G’day Listers, I only recently joined the list & have been amazed by the volume & quality of information in the list’s archives. My family of main interest is the McCulloch’s. My Great Grandfather was Robert William McCulloch dob Feb 3rd 1863. His 1st marriage was to Sarah McTear on Oct 1st 1886, at Barrachan, Parish of Penninghame. They had the one child Maggie dob Nov 14th 1887. Sarah died on Sept 23rd 1894. Robert was a police constable at this time. He then turns up on the Isle of Man, having left Maggie with his father-in-law Robert McTear, as a representative of the Singer Sewing Machine Company. There he marries my Great Grandmother, Mary Howard Heath, on Oct 2nd 1895. They had 3 children Robert William John dob July 13th 1896, Mary Charlotte dob Sept 1899 & my Grandmother Nathalie Frances dob Feb 14th 1901. While I have a fair amount of detail on the McCulloch – McTear generation to date, I hit the wall at Robert’s Grandfather, John, he was born around 1789 in Ireland according to the 1841/1851 census’. His parent’s names on his death registration were Thomas McCulloch & Jane McClure. John married Margaret McMillan on June 1st 1815 at Kirkcolm. They had 13 children, with Robert’s father John dob June 28th 1828 being the 7th. John(jnr) married Margaret Millar (or ’er’) on Jan 9th 1853 at Ballantrae. They had 7 children of which Robert was the 6th. Is there anyone on list who is researching this particular line? Or any suggestions as to which Irish county would be the best bet to start looking for Thomas, Jane & John in? regards Rob Williams In Sunny NSW _____ I am using the free version of SPAMfighter for private users. It has removed 2283 spam emails to date. Paying users do not have this message in their emails. Try SPAMfighter <http://www.spamfighter.com/len> for free now!