Verdena, I can help you just a bit. On the IGI the marriage of William Watt and Jane Hutchinson is given as 20 Jan 1826 (not 1829) in Muirkirk, Ayrshire. But it also appears that the banns were also called in Dalziel, Lanarkshire, on 8th Jan 1826. So there seems no doubt that the year is 1826 - both these events have an OPR marriage register reference no, so they are not doubtful additions by LDS members. You should order up both the Dalziel and Muirkirk OPR films in case there is any more information about William and Jane - it might just give their fathers' names, occupations, or addresses. (Though I'm not terribly hopeful about this - the Dalziel register was not always very well kept.) So William may have been born in Dalziel, Lanarkshire, but I cannot find a record of this birth in the IGI. I cannot find a record of the marriage of John Watt and Janet Crawford either. Turning to Jane Hutchinson, I cannot find any births more likely than any others. My Watts (from East Kilbride and Glassford, Lanarkshire) do have a slight connection with Muirkirk - my father's geat-aunt Mary Watt (1817/8 - 1899) married a John Riddell from Muirkirk, who was a son of William Riddell and Alison Findlay, (though this couple had lived in Avondale, Lanarkshire for a time earlier in their marriage, their marriage is recorded in both Muirkirk and Old Cumnock, Ayrshire) I have put some of my family tree online, and there are quite a number of Watts from Lanarkshire - the index is at http://www.caeredin.freeserve.co.uk/familytree/index.html (but ignore references to second marriages if both spouses have the same name - it's a bug in the program that created the pages!) Best wishes, Ann -- *************************** Ann Macdonald Watt Edinburgh Scotland email: ann@met.ed.ac.uk ***************************