** For a Tain item, there were few newspapers at the time, but the Inverness Journal started in 1807. Try the "Am Baile" website's newspaper index at: > http://www.ambaile.org.uk/en/newspapers/index.jsp Gordon Johnson, Wick. On 18/03/2010 07:00, aberdeen-request@rootsweb.com wrote: > > > Today's Topics: > > 1. Sea Travel between Invergordon and Aberdeen (Sara Thomas) > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Message: 1 > Date: Wed, 17 Mar 2010 20:50:37 +0000 (GMT) > From: Sara Thomas<illtud.sant@yahoo.co.uk> > Subject: [ABERDEEN] Sea Travel between Invergordon and Aberdeen > To: Aberdeen@rootsweb.com > Message-ID:<529156.7886.qm@web26303.mail.ukl.yahoo.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 > > I have a letter dated 1834 from my great-great-grandfather in Ardcronie, Kincardine, Ross-shire?to one of his sons who has recently gone to King's College for the first time. The family has learnt he has arrived safely ---?"from the Newspaper". Father and son both travelled to?Invergordon, presumably on the mail coach, but they parted there. The fact that there is a newspaper announcement makes me think the son continued to?Aberdeen by boat rather than the mail coach. I see in Pigot's Directory for 1825 (at least)?that a ship called the Eliza travelled from Aberdeen to Inverness, Cromarty and Burghead "occasionally" (p.181), and that a ship?went from Invergordon to Cromarty?"occasionally" (p.640). Is this likely to be the same boat??The Eliza?appears to take both goods and passengers. Any details such as length of journey and conditions of travel gratefully received. Also, would the newspaper in which boat arrivals?were announced be the > Aberdeen Chronicle, or the Aberdeen Journal, or?somewhere else? It would have to be a paper which circulated in north-east Ross-shire, specifically Tain. > Sara??