In Saskatchewan, Canada, south of a town called Prince Albert, there was a small siding town called Halcro [a stop on a train route]. A book on Montana pioneers contained a section on Thomas HALCRO who wed Margaret Georgina GROUNDWATER [both from Orphir]. Thomas said the man who gave his name to the little town was his uncle, John HALCRO. Here is what was said in the chapter about Halcro, Saskatchewan which ceased to be incorporated about 1925 and is today almost derelict but for a few homes, the abandoned church and cemetery. The pioneer book was written around 1910 in Montana, USA. .... "His grandfather [Thomas HALCRO's grandfather, William HALCRO] was a laborer on the estate of the landlords of the locality and married a Miss Margaret Bews. They had 4 sons, William, James, John and Joseph, and a daughter, Jane who became the wife of an Englishman, Richard Smith. Of these 4 brothers, John came to America and settled north of Prince Albert, in a little community growing up there and taking his name. It is believed he married a native woman, their being few white women in that region." .... John must have gone to Canada after the 1841 Scotland census, as he was found aged 20 with his siblings in Orphir in that census. Still haven't unraveled this mystery....or found any John HALCRO in Canadian censuses around Prince Albert. Continuing to look for someone to go through that old cemetery in Halcro, Saskatchewan. The MIs are supposed to be transcribed now, a church group was working on it over 3y ago but I've found nothing with inquiries.....yet. ALSO, there was a mine [ore, probably copper] in northeastern Nevada called the Orphir mine. Working mines that produced ore had their output in tons listed in the area newspaper. My grandfather, William HALCRO born Kirkwall in 1885 moved to Contact, Nevada with his wife and young son when he thought he was going to get rich mining copper. As the only Orcadian in the area, he may have named the mine after the place where he grew up - Orphir. Meg Greenwood / Oklahoma USA ========================= >