Thomas McCreath and Janet Raeside were my great-great-great grandparents. They were married at Kirkmichael in 1803. Baptisms of their children reveal that Thomas McCreath was a stone mason, first in Ayr (1808-1813) and later in Kirkmichael (1815-1819). According to the 1851 Census, the youngest children were born in Kilmarnock indicating a move there in 1819. In…