I am just trying to build a family tree that makes more sense than the one Aunty Peggy came up with (which reminded me more of Spaghetti Junction making even less sense than usual).

My father is David Bickell and I know that my family are linked with the Stark family in Dunfermline (Charlestown area) from around 1873.

We all live in Devon these days, odd as so many messages seem to link us with exactly the same part of the country originally!

If anyone can help or just wants to make contact, I would love to hear from you...

This info all taken from my family Bible, 1874)

Mary Meldrum - born 17th January 1850 - married to Charles Stark (born 29/12/1850) on October 17th 1873.

BIRTHS
Mary Stark born 09/08/1874 (Charlestown, Dunfermline)
Agnes Stark born 27/11/1875 (Charlestown, Dunfermline)
Isabella Stark born 26/12/1877 (Castleton, Borthwick, Midlothian)
Alexander Stark born 02/02/1880 (Temple, Midlothian)
William Stark born 31/05/1882 (Castleton)
Charles Stark born 22/08/1884 (Hillock, Dunfermline)
Robert Stark born 07/03/1887 (Hillock Dunfermline)
James Stark born 28/05/1891(hillock Dunfermline)

MARRIAGES

Mary Stark married David Young 16/06/1899
by Rev JG Crawford, Limekilns

Agnes Stark married Robert Turner 17/02/1911
in South Africa

Robert Stark married Martha Mitchell 18/06/1913
by Rev JE Henderson, Limekilns

Charles Stark married Mary Clacker 10/09/1915
by Rev W Gordon-Hettle, Ladybank

William Stark married Alice Simpson 08/04/1921
by Rev J MacBride-Brown at Limekilns (Queens Hall, Charlestown)

James Stark married Helen Cant 31/12/1921
by Rev RW Reid, Sandylands, Limekilns, Dunfermline

DEATHS

Mary Meldrum 11/03/1924
Charles Stark 17/03/1925
James Stark (killed in motor vehicle accident returning from work) 11/04/1927
Agnes Stark 06/01/1932
William Stark 02/05/1937
Isabelle Stark 27/02/1949
Alexander Stark 20/03/1959
Charles Stark 20/03/1964
Mary Stark 20/12/1964
Robert Stark18/04/1974
Mary Meldrum Bickell (2nd daughter of Robert Stark and Martha Mitchell) 20/08/1964
Nancy Mitchell Paterson (3rd daughter of Robert Stark and Martha Mitchell, married to Joseph Paterson) 04/07/1990

Hope this is possibly of some use....

Mary Meldrum Bickell was my paternal grandmother and died when my father, David Bickell, was 16 or so.