Thank you Skoosh and Forfarian for your replies.
I will check Edinburgh Tailors Incorporation & a Burgess, I just need to find where to do so
I haven't done much research in Scotland before so still feeling my way around.
With regards Malcom and Jean's children - I have the older children from the marriage, transcribed from the original baptism registers of the Relief Church when the family was listed at Nicholson Square.
- Agnas 6.4.1774
- John 1.10.1775
- James 26.6.1777
- Helen 11.2.1779
- David 23.9.1780
- Alexander 14.12.1781
- Walter 10.6.1783
The younger children from St Cuthbert's Bap.Regs. when the family were listed at Pottersrow.
- Thomas 20.5.1785
- William 16.11.1786
- Jean 19.11.1788
- Margaret 6.5.1790
- James 2.11.1791
Forfarian, I think you might have confused the gap between births of Jean, Margaret and James, by inadvertently noting a Jean b.23 April 1971.
Malcolm and Jeans marriage in 1773 is taken from the Cannongate marriage register and the original register entry from ScotlandsPeople, where he is listed as a tailor. I realise there were no certificates prior to statutory registration.
My reason for thinking that John Steuart and Ann McLagan might be the parents is due there being very few contenders who had sons named Malcolm, born in the right time frame (1745/46) as well as the similarities of names given to the children. There are a few others with sons named Malcolm born around this time but little or no similarities between the names of the children. Since Malcolm's eldest son was John, I'm assuming this might have been the name of his father ... I guess I'm banging my head against a brick wall trying to find a connection, with the scant info I have found so far in the registers.