Searching for leads to my maternal line in Maybole, Crosshill, Kirkmichael, Kirkoswald, Irvine and Dundonald.
If you have people by these names, also Houston and Bell please contact me by private email. They were all either weavers or shoemakers.
McGiffen came from Johnstown, Renfrew. McCartney became an insurance agent in Irvine. He and the others seem to be "returns" from a generation or two in exile in Ireland.
Hope someone out there can help! Will trade information.
Dot Stutter