Hi; I am trying to connect with descendants of my great grandmother's family so that I can share information. Her name was Kate Carmichael and she was married in Baddeck around1875 to Murdoch Carmichael (same last name, no relation). I know a bit about her family, and almost nothing about Murdoch's family. Her father Robert, came from the Isle of Lewis around 1840 and they lived first around North River and later in Baddeck. Robert and his wife Catherine (MacLean) had eight children: Marion, Anne (m. MacLellan), Rachel (m. MacLeod), Neil (m Jessie?), lived in Boulardarie and was also a postmaster in either Baddeck or Sydney, Donald (m Ann Ross) lived in Maccan, Sarah (m Frank Anley) lived in Winnipeg, Mary (m Daniel MacPherson) lived in Albion Mines (aka Stellarton), and Kate my ggrandmother, m Murdoch Carmichael and lived in Baddeck, where they had one child (my grandmother Catherine). Kate's husband, Murdoch, left for the gold mines in the West (California?) around 1880 and was never heard from again, and was presumed dead. She later remarried to John Snow (1896) in Springhill, then moved to Winnipeg and on to the Crowsnest Pass area of Alberta, and finally Nelson BC. I am also trying to find any info about my ggrandfather Murdoch Carmichael, as the Presbyterian Church they were married in, in Baddeck, burned down sometime in the 1880's or 90's and as far as I know, all the records went with it.. My grandmother used to say his family was from the Isle of Skye, and they used to visit back and forth from Scotland. She also had a very old gaelic prayer book with the inscription, 'Ann Carmichael, Rear Baddeck, 1811', so his family may have been in Cape Breton for many years already. The older records for Cape Breton do not mention the gaelic settlers very often, and the ships records are non-existent for the most part, so I have hit a dead end here for many years. Many Thanks, Vi Hughes Edmonton