Found the following data on the IGI and the Buittle, KKD website (address below). IGI James HOOD Sex: M Marriage(s): Spouse: Marion FALLS Marriage: 3 Feb 1809 Buittle, Kirkcudbright, Scotland OPR 3-Feb 1809 James Hood (Corbietoun) married Marian Falls (Buittle Mains) http://www.buittle.freeserve.co.uk/ I didn't find any other Hood or Falls entries in Buittle. There were marriages for a John and William Hood in Dumfries, Dumfrieshire in the mid-1830's. But there seems to have been an earlier Hood family in the area. The 1881 census shows a James Hood born abt 1805 in Kirkgunzeon, but nothing for Scotland for James or William with the correct birth year. As for the location of Dykeside and Milncroft, go to the map site below. The lower right map quarter shows a long hill formation with two smaller ones at the north end. Go west from the southern most small hill, past another small hill to the flat area. Click there and follow the directions at the top of the screen for zooming (or just keep clicking on the area) and panning. This is modern Kirkgunzeon area of the old Kirkgunzeon Parish. You will see Dykeside marked and just northerly of that on a spur is marked a Mill. http://www.nls.uk/digitallibrary/map/early/637.html