Posted on: Buteshire Scotland Queries Reply Here: http://genconnect.rootsweb.com/gc/Scotland/Bute/462 Surname: Baillie, Robertson ------------------------- Mary McIntyre, Do you know the parentage of Margaret Robertson. We may have a connection Ann

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Dear List, With all this talk of the McMurchy surname, I must ask whether anyone knows anything about one Marion (or Sarah) McMURCHY who married Finlay KERR, probably in the parish of Kilmory, Isle of Arran, Buteshire, and lived there and perhaps later at Torrisdale or Carradale, parish of Saddell and Skipness, Kintyre. All of this would be in the early 1700s. They may have had a son, Hugh KERR, who was one of my ancestors. Any information gratefully received. George Sanborn U.S.A.

I am researching the surnames CLARK- Scotland TAYLOR-Scotland HODGE-Scotland CREE-Scotland- England BOWNE England

Welcome to the Morton Family who have joined this week. If you haven't already contributed, we hope to hear from you soon. ****** ****** ****** You will all no doubt have seen the copy of my Query Board post earlier this week. I can only say that the "offending" posts were made when I was on holiday in 1998, and I was not sufficiently thorough in checking the new posts when I got back from that holiday. The message which alerted me to the problem follows ... "I was wandering round the Buteshire message board looking at all the messages. I was a bit taken aback to find a list of MIs for Buteshire sent in by a ****** ***** a couple of years ago and obviously copied from the book of MIs published by the Scottish Genealogy Society. Now I can understand the temptation to make this information freely available BUT, apart from the question of copyright, it is a very shortsighted attitude. If the information is available without having to buy the book where is the incentive for anyone else to publish other books of MIs? Avoiding paying means that we run the risk, in the long term, of MIs being unrecorded and eventually being unrecordable. Isn't it worth paying a few pounds to encourage the gathering of MIs for future generations? " Sentiments with which I agree. The publication details again : "Pre-1855 Gravestone Inscriptions in BUTE and ARRAN" An Index. Edited by Alison Mitchell for the Scottish Genealogy Society. 1987 ISBN 0 901061 31 X The copyright position here is quite clear - while the Inscriptions on the Gravestones cannot be copyrighted as they are quite literally in the public domain, a published index of them can. What I will say is that in my inspection of the postings prior to removal, I found they appeared to use exactly the same abbreviations and had hyphens in exactly the same places as the above publication. While I accept the poster's statement that the lists were taken from a US publication from the early 1960's, any copyright issue is between that publisher and the SGS. Furthermore, even if it was a 1960's publication, it is still not old enough to permit verbatim copying. In conclusion, a search I made on the web (both for new and second-hand copies) came up with just one book, the one I have detailed above. For new or second hand books, for me the obvious starting place is ... http://www.staffs.ac.uk/services/library_and_info/bookshop.html This gives a current list of on line book shops - just by going to the first (Blackwells) I came up with a hit using the ISBN (leave out the spaces) - delivery 2 to 6 weeks. ****** ****** ****** Feel free to join in and present your own items. Peter Cook cookfmly@bigpond.com List maintainer and Co-host with Barbara < babrown@fast.net > of the ButeshireGenWeb mailing list.

Posted on: Buteshire Scotland Queries Reply Here: http://genconnect.rootsweb.com/gc/Scotland/Bute/461 Surname: Lilly, Cullen ------------------------- Hi Ann Thanks very much for the information, you don't happen to know if he had any children? Betty

Posted on: Buteshire Scotland Queries Reply Here: http://cgi.rootsweb.com/~genbbs/genbbs.cgi/Scotland/Bute/460 Surname: ------------------------- I wish to advise that due to a serious breach of copyright, a series of MI postings made to this Board in 1998 have been removed from the board. The content was a virtually verbatim transcript of the publication "Pre - 1855 Gravestone Inscriptions in BUTE and ARRAN". The original poster has been advised NOT to attempt to post them again. The original book was published by the Scottish Genealogical Society in 1987 with an ISBN of 0 901061 31 X, and Copyright is held by Alison Mitchell, to whom an unreserved apology is offered. Peter Cook Bute Query Board maintainer ButeshireGenWeb Mailing List Maintainer

Hello Janelle, Will this help? These are from the Victorian Pioneer and Federation Indexes. John Roger TAYLOR married Elizabeth WIGHTMAN in Victoria in 1855. They had the following children ; Barbara TAYLOR, b. King, 1860, d. aged 3, King, 1864 Barbara TAYLOR, b. King, 1865 John Wightman TAYLOR, b. Kingower, 1858 William, b. King, 1862 John Roger TAYLOR, parents Daniel TAYLOR and Barbara BARR, d. 1894 in Terang, aged 70. Jessia DAVIE, parents Daniel TAYLOR and Barbara BARR, d. 1901 in Muskvale, aged 76. I couldn't find anymore deaths with these parents. Cheers, >I have just received some more information about my TAYLOR ancestors from Rothesay. My GGrandmother, Jessie TAYLOR, apparently had a brother John Roger TAYLOR. I don't have dates for him, however, details of his parents and siblings are: > >Barbara BARR married Daniel TAYLOR in Rothesay on 24.3.1817. Children: - Dot Wells (nee Maclean) Perth, Western Australia. mailto:wells@wanet.com.au Research Names http://carmen.murdoch.edu.au/community/dps/research/wel02.html SAVE OUR CENSUS! ON 7 AUG 2001 TICK "YES" Want to know more? See: http://carmen.murdoch.edu.au/~affho/affho-07.htm

