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Hello.  I realise that this post was several years ago, and, as such, there is every possibility you no longer use Rootschat, but I felt that it was worth mentioning that it seems you are/were researching a family related to my own as we have several surnames in common.

William Pirie, born circa 1854 in Banffshire, Scotland, son of William Pirie and Jane Nicholson, married Jane McKie Waugh (1866-1905)in Troqueer parish, Kirkudbrightshire (now part of Dumfries) in 1898.  I am not sure what made him travel such a large distance from home.  They had at least two children that I know of, Agnes Pirie and John Waugh Pirie, both born in the 1890s.  Jane McKie Waugh was William's third wife.  His first two were Jane Stewart and Grace McTear.  I believe all three wives predeceased him.

Jane was the daughter of John Waugh (1834-1868) and his second wife, Agnes McKie (1840-1905).  Jane's older half brother, also called John Waugh (1857-1920) married Maggie Bell (1862-1944) in 1881.  This couple were my great grandparents. Maggie's mother's maiden name was Jane Findlay, so it seems we have a number of connections, although I don't have your Elsie (at least not with any connection yet found).   

I can only hope that, even after all these years, that this update can get to you.

I am trying to connect various members of the Heard family from Cornwall (UK) with their descendants, and possibly also ancestors in the USA.

I know for a fact that some members of the Heard family emigrated from Cornwall in the late 1800s and early 1900s, arriving in New York and settling in South Dakota and Montana.  For example, Frederick John Heard travelled in 1902, arriving in Ellis Island, New York before going onto South Dakota.  He travelled with his cousin Thomas Danning and they were both to meet Frederick's brother, who was already in the US.  I believe this brother was Stephen James Heard, who emigrated in 1899, although it seems he later returned to Cornwall.  Others from that family who emigrated to Montana around this time include Alfred George and Albert Richard Heard.  It is certain that the descendants of these first Heards remained in the USA for at least several generations, most likely to date.  What I am wondering is who the first were and how early the first Cornish Heards arrived in the US. 

I found someone's family tree which listed Mary Jane Danning (born Heard in 1840 in Cornwall), mother of Thomas Danning and aunt of Frederick Heard, mentioned above, as a daughter of Senator Thomas Jefferson Heard of Georgia and granddaughter of Governor Stephen Heard.  I am certain this is incorrect, as Mary's father and grandfather were both named Jacob, and also because Thomas Jefferson's Heard's other children were all born in Georgia, but I do wonder if there is any connection, such as a common ancestry or any other family link, between the Heards of Montana/South Dakota and those of Georgia/Virginia.  I do recognise that these are far apart geographically but, as they had already travelled across an ocean, it is not inconceivable.  Do any of you have any data that might help me connect these two family branches, if indeed any such link even exists.

My father Robert Waugh (1928-1988) and his older brothers William (1921-2019) and Alexander (1925-1997) were all "farmed out" to live with the Fraser family on a croft in Kiltarlity sometime after the death of my grandmother in early 1929.  I know that they attended the local school (I think Tomnacross is the name) which I visited in 1997 and the head showed me a record book with my father's name but this was long before smartphones so I have no proof of this.  I know almost nothing about my father's childhood, other than that he attended the wedding of a Hugh Fraser.  I met someone named Mary Fraser on that 1997 visit and she let me have a copy of a photo, which I believe to be of that wedding, but it was unfortunately lost during a later house move.  I know that my father returned to his birthplace of Glasgow some time after the death of his father in 1942 but I believe he did make at least one return trip to Kiltarlity thereafter.  His older brothers ended up living in England.  It is highly unlikely that anyone who remembers my father in Kiltarlity is still alive now, but I wonder if there is any way to access his school entry records online.  Census data from the 1930s is not yet available. Does anyone know of an online repository for such info from that school? 

OK I have reviewed the data from the two links on FindMyPast (signed up for a 7 day free trial, which I will have to remember to cancel so that I don't get hit with a £200 cost, as I already have a paid MyHeritage subscription).

These links show a single man, born in Liskeard, with a birth, given stated age on the two differently dated documents of around Sep/Oct 1871.  Not sure if this is the right one, who married Emmeline/Emma in 1898, but still looking and going back to the earlier screenshots. 

Thank you for the help so far.

I realise you posted this question many years ago, but I have several John Waughs in my family tree, with two living in Glasgow during the time period you question.  My grandfather John Waugh was born in Maxwelltown (at that point part of Troqueer Parish in Kirkudbrightshire but these days part of Dumfries).  He moved to Glasgow some time around the turn of the 20th century and married his first wife, Sarah Loudon in 1904 and they had two children, John (born circa 1908 and Charles born 1916).  John and Sarah later divorced and John remarried to Catherine Carmichael.  They want on to have three more children, one of whom is my own father.  I have very little information on these two John Waughs in Glasgow, but can tell you that the elder one died in 1942.  I hope that, after all these years, this information still has some value to you.