Thanks Ev
I have taken all of this out of a book - names were given but no dates - thanks to you I now have a time frame on which to work back from
We are supposed to be from the Alister Shaw line as follows
Alister 1st married a Murry of Finzean - 2nd marriage to a Shaw of Dalnavert and had 3 son's Duncan, William and Donald - not dates given
Then just for the fun of it there is just a commor, then it goes straight into Farqua Shaw married a Shaw daughter of John Shaw - they had a son Duncan who went on to have the James who died without issue and the Alexander who went on to have William of Minmore and John the priest of Rathanglen
We now know thanks to you that John was born in 1820 and his parents are Alexander Shaw and Elspet Gordon
This is far to head for the time I am looking at . . .
My actually problem is a William Shaw who married in 1795, to a Ephy(Euphemia)Grant in Tomintoul - their 1st son Donald - I cannot find Williams Shaw's parents
So we are now back to the bit where the Farqur Shaw jumped in and took me down the wrong line with the correspondent giving the information that Alexander Shaw and the now known wife Elspet Gordon had more that just William of Minmore and John the priest born 1820 in Rathenglen as I also found a Duncan born 1824 and a Alexander born 1826 but I hasten to add not the William birth date unknown or john the priest born 1920 by same parents - confused to say the least
It is Alister Shaw 1st marriage a Murry from Finzean - 2nd wife a Shaw from Dalnavert and their 3 son's Duncan, William and Donald and yet again no time frame given that I am looking for - who the correspondent in the book say's that William of Milltown of Inveruorie as spelt in the book and Alexander Shaw born 1802 of Delachule in Tomintoul who is the of son of William and Ephy Grant of Delachule who married in 1795 are of the Alister Shaw line
So just who is William of Milltown - Inverourie - is it Alexander's son William born 1839 or Alexander's father born

? as people are mentioned as to the tack they hold at that time and not always their place of their birth or is William Shaw someone else completely different - other than to say the correspondent in the book say's they are both from the same line from this Alister
There is no point in looking at one home base with this lot as there is a lot of movement with this family of Shaw's and all of it is not helped by inter liked marriages and such forth
We have Rothiemuscas then Tardorroch - Dalnavert - Tulleghue - Inchrory - Braemar - Crathie - Cathinard - you name it they been there - it is enough to drive you up the wall . . .
I am just so close to sorting it all out but only if the correspondent has got it right in the first place
Reading the history of the Shaw's is like reading the Gospels out of the bible - with everyone and every Clan giving a different account of the same story - like just how many virgin Mary's are there - yet it appears every religion has got one . . .
Kind regards - Indiana x x x