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Thank you all for your help.

I had tried the free sites I was aware of esp Ellis Island Foundation and FS - and had tried the various spellings of Drynan I'd previously encountered like Drennan, Drinnan etc to no avail.

The manifest lists John as a 66 year old - clearly he had forgotten he was actually 70. 

Thank you oldohiohome for the PM with the additional background information.

Kind regards, M.

What a cornucopia of information and sources you have found for me! Thank you all very much.

I am off to my library now to look at the FindMyPast Army record.

I have just found a copy of Voyage and Journey of the 2nd Batt. Scots Fusilier Guards: from Southampton to Montreal, during the winter of 1861-2 written by a soldier of the regiment on Archive.org - so a day of fascinating reading ahead.

Thanks again. Michael.

Can anyone pinpoint please the couples' movements in mid 1860s especially the marriage date and location of Andrew born Scotland and May born Canada ?

1880 census and FreeBMD show a daughter Mary May born 1865 in London, but 1880 census and many Ancestry trees suggest a daughter Ellen born c1860 Pennsylvania - though 1861 Canadian census shows single May Finlayson living in birthplace Châteauguay.

Have found much about them and their issue subsequent to marriage in censuses etc as well as newspaper articles about his eventual suicide and her inheritance of brother's fortune but their marriage date and location have eluded me.

Michael.

Thank you so much for that information. Hopefully I will be able to find the lair when I visit later in the year. 

Helen's husband Andrew eventually joined the 3 of their sons who emigrated to Sewickley, Allegheny, Pennsylvania, USA where he died in 1881.

Thanks again. M.

brigidmac

Perhaps we'll never learn who Jane Armour's mother was - unless another Armour Family Bible turns up!

Seems to me though she was more likely born in Ayrshire rather than Larnarkshire. Have you a record of her death?

M.