Hi Roger and Jen
Good to see you with a connection to the Dakers too, Jen
Roger, some thoughts for you....
Scottish naming pattern is such a useful feature of Scottish research if/when it helps connect dots (even in pencil!) where you have a lack of info on ancestors.
For James and Christina, we have early children as:
James b. 1824
Elizabeth b. 1826
Isabella b. 1828
William b. 1832
David b. 1835
Alexander b. 1840
Agnes b. 1843
I saw that your David named his first (?) born son James Bain Dakers. James after father and wondered whether Catherine Bain, mother's father, may also have been a James Bain?
Elizabeth, possible name for mother to either James or Christina
Isabella, the same
William, now confirmed as James Dakers' father.
The rest, connected family names likely.
There is this entry showing here for a marriage between a William Dakers (Dacres) to an Isobel Scott
https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XTVP-WY2Children showing for this couple include:
Alexander 1803
https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XYJZ-VXD - only father William is named so even lighter pencil...but more on him later.
David 1808
https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XYJC-NQKMaxwell 1810
https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XBH5-XSQYou look to have FindMyPast rather than A/try. On A/try, there is a family tree here
http://trees.ancestry.co.uk/tree/68981613/person/36194882518?ssrc= for son Alexander b. 1803. He married a Jane Low in 1825...in Ferryden...where your James and Catherine were living.
https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XTV3-MXW This Alexander looks to have died in 1860, living at the time of his death at George Street, Montrose. Again, your James, widower, lived in Montrose in his later years. Occupation Shore Porter and at the time he died, Inn Keeper.
Re Maxwell Dakers, not much on him except he seems to have married an Agnes Evan in 1834 Forfar. He looks to have died on 8 OCT 1886 in 12 New Road, Forfar, Angus. His children's names similar to all we are seeing.
Monica