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Thanks for all the infofmation Lochnagar.  I shall wait in anticipation!!

Sancti.  I must admit I have still to check the Poor Relief Records.  Are they to be found on Scotland's People?

Hello all.  Has anybody come across either of the two families Brechney or Lafferty from the old Cumnock area?  Originally from Ireland (obviously!) but settled in and around this area. In 1899 James Brechney married Margaret Lafferty and am trying to trace both backwards and forwards from this marriage date.  Any connections out there would be most appreciated.

Now that's what I call a really good suggestion, thanks Redroger.  It's annoying because I am also going to lose out on some of Scotland's People credits again, but what the heck! I will concentrate on the move.

Hi redroger.  I don't really know much of the circumstances at all.  Family stories is that he worked on the railways in South Africa, but apart from a couple of book notations there is nothing else. He was certainly a railway man and worked in Stirlingshire and latterly in Ayrshire where he died aged 90yrs in 1955.  He disappears from the census for 1881 and reappears 1891 which makes me think he was away somewhere then (this matches up with a notation in a book of his dated 1888 in British Bechuanaland).  My impression is that, initially anyway, he was involved in the building of railways, but who for etc, I have not the slightest!  I have emailed the NUT union and will see what comes of that.

Hello All.  Any ideas on how I find out about my Grandfather Peter McCallum who was a railway worker/builder from about 1880. Possibly starting in Perthshire, but also he apparently went at least twice and worked in South Africa certainly in 1888 (British Bechuanaland now Botswana) and later (after marrying Magdelane White in Stirling 1891) in 1893 (Newcastle in Natal). He later settled in Stirling and Ayrshire, still working on the railways. These dates in Sth Africa are via his written notations in books he owned.  I would like to know what records there are regarding railway workers who went to Sth Africa obviously to help build the railway system there. Any help from out there much appreciated, been worrying away at this for a long, long time.