Not sure where to start with Scottish research

[BlueSavannah]

Hi,

I am currently re-looking at my great x 4 grandfather David Adams and would like some advice on where to start.

Here is what I know of him. He is born circa 1776. He gave his birth place as Glasgow on the 1851 census. He just said Scotland on the 61 census.

He married Elizabeth Cole at Gretna Green on the 21st September 1820. I couldn't be sure what the parish name was that was given for him. I did once have a thread a few years ago asking for peoples' opinions on that and the best we could come up with was Busing but it didn't appear to exist anywhere. http://www.genealogistsforum.co.uk/f...ht=david+adams

I have wondered a few times if Elizabeth was his first wife or not. He would have been about 44 when he married her.

David & Elizabeth had 6 children together in various places in England. The last being Nathan Adams who was born in West Bromwich in 1834. At some point between this birth and 1840, Elizabeth dies. Not a clue where though.

David remarries on the 8th November 1840 in Liverpool to Frances Stevenson. It is on this marriage that he gives his father's name as David Adams, Hairdresser.

David & Frances along with a couple of his children are still in Liverpool in 1841 and they are in Everton in 1851. By 1861, he is living in Shoreditch, London. His age on the 61 census is 86. His occupation on anything I can find of him is always Shoe Maker.

I believe he died in 1867 in Shoreditch but have not yet bought the death cert or have found a burial for him.

I am really hoping to try and start to search for his birth and whether or not there were any wives before Elizabeth.

Would anyone be able to help with any pointers?

Many thanks