About a year ago I posted my last enquiry under the same title. Since then I have been lucky enough to come by some further iformation on my family. I discovered some missed pages in a family bible that gave that (in about 1707) an Archibald Gall married an Agnes Kemble. They had four of a family who were -
1)William Gall, b.1709,who married an unknown Janet. No further details were given.
2)John Gall, b.1711, my direct ancestor, m. Agnes Whyte in 1737
3)Adam Gall, b.1715. No information given.
4)Archibald Gall, b.1720. who married and had family though no wife's name was given.

I am wondering if 4)Arhibald's wife could have been Janet Dick, as some of the names given in the family bible correspond to names I have found in the records.
Records have given me the following:
Archibald bapt.1754
John bapt.1757
Elizabeth 1759
Agnes 1, 1761
Agnes 2, 1762
Grizel, 1765
an unnamed daughter, 1766
Mary, 1769
Jean, 1771
James 1774
William, 1777.

The family bible only gives me Archibald, Elizabeth, Jean and William, but they are in the same order as in the records, and also gives Archibald and Robert as William's sons, where the records have them as the first two of William's family. More family followed and William remarried after his first wife died, and had several more children.

If Archibald who married Janet Dick is the brother of my John, then I have solved the puzzle of who my ggg gf was visiting in about 1850 at Crawfordjohn (see my last post) - William was his cousin. However it doesn't solve the problem of the relationship to the family of a George Gall (m.Kathren Greenshields?). Two of their grandsons were to be found at Crawfordjohn Mill in 1881 which is where the above William died in 1852. I had hoped George was another brother of my ancestor 2)John!

I wonder if anyone can unravel this jigsaw, and if so, are there any descendants of these families reading this? I have some info from gravestones at Crawfordjohn, and I have had contact with a couple of folk, namely Sally Cutler and Jennifer Gall who are descendants of Archibald who m. Janet Dick. Another thing! Because of the common naming pattern tradition, I had guessed that parents of Archibald were likely to be Archibald and Agnes, which also ties them in to my family. (I don't know if Janet's parents were John and Elizabeth. They should be! I'll see if there is a record of them).
You may like to read my other post too if this one seems confusing! I just so want to sort this out!

I'd also like to find out about 3)Adam's family as there is also in the OPRs a family descended from an Adam Gall in the same parish who could be connected!

I think I must do some more digging!
Hoping to hear from someone re these families of mine! Can I just ask that if you are not looking for these particular Galls of Crawfordjohn, Lanarkshire,you start a new thread instead of answering this one. You'll have more chance of getting the right people reading and hopefully answering.
All the best
Eveeanne aka Evelyn Inglis