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thank you again for figuring all that out.  Do you have access to the census reports so you can see the entire picture?  ancestry doesn't have that so it's not possible to see who lives next to who.  I've done some things with Scotlands people and it's great but the expense is more than I want to do right now.  I retired and need to watch my money.  I've been hoping to make a trip to Scotland.  Thanks again,  Maxine

Thank you so much!  I have a migraine from working on this mess and not having enough information to sort it out.  I don't know how you did it but thank you. 

I have a census showing John and Hannah Pickup.  Her maiden name was Lord as her brother John Lord is living with them.  From info of the Pickup marriage in 1840 Hannah was the daughter of William Lord.  I believe she was from Rochdale, and they were married at St. Chads.  I haven't been able to find out where he went after leaving John and Hannah.  Do you have any more info on William Lord that you would share with me.  She isn't a direct line, as John remarried after her death.  He had another family with the new and much younger wife Isabell Fletcher Crichton.

I was able to find so much information on Isabell F Crichton Pickup and her sister Margaret.  Isabell went to Canada to be with her son Arthur and his family, (my grandfather) and eventually moved to Detroit, Michigan because her son Laurance had lost his job at the post office and Arthur, who had already moved to Detroit said they had jobs there for him.  I have census reports and some death certs for Isabells family, going back to James Park.  We were always told Isabells mother Margaret, was the grand daughter of Mungo Park, the explorer but I haven't been able to prove it. I don't know why Margaret (Park) and husband William Crichton (another very common name) left Scotland.  An old letter I have says he was a great designer of prints for calico and though he was doing quite well, he wanted more.  He came to Massachusetts for a short time, and when he went back to England, the family wasn't home so he left a message saying " Your father has come home".  But they never saw him again.  I don't know if he came back to the US or not. 

John married Isabell Fletcher Crichton in 1875 and had 6 sons by her.  Her sister Margaret married John William Pickup who was the son of John and his first wife Hannah Lord.  The letter I have says that Hannah, daughter of John and Hannah, married James Woolrich and had a farming business at Hazel Grove, Cheshire. I found them on a 1901 census for Hazel Grove.  I don't think they had any children.  The letter from my great grandfathers brother talks about one of John Pickups daughters marrying a Johnson who had a son Fred and was an architect.  He also speaks of a sister of John Pickup, Ann, who married twice, her second husband spending all the money left to her by her first husband.  I haven't found anything on her at all. I think there are so many John Pickups that it will impossible to trace this any further.  Any advice is welcome. Thank you.