Sharon, I should have mentioned in my previous note that Breckoch no longer exists! The cottage was abandoned in the mid 1800s but was located near the north-east corner of Greenan Loch about where the road (B878) has a right-angle bend. I believe the road in that vicinity is still called Breckoch Brae. Bill.

Hi Sharon, A couple of possibilities with the names. There is a Breckoch within the parish. There is also Breakouch or Breakough as I believe it is now spelt. This latter one is actually on the island of Great Cumbrae, within the county but not in the parish. The other perhaps either Drumachloy or, less likely, Drumreoch. Spelling was pretty variable at the time, many of the rural dwellers still spoke Gaelic and the session clerks who wrote the parish records seem to have had a bit of trouble at times!!! ( Breckoch in Gaelic is Tigha-Breachdaich, if you can figure how to get from one to the other, you are doing better than I am.) Cheers Bill

Don't know about the first place but my relatives farmed (and still do) at a farm called DRUMACHLOY - perhaps that might be the second place Cheers Jean ----- Original Message ----- From: "Sharon Hawkins" <sharonhawkins@ozemail.com.au> To: <ButeshireGenWeb-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Friday, May 09, 2003 12:06 AM Subject: [BUT] Place Name Query > Hi all, > > On certain sections of the Bute OPR film I found the handwriting difficult. > > In 1828 and 1830, my ancestors is stated to be a labourer in Rothesay parish > at a place that looks like Brechask Or Breckech. Can anyone confirm the > correct spelling of this place. > > In 1836 and 1838, he is listed as a farmer at something that looks like > Drumchanag again in Rothesay parish. Any ideas. > > Fortunately the rest of the children are christened at Ardscalpsie and other > places I can make out with some squinting. > > Help would be most appreciated. > > Cheers, > Sharon > > ______________________________

Hi all, On certain sections of the Bute OPR film I found the handwriting difficult. In 1828 and 1830, my ancestors is stated to be a labourer in Rothesay parish at a place that looks like Brechask Or Breckech. Can anyone confirm the correct spelling of this place. In 1836 and 1838, he is listed as a farmer at something that looks like Drumchanag again in Rothesay parish. Any ideas. Fortunately the rest of the children are christened at Ardscalpsie and other places I can make out with some squinting. Help would be most appreciated. Cheers, Sharon

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.co.uk/mbexec/msg/5538/SeC.2ACI/536 Message Board Post: Can anybody help me locate contact numbers or names of any Cemetaries on Arran. I am looking for Nicol Smith my Grandfather, who died when my Mother was very young, we dont have much info about him at all. We do know he was buried on Arran, Have no dates for birth/death. He had a brother Louis Nairn Smith who went to South Africa, both were orphans, Mum seems to vaguely remember a home called Quarriff or somthing similar, Nicol married Margaret Daniels also known as (Madge & Scottie), They lived on MacAllisters farm,Arran. Please can anybody help????

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/SeC.2ACI/535 Message Board Post: Don't have the first name but the surname was Crawford. Thank you, June McEwan

Hi all, I would like to hear from anyone with an interest in BLACK families in Rothesay. A number of my kin were also at Kingarth and North Bute. I have collected a fair amount of material and would be happy to share. Any questions just drop me a line - enquiries are most welcome. Cheers, Sharon Hawkins

Hi, I am searching for any information I can find on the following family: George BROWN md to Giles McNEIL in 1804, Rothesay, Bute (George was a Shoemaker) I know of the following children - all bapt. Rothesay Christian BROWN - 30 November 1806 Janet BROWN - 11 December 1808 James BROWN - 16 June 1811 - have detail of James, his marriage and children - emigrated to NZ Mary BROWN - 8 August 1813 Robert BROWN - 10 December 1815 Elizabeth BROWN - 4 January 1818 - poss. died young. Elizabeth BROWN - 1 August 1819 Margaret BROWN - 14 October 1821 William BROWN - 21 March 1824 Giles BROWN - 1 January 1826 Margaret BROWN - 20 June 1830 Believe Giles McNEIL was a daughter of James - I believe she was chr. 8 April 1787, Rothesay. Any help would be greatly appreciated in trying to confirm this family in Census records or marriages and/or burials. Many thanks, in anticipation. Pam New Zealand

hello everyone i have amassed loads of info on my family tree, and the time has come to start properly recording it onto some sort of software can listers suggest what i use? i'd like something fairly simple, that will allow me to print hard copies of individual and tree details, but no need for fussy icons, no need for features that dont get used etc, and preferably free! i have downloaded from ancestry.com, and am now downloading from legacyfamilytree.com - are these any good? thanks for any help and of course, is anyone out there interested in themccletchie/mcletchie/mclatchie line? everybody keep up the good work!! regards andrew sunderland, n e england

