Hello Alec, Thanks a bunch. I will look for that on the maps now. Can't tell you how much I appreciate this little tidbit. Ann McDonald Malden, Missouri, USA -----Original Message----- From: Alec Cameron <acameron@hinet.net.au> To: CLANS-L@rootsweb.com <CLANS-L@rootsweb.com> Date: Monday, February 01, 1999 2:38 PM Subject: [CLANS-L] Isle of France. >Ann McDonald wrote here........ > >> William Chapman MCDONIEL born abt 1778 maybe in Angus District, Scotland >> arrived in Philadelphia 9 Apr 1802, the original port of departure was the >> Isle of France. >> >> Where is the Isle of France? I did a search and didn't find it in >> Scotland. > >Isle of France was renamed MAURITIUS and thereafter was a British >colony. My wife Mary Ferguson is Scots on her father's side, but her >mother descended from a 12 yr old emancipated slave who was deported >from Isle of France to New South Wales as a convict in 1833. > >Cheers............ > >ALISTAIR M CAMERON > > > >==== CLANS Mailing List ==== >CLANS-L Homepage: >http://www.geocities.com/~brooms/scotclans > >