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Yes, I use those settings. No, I don't have a way to get FTP/SFTP access via a browser. If I go to my site too frequently then Cloudfare blocks my access but gives it back if I stop for a while. My goal is to simply clean up my site before it gets archived.  How long has it been since you were able to log in?  I vaguely recall that Ancestry had everyone reset their passwords after all the trouble they were having with the Rootsweb mailing lists. That feels like three or four years ago.

Yes, I meant SFTP. Now I have access via browser but I didn't do anything so I suppose you are right that Cloudfare steps in when there is a lot of traffic.

Boop/Rob,
Perhaps this is your man. John Ferguson died age 70 at Porter Lodge, Ardlinglass on 18 Apr 1861. He was married to Sarah McCallum. The informants are son John Ferguson and widow Sara Ferguson. The death is registered in Kilmorich, Argyll.

John and Sarah had a daughter Isabel baptized 10 Jul 1831 in Lochgoilhead and Kilmorich, Argyll. You will find the family in the 1841 census transcribed at ancestry.com as Sherquson. They live at Ardlinglass House East Lodge.

In 1851 the household appears to be split with John at Lochgoilhead and Kilmorich. I could not find Sarah or daughter Isabella. Sara reappears in 1861 and with John resides at Ardno in Kilmorich, Argyll. Their nest is empty except for their grandson John McKean or McShean, age 4, born in Glasgow.

John McKean born about 1857 appears to drop off the radar about same time your John Ferguson born about 1857 appears. I wonder if John and Sarah adopted John McKean and changed his name to Ferguson.
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Colin

Hi Tara,
Thanks, I knew nothing about the Petty Session records. Yes, that is my site. For completeness sake I've attached a snippet from the valuation records I was looking at. One thing I hadn't noticed before is the tiny "dec'd" next to John Ferguson's name in the observation column. The chicken scratches are unclear but I suppose they were made in 1862.
Colin

Hi Tara,
Thanks for offer. My problem is a convoluted mix of John and Margaret Fergusons.

A Margaret Ferguson appears in Griffiths Valuations 1857 as both an occupier and immediate lessor at map reference 10 in Tullyboy, Kilbride Parish, Co. Cavan. The valuation records of the Electoral Divison of Ballymachugh, parish of Kilbride 1857-1930 lists John Ferguson as occupier of map references 1 and 7 on a page that appears dated 1862. Margaret Ferguson still occupies map reference 10 but a second entry shows Robert Ferguson in a different handwriting as though he became a joint occupier about 1860. Later, about 1872 it appears that Robert becomes the sole occupier as on this page Marg. appears but is crossed out. In this time frame the name John Ferguson no longer appears. From 1880 on, the only Ferguson listed is Robert.

That Robert appears in the 1901 census, age 65. His 1834 baptism record names his parents as John and Margaret. His civil registration marriage record of 1864 names his father as John and does not indicate that his father was deceased at that time.

Colin