Hello, Robbie --
Are you trying to move forward or backward with this family? I am descended from Thomas Lind and Agnes m.s. Shields, and link them to John Lind and Helen m.s. Howison through family correspondence held by a distant cousin in Canada. Thomas' siblings come from repeated readings of Carnwath and West Calder OPRs as published by the LDS Church in their International Genealogical Index -- the extracted records version, not patron submissions. That has been supplemented by Civil Registrations at New Register House, Edinburgh read and transcribed by a correspondent in the Edinburgh area. Also correspondence with other descendants over the last 15 years. So we have a pretty complete and well documented tree downward from two sons of the +/- 1750 couple. I cannot find anything about the son John (one died in infancy, the other
) or the daughters -- apart from Bess who married John Watson.
Going backwards is a bit trickier. There's a great deal of circumstance, speculation and guesswork, mostly based on place. I believe (but cannot document) that the John Lind in question was the son of James Lind who was a Covenanter. There is a list of Covenanters posted on Ancestry.com which includes "James Linn of Moshat". Some of the later generations of Linds married into Covenanter families in Dumfriesshire. There is a will for Robert Linn of Auchingray posted at Scotland'sPeople linking him to Mosshat. Other documents from the period link John Lin, James Lin, Adam Lin and David Lin to the farms of Auchingray, Tarbrax and Mosshat. The timing is a bit awkward to make the generations work. Since my ancestor was not born until 1759 (per OPRs), it is bothersome to have his father born in the 1680's. Possible, but awkward. I need to learn a lot more about Scottish law, inheritance, and property ownership to really understand what I am reading. And no, I cannot definitively link to other Lin(d) - Howison marriages. I do believe all the Linds between Glasgow and Edinburgh are linked to one degree or another.
Am happy to share shat I have.
--Bonnie