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HI again, thank you for your last notes. AGain so helpful. Yes, you were right, the names fit and the 1855 death register was most helpful. It listed Thomas and 12 children including John, a son born in October 1819...premarital fornication was the notation on OPR births. poor soul! Also, Ann was listed as a pauper- her death is listed just after Thomas'.
Again, yes, Elizabeth/ Eliza/ Elspet was Thomas' mother.
Interesting too, because the register showed Thomas had lived at Craggan and buried at Knockan( bit hard to read). I had placed Craggan near Edderton, but that doesn't match well. I'd love to visit these places when I visit, just to see where they'd lived or  died. Corriemore, Corriemiullie, both 1841 ( same place, maybe?), Craggan, Strathoykel etc.Merging topics was something I had not known about, so thank you.         Annie.
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Hello again! You have answered it! I was having difficulty resizing the image on my iPad to send. Your email displayed in full. On reading your "irrelevant" notes on Assynt, the names match! The registrar's signature on the extract (6 Oct 1863)is Angus McEwen, so that fits. As well, the first word is definitely Kirkton, so perhaps little Thomas was taught by him, although by the time he was 7, they were living at Dalfaid.
Thank you again for your assistance - now we intend to spend time in Assynt  as well as Brackloch by the river Inver. There may be an old crofters  cottage!!!I know already we are going to run out of time!!
A piece of the jigsaw that fits.......thank you.

Thank you so much! Inchnascallag exists! We're coming to Scotland shortly, so now I know to head west of Oykel Bridge, about 1.5 m w- the old ruin- east of Lubcroy. Thank you!
However, I thought I had located my grandfathers birthplace at Brackloch, district of Kirk...?....hard to decipher...Cipyats?? County Sutherland. I have the original birth certificate ( 1863). The 1871 census has himborn in Assynt, Sutherland where I see Brackloch.....a fair distance from Oykell  where  his parents  were married in 1862.
May I ask if travelling that distance- Oykel to Brackloch to Dalfaid would have been likely? I know his father William was a shepherd, but were the 1860s so chaotic?
My research has his family in  Dalfaid in district Rosehall ED2 , Craggan, Achness, Alness and Ardgay.
Cheerio and thanks for your assistance.         Annie.....my research skills are elementary!  

Hi! Thank ou so much for your help in locating the church in Alness. I will certainly try to visit it when I visit Scotland. May I ask advice on the church at Oykell. I see one at Oykell bridge - my great grandparents were married in Oykell in 1862.Their certificate shows they were married in the Scottish Free Church....would Glens Church have been the only one in or around oykell at that time?
Many thanks for your assistance.....I'm new to Ancestry and find so much to learn!!!!
Annie

Hi, I'm very new to Roots. I am researching my great -grandfathers history.
William Graham baptised 23/1/1827. Father Thomas, M Grizzel McLeod  Parish Alness 057 Ref 20/34  (SP).
If someone can help me locate the church, I would appreciate it so much! I'd  love to visit it(or the grounds) when I visit Scotland later this year.
Also, his 1862 marriage certificate  to Grace Ross shows him residing in Craggan ?can anyone help with locating that please?
Many thanks.          Annie