My research started when my father-inlaw, John, asked whether I could confirm where his father and grandfather were born. John was born near Pettigo, on the border in Ireland. He had been told that his father, Arthur, was born in Paisley, but brought up in Ireland and that his grandfather, Dan, had been born in Ireland.
My starting point
I found Arthur’s birth record on ScotlandsPeople and he was born in Paisley. As this was a Scottish birth record, it not only gave me the name of both parents, but also the
