Hello Linda, Sandra and all interested: As you requested, I am posting this to the list. You folks have just made my day. I keep retrieving my messages hoping to hear again from someone. I don't even know where to start as I could fill pages with the descendants. In North Uist they did not keep track of deaths so there is a part I cannot match-up but I do know I have the right people and I will only give you the part I HAVE verified. It is all documented. John Arbuckle left Ecclesmachen, West Lothian in 1764 to go to North Uist and build the church. He was a carpenter contractor. I have wonderful pictures of the ruins of the church (roof missing). You will never know the feeling in my stomach to stand inside the church. John married Mary MacAulay in about 1773 and they had 1 son William Arbuckle in 1774. William went to Aberdeen University and become a teacher and also a Reverend. On August 18, 1797, William married Flora MacLeod, daughter of Dr. Murdock MacLeod (of Rigg) and Mary MacLean. I won't go into the MacLeod & MacLean lines as yet. William & Flora had 9 children and William died Jan 27,1818. John (b1798)- became a teacher in Strath, Isle of Skye and I have located 1 son William (also a teacher in Barra) Marion (b1800)- married Andrew Greig a school teacher and they had 2 boys & 1 girl. They left the island in 1835 and I am trying to locate where they went. Mary (b1801)- married Alexander MacKenzie and I am working on more info on them. Probably went to Stornoway on Isle of Lewis. Niel (b1803)- died 1804 in Stornoway Norman (b1806)- On the 1851 Census he is a sailor and living with his Mother in North Uist (Flora (MacLeod) Arbuckle) Murdock (b1808)- School teacher - never married - died 1888 in N.U. Alexander (b1810)- I trailed him to Portree and located Flora's birth in 1838 but the lady at the registry office could not find where he went. I recently found Flora on a ship list to Victoria and a man from Ocean Grove helped me obtain the marriage registration. You know the rest. Donald (b1812)-My g-g-grandfather got his education in Liverpool as a Bookkeeper and returned to take over the Croft in North Uist. He married Marion McLeod and left N.U. in 1854 with their 7 children. I descend from here but I won't go into details. Harriet Julia (b1817)-married Archibald McLellan (Merchant) and she is the only one that stayed in N.U. They had 5 boys & 2 girls. In 1870 their sons, William, Alexander & Donald left N.U. and I am trying to locate where they went. Harriet & Archie also had another son, also named Archibald and he stayed in N.U. and he had a son Roderick. Roderick had a daughter also named Flora and when I was there I met Flora & her son Angus. We spent Sat. & Sun. p.m. with them. I knew this would be long but I hope Sandra sees this and will contact me. I have attached a write-up about an Uncle of your Dr Alexander Arbuckle. This man was a brother of Flora MacLeod and there is a monument to him on North Uist. I hope you all have this good luck one day as I feel if these people walked down the street now I would know them all. I hope I haven't bored you. Many Thanks Lorraine (nee Arbuckle) Ottawa, Canada ALEXANDER MACLEOD (DR), so well and popularly known in the Western Isles as "AN DOITAR BAN". He was for many years chamberlain for Lord MacDonald in Skye and North Uist and afterwards for Clanranald in South Uist and Benbecula and was probably the most popular man who ever acted in that capacity in the Highlands. He is still affectionately remembered by many of the oldest people in the Long Island and there are many evidences of his good work yet to be seen in the Outer Hebrides. His attainments as a scholar are said to have been very high and as a medical man his skill was highly appreciated. He was always at the service of the people, generally without fee or reward of any kind except the pleasure he derived from doing good. It is therefore not surprising that he gained the affection and confidence of the population, in all his professional and business relations with them, in a manner not attained by any other factor in modern times. Neither trouble nor distance dettered him from giving the poorest of the people the benefit of his skill, whenever and wherever within his reach they might be required, until he lost his life, while engaged in this work of mercy, at Loch Hourn, on the mainland, when he fell over a precipice returning from visiting a poor shepherd's family during a dark night in that wild and rocky region.