I would also like to add that crofter John Murison (c1690-c1760) and his descendants kept a large number of documents and correspondence relating to their life, work and businesses in the Gamrie and Alvah parishes for close on 200 years. The Murison family handed this little goldmine over to the National Archives of Scotland some years ago for safe keeping. These documents are filed under RefNo GD1/808 and title "Murison (Morrison) Family, Troup, Banffshire and Canada", dated 1732-1881, and they can be read online in precis form. I'm not sure how "Morrison" got into the title, but one of old John's sons did register all his children as Morison and he sent back from Edinburgh comments on life in that city in the mid-1700s. A hundred years later, another member of this Murison family, along with a few Dufftown Garrows, emigrated to Canada and sent back detailed letters describing his farming life in Ontario. Chris Duff ----- Original Message ----- From: "Howard Geddes" <hw_02-lst-mor@hwg59lists.waitrose.com> To: "List Moray" <MORAY@rootsweb.com> Sent: Thursday, October 01, 2009 11:41 AM Subject: Re: [MORAY] [Moray] Geo McWillie & James Wilson diaries >I would remind everyone, too, that the diaries of Willie McWILLIE's good > friend James WILSON are also published - covers from 1879-1892, in > hardback > book by the Scottish History Society, so you'll have to pay. > > "Journal of My Life, and Everyday Doings" ISBN 978-0-906245-27-0. 400pp > and > indexed. > > WILSON farmed Knowes, Deskford; McWILLIE farmed Backies, Deskford > > Howard Geddes > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > MORAY-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes > in the subject and the body of the message >