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Ah! apparently it's outside of Ayr and is now called Peggieshill.

Thanks all who helped!

Help!

John Gibson and Susan Sharp married in Dundonald in April 1851.  I find them both separately in the 1851 census.

Susan is in Fullerton, parish of Dundonald a lodger with a Black family.  She's either 24 or 26, the age is hard to read.  John's in Dundonald, address Barassie age 24. His father was William Gibson a retired farmer age 61 with 270 acres.

 I can't find hide nor hair of John or Susan in 1861!  With that kind of land would they have moved away?  John had a brother William age 17 in 1851 and he doesn't seem to be in Dundonald in 1861 either.

I don't find John and Susan in the US 1860 census.  So where did they go? 

We don't know where Lermouth came from.  It's a pretty rare name as far as I can tell but I have yet to find any Sharp/Lermouth marriages.

I am trying to figure out where my William Sharp b.1792-1796 is from.  He's married in Irvine, Ayrshire in 1820 to Janet Banks.  They have several children in Irvine baptised in the Burgher Church (so not in the PRs).  He marries again in 1829 in Irvine to Catherine Glen.  They have 3 more children born Irvine, Kilmarnock and Kilmaurs (these do show up in the PRs). 

In the 1841 they are in Galston, Ayrshire.  In the 1841 census he says he is born out of county.  So how do I figure out where he's from?  I think he's dead by 1851- at least I can't find him in Ayrshire or in Lanarkshire (where his son Joseph is in 1851).  In the 1841 census he's listed as a collier.  When son Joseph get married he says that his father was a grocer. 

His children's names aren't much help.  They are: John Lermouth, Jean, Charles, Susan, Margaret, William Glen,  Joseph and James.


Any hints on how to find his birth place or even birth county? 

Thanks!