Bruce wrote: Penninghame is as far as one can be from Kirkmaiden and remain in Wigtownshire. You mentioned some concern about that distance and I share that concern. It is not prohibitive of the Mary McDOWALL born in Kirkmaiden being married in Penninghame, but does make me wonder if it was a different Mary McDOWALL. If you have some means to establish this was the same one, that is good, but it can't be established only on the basis of no other one of suitable age being found in the OPRs. The OPRs are far from being a complete record of births. Despite the distance, it is not too extraordinary for someone to be born in Kirkmaiden and married in Penninghame. My 4th great grandparents, Clement and Catherine (Henry) Marshall, came "ower the Scheuch" from County Down and settled in Kirkmaiden about 1822. My 3rd great grandfather, James Marshall, was born there in 1823, but by 1826, the family was in Wigtown parish, and James married my 3rd great grandmother, Mary Crosbie, in Newton Stewart in 1851. James' older brother, John Marshall, remained in Kirkmaiden when the family moved, and he married there, but he moved his family to Old Luce about 1838. My impression is that movement within Wigtownshire was perhaps not so unusual as we might think. Guy I. Colby IV Irving, TX