Hi Pearl - Thank- you for responding. I only can afford to build the tree in drips and drabs so indeed a year is not very significant!
And yes I notice that you have Dick as a surname. What I've been able to determine of the Dick branch of my family ends (starts?) with Elizabeth Dick who married John Halliday.
Elizabeth, my ggg grandmother may have been born at Barony born between 1807 & 1812. From her death info of 1875, it appears her parents were Ambrose Dick and Elizabeth Stevenson. She had a brother James. Other siblings may have been Christian, Agness, Margaret and Mary all born somewhere in Lanark except for James who appears to have been born at Kilmarnock, Ayrshire. One of my great aunts thought the Dick family had been from Stirling but she may have been mistaken - she was very old at the time. Although they seemed to have lived around Wishaw, many apprear to have been buried at Carluke, which I understand is quite close by?
You'd think with a name like Ambrose, I could find more on him! Given that for the most part, the naming of children in the families seemed to have followed the scottish naming system quite faithfully, I found it interesting that none of the children or grandchildren seemed to have been given the name Ambrose and I'm wondering if he also went by another name.
The surname Dick seemed to have been used as a middle name for several descendants and for several subsequent generations - and even my grandmother's sister had been named Elizabeth Dick Ferguson after her maternal great grandmother (my grandmother had been named for her paternal great grandmother: Jane Frew!)
So that is pretty much what I have!
cheers,
ard