Posted on: Buteshire Scotland Queries Reply Here: http://cgi.rootsweb.com/~genbbs/genbbs.cgi/Scotland/Bute/423 Surname: McCurdy ------------------------- I believe I found the "Ancestral McCurdys" book in the Church of Latter Day Saint's Family History Library. You can view micro-film copies from that Library at a nearby LDS Family History Center. Most centers will also let you print paper copies of microfilm pages for a fee. The "Ancestral McCurdys" book is about 42 pages long. Here is list of McCurdy family books I compiled from the California Digital Library and the US Library of Congress catalogs, and some of the notes are for my branch of the McCurdy family. I have not seen or hold most of these books. I just compiled the list. Blanchard, H. Percy. Genealogical record & biographical sketches of the McCurdys of Nova Scotia. London: Published for F.B. McCurdy by the Covenant Pub. Co., 1930. Blanchard, H. Percy. The ancestral McCurdys, their origin and remote history. London: The Covenant Pub. Co., 1930. The MacCurdy or MacReuda clan were early inhabitants of the isles of Bute and Arran, Scotland. This book includes family history from Chief Gilkrist Makurerdy (1420) to about 1820 and family claims to Royal descent: a. the marriage of Donald McCurdy to Peggy Cameron, a "great-granddaughter of King James IV of Scotland" (p. 26); b. the Stewart of Bute lineage from Robert II, King of Scotland, to Margaret Stewart, "a relative of James II of Scotland", daughter of Charles Stewart of Ballintoy, Ireland, and wife of Petheric McCurdy, one of four brothers who fled from Scotland in November 1666 (p.32); c. Prince Reuda of Ireland, founder of the MacCurdy or MacReuda Clan, who settled a colony of Scots north of Clyde, Scotland, about 258 (pp. 6, 8-9, 12), and d. the lineage from Heremon, "first of the Mahol or Scots to sit on the throne of Ireland" and his wife, "Tea Tephi, daughter of King Zedekiah, the last of the Royal line of Judah" and a ward of the Prophet Jeremiah, to Prince Reuda (pp. 11-12). (For details about the Stewart of Bute line, see Hewison, 1893, v. 2, p. 152ff) Gaines, Lorene Taylor. McCurdy footprints : yesterday and today from Ireland to South Carolina to Georgia, Texas, and Oklahoma, 1771-1990. Little Rock, Ark. (6 Athena Court, Little Rock 72207): L.T. Gaines, 1990. Harding, Les. McCurdy and the Silver Dart. Sydney, N.S.: University College of Cape Breton Press, 1998. MacCurdy, David W. McCurdy households. New York, NY (404 E. 65 St., New York 10021): McCurdy Family Association of America, 1990. Macurda, Donald Bradford. Early McCurdys in Maine (their antecedents and descendants). La Mesa, Calif.: Macurda, 1979. McCurdy, Elmer Dellwood Ellsworth. Historical geneology [sic] of the McCurdy family a concise history of the McCurdy's dating from 1489, including a record of their ancestry to Gilkrist Makurerdy, a Scottish chief, and to Robert II, king of Scotland. Genealogy & local history ; G4679. Dennison, Ohio: W. D. McCurdy. McCurdy, Dellwood Ellsworth, and William Davis McCurdy. Historical geneology ! of the McCurdy family. Dennison, Ohio,: W. D. McCurdy, 1915. McCurdy, H. W. Genealogical history of James Winslow McCurdy and Neil Barclay McCurdy. Seattle,: Superior Pub. Co., 1963. McCurdy, Julius Augustus. The Stone Mountain McCurdys : the ancestors and descendants of John Wilson McCurdy and his wife the former Sarah Jane Carter and Philip Burford McCurdy and his wife the former Celia Ann Carter. Atlanta, Ga.: Collegiate