Rob Goff wrote:

Do you have any references to the Findlay/ Finlaw family of Glasgow in your research. I know that they were merchants there and held some later interests in the tobacco trade. I ask since it appears as though the Alexander born 1669 in Haddington, unless he leaves the town and another Alexander of the same age arrives, appears to have married a Beatrich Finlaw in 1696. There are only two birth records listed for Beatrix Finlaw/ Findlay in the IGI, one from Fife and the other from High Church, Glasgow. This particular Alexander's siblings, Patrick and Janet get married around the same time and have children recorded. However, either Beatrix and Alexander produced no children or moved out of scotland or to some parish where birth records are no longer availiable.

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