Hi, thank you to Francis and Col for replying to my message back in October. We did share some emails but I'm afraid I rather lost touch with the trail (I recently had a baby and have my hands full). But I am very grateful for your help.

It appears that I was wrong. Although my family are now Catholic this was due to a conversion later in our history (I think samuel's grandson converted for a girl) So I do now see that Samuel and Margaret were most likely protestant.

But one of the records suggested they were both born in Ireland. Would this suggest what is now Northern Ireland? Does the trail run cold here. Ho would I find Samuel Stuart's Father?

Isabelle