Ha - clicking on small boxes is not really psychic is it - however, I'll still go with the psychic.
Yes, have had a bit of bad experience on other boards (not totally traumatic by any means and besides which, too long in the tooth for "trauma" in this context) but some boards can make you feel like an outsider. This one certainly hasn't, I already know that I won't be asking "stupid questions" - not knowing the answer doesn't make a question stupid.
My research, mostly, has been on my mother's English side - relatively new to Scottish research. However, am learning and hopefully, with pointers, will learn more and more. I have a fair bit on the Wallace side (thanks to research by family /recently still in Scotland - although I haven't met them in person, and nowhere near tracing dad's "related to Sir William" ). Granda's Laurie's though, at this point, seem elusive but after tonight, maybe they're not.
I believe I have committed the cardinal sin of pooh poohing what was before my own eye (or at least, I may have done) I had seen the census information that Monica pointed out but I did say to myself "wrong wife" - can't be mine. It really didn't occur to me that Jane(t) could have died earlier and those children were to a second wife - doh!!!