Welcome to Wayne McKirdy who has joined this week, and welcome back to Yvonne Bean. Further to Yvonne's post earlier this week, please note that the direct link to obtain details of the "McKirdy Death Index for Bute 1855 - 1875" on microfiche, now available from NZSG, is http://www.genealogy.org.nz/sales/fiche-new.html again like Yvonne, I am just a satisfied user. ****** ****** ****** Happy Birthday to those who only get to celebrate on the day once every 4 years - waiting 84 years for the key to the door must be a bit rough <G>. Saw a letter in the paper the other day commenting on people angry about loosing access to a facility for one day earlier this month, the writer suggested "they shouldn't complain - as it is a leap year, they've got an extra day anyway" ! ****** ****** ****** Thanks to Joanne for the "Still" story, and to Stewart for the "Smuggling in Kilmory" extract - interesting tales to round off this month's topic. Regarding the unknown date of the 'Smuggling' cutting, it is indeed probable that one or more years may be identified, where the UK defence budget was £800 million. Those with local knowledge or contacts may be able to inform us of the years when Janet threw the paper to Sheena as the bus trundled on its way, which would provide a useful cross reference. One other avenue would be to follow up on the author/contributor ' Thomas E Appleton'. To throw in what is probably a total red-herring here, there was just one Thomas E. Appleton in the 1881 Census - born in Stepney, Middlesex in 1868/9 ( but there were another 207 Thomas Appleton's) . "Pre 1855 Gravestone Inscriptions in Bute & Arran" edited by Alison Mitchell, SGS 1987, shows that Mr Appleton took poetic licence in his concluding remarks "... three stones in the Kilmory Churchyard recall the passions ...", as the MI for the two McKinnon's is on but one stone :- Kilmory #66 "Wm McKinnon in Torrylinn d 25.3.1817 57, s Donald aged 22y, they were cut off the same day by a party of Sir John Reid's cutter headed by John Jeffery mate" There is no mention of Isabel Nicol in Alison Mitchell's remaining transcriptions for Kilmory, admittedly "made in 1967 in bad weather". ****** ****** ****** Thanks also to those who contributed topic suggestions off list - more suggestions would be welcomed. ****** ****** ****** Feel free to join in and present your own items. Peter Cook cookfmly@bigpond.com List maintainer and Co-host with Barbara < babrown12@optonline.net > of the ButeshireGenWeb mailing list.

Thanks Peter! I would like to say hello to all the HALLIDAY family out there on Bute. I think my "43rd HALLIDAY cousins", I found, living in Oz, are nodding off. Are they bored? My DAVIE family also had a lot to do with Bute and Argyll. As did the TAYLOR family ...... BARR, MENZIES and "many more". Janelle Canberra, Australia Researching: Davie, Halliday, Menzies, Taylor, Barr in Scotland. ----- Original Message ----- From: Peter Cook To: ButeshireGenWeb-L@rootsweb.com Sent: Sunday, February 29, 2004 3:27 PM Subject: [BUT] Sunday morning musings #238 Welcome to Wayne McKirdy who has joined this week, and welcome back to Yvonne Bean. Further to Yvonne's post earlier this week, please note that the direct link to obtain details of the "McKirdy Death Index for Bute 1855 - 1875" on microfiche, now available from NZSG, is http://www.genealogy.org.nz/sales/fiche-new.html again like Yvonne, I am just a satisfied user. ****** ****** ****** Happy Birthday to those who only get to celebrate on the day once every 4 years - waiting 84 years for the key to the door must be a bit rough <G>. Saw a letter in the paper the other day commenting on people angry about loosing access to a facility for one day earlier this month, the writer suggested "they shouldn't complain - as it is a leap year, they've got an extra day anyway" ! ****** ****** ****** Thanks to Joanne for the "Still" story, and to Stewart for the "Smuggling in Kilmory" extract - interesting tales to round off this month's topic. Regarding the unknown date of the 'Smuggling' cutting, it is indeed probable that one or more years may be identified, where the UK defence budget was £800 million. Those with local knowledge or contacts may be able to inform us of the years when Janet threw the paper to Sheena as the bus trundled on its way, which would provide a useful cross reference. One other avenue would be to follow up on the author/contributor ' Thomas E Appleton'. To throw in what is probably a total red-herring here, there was just one Thomas E. Appleton in the 1881 Census - born in Stepney, Middlesex in 1868/9 ( but there were another 207 Thomas Appleton's) . "Pre 1855 Gravestone Inscriptions in Bute & Arran" edited by Alison Mitchell, SGS 1987, shows that Mr Appleton took poetic licence in his concluding remarks "... three stones in the Kilmory Churchyard recall the passions ...", as the MI for the two McKinnon's is on but one stone :- Kilmory #66 "Wm McKinnon in Torrylinn d 25.3.1817 57, s Donald aged 22y, they were cut off the same day by a party of Sir John Reid's cutter headed by John Jeffery mate" There is no mention of Isabel Nicol in Alison Mitchell's remaining transcriptions for Kilmory, admittedly "made in 1967 in bad weather". ****** ****** ****** Thanks also to those who contributed topic suggestions off list - more suggestions would be welcomed. ****** ****** ****** Feel free to join in and present your own items. Peter Cook cookfmly@bigpond.com List maintainer and Co-host with Barbara < babrown12@optonline.net > of the ButeshireGenWeb mailing list. ==== ButeshireGenWeb Mailing List ==== *********************************************************************** For individuals Buteshire Reasearch Interests go to http://www.member.shaw.ca/Buteshire/ -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by CyberOne E-Mail Spam and Virus Protection Service, and is believed to be clean from viruses. CyberOne accepts no responsibility for the content of messages in transit through our servers. -- Suspected unsolicited commercial bulk messages (SPAM) have been marked with {Spam?} tag in the subject line enabling you to filter them out by using your mail software's filtering capabilities. --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.596 / Virus Database: 379 - Release Date: 26-Feb-04