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Does the name Lydia appear anywhere connected to a May?  I recently found a marriage record for a John May and Lydia Williamson in Ohio dated about 1809. The date and place sounds reasonable according to the time the children were born in Scotland and Ireland and it being near where other descendants lived.

Hi Annejan , interested in your McLarens. your Peter who dies in 1856. i am in contact with descendants of his brother Malcolm McLaren. see this link re these McLarens.

http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=doigk&id=I42290

send personal message and i will give you , their email address in Canada. have also looked at Peter's death certificate on Scotlandspeople , can e mail you too (supply your e mail)

yours gordon

Thank you so much for the link.  The link takes me to my gg-grandfather's line, but I did not see the McLarens that were from the Midlothian area of Scotland around Edinburgh and Restalrig. Two McLaren brothers, Peter (b. 1862) and George worked for the railroad.

Is there a website to search a list of burials in Kilmadock Parish/near Doune from early to mid 1800s?

I am looking for information on a John May family who is said to have lived 15 miles from Edinburgh around 1820.  I do not have a birth date, death date or marriage info for him.  What information I have comes from his granddaughter's husband.

John and his wife had three children born in Scotland - Williamson was born around 1814;  Jim was born before 1821; and Nancy was born Dec 12, 1821.  They moved to Ireland where a son, John, and two daughters, Mary and Martha, were born.  Another son was born in either Scotland or Ireland.  Before 1840 they made a brief trip back to Scotland before immigrating to the states where they settled in Ohio.  The son I don't have a name for died at sea on the way over to the states.

Who was the father's wife?  What village or town did they live in?  Where did they live in Ireland?  Were they what was considered Scotch-Irish?  Were they most likely affected by the potato famine?  There is no mention of the mother in Ohio.  Was their brief trip back to Scotland to bury her?  If so, where is she buried?  Who were John's parents and his wife's parents?  What was John's occupation?  Were any of the children old enough to have occupations at that time?  More questions than answers - probably some without answers.

I would greatly appreciate any help.