This is great - I have really learned a lot about the area thanks to you all.
Sancti - I do realize that my James birth may not have been recorded, but I still look. He married in Canada in 1835, his death record does not give parent's names, and I don't know middle names of children.
I am working with 4 OPRs to shead some light on my James.
#1 - James McDonald of Ruthrie married Margaret McKerron alias Grant in 1806 recorded in Aberlour. #2 - They had a son James baptised 1811 (Aberlour).
#3 - John McDonald of Macallan married Jean McKerron alias Grant of Knockside in 1808. #4 - They had a son James baptised 1809.
Both sons birth years would work for me. I tend to favor the James & Margaret as my James named his first son James and his 2nd daughter Margaret.
What I find really interesting is that a witness on
both baptism records is James McKerron of Knockside. So in my fanicful brain I have decided that the fathers - James and John - are brothers who married sisters - Margaret & Jane McKerron (alias Grant). That would be really fun. Someone told me that these place names are not necissarily towns but names of a "cluster of homes or farms". Maybe they are close together and they all know eachother. My big problem in deciding if either of these James are my family is that I know "MY James" was a carpenter, there isn't an occupation for the father James, but the father John was a black smith.
My brain hurts.
