----- Original Message ----- From: "9 LOTN" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Sunday, September 23, 2001 10:25 AM Subject: Cruickshank > I am trying to find the details of when any of the listed names of the Cruickshank family left Scotland for Australia in the 1700-1900....why they left.....and what family still remains in Scotland. > > Cruickshank/Cruckshank/Crookshank > > I do know that in the late 1800's - early 1900's the Cruickshank side of my family moved to the Goldfields (Kalgoorlie & surrounds) in Western Australia from Victoria. Unfortunately from more recent I can only go back to my grandfather George Garfield Cruickshank...his wife Amy Veronica Aspinall. When they moved to Kalgoorlie (the goldfields of Western Australia) they lost all their records (in a fire I presume)....so I can go no further back. From the Aspinal side of the family it was told that they came here with the convicts. But I can find no listing of them on any convict list....and no mention of them on the first 3 fleets....though I did find Aspinal on those lists. > > My fathers name was Peter Graham Cruickshank (dec). He was born in Kalgoorlie, West Australia. > My Grandfather was George Garfield Cruickshank (dec). He was also born in Kalgoorlie I think, though his father aparently moved there from Victoria somewhere. > > I am new to this....no one has researched this before from what I can gather in our family. Our family reduced in size to only a couple of children each generation...and most of those are deceased now except for a few I cant find. So for the most part....there is only one Cruickshank left on my side.....so the Cruickshank side of my family is a mystery...so it is going to be a long search. > > So any and all information I will be chasing up...if I dont get back to any that supply anything...please accept my thanks....and as soon as I sift thru it all....I will acknowledge what has panned out. > > > > Thanks !! > > Cindy-Leigh Cruickshank > > >