Hi: I have all the time you need to help unload my Isbister files. some of this information I just received from Orkney. I will be away this weekend, but i am generally around. I found an Isbister relative in Aurstralia, and a few elsewhere, including one in Orkney. Stephen On Tuesday, March 9, 2004, at 07:15 AM, J. Harold Ivester wrote: > 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 >

In March 1919 a wooden box containing a skull and bones was found during extensive renovation work in St Magnus Cathedral. The skull, which showed clear signs of injury, was heralded as that of Saint Magnus - the martyr of Orkney who was murdered at Easter 1117. But are the remains actually those of the Orkney saint? Not necessarily, says the eminent archaeologist Professor Don Brothwell, who has concluded that the damage to the skull does not match the Orkneyinga Saga's account of the murder of Magnus on Egilsay in 1117. Full story at http://www.orkneyjar.com/archaeology/magnusremains.htm -- Sigurd Towrie Blackhall - Kirbister - Stromness - Orkney Heritage of Orkney: www.orkneyjar.com Home: sigurd@orkneyjar.com Work: sigurd.towrie@orcadian.co.uk