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For Margaret Nairn, I have:

1756: Margaret Nairn, born April 22nd to Andrew Nairn (weaver) & Elspeth McQuare, Scotstarvit, Ceres, Fife.

It's frustrating not to be able to follow back from John, though.

There were always rumours in my own family that some McKenzies went to Canada, but I've never been able to confirm it.

Interesting that another branch of the family ended up in Perth, Aus, since my uncle's family is there too! Are there still descendents living there?

So nobody's been able to push back beyond 1789 to find out anything about the first John McK's parentage?

That's interesting detective work, Sancti! I've been looking for Mary Hamilton in the 1841 census without luck so far.

I do know that son William was with Mary's parents in 1841, at Benthead Farm in Carnwath. Although, strangely, the age given is more suited to his brother George!

Spellings of Wardrope seem to vary widely, adding and dropping the e with gay abandon, and occasionally transmogrifying into Wardobe as well...

Thanks for both your contributions! The death info sounds relevant: I wonder if there will be a death cert from that period? I would really like to establish his parentage.

As for the 1816 John McK, there's the outside possibility that he's the son of the son of my first post's John McK, though I have no concrete evidence unfortunately. I know that John McK (1)'s son - another John McK! - married Margaret Garland in Ceres in 1815, so there's every possibility they had a son in 1816 and, following naming patterns, called him after the grandfather - otherwise the first son I have is William in 1825 (my direct decendent). Thanks again!

Thank you for the nice welcome, Monica! And also for the information, which confirms what I've heard - the only thing I don't know is how we can be sure that the two William Hamiltons - son of Thomas & Marion, and husband of Marion Meikle - are one and the same, although obviously evidence points that way. Is there anything concrete to prove that?
And thanks also for the 1851 census details, which I had scribbled on a piece of Register House notepaper and went astray a long time ago!
cheers, Stuart