Since the list is coming to new life thought I would repost my family connection. My great grandmother Elizabeth Henry Caig (KKB) moved to Stranrear from Barrhill when my great grandfather David Campbell Preacher (KKB) and grandfather David Campbell Preacher (AYR) went to work at the Dalmellington Iron Company (DICo) in 1878. He left his influential position at the Kildonan estate in Barrhill for the opportunities at DICo In 1881 my great grandmother was a green grocer and with other children was at 45 St John Street in Stranrear and building that remained when I last visited a few years ago. By 1889 most of my family had made their passage to the USA settling in Perth Amboy New Jersey when my grandfather became a machinist and supervisor in the Perth Amboy Dry Dock. My great grandparents David Campbell Preacher and Elizabeth Henry Caig and my grandparents David Campbell Preacher and Janet Yule Donaldson Grieve Preacher (LKS) are interred in the Alpine Cemetery in Perth Amboy New Jersey. The STEED connection began at Dalmelington and continued in the USA and my grandmother GRIEVE met my grandfather whilst in New Jersey where they married in 1896. I have considerable documentation on all four families for anyone with possible connections . Regards, Hugh Hugh J Preacher 214.334.4881 USA CST hughjpreacher@aol.com Grandson of David Campbell Preacher and Janet Donaldson Yule Grieve and Friðfinnur Eymundsson and Elizabeth Liebnitz   Researching (alpha by country or state): England in Northumberland, Durham, Gloucestershire, London, Hertfordshire Hawkins, Pember, Preacher, Turner (NBL) Germany /Poland Liebnitz, Dalitz (sic) Mahlsdorf/Brandenburg, Pohl/Pole, Laboker (sic) Wreschen/Chlebowo Iceland Friðfinner Eymundsson, Eymundur Guðbrandsson, Guðbjorg Torfadottir and many predecessors Scotland (SE) in Roxburghshire and the Lothian's Aitchison, Bell, Brown, Bunyan, Campbell, Claperton, Creek, Edmond, Herkuise, Low, MacKay, Preacher, Smibert, Thompson,Trotter, Wilson Scotland (SW) in Dumfries, Wigtown, Ayrshire Brown, Caig, Campbell, Clark, Connell, Cook, Duncan, Farquharson, Farrow, Gordon, Grieve, Halliday, Ireland, McEwen, McFadzean, Preacher, Steed, Tait, Thomson Scotland in Fife Black, Cunningham, Currier, Donaldson, Dishart, Gillespie, Grieve, Kilgour, Ramsay, Robertson,  Smith, Thomson, Youl (many spellings) Scotland in Lanarkshire Brown, Grieve, Steed Scotland in The Highlands, Angus, Argyll & Butte Campbell, Grieve, MacKay USA Florida in Hollywood, Pine Island, Bokeelia Baltakis, Bowden, Guidice, Preacher USA New Jersey in Perth Amboy, New Brunswick, Fords, Metuchen Eymundsson, Grieve, Liebnitz,Pohl, Pole, Preacher, Stalker, Steed USA other states Baltakis (Michigan), Bowden, Walter (Maine, Florida- Hollywood), Johnson, Ole Daniel (Pennsylvannia), Ponian, Ann (Pennsylvannia-Newcastle), Preacher (Alabama, Carolinas, Texas) World War I and II records – U.S. Army, Navy, Merchant Marine and Kings Own Scottish Borderers Baltakis, Johnson, Ole D, Preacher As of 9 May 2013