---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Jo Ann Croft <jecroft290@gmail.com> Date: Tue, Sep 17, 2013 at 7:14 AM Subject: Re: SCT-WIGTOWNSHIRE Digest, Vol 8, Issue 137 To: Wig List <sct-wigtownshire@rootsweb.com> Did any children emigrate? I have found a few deaths in the US where the elderly parents went to live with children. It's not easy as the US records are very spotty. Jo-Ann Croft > > Message: 1 > Date: Mon, 16 Sep 2013 21:52:35 +1000 > From: "Peter R Booth" <pbo08596@bigpond.net.au> > Subject: [WIG LIST] Charles HUGHES m1827 Mary MACKIE at PENNINGHAME > To: <SCT-WIGTOWNSHIRE-L@rootsweb.com> > Message-ID: <002801ceb2d3$3c45bd10$0500a8c0@family> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" > > > I'm stuck on the parents of Mary Mackie. > > The marriage appears on Scotland's People and Family Search. > > They have nine children between 1829 and 1848 baptised at various > parishes of Kirkcowan, Whithorn and Penninghame. > > I've traced them through every census from 1841 to 1871, where he is > an Ag Lab living at Challoch in Penninghame. > > In 1881, they have moved to Edinburgh, where he is a gardener. Both > are aged around 75. But then they seem to disappear. I can't find any > matching deaths after 1881 anywhere on Scotland's People. > > I'm wondering if anyone can recognise this couple or offer any > suggestions for me to follow. > > Peter in Sydney > >