Press, 1979. McCurdy, Michael L., and Solomon Portious Sharp McCurdy. A compendium of documents pertaining to the McCurdy family of Kentucky and Utah : being in part the genealogical and autobiographical manuscripts of Solomon P. McCurdy (1820-1890) pertaining to the Sharp and McCurdy families : indexed. Silver Spring, Md. (13107 Holdridge Rd., Silver Spring 20906): M.L. McCurdy, 1982. McCurdy, Hershellene Peek, and Howard McCurdy. The McCurdy family : early settlers of Dekalb County, Alabama : some ancestors and descendants of Elijah McCurdy, Sr. and Ann Handy Harris McCurdy. Jacksonville, Ala.: H.P. McCurdy, 1986. McCurdy, J. R. Our McCurdy family : James Donald and Judy Ann Kifer McCurdy, their ancestors and their descendents. Rev. ed. Amarillo, Tex. (6100 Calumet, Amarillo, 79106): J.R. McCurdy, 1987. McCurdy, Clyde W. McCurdy pioneers of North America : a genealogical history of John McCurdy, 1700-05 to 1761 and some of his descendants with mention of other McCurdy families. Atlanta, Ga.: Collegiate Press, 1990. McCurdy, Ross W. Descendants of Samuel and Elizabeth (Gray) McCurdy of Surry, New Hampshire : a work in progress to the 7th generation : with notes on siblings John McCurdy of Lyme, Ct., Ann (McCurdy) Mootty of Co. Antrim. 2nd ed. West Yarmouth, Mass.: R.W. McCurdy, 1997. McCurdy-Rusak, Patricia. McCurdy's of Newark, N.J. Dover, N.J.? (47 Richard St., Dover 07801): P. McCurdy-Rusak, 1982. Miller, Thomas. Historical and genealogical record of the first settlers of Colchester County. Down to the present time. Halifax, N.S.,: A. & W. Mackinlay, 1873. Includes family history information for Samuel Archibald/Eleanor Taylor (married about 1743) pp 53-54, Samuel Fisher/Sarah Taylor (married about or before 1750) pp. 259-260, Mathew Archibald/Janet Fisher (married 1767) pp. 54,-55, 260, James McCurdy/Agnes Archibald (married 1788) p. 55, Edward S. Blanchard/Jean or Jane Archibald (married 1802) pp. 66, 257, Isaac McCurdy/Nancy Blanchard (married 1828) p. 257 For an overview of McCurdy and Archibald families of Colchester County, Canada, in this book see "Genealogical record and biographical sketches of the McCurdys of Nova Scotia" by Blanchard (1930), pp. 203-211, Salisbury, Edward Elbridge. Family-memorials. A series of genealogical and biographical monographs on the families of Salisbury, Aldworth-Elbridge, Sewall, Pyldren-Dummer, Walley, Quincy, Gookin, Wendell, Breese, Chevalier-Anderson, and Phillips. New Haven,: Press of Tuttle Morehouse & Taylor, 1885. Salisbury, Edward Elbridge, and Evelyn McCurdy Salisbury. Family histories and genealogies a series of genealogical and biographical monographs on the families of MacCurdy, Mitchell, Lord, Lynde, Digby, Newdigate, Hoo, Willoughby, Griswold, Wolcott, Pitkin, Ogden, Johnson, Diodati, Lee and Marvin : and notes on the families of Buchanan, Parmelee, Boardman, Lay, Locke, Cole, DeWolf, Drake, Bond and Swayne, Dunbar and Clarke, and a notice of Chief Justice Morrison Remick Waite : with twenty-nine pedigree-charts and two charts of combined descents. Genealogy & local history ; G5167. S.l.: Priv. print., 1892. Salisbury, Edward Elbridge, and Evelyn McCurdy Salisbury. Family-histories and genealogies : ... containing a series of genealogical and biographical monographs on the families of. New Haven: Press of Tuttle Morehouse & Taylor, 1892. Salisbury, Edward Elbridge, and Evelyn Salisbury. Family histories and genealogies. New Haven,: Press of Tuttle Morehouse & Taylor, 1892.