Hi! My grandparents were young & not married to each other at the time of my mother's birth, in fact my grandfather never did marry. For the first 20 years of my life I didn't even know his name, then through relatives, I learned it was Malcolm MacKellar. Now, it seems, he may have been no MacKellar at all, as his own father (also named Malcolm MacKellar) seems to have been born an Arbuckle. The story given to family, by Malcolm (Sr.), was that he was a "foundling" child having been "left on a doorstep in Glasgow". Even so, he was quite sure his birth date was Feb. 14, 1859. Malcolm was raised in Cairnbaan, Argyll by some aged relatives, but had some connection to the Greenock/Paisley area, going for visits there on holidays, as did his own offspring later. Until WW1, his children visited an Aunt Peggy & an Aunt Isa there, but then these 2 women emigrated - 1 to the U.S. & 1 to Australia. Some of us have come to believe that Malcolm MacKellar was probably an "illegitimate" child of an Arbuckle girl, sent away to live with family in Argyllshire, to avoid shame. Why Arbuckle? Because this name recently came to light & coincidently, there was indeed a Malcolm Arbuckle born in 1859, in Greenock (West), entry #788 on the register - this from a cousin of mine, in England. Has anyone out there got any similar people in their family tree? Or has anyone got access! to further info. on this birth, perhaps parents for Malcolm? I would be glad to hear from anyone. Thanks! Mary in Canada