Bit stuck now as cant find marriage James to Margaret Baird on sp.
Got all their children and daughter Elizabeth's death 1858 confirms their names. She's my line.
Diddy
My Monteaths are the family on the Ryeland tree that Annie posted (#3). I'm still unpicking them but it looks as if my 5x g grandparents are John Monteath and Christian (E)adie and I descend from two of their sons:
1. John Monteath b 1766 m Mary McLaurin > Christian Monteath b 1794 m William Cairns > William Cairns b 1831 m Helen Monteath b 1835 > Agnes Isabella Cairns b 1866 d 1959, my great grandmother, remembered by my older brothers.
2. Henry Monteath b 1769 m Janet Sharp > Alexander Monteath b 1801 m Agnes Anderson > Isabella Monteath b 1830 [sister of Helen Monteath above] m James Kirk > John Kirk b 1856 d 1899, my great grandfather, who married Agnes Isabella Cairns above.
So a lot of intermarriage to get my head round! Agnes and John, my g grandparents, were noted as 'Cousins German' - first cousins - on their marriage certificate.
I'm not sure how/if you fit in. I've not seen a link yet but that doesn't mean there isn't one. My Monteaths were Perthshire farmers - my brother still has one of the farms they married into, in Glendevon - and land records and wills will be useful when I get to them.
Ann