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I am trying to find information about James Anderson who emigrated to the US from Scotland late 1700@s. He was born April 1744 in Dunlop, Scotland and Died in Johnston, Iowa in 1814.

Are you looking for his Scottish family or his time in the US?

for ref

Name: James Anderson
Gender: Male
Birth Date: 27 Apr 1744
Baptism Date: 29 Apr 1744
Baptism Place: , Dunlop, Ayr, Scotland
Father:
James Anderson
Mother:
Mary Mureer: 1041341

Name
James Anderson
Gender
Male
Marriage Date
29 Oct 1763
Marriage Place
Dunlop,Ayr,Scotland
Spouse
Margrat Stivenson
FHL Film Number
1041341
Reference ID: 2:16CVDS6

Name: James Anderson
Probate Place: Tama, Iowa, USA
Inferred Death Place: Iowa, USA
Item Description: Will Records, Vol 1-3, 1854-1895

nothing to tie the two together

son
Name: Robert Anderson
Gender: Male
Birth Date: 01 Oct 1768
Baptism Date: 02 Oct 1768
Baptism Place: , Dunlop, Ayr, Scotland
Father:
James Anderson
Mother:
Margaret Stevinson
FHL Film Number: 1041341
Reference ID: 2:16CVS3W

Name: Robert Anderson
Gender: Male
Marriage Date: 14 May 1799
Marriage Place: Dunlop,Ayr,Scotland
Spouse:
Mary Robertson
FHL Film Number: 1041341

Welcome to the boards, Chrystine.


Baptism again - from Scotlands People:

ANDERSON
JAMES
JAMES ANDERSON/MARY MURE FR88 (FR88)
M
29/04/1744
591/10 155
Dunlop


Maddie posted a possible marriage in 1763.

Here are another couple of possibilities:

ANDERSON
JAMES
ELIZABETH WYLLIE/FR455 (FR455)
11/12/1789
591/20 182
Dunlop

ANDERSON
JAMES
MARGARET KING/FR445 (FR445)
26/08/1786
591/20 172
Dunlop


But of course, IF he married in Scotland, his bride may not have belonged to Dunlop. There are lots of Ayrshire marriages for men named James Anderson - a very common name.

Possibly James 1744's parents' marriage - but both are very common names:

ANDERSON
JAMES
MARY MUIRE/FR140 (FR140)
22/11/1733
616/
10 250
Stewarton

Why do you think the man who died in Iowa is the one born in Dunlop?

A tree on Ancestry claims that he is, and that he's the man who married Margaret Stevenson - but provides no proof to link the death to the Scottish records..

(Tree owner: Krystle Calderwood).

You can't ever assume that what someone has put on their tree is correct, unless they also provide documentary proof, or unless you find proof yourself.
Many tree owners just copy from each other, without checking anything, and often what they've copied is completely wrong..

According to the tree, he died in Wright, Iowa - or Iowa city, depending on which page of the tree you look at..

It also says (without proof) that they had a son James, who was born in Virginia in 1784, and died in Indiana in 1859.

It says they had a daughter Frances (as well as several other children) , who was born in Dunlop in 1776. There's no such baptism on SP, though there is a death in Dunlop in 1860 for a Fanny Anderson (or Cunningham), mmn Stevenson, which the tree owner claims is her.
A Frances Anderson did marry a James Cunningham in Dunlop in 1803 - according to a FS record (but no record on SP) but there's no proof that she was James Anderson's daughter.

She's in Dunlop in 1851, with her husband, daughter, and two grand-children.