Dear Listers No not quite gone on holiday yet - nearly packed - but as my husband was unexpectedly out tonight I treated myself to a session on Scots Origins as I have just received a death certificate I wanted to follow up. I have a puzzle which I thought I would leave the list to consider while I sun myself on the beach in Greece. Certficate is for Mary Miller whose graveyard inscription (Tongland 1856) refers to husband Aex (assume Alexander). Alexander is not mentioned on the certificate but Stepson Robert Miller is. This totally confused me - I hadn't got a Robert ! Assuming that Mary is Alexanders second wife and that the wife I already know about (my GGG Grandmother Agnes) didnt have a Robert where does Robert come from ? So I checked for a Robert Miller son of Alexander born Balmaghie and found one - and also found yet another wife, Grissel !! I have searched and searched and can find no Miller deaths to account for first wife, second wife or even Alexander himself. In fact no Miller deaths in Balmaghie for years and years except Mary. I can find no record of any other births except for the five I already had (2nd wife Agnes) and now Robert (first wife Grissel) and no other Miller marriages except 3 all to Alexander and all nicely spaced to include the 6 children - so - I conclude Alexander had 3 wifes 0 Grissel, then Agnes, then Mary. Details are below. What do you think - is this one, two or three Alexanders ? Why can't I find any death records ? Interesting to note that two of the second set of childen (wife two) seem to be named after wife one (Grissel McLansburgh). Did she die in childbirth - the dates seem to indicate that. I wonder if the third marriage is what prompted my GG Grandfather George and brother Laurie to move away down to Rochdale around 1850 ? One thing I have just done is request Roberts birth record and Grissel and Alexanders marriage record to confirm that this is Alexander a tailor in Laurieston. Any thoughts would be most welcome. Regards Joy Descendants of Alexander MILLER 1 [1] Alexander MILLER b: 1800 in Living in Laurieston, Balmaghie in 1825 working as a tailor. . +Grissel Mc Lansburgh m: 10/01/1817 in Balmaghie Kirkcudbright ..... 2 Robert Miller b: 16/02/1818 in Balmaghie *2nd Wife of [1] Alexander MILLER: . +Agnes BARKLEY b: 1800 in Unknown m: 02/12/1819 in Tongland near Kirkcudbright, Scotland ..... 2 Alexander Miller b: 06/04/1821 in Balmaghie, Kirkudbright, Scotland ..... 2 John Lansburgh Miller b: 10/02/1823 in Balmaghie, Kirkudbright, Scotland ..... 2 Grissel C Miller b: 11/03/1825 in Balmaghie, Kirkudbright, Scotland ......... +James McCaw b: 1817 in Kello, Kirkcudbright, Scotland m: 11/03/1859 in Balmaghie, Kirkcudbright, Scotland ..... 2 [2] George MILLER b: 24/11/1827 in Balmaghie, Kirkudbright, Scotland d: 15/10/1902 in Huddersfield, West Yorkshire (GG Grandfather) ......... +Jannet Bell ADAMSON b: 1836 in Rochdale Lancs m: 01/06/1854 in Providence Chapel High Street Rochdale Lancs *2nd Wife of [2] George MILLER ......... +Charlotte Anne Fell m: 12/1886 in Rochdale Lancs ..... 2 Laurie McClymont Miller b: 18/12/1829 in Balmaghie, Kirkudbright, Scotland *3rd Wife of [1] Alexander MILLER: . +Mary Anderson b: Abt. 1787 d: 08/07/1856 in Laurieston, Balmaghie, Kirkcudbright m: 28/11/1839 in Balmaghie, Kirkcudbright, Scotland