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Hi Lyn,

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You are most welcome!? I am glad you are here.? I enjoyed reading your family story and hope others of you will join in with yours.

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Best wishes,

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Jim

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Thank you Jim and Diane for inviting me to join the group. I would like to tell you about my husband's 2Xgreat grandfather, Alexander McGregor. Alexander and Agnes Aitken had 5 children in Sydney, Australia between 1865 and1871. Details given on the birth certificate of first child Agnes, stated that they married 1863 in Campbell Town, New South Wales. Alexander's middle name was Campbell, age 33, born Perth, Scotland. I could find no marriage or evidence of a likely birth c1832 in Perth but there was a baptism in Gorbals, Lanarkshire in 1825, son of Alexander McGregor and Elizabeth Campbell. Another son, William Campbell McGregor, emigrated to Utah and I have verified the relationship through DNA matches with several of his many descendents there. I suspect that Alexander was unable to marry Agnes due to a previous marriage and have found a possible candidate. Alexander McGregor and Mary Lees married in 1851 in Old Monkland, Lanarkshire and had 4 children 1856-1862. In the 1861 census, Alexander, and Engine Grinder, is with his family in Glasgow but when his daughter died in 1867, Mary's father was the informant and in 1871 Mary is recorded as married but Head of the Family. There is no further trace of Mary's husband in Scotland. I think he left the family around 1862/3 and emigrated to Australia. Several Australian documents show Alexander as having similar occupations, Grinder and Engine Finisher. I hope to eventually find DNA matches with descendents of Alexander and Mary Lees to prove that these two Alexanders are the same person though will probably never know what prompted his actions.