Herewith an extract from a letter in 1908 from Malcolm Paterson of Bradford to James McDowell (my grandfather):- "Touching Little Aires, which Andrew Martin got by his marriage with Margaret Kennedy, having already "sasin" of certain other farms. I have a letter from my mother to Uncle David which says 'Do you know that our great great grandfather, Andrew Martin, and his brother planted several trees at Little Aires still living, and one of them has seven stems and all of them more than one?' During the last years of her life as well as of the lives of Uncle Alec and Aunt Mary, as well as Mrs Jardine of Blairshinnoch (?), who had a fair memory I collected a few particulars of the McCullochs and Martins, but have often wished I had begun earlier for to me nothing is more interesting than to know that at least I sprand from a sound stock." My great grandfather, James married Jess McCulloch in 1835 in Penninghame. Jess's mother was Mary Martin married to William McCulloch. According to my reckoning this Mary Martin would likely have been a granddaughter of the Andrew Martin mentioned above or of his brother. But I have a note in my grandfather's handwriting implying that Andrew was Mary's greatgrandfather. Little Aries is, I believe, in the parish of Kirkinner, almost in Sorbie.. Can any one add anything to these details? Jim