As William was baptised at Loth on 10th Jun 1828, he must have been born on or before that date. He is the son of Donald Gunn and Mary McPherson.
Sources
Information taken from entries in the Old Parochial Registers in Scotland (1553-1854) for the Counties of Caithness, Sutherland, Ross-shire, Cromarty, Inverness, Nairn and Moray.
Assorted transcriptions of graveyard and burial records, held by John M Sutherland-Fisher published by the Scottish Genealogy Society, the Highland Family History Society and the Aberdeen and N.E. Scotland Family History Society.
Registers of Births, Deaths and Marriages (1855-to date) administered by the Registrar General for Scotland and available on the Scotland’s People website.
Extracts of wills of family members, private papers and family correspondence in the collection of John M Sutherland-Fisher
Libindex administered by Moray Council
Memorabilia Domestica by the Rev. Donald Sage, Minister of Resolis, Ross-shire (step-son of Jean Sutherland of Midgarty)
Caithness Family History by John Henderson first published in 1882
"Notes of My Family History" written by the Rev. George Sutherland in 1903, revised 1909
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DNA Connections
It may be possible to confirm family relationships with William by comparing test results with other carriers of his ancestors' Y-chromosome or mitochondrial DNA.
However, there are no known yDNA or mtDNA test-takers in his direct paternal or maternal line.
It is likely that these autosomal DNA test-takers will share some percentage of DNA with William: