From 1575 until 1901 the Harley family in Scotland remained entirely within the confines of the green rectangle, apart from a few isolated "strays" such as Alexander Harley born to Joseph Harley and an unnamed mother in 1750, a marriage between Robert Harley and Isobel Bain in 1752, both in Wick, nine children born to James Harley and another unnamed mother in Dumfries between 1737 and 1749, and a marriage between George Harley and Mary Lyon in 1759 in Banff. Since these three "outposts" are all coastal, it does lead to the conjecture that these Harley men, or their ancestors, reached these ports by sea.