Hello again Peter,
Your pm's are coming through to me but my replies appear to be not returning.
So some info on my trip:
Scotlands People first day: Wellingtons statue outside seemed to be waving my wife and myself away.
So it was, as we found a negative and discouraging attendant at the front desk. Despite travelling from the other side of the world, we left the first encounter without getting to see any records, very disillusioned and wondering about the point of SP.
However the next day= new people and it was like a breath of fresh air and we had a great day researching both wife ancestors and Hendersons. Staff were very helpful and pleasant. We used the Onamastic child naming system to see if we could make a breakthrough but not enough info.
Another group we met along the way was Aberdeen and North-east Scotland Family History Society; a great group of skilled, experienced and enthusiastic researchers.
We also checked Callendar House, Falkirk, near Bo'ness where an archive is kept of church records such as Banns of Marriage, assistance to the poor etc. No info found of relevance though.
We also investigated the Glasgow City archives in pursuit of some record of William and Margaret's Marriage. They also rechecked our investigations on Scotlands People with no success.
The mystery of their marriage still remains although we solved another which involved a severe misspelling on the old records of a name belonging to my Wife's ancestor.
We also had a tour of the National Mining Museum, in Newtongrange Midlothian. I would thoroughly recommend it and your children would love it. They solved the mystery of why my Grandad (also a Miner) dunked his bread and jam in his tea!
Cheers