Hi Gortonboy,nice to talk to you again.
Well, I started researching my Scottish family a few years ago through Scotlands people and through them found each generation back to James,William was not the relative I was looking for, I was more interested in his brother but I had the census records. Someone in America asked me about William so I started researching him. I have the marriage and death certs.. William died in Exeter on 1st January 1876. He is described as a private in the Hussars age 30 years and as I said both he and James died of diabetes.
I don't know if this is "my" William but the dates military connections and cause of death are leading me this way. I was also told that the child followed her mother to Canada,with her aunt-another Mary. [that fits] The connection I have in America,where Mary Ellen settled seem to think all this fits but I would like to prove it to myself.
