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Thank you everyone who has posted responses here, it's a great thrill to resume researching on this Dildarg line after so many years. Rescobie, I have a strong suspicion you and I are researching the same line as I am also interested in the Menmuir/Lethnot & Navar area. Family lore passed down in family journals says the Stool name was originally Steel (I suspect from the Monifieth area in the late 1600s moving north to being definitely present in Lethnot and Navar in 1752 with the bp of my direct forebear James Stool. His parents were Peter/Patrick / Stool / Steel and Elizabeth Dildarg / Dundas). Having been through the PRs in the olden days I know there were Dildarg folk in L&N in the 1730s.
I'm more than happy to share any of my research findings if this is of interest. (The surrounding areas  were also Episcopalian + my Moirs were Anabaptists, just to make life easier! I have also extracted material from those registers found in the Uni of Dundee library many years ago).

Thanks Craclyn, no confusion, I should have clarified, Sarah Ann Somerset had married previously to a man called Mount, (can't kill him off though) so she married Charles Hukin as Sarah Mount. I have that certificate.

I am descended from Helen Lauder who married John Doig in 1799 in Clunie. This couple appear to have moved into Blairgowrie in 1810ish. No idea what happened to John, but he appears to be dead by 1841. Helen is still alive and living in Spalding Square with her widowed daughter and grandchildren. I believe she is the daughter of George Lauder, but not the George Lauder (tailor) who married Elizabeth Clerk in Little Dunkeld.

I've done a lot of work on the Lauders in the Little Dunkeld, Blairgowrie, Clunie, Caputh region over the last year or so prior to briefly visiting Perthshire in May this year.

For those of you interested in the George Lauder/Elizabeth Clerk line, I think I've cracked a little bit about your lot too... mainly because I have a dear friend who is descended from their supposed daughter Amelia (and I don't think she belongs to them at all... but that's for another post).

My Helen Lauder had at least four sisters, though probably by different mothers. These girls were:
- Christian b1771 Caputh
- (my Helen in here, no bp yet found)
- Janet b 1775 (died as a child/baby) Caputh
- Agnes b 1777 Caputh, died pre 1855 but had a son William Campbell (1811-1866)
- Janet b 1780 d 1858 Blairgowrie, but is buried in Clunie. Unmarried. Informant was William Campbell, who states her parents were George Lauder and Christian Inches.

Amelia Lauder as mentioned above married John Scrimgeour. No idea what happened to her either, but I do know the widowed John Scrimgeour and daughter were living in the same house as my widowed Helen Lauder and her children and grandchildren on both the 1841 and 1851 census. The house was Spalding Square, Blairgowrie, which my friend and I believe is now 16 Perth Street. Can anyone confirm this? I'm having trouble doing so through the usual property records such as Post Office Directories and Valuation Rolls.

Anyway, we can't yet prove there is a connection between the two George Lauder families in this area, but are convinced there is one. Certainly Amelia Lauder's family and my Helen's family definitely knew each other not only in Blairgowrie, but also lived in Cothill Cottage near Forneth at about the same time as well.

I would love to hear from anyone else researching these two families.

I'm interested in making contact with anyone descended from two children born to William DUKE and Isobel BLACK, who married in Stracathro in 1779. William appears to have died a few years later and Isobel married Archibald Moir in Stracathro in 1786.

Ann DUKE, born Logie Pert in 1782 had an illegitimate child, William Mathers circa 1816. He married Helen Dakers in Brechin in 1839 and they had at least one child, Margaret.

Alexander DUKE born 1785 in Logie Pert married Margaret GLINDAY in Brechin in 1815 and was a sawyer in Brechin. They had 8 children in Brechin. Alexander died in Brechin aged 91 in 1876.

Their mother Isobel BLACK may have died in Brechin in 1821.

Hi, is anyone descended from the following woman?

Henrietta WARD born circa 1867 and married:
1. James WALKER 1889 and had a child Esther in 1890 before he died in 1893.
2. Henry CEELY 1895 and had children Harry (1897), Charles (1898) and Eva (1900) before he died.
3. Charles Francis SPEERS 1907. No children to my knowledge.

She was last seen in 1911 at 2 Swinburne Place Newcastle. I believe she died in Newcastle in 1937.

Eva may have married Arthur GAIR in 1922 and had a child John.

Anna