Just concentrate on getting better Heather
You did make me laugh though with the idea of you on your laptop in your hospital bed at 2.00 am catching up!
Just one more thing now to give David Higgins his place in all of this. Parents show on the marriage entry to Matilda Kelso as Alexander Higgins and Mary McKendrick (or McKendry/ McKindry - lots of variants for this surname).
1. AGNES HIGGINS Birth: 30 SEP 1863 Old Monkland, Lanark
2. CATHERINE HIGGINS Birth: 09 MAR 1865 Old Monkland, Lanark
3. ALEXANDER HIGGINS Birth: 26 JUN 1866 Old Monkland, Lanark
4.
DAVID HIGGIANS Birth:25 FEB 1870 Kilmacolm, Renfrew
5. HELEN HIGGINS Birth: 18 JUN 1872 Middle-East-West Parishes, Greenock, Renfrew
6. MARGARET HIGGINS Birth: 04 JAN 1874 Middle Or New Parish, Greenock, Renfrew
Parents' marriage shows on 16 APR 1861 in Old Kilpatrick, Dunbarton.
Big family by 1881:
Alexander Higgins 42, Foreman Town Cleansing Depart, b. Insch Parish, Wigtonshire
Mary Higgins 43, b. Ireland
Catherine Higgins 16
Alexander Higgins 14
John Higgins 12
David Higgins 11, b. Kilmalcolm, Renfrewshire
Helen Higgins 8
Margaret Higgins7
James Higgins 5
William Higgins 3
Robert Cameron 21, son in law, general labourer, b. Girvan, Ayrshire....I wonder if he had a brother called William!
Mary Ann Cameron (Higgins) 20, daughter, b. Duntocher, Dumbartonshire
Address: 84 Drumfrochar Rd, Greenock Middle
Something to work from on this line
Monica