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Some Family History Societies do Graveyarding on week-ends and it might be worth contacting the local one at http://www.dgfhs.org.uk/ as they might have already recorded the graves your looking for in the process. Or you could also try http://www.dgnhas.org.uk/

Delighted to PM and I've been trying to catch you on at the same time as myself to do so but we never seem to have clicked! You in Oz and me in Scotland with a ten hour difference makes for difficulties.

William, my GG grandfather, married Dedimiah Dawes and lived in Reigate Surrey until her death when he returned to live with his sister in Thornhill. They had 8 children Margaret Amy, Frances (Fanny, probably named after her grandmother), Elizabeth, William, Charles Henry, Jessie Janet (not sure of this one as Janet could be Jessie if you see what I mean), Emily, and Louis Arthur in that order. I'm interested to know where you think John fits in as I've no record of this family having a John. I have a Daguerreotype and a portrait of William up in my attic, very dapper not surprising since he was a draper to trade.
Johns' family in Canada seem to have made quite a name for themselves in government especially William Kirkpatrick, a conservative and David, a liberal must have made for interesting conversation at the dinner table!
I really must try to renew the acquaintance of our cousin in Canada if he's still around.
Incidentally David in Ballarat seems to have been a bit of a philanthropist and while he died unmarried he was quite a wealthy man.

I believe that John had a grain business in Penpont that failed he then left for Canada about 1842. "McNaught John 1811-1873 from Penpont, DFS. s/o David M. and Margaret Corrie To Ont. Ca. 1842 M. Sarah Kilpatrick. Ch 1 Elizabeth went to Aus. 2. Margaret 3. David b. Ca 1839 4. Thomas 1841-1921 DC 23 Oct 1981". John died in 1877 at , Tuckersmith, Ontario. I've yet to discover when Sarah died. I have births and deaths of all his children with the exception of Elizabeth's birth which I have at about 1836 and James birth about 1853 and death ? Elizabeth I have recorded as having died in 1908 in Geelong, Australia though no exact date. You could confirm for me Her husbands dates and I have four children listed. I have a copy of her Uncle David (John's youngest brother) will which is interesting in that he wrote her out of it as he believed her to be well catered for by her husband John Boyd. I am descended from John's brother William and it was his daughter Emily that went out to Australia to replace Elizabeth as Davids housekeeper. On Davids death Emily, his main beneficiary, returned to join her sister in Thornhill and eventually died there in the same house both her father and uncle James died in.