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This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Murchie/Blundell/Cook/Kennedy Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/SeC.2ACI/513.1 Message Board Post: Hello Jane: I have been researching the Murchie Family for a number of years, as I am a descendant of Peter Murchie, brother to Donald Murchie who married Janet McBride. The emigrated to northern New Brunswick in the early 1830s from the Isle of Arran, Scotland. Elizabeth (Lizzie) Murchie was born 5 May 1868 in Doyleville, NB and married Charles H. French, son of Charles French and Lois Wing in Bathurst Village, NB on 15 Aug 1891 (Provincial Returns of Marriages, No. 1731, Microfilm No. F13658, Provincial Archives of NB). They had daughters Elizabeth Louise born 12 Feb 1893 in Saint John NB, Amelia and your Lulu Irene (whom I do not have). I have located the birth record for Elizabeth Louise in the Vital Statistics Office in Fredericton NB. Information on Amelia was received from Tia Murchie-Beyma who lives in the US. It appears that Elizabeth married Walter Anderson and had two daughters. Amelia French married a Vendshus and had one child. I have had no contact with an! yone in this line so have scanty information on them, although I do have information on other siblings of Lizzie. If you are interested, I will forward what I have. Alice Garner, New Brunswick, Canada

Shauna, I don't have the answer to your question about photographs of Police personnel from Rothesay/Bute, but I may have a clue. My gr-gr-grandfather, Daniel Morrison, was a Police Sergeant in Rothesay around the turn of the last century and I would dearly love to find a photograph. The police station in Rothesay is now a substation of the Strathclyde Division. I was in Rothesay for the first time last June and didn't have time to drop by, although it was on my agenda. The Strathclyde Division has a website, which I will have to tap one of these days, but perhaps you can beat me to it! The word I heard from the local historians was that they felt the old records had been collected by the Strathclyde HQ. If you get to them before me, let me know and I'll do likewise. Mike Morrison Lake Forest, CA, USA

The list of completed transcriptions on-line for the East Lothian 1841 Census with their addresses is shown in the signature block on this email. They can also be reached via links on our home page. Please note these transcriptions have been checked and validated but may still contain errors and researchers are advised to check the original film if in doubt. The transcriptions are provided on this temporary site by courtesy of Rootsweb as a service to researchers and will be moved to a permanent site when our main project is completed. Happy searching, Mary Hamilton Coordinator for East Lothian 1841 FreeCensus Project Web page - www.rootsweb.com/~sctelnfc/east.htm/east.htm Online transcriptions - ABERLADY http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~eln1841/HS410702 ATHELSTANEFORD at http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~eln1841/HS410703 BOLTON at http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~eln1841/HS410704 HADDINGTON-Landward at http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~eln1841/HS413709 HUMBIE at http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~eln1841/HS410710 MORHAM at http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~eln1841/HS410712 NORTH BERWICK-Burgh at://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~eln1841/HS411713 NORTH BERWICK-Landward at http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~eln/HS412713

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/SeC.2ACI/534 Message Board Post: Robert Bowes SNEDDON b 2 May 1882 in Coatbridge, Old Monkland, Lanarkshire. He married Maggie Wilkinson MURDOCH in Rothesay, Bute on 30 Nov 1904. At that time he was a Farm Servant at Kingarth. I would like to find any descendants. Thank you

I am looking for a picture of my relative, Lumsden Gibb, who served with the Buteshire Police Constabulary from the early 1900's until prior to his death in 1945. If anyone knows how to access photographs of past Buteshire police officers I would appreciate this information. Sincerely, Shauna Gibb Alberta, Canada _________________________________________________________________ Tired of spam? Get advanced junk mail protection with MSN 8. http://join.msn.com/?page=features/junkmail

1841 Transcription for ATHELSTANEFORD This is now online at http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~eln1841/HS410703 The page opens with an index listing 5 enumeration districts. Clicking on each one will bring the data for that one up, but the index also lists surnames in each ED so it is possible to see which one to select for a particular surname. Please note that while this material has been checked and validated it is human-generated and may still contain errors, and that this is a temporary site until our main program is completed. The data has a further stage to go through before it reaches our final site, but we are making it available here as a courtesy to researchers. A clickable link on our East Lothian 1841 site - see signature block - will also take you to the transcription. Mary Hamilton Coordinator for East Lothian 1841 FreeCensus Project Web page - www.rootsweb.com/~sctelnfc/east.htm/east.htm

Hi to all Posting my interests. Archibald McMILLAN born 1858, Rothesay. Parents John McMillan and Janet Morrison married Rothesay 1848. I currently have quite a lot of information and am now working on proving and confirming dates and events. I would like to make contact with others researching the same family. Regards Pam White Auckland, NZ

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/SeC.2ACI/533 Message Board Post: please help me does this name mean anything to anyone please please help me thankyou

Just a quick note to let you know I've been updating the site again. The exchange now holds - Births: 6,763 Deaths: 3,788 Marriages: 3,059 Baptisms: 2,494 Burials: 96 Banns: 794 Total records held: 16,994 I still have to update Deaths, Marriages, Baptisms and Banns, probably a couple of hundred additional records in total. I'll be doing these updates over the next 2 weeks. I'd love to see us hit the 20,000 mark by the end of May. Cheers Sue www.sctbdm.com

Dear List, Currently looking for links to James Cook, who married Mary McAlister in Kilmory 1826. At least 3 kids (according to IGI) - Margaret, Jane & Mary Cook (1827-1843). Any help please ? Kyle McAllister - Ross Shire, Scotland kylem@tesco.net