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Thank you for posting this info about Margaret Muckersie. We really appreciate it.
My wife did find it in 2017 which was 6 years after I first posted but it is appreciated as she may not have found it

Joe,

William Smart and Margaret Dingwall are my wife's 4x Great Grandparents
William's Parents are John Smart and Janet Peadrie or as we really think Petrie but because of the Scottish Brogue many names were mis-pronounced. we have William's birth on 23 December 1772 and a couple of possible death dates from 1816 to 1821. We do have the marriage of John Smart to Janet Peadrie and it is the 25th October 1766. We also have 3 other children and they are Helen b 23 Aug 1767, Elizabeth b 23 Jul 1769 and John b 5 Apr 1778. With the gaps there we also believe that there may be some more children.

We have not found anything about Margaret Dingwall yet.
These are 2 possibles from SP with the preferred being the one from Ceres because of the names. William and Margaret had a son John and a daughter Janet
1   19/05/1765   DAINGWAL   MARGARET   JOHN DAINGWAL/JANET HUNTER    F   CERES   /FIFE   415/00 0030 0029      
2   29/09/1765   DINGWALL   MARGARET   WILLIAM DINGWALL/CHRISTIAN WILSON FR230   F   SCOONIE (FIFE)   /FIFE   456/00 0010 0302

There are several on the IGI but none really seem to come as close as the one from Ceres in 1765 which would still make Margaret 42 when Janet was born in 1807. This does seem unlikely but it is not impossible. It may be that her birth was not registered or not easily available yet.
I hope this is of some help and if you want you can PM me and I will give you my email address and that of my wife who is the direct relation.

Cheers,
hayalan52
Alan Haynes

Hi again all,

Leslie did know her Aunty Chris and really liked her. She said she was lovely and yes the Confectionery shop was hers.
Leslie and Jen are 2nd cousins.

Bob; Are you related to the Kirkcaldy's because Leslie has some McIntosh's in the tree?

Leslie is up now and here is what she knows about Christina:
She was a quiet lady and went around a lot with her sister Jean (really Jane). They never married and that is probably why they spent time together. Leslie felt that Jean overshadowed Chris. She also has photos of the two of them together (several).
Chris never wrote but Jean did and was the provider of most of Leslie's original family history info on the Kirkcaldy family. Jean was the oldest of all the children and Leslie feels that is why she probably kept the information and kept in touch with us here in Australia. After Jean died in 1984  Isabell Scott (nee Kirkcaldy) took over writing. She was the last of the sisters children except for Robert Dempster still living. Isabell died the same year as Leslie's dad, Robert, 1996.
As for the shop Leslie thinks it had already been sold when she was there in 1976. Chris had already retired by that time. Leslie is not sure if Chris had the shop before WW2. She thinks Chris and Jean worked together in another shop selling clothes.
The confectionery shop is across from Jubilee Buildings which is where the Kirkcaldy's lived. Jean was still living there until she died in 1984.
Chris lived above the confectionery shop but Leslie is not sure if it was directly above. Her reason for this is that from Chris's flat she could not see Jubilee buildings and to get to the flat they had to go along from the shop then up a stairway.
My view from looking at the photos of Jean and Chris is that Leslie looked a lot like them or that there was a definite family resemblance.
Here are 2 photos of Chris. In the one with her sister Jean and niece Margaret taken about 1976 and the other of herself taken about 1980 about 3 years before she died.
 

Cheers,

Alan & Leslie

Jenc,

Hi and Happy New Year to all in the Northern Hemisphere.
I will ask Leslie but she is in bed right now so she can check it out tomorrow. It is now 11:30pm Monday night.

By the way Jen have you had much snow up there? About all we have had here is rain, rain and more rain. You may have seen some of the news reports about the flooding in Queensland. We have seen a bit about the snow in Britain.
We are quite safe where we are unless half of Brisbane goes under.

Cheers,
Alan