HI is anyone able to help me with this couple i think they are my ggggg grandparents they married on 5th december 1845 in maybole ayr, they are the father and mother of james muir b maybole who married margaret reid in st quivox ayr on 10/12/1848.
Not sure that would work out! Have you found your James on any of the censuses? It should tell you his approx. age and birthplace. He married Margaret Reid on the date you mention and had a son, James McKinnon Muir, on the 21st April 1849 in Ayr.