Thanks gennig for your help. I will try to get access to Sands & Mc Dougall for that period around 1916. As for Henry, I don't believe that he was a widower when he married my grandmother even though the marriage certificate indicates that he was. My grandmother Sarah was not a widow either, as far as I know. She was a single mother, and probably took the name of her son's father who we were told died before her son was born. It is true that Annie had a son in Liverpool in 1911, and named Henry as the father, but he may not necessarily have been. I am trying to trace John B. Kinross, the son born in 1916, but so far have not come up with any records in either U.K. or here. Similarly with Annie. I thought that she may have died in the U.K. or been deserted by Henry, and later remarried, but can't prove any thing. It is very frustrating. My mother (Shirley), her brothers, and my grandmother are all dead, and I am beginning to wonder how much any of them knew. My mother certainly never knew that she had step siblings from a previous marriage of her father's. Incidentally, my grandfather was a bit of a liar. he had two sets of enlistment papers, the first under his real name, and the second using the name Alfred Asplands. His service record is actually under the assumed name. I'll keep digging! Sunni.