Hi List I have just received some more information about my TAYLOR ancestors from Rothesay. My GGrandmother, Jessie TAYLOR, apparently had a brother John Roger TAYLOR. I don't have dates for him, however, details of his parents and siblings are: Barbara BARR married Daniel TAYLOR in Rothesay on 24.3.1817. Children: James (abt 1818 - died, age 7 in 1824) - Rothesay Isabella c 21.1.1819 - Rothesay Ann c 1.4.1821 - Rothesay Janet (Jessie) c 8.10.1826 - Barony, Lanark John Roger b ? Anybody searching for this family? Jessie married James DAVIE and migrated to Australia. Her brother, John Roger TAYLOR also migrated to Australia circa 1852-53. Janelle Canberra, Australia aurora@dynamite.com.au Researching Davie, Halliday, Barr, Taylor, Menzies

Sorry Listers, Geeshh...time for me to quit... Correct addy is: http://www.mccabeclan.com/mariners.htm Kind regards, Pat

Hello Listers, If anyone should be interested, I now have my new webpage up and running on my website, giving the account of the last voyage and death at sea of Thomas Todd Smith in 1869/70. Much of the information on the page is copied from photocopies of the actual ship and crew account and log, as it was forwarded to me from the Maritime History Archive. Though Thomas was part of my particular family, what these men, five from Buteshire, endured would be a common lot, in similar circumstances, to anyone's ancestor who was a mariner. http://www.mccabeclan.mariners/htp Kind Regards to All, Pat

Posted on: Buteshire Scotland Queries Reply Here: http://genconnect.rootsweb.com/gc/Scotland/Bute/458 Surname: Crawford, Thomson, Auld ------------------------- Hello, Could SKS please do a look-up for me. Possible death of Jean/Jane Crawford, wife of William Thomson who was born 28 March 1809, married 5 April 1809, Cumbrae, Buteshire. Jane's parents were Archibald Crawford and Jean Thomson Died sometime after January 1846(birth of last child, 20-01-1846) and re-marriage of William, born 1801 to Jane Auld, (widow of Archibald McNish, parents John and Agnes Simpson) could have been from Ayrshire) on 7 December 1851, Cumbrae Have found no children to second marriage, although Jane had at least one daughter from first marriage.I know that this Jane died 21 December 1888 in Ardrossan Thanks to anyone who can assist with information. Regards, Ann

Posted on: Buteshire Scotland Queries Reply Here: http://genconnect.rootsweb.com/gc/Scotland/Bute/453 Surname: Baillie, McKirdy, Robertson ------------------------- Mary. Have connections to the above families on Isle of Cumbrae. Could you advise me of the spouses christian names. Regards, Ann

Posted on: Buteshire Scotland Queries Reply Here: http://genconnect.rootsweb.com/gc/Scotland/Bute/450 Surname: Cullen ------------------------- Betty, Mr G. Cullen was a member of the town council from 1969-1975 and Provost from 1973-1975 Ann

Welcome to Pam White and Mary McIntyre who have joined this week, and welcome back to Pat McCabe, to whom thanks for posting "Names of Five Merchant Mariners, born Buteshire, voyage 1870" earlier this week. If you haven't already contributed, we hope to hear from you soon. ****** ****** ****** The "List of Bute Researcher's Home Pages" has now been opened to general use, with a link added on http://www.rootsweb.com/~sctbutes/ just below the Mailing List link. ****** ****** ****** A couple of weeks ago I posted a message re the National Archives of Scotland - The following which is forwarded from Dick Sargent, Director of the National Register of Archives (England) may give an idea of likely developments on the NAS site ... ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ We are pleased to announce the release of an improved front end to the National Register of Archives database. There are now three options to be found at http://www.hmc.gov.uk/nra/nra2.htm 1) Browse and search http://www.hmc.gov.uk/nra/browser/browserhome.htm is designed for first time users who do not wish to use a keyboard to input search terms. It is assumed that they will have a working knowledge of the alphabet and be able to distinguish between persons, corporate bodies and families. Otherwise all they have to do is click their way through complete alphabetical listings of the NRA (about 150,000 records). We are registering these pages with the main search engines, so that general searches on the names of individuals etc will be directed to the NRA and via ARCHON to the appropriate repositories. 2) Simple search http://www.hmc.gov.uk/nra/simple.htm retrieves by any elements of personal, corporate, family or place names. 3) Detailed search http://www.hmc.gov.uk/nra/detail.htm offers complex interrogation of the Business, Organisations, Personal and Family indexes of the NRA. On the Business Index, for example, there are drop down lists for the sectors and subsectors of business activity and for counties in the British Isles. These can be searched in conjunction with elements of the firm's name, town and date of records. Thus a search of Engineering : Mechanical; Shipbuilding and Marine Engineering; Northumberland; 1850 retrieves the records of Armstrong Whitworth(10 groups of records), Hawthorn Leslie (9 groups) and Swan Hunter (6 groups). Current usage statistics indicate that for the year 2000-2001 the Commission's website can expect 500,000 visitors, 3,500,000 hits and 25 gigabytes of data served. The next stage in the development of the NRA is to link the descriptions of records directly to on-line catalogues as these are mounted by repositories or on the various UK archival networks like Access to Archives and the HE Hub. I will be pleased to receive any comments on the NRA and suggestions as to how we may better improve the service. Dick Sargent Director of the National Register of Archives Historical Manuscripts Commission Quality House, Quality Court, Chancery Lane London WC2A 1HP tel 020 7242 1198 fax 020 7831 3550 e-mail dicks@hmc.gov.uk website http://www.hmc.gov.uk ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ ****** ****** ****** Feel free to join in and present your own items. Peter Cook cookfmly@bigpond.com List maintainer and Co-host with Barbara < babrown@fast.net > of the ButeshireGenWeb mailing list.

The Christmas season of viruses and worms is upon us. It is time to repeat the procedure for newcomers : 1) DO NOT send virus warnings direct to the list, please send them to the list maintainer who will assess and forward to the list the relevant information. 2) Practice safe e-mailing habits: a) DO NOT open unsolicited attachments b) Invest in a reputable anti-virus program, use it, and most importantly, keep it up to date. *********************************************************** Extract of main features for W32.Navidad: Discovered on: November 3, 2000 W32.Navidad is a mass mailing worm program. The worm replies using MAPI to all Inbox messages that contain a single attachment. This works with Microsoft Outlook. The worm utilizes the existing email subject line and body and attaches itself as NAVIDAD.EXE. Due to the bugs in the code, after being executed, the worm causes your system to be unusable. Category: Worm Covered by Virus definitions file dated on or after : November 6, 2000 Threat assessment: Wild: High - distribution mechanism uses existing subject lines Damage: High - Causes system instability: Improperly changes registry keys Distribution: Medium - As an e-mail attachment Subject of email: Uses existing subject lines Name of attachment: NAVIDAD.EXE Size of attachment: 32,768 bytes Removal: Difficult For full details go to - http://www.symantec.com/avcenter/venc/data/w32.navidad.html or to the site provided by your anti-virus program vendor. *********************************************************** Peter Cook cookfmly@bigpond.com List maintainer and Co-host with Barbara < babrown@fast.net > of the ButeshireGenWeb mailing list.

I am interested in the names McIntyre, in particular Stewart McIntyre, Bailliie, McKirdy, McMillan,Robertson, all linked by marriage in the Kingarth/Rothesay area and latterly Cumbrae.

Posted on: Buteshire Scotland Queries Reply Here: http://cgi.rootsweb.com/~genbbs/genbbs.cgi/Scotland/Bute/448 Surname: McMILLAN, MORRISON, MARTIN, BIRRELS, SCOTT ------------------------- I am researching the family of William McMILLAN (wife Mary BIRRELS). His son Duncan McMILLAN (wife Janet MARTIN) married in 1776 - Kingarth, Bute. Duncan's son John McMILLAN married Janet MORRISON in 1848 and had son Archibald Morrison McMILLAN (my greatgrandfather, born 1858 Rothesay, Bute). Archibald came to Otago, NZ c1881 and married Elizabeth SCOTT. Has anyone got any further information they are willing to share?

My ancestor Hugh McBride was Factor to the Earl of Bute during the approximate period 1730-1760. I am quoting below an excerpt from a letter dated 11 December 1750 from a Duncan McLea. My hope is that this will be of interest to the list and possibly elicit further information on McBride and his activities. "I can write you nothing as to the affairs on this Island only Mr McBryde of Baidland [near Dalry in Ayrshire] Continuing factor and Sheriff Substitute and Commissary Dept of the Isles and present Provost of the Burgh of Rothesay. He is the low country these twenty days and is not come home as yet. He has built a lint Miln upon the Water of Rothesay just in the Town which knocks and Scutches lint to perfection and the Miller heckels it and makes it fitt for Spindling so that it's expected there will be a great dale more of yearn exposed to Sale next Aprile fair than has been these many years. All the country about are are sending their lint to be Dressed here Mr McBryde has also Cutt two Canalls from the Long loch above the Town which serves both the milns and my Lord Bute will have a medow of sixty aikers which will furnish all your barren country with Sufficiency of hay And it will be planted with trees from the Town to the lochwhich is a mille in length" The original of this letter is in the Bute Museum. Regards to all. Bill Lankford in Maryland, USA