Hi Smoo,
Thank you for checking in! I will double back to see if any of your names connect in to my tree. Have you seen the Cheyne family site?
http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~cheyne/I don't see any connection to Bains in that site. A year or so I identified which of the daughters came to Canada - one married a Bain - but it hasn't been updated.
The Pirie family history site crosses over with the Cheyne site. They include my information, but I don't see any other Bain connection to the Cheyne family name there either.
http://myweb.tiscali.co.uk/pirie/history/PFWv1-o/index.htmYesterday, a Chatter, ev, sent me something interesting: Frederick Bain/Mary Ann Cheyne marriage 1937 Aberdeen Aberdeen City. I've not found a fit in my tree (yet

).
The Cheynes & Bains in my direct line were well settled in Canada by that time, having come in 1909.
Now on to a question I hope you ca help with given all your Bain & Cheyne connections. This is my branch:
Frederick Charles Malcolm Bain (so Robert Bain & Ann Henderson)
Birth 26 May 1889 in Peterculter, Aberdeenshire
Death 26 Aug 1944 in Moosomin, Saskatchewan, Canada
married (in Canada)
Mary Helen Cheyne, of Balnamoon Farm, New Pitsligo (do Helen Cheyne, who was do John Cheyne & Helen Ironside)
Birth 19 Sep 1886 in Peterhead, Aberdeenshire, Scotland
Death 11 Dec 1967 in Moosomin, Saskatchewan, Canada
Do any of these people show up in your tree?
I also wonder, being so far apart, how Fred & Mary Helen would have met? I see, from the WWI memorial in New Pitsligo, that there were Bains there. Could they have been related to Frederick's father, Robert Bain (abt 1858- Feb 1913) who was from Foveran before moving to Crommie Cottage at Kingswell?
Do any of these names / pieces ring a bell Smoo? Thanks in advance for any insight you can provide.
Cheers,