Hi Al An interesting tale! I also find the births of James and Louisa in Kirkinner. It seems very unlike she and husband would name their daughter Louisa Elizabeth Tritton Gibson if this is not her mother. In 1841 census Jemima is in Kirkinner at Well Cottage age 20 and a school mistress born Scotland but not Wigtownshire After some more digging found a tree on ancestry which has Jemima SInclair born 10 June 1820 in Mey, Caithness to James Sinclair and ELizabeth Tritton. Presumably at the `Castle of Mey near Thurso which was the seat of the Earls of Caithness and bought by the Queen Mother in 1952 ttp://www.castleofmey.org.uk/castleofmeyhistory.cfm Can't find a record of this birth anywhere but it all sounds right. Kay