Hi Betsyblue. Thanks for your information, and sorry not got back to you sooner. I have looked into Samuel and I don't think he is related. I've got an extract from a book on the imagination of Irish to new lanark. It tell of my family coming over in 1912, and how my great uncle who was already working in Greenock with the Greenock rope works company (I think that Co name). Thanks again, any information is always useful. James