I had births of several children of Henry Mushet and Janet Diniveen in Kilmarnock, 1744-50, and one child of a Henry Mushet in Ochiltree in 1735. Well, I took the plunge and coughed up a bit more money to SP and found that the father of the Ochiltree child, Janet, was servitor to Mr Cochrane. A bit of investigation revealed 'Mr Cochrane' as the son of William Cochrane of Ochiltree who'd married the daughter of the Earl of Kincardine...
But I persevered with Henry and Janet, and found a marriage, not in Ayrshire but in Perth, in Logie: Henry Muschet and Janet Denivan. Not, alas, informative, as many of the parochial records of this time aren't. But it pushed me eastward. Finally I found a record for the birth of a Henry - in Tulliallan. At this point, things started to make sense.
If Henry Muschet, who was born in Tulliallan, went into service in the Kincardine household... and at some point became a servant of the earl's grandson, and moved to Ayrshire, to Ochiltree... I still haven't fitted Logie into this, other than in a very suppositional way.
Any help? And anybody have access to any service records? But, oh the things that we can get from those OPRs!
Jenny