Hi Lynne You can buy parts of these records. Go to the "what now" (image of question mark with green boarder) link on the return search pages, and it tells you how to contact them. Give them a bit of background info, with his wives and childrens names, where he lived etc... They will give you a quote for getting the entire file, but for me, when I ordered from them, they broke it down and just let me buy the part I was interested in (when I bought a court file re my family) it only cost 10 pounds. If you tell them you want to pay by credit card, they send you an email address to send them your cc info. Just be sure, since they don't have a secure site that you break up your cc info into 2 emails, or you can call them too. They are quite good there! Tammy On 20/06/2010 11:11 AM, Lynne Ingalls wrote: > Jacquie - I am just finding these records you mentioned. I had never looke > at the NAS On-line Catalogue for Duncan McCarter. I suppose the 1818 Duncan > McLearter file could refer to my Duncan McCarter expect it says he's from > Glasgow. That's a bit of a trek from Whittingehame without a car. I > suppose if he were a hawker, he could have traveled about, but his records > show he was a labourer (probably agricultural). Of course, he could have > been a lad of many professions. I will have to hunt around for other > records of a Duncan McCarter/McLearter in the Glasgow area to either rule > out or make a match. I'm slowly going thru the incredible amounts of > information sent to me with regard to Duncan. I am feeling much more > hopeful that I will find a connection somewhere. > > Thanks again for this tip. I may spend the day going the the NAS database! > > Lynne in Tucson > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Jacquie"<jjjcmj@mymts.net> > To:<midlothian@rootsweb.com> > Sent: Friday, June 18, 2010 1:37 PM > Subject: Re: [MIDLOTHIAN] Duncan M'Carter > > > >> A possibility that you might want to check out - the National Archives of >> Scotland has some files regarding a Duncan McCarter/McLearter who was >> tried >> for theft. The first file is from 1818 and he is listed as Duncan >> McLearter, >> alias McCarter, labourer and hawker, formerly seaman, Address: Glasgow >> (reference AD14/18/157). There are also two files from 1820 in which he is >> referred to as Duncan McCarter, Address: Edinburgh (reference AD14/20/85) >> and as Duncan McCarter, alias McArthur, travelling hawker, Address: >> Ayrshire >> (reference AD14/20/184). There is a record at Ancestry for a Duncan >> McCarter/McArthur who was convicted on 25 Apr 1826 in Glasgow and >> transported on 21 Sep 1826. The record says his sentence was life. >> Unfortunately it doesn't say how old that Duncan is in the NAS summaries >> or >> on the transportation record. >> >> Jacquie >> Winnipeg, MB >> Canada >> > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to MIDLOTHIAN-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message >