchurch, New Zealand |--4-James Valentine Niddrie b: 25 Jan 1870, Stirling, Stirling, Scotland > Can anyone please > help me by telling me about Kincardine, is it a town or a province? > What about Marykirkand 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. from an old gazetter of Scotland (a facsimilie of which is in the Canterbury Public Library, in Christchurch, NZ) which from memory was dated about 1850 (and for which I *must* go and get the proper reference! :) "Garvock, a parish, in the county of KINCARDINE, 2 miles (E. S. E.) from Laurencekirk; containing 446 inhabitants .... The PARISH is rather more than seven miles in length, and nearly four miles in extreme breadth, comprising an area of 8500 acres,. .... There is no village, or even hamlet of any importance in the parish.... Garvock church is a permanent structure erected in 1778, and contains 300 sittings " My parents visited Garvock a couple of years ago, and I have a photo of the church, and the gravestone for William Niddrie, his wife Mary Stott their son Alexander, and his wife Helen McPherson. If you would like me to email you a copy, just ask. bye for now Janet Connochie Christchurch, NZ