Linda, Thanks for that info, I will email the Archives and see what response I get. Pam -----Original Message----- From: Linda Thompson [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Wednesday, February 08, 2006 6:54 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [Orkney] Hiring Practices at Stromness Harbour the Manitoba Archives has a section that is very informative on the Hudson Bay Company. If the link doesn't work type in Hudson Bay archives and it should take you there. You have to copy the link into your browser. www.gov.mb.ca/chc/archives/hbca/about/hbca.html ----- Original Message ----- From: "Pam Gaudio" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Wednesday, February 08, 2006 7:58 PM Subject: [Orkney] Hiring Practices at Stromness Harbour > Looking for information on the Hudson's Bay Company's hiring practices > of recruits for Rupert's Land in the early 1800s. Can anyone help with > any information? My 3 X great grandfather was from Ireland but entered > into the service of the Hudson's Bay Company at Stromness Harbour in > 1814. > Any leads are welcome. > Pam > > > > > ==== ORKNEY Mailing List ==== > SPAM - best advice.. DELETE it. > > ============================== > Search the US Census Collection. Over 140 million records added in the > last 12 months. Largest online collection in the world. Learn more: > http://www.ancestry.com/s13965/rd.ashx ==== ORKNEY Mailing List ==== >>>>TIP: When when posting your research interests, include the surnames in your subject line - this will improve our list archive and assist future researchers.<<<< ============================== Search Family and Local Histories for stories about your family and the areas they lived. Over 85 million names added in the last 12 months. Learn more: http://www.ancestry.com/s13966/rd.ashx

the Manitoba Archives has a section that is very informative on the Hudson Bay Company. If the link doesn't work type in Hudson Bay archives and it should take you there. You have to copy the link into your browser. www.gov.mb.ca/chc/archives/hbca/about/hbca.html ----- Original Message ----- From: "Pam Gaudio" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Wednesday, February 08, 2006 7:58 PM Subject: [Orkney] Hiring Practices at Stromness Harbour > Looking for information on the Hudson's Bay Company's hiring practices > of recruits for Rupert's Land in the early 1800s. Can anyone help with > any information? My 3 X great grandfather was from Ireland but entered > into the service of the Hudson's Bay Company at Stromness Harbour in > 1814. > Any leads are welcome. > Pam > > > > > ==== ORKNEY Mailing List ==== > SPAM - best advice.. DELETE it. > > ============================== > Search the US Census Collection. Over 140 million records added in the > last 12 months. Largest online collection in the world. Learn more: > http://www.ancestry.com/s13965/rd.ashx

Looking for information on the Hudson's Bay Company's hiring practices of recruits for Rupert's Land in the early 1800s. Can anyone help with any information? My 3 X great grandfather was from Ireland but entered into the service of the Hudson's Bay Company at Stromness Harbour in 1814. Any leads are welcome. Pam

Andy, Shame no Dearnesses, any Rowans? They must have gone somewhere! Alex

There are very few passenger lists up until the latter part of the 1800's. From what I can see the site, at present, mainly has the early 1900s. Blake wrote: > Which are the earliest lists they are doing? Have never found my > GGf's name. > Blake Allan, Victoria > ----- Original Message ----- From: "Susanne & John Metcalfe" > <[email protected]> > To: <[email protected]> > Sent: Tuesday, February 07, 2006 7:03 PM > Subject: [Orkney] Canadian Passenger List > > >> >> >> The Nanaimo Family History centre has been indexing passenger lists >> coming to Canada >> it will take apox. 5 years to complete, some years already on line >> >> http://members.shaw.ca/nanaimo.fhs/ >> >> >> >> >> >> ==== ORKNEY Mailing List ==== >> SPAM - best advice.. DELETE it. >> >> ============================== >> Search Family and Local Histories for stories about your family and the >> areas they lived. Over 85 million names added in the last 12 months. >> Learn more: http://www.ancestry.com/s13966/rd.ashx >> >> >> >> -- >> No virus found in this incoming message. >> Checked by AVG Free Edition. >> Version: 7.1.375 / Virus Database: 267.15.2/252 - Release Date: >> 06/02/2006 >> >> > > > ==== ORKNEY Mailing List ==== > >>>>> Orkney list now has 329 subscribers <<<<< >>>> > > ============================== > Search Family and Local Histories for stories about your family and the > areas they lived. Over 85 million names added in the last 12 months. > Learn more: http://www.ancestry.com/s13966/rd.ashx > >

The Nanaimo Family History centre has been indexing passenger lists coming to Canada it will take apox. 5 years to complete, some years already on line http://members.shaw.ca/nanaimo.fhs/

Which are the earliest lists they are doing? Have never found my GGf's name. Blake Allan, Victoria ----- Original Message ----- From: "Susanne & John Metcalfe" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Tuesday, February 07, 2006 7:03 PM Subject: [Orkney] Canadian Passenger List > > > The Nanaimo Family History centre has been indexing passenger lists coming > to Canada > it will take apox. 5 years to complete, some years already on line > > http://members.shaw.ca/nanaimo.fhs/ > > > > > > ==== ORKNEY Mailing List ==== > SPAM - best advice.. DELETE it. > > ============================== > Search Family and Local Histories for stories about your family and the > areas they lived. Over 85 million names added in the last 12 months. > Learn more: http://www.ancestry.com/s13966/rd.ashx > > > > -- > No virus found in this incoming message. > Checked by AVG Free Edition. > Version: 7.1.375 / Virus Database: 267.15.2/252 - Release Date: 06/02/2006 > >

Old notes provide this Glasgow census hit for 1871. Have nothing more on this family, just wrote it down about 2001 while searching for a BRADDEN. Agnes BRADDEN married William HALCROW who was born 1885, Kirkwall. They married in New York City, then went to Nevada where my mother's family grew up. Have Wm's family back to a 1766 marriage in Orphir. Agnes's line goes back to Donegal, Ireland. Meg Greenwood / Oklahoma USA Glasgow, Barony, ED43, p8 - James TULLOCH, unmarried, Draper's assistant born Kirkwall Ann TULLOCH, sister, unmarried, 50 born Stromness Robina MILLER, unmarried, 24 born Kirkwall Another finding of interest, no proven link, I just see this name a lot in Orkney : ED43 p16 - Margaret ISBISTER, widow, 56 born Glasgow Jessie ISBISTER, Daughter, unmarried, 37 born US ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

I have now added transcriptions of Flotta births/baptisms for 1840-1854 and marriages 1845-1854 to the Flotta Web Guide. This also includes records for the island of Fara. You can find them at: http://www.flottawebguide.co.uk/research/opr-births/opr-births.htm Sheena www.flottawebguide.co.uk

[subject - South Ronaldsay & Burray] Any temporary issues with the site have been worked out now, and although I still want to do some other Updating, and I also have more photos to add (I wish there were 30 hours in each day!), I have now launched the new web site, 'South Ronaldsay and Burray 19th-century Marriages: Extracted Index'. Over thirteen hundred marriages indexed, from 1800-1899! whew Lisa -- SouthRonaldsay.net < http://www.SouthRonaldsay.net/ > {> on 12/18/05 2:16 AM <} [email protected] wrote -- Fiona ... I wasn't looking for any thing in particular just looking to see if Lisa had updated Cathy ----- Is any one having problems geting into Lisa's site.-- Southronaldsay.net I have been trying for the past few days with no success. Cathy

Most people with Orcadian ancestors will have Canadian cousins so I'm sure this will be of interest. Regards David Armstrong Maylands, Western Australia Researching Stewart, Baikie, Heddle, Malcomson, Stout, Gray, Cromarty, Oman, Anderson, Sutherland > Lovell's Directory of Montreal has been digitized for the years 1842 to 1930. > > http://bibnum2.bnquebec.ca/bna/lovell/index.html >

Hello List, I am in need of engaging a researcher to help me find some information which I believe might be at the Kirkwall Library. If someone on list would be available or could recommend someone, I would greatly appreciate it. Please contact me off-list to work out details, etc. Thank you! Bye for now, Karen www.geocities.com/ksteel.geo

Stewart Sandison was my great grandmother.She was the 5th child of William Sandison May Reid.She married John Wilson (widower) in 1863. They had 4 children. My grandmother marjory was the 2nd child. But what I am really trying to find out is what took a Wetray couple to Grangemouth.in what must have been a horrendous journey ----- Original Message ----- From: <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Saturday, January 14, 2006 7:25 PM Subject: Re: [Orkney] Westray > Hi there > I have a Stewart Sandison born 1844 in Westray to William Sandison and > Marjory/May Reid. Is there a connection? Unfortunately I don't have any > further > info on her. > Fiona > > > ==== ORKNEY Mailing List ==== >>>>>TIP: To search the archives of this list go to >>>>>http://listsearches.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/listsearch.pl?list=ORKNEY on >>>>>the next page enter your search word(s) and select the year click the >>>>>submit query button<<<< > > ============================== > Search Family and Local Histories for stories about your family and the > areas they lived. Over 85 million names added in the last 12 months. > Learn more: http://www.ancestry.com/s13966/rd.ashx > > >

John Wilson and his wife Stewart Sandison went to grangemouth some time prior to 1868 can anyone tell me why they would do this leaving behind a son also John and returning to Westray some time after l868 The date of my grandmother `s birth in Grangemouth.

Hi there I have a Stewart Sandison born 1844 in Westray to William Sandison and Marjory/May Reid. Is there a connection? Unfortunately I don't have any further info on her. Fiona

Looking for info on a William McCray, born abt. 1793. Any info would be appreciated

That Thursday was a favoured day for baptisms and that other ministers customarily attended local ordinations is new information to me and makes some sense out of this particular situation. The parents of the child in question were both from Walls families, but who knows . there may have been some other previous connection with the Rev. James Tyrie from Sandwick. Thanks for your response, James! Bruce Young

A fascinating question. Some of the more obvious possibilities are that Bremner was sick or on vacation and Tyrie was "standing in" for him, or that, as I believe was the custom, ministers occasionally used to "swap" on Sundays, each visiting the other's church to take the services there. This might entail a routine baptism. But I find (from www.genuki.org.uk/big/easter/index.html) that 12 March 1772 was not a Sunday but a Thursday, which I believe was a favoured day for baptisms. Digging deeper, I find (from John Smith, Church in Orkney, 1907; Fasti, 1929) that Bremner had been ordained in Walls the previous day, 11 March 1772. It was, I believe, the custom for several other ministers to attend local ordinations, so I suspect this was the reason why Tyrie had visited Walls on this occasion. But why was this baptism conducted by a visiting minister rather than the incumