Q My great grandfather, James Duffus, was born in about 1837. He was a carpenter, and family lore has it that his father was provost of the burgh of Cullen, Banffshire.
The 1851 census shows James as a scholar in Deskford Street, Cullen, the nephew of John Duffus, house carpenter, and Christina his wife. In 1841, James, aged four, is at