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Hello Skoosh

Thanks for the heads up but a bit off the radar for us down here in NZ at present. Too many forms, swabs and general indecisiveness with travel. BUT I will get the local Buchanans for a whisky soiree to wish the new Chief well.

We have a bus load of the Buchanans from our Reunion and book launch last October wanting to tour the places we have discovered in Scotland and UK pertaining to the Todds and Buchanans.  Perhaps we could drop in for a wee dram with the Chief !!!

Thanks again
Susanne

Hello Forfarian

Thank you for your input but I realised quite a while ago that our Margaret was not Calderwood's wife.
One of the roads we enter  searching for people .
Margaret married Alexander Bate and the only mystery now is where they are buried.
It was kind of you to find out those facts anyway.
Susanne

Hello Tony

Belatedly:  Margaret Buchanan was from a farming family in Bonhill and worked in the cotton mill that was owned by the Todds  Possibly the Bonhill Printworks in the Vale of Leven. and met Charles Todd there.
He was based in Glasgow and associated with the Todd Higginbottom  Springfield Mill and had several residential addresses according to Census records.
Charles and Margaret lived as man and wife at Bridge of Allan and Margaret was called Mrs Todd and the 3 children the Todd children.
Unfortunately Charles did not give his name to David when he attended Rugby school as David Buchanan, probably to shelter him from the brand of illegitamacy, and the family lawyer, George Dalziel was named as his Guardian.
The girls Mary and Margaret were Buchanan when they went under the guardianship of Arthur, Charle's sister. Once again to appease a very critical society and aquire respectable marriages.
I think most of that is in the book Tony.

Hope the jigsaw is falling into place for you.
Susanne

Hello Monica

Many thanks for the Davidson graves photos. I have the main grave photo. A genealogist friend has researched Margaret and the Todds and we have a book nearly ready to go to print, so this is a last ditch effort to find Margaret and Alexander's graves. Simon Critchley has been a wonderful source of information too for which we are very grateful.

Barbara my friend found the details on James and Isabella on a birth certificate and Sir David Davidson visited Isabella at Bonhill when she was dying as Margaret had predeceased her mother. A very kind gesture.

Many thanks again Monica
Susanne

Could someone please help me find the graves of Margaret Buchanan 1796- 12/11/1849. Born in Bonhill and parents were James and Isabell Buchanan, and of Greenside Edinburgh 1841 census . Married Alexander Bate also from Greenside on 5/3/1844 at Haddington Edinburgh and lived at Bankshead Cottage Tranent where Alexander died in 1846.
Margaret then moved to 1 Tower Street Portobello where she died on 12/11/1849.
Her daughter Margaret married Sir David Davidson of Haddington so a possibiity she/they are buried there.
I would be grateful for any information. Thankyou. Susanne Buchanan