Is anyone out there descended from a Thomas SHIELS or SHIELD/S (etc.), born in Scotland between about 1829 and 1836? We have been trying to find the origins of our Thomas for years (he was born about 1833, came to Aus in the 1850s, died in 1910) but he has been very hard to pin down.

We recently made up a list of all the Toms we could find in Scots OPR births and baptisms, and any of the right age in the1841 and 1851 censuses. We have eliminated about 3/4 of them by finding them in later censuses or finding their deaths. There are still a few who are eluding us, one of whom we hope will turn out to be our Tom, but we need to cross the others off the list before we can be sure.

So does anyone have an ancestor of this name (in any variation) who might have emigrated to Canada, the USA or anywhere else, from Scotland? We also have quite a collection of death certs for men who fit this description but died in Scotland, if anyone would like details.

Thanks,
Loretta