Dear Janice, Although it is not my line of the family, there is a Cromarty (Cromartie) line that moved about that same time to Bladen, North Carolina from S. Ronaldsey? Have you researched the connection to see why they were being moved to that area from Orkney, and if there was a connection? Edward Cromarty ----- Original Message ----- From: "J. Harold Ivester" <jhivester@hi-s.com> To: <ORCADIA-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Tuesday, March 09, 2004 10:15 AM Subject: Re: [<orcadia>] HBC > Stephen, > Our Ivester ancestor, Hugh Isbister, came from Orkney to Savannah, > Georgia in 1775, the only Isbister to come to the South that I am aware of > (and I've done tons of research). We went back to Orkney in 1996, the first > of Hugh's descendents to do so, arriving in Stromess, where Hugh departed as > an indentured servant of Col. Thomas Browne - a famous Loyalist here in > Georgia. The story is fascinating and I'll tell you more if you are > interested. Am sending this to you off-line since it is more genealogy than > Orkney related. Don't have much time now so will talk to you later > > Janice Ivester > > > ==== ORCADIA Mailing List ==== > To unsubscribe from the Orcadia mailing list, send an e-mail with the word > 'unsubscribe' in the message body to orcadia-l-request@rootsweb.com > >