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I can't suggest why the two families were so friendly -

They didn't live in the same streets, or share occupations.
Even their fathers didn't share occupations - tailor, hammerman, gardener, and cabinet-maker.

In 1861, John and Elizabeth were both living in Fountain Close, High Street.
Henry was in East Crosscauseway, and Margaret in Wharton Lane, which I expect was where Wharton Square is now.
They're all within about half a mile of each other - but several streets apart.

Hopefully Brian will come back soon and answer the question regarding a dna test.

Thanks to all who have responded so far.
I have not had a DNA test as has been asked.
To clear things up a bit I add the following.
The McPeak side is in my own tree and has been extensively researched through census and Scottish People with many records saved. I can go back to Bernard McPeak 1805 -his wife Elizabeth Duncan and her parents . I can follow Bernard's children etc forward mostly to 1901 census. The brother Charles who married an Elizabeth Simpson - I have got her parents etc as well.
I was contacted by a fellow genes member who is connected in her tree to Margaret T Simpson 1887 (who Bernard McPeak adopted ) and we are trying to find out if the two trees are connected.
I put the question on the boards in the hope that someone might come up with an answer. There is the somewhat vain hope that the answer is staring us in the face but we are not seeing it.!!!
Again thanks to everyone who has replied so far.

Brian

Odds are that there is NO link other than lasting friendship, and the adoption of the motherless child

I should add that I have full access to the other persons tree and they regularly update me with information
Brian

Thank you for coming back about the dna. Maybe it is now worth giving it a go. Ancestry have a sale on at the moment. It may not prove anything - but you never know.

I don't really know anything about DNA tests, but I expect it would help if the "fellow genes member who is connected in her tree to Margaret T Simpson 1887 " had also done one.


Margaret is in the GR trees of at least two women - Ann and Elizabeth. Are you in contact with both of them, Brian?

She's also in 5 trees on Ancestry - listed as McPeak or McPeake
One gives her parents as Henry and Margaret, four say John and Elizabeth.

As always with trees, varying amounts of research have been done, with varying accuracy.

MCPEAK
CHARLES
SIMPSON
ELIZA
1864
677 / 8
COLINTON.

MCPEAK
HENRY
TURNBULL
MARGARET
1862
685 / 4 / 29
ST GILES.

SP marriages.

Related thread started by Ann yesterday, though concentrating on Margaret's son-in-law Herbert Hitchcock.:

https://www.genesreunited.co.uk/boards/board/living_relatives/thread/1401874

That explains why FMP alerted me to having previously accessed the Hitchcock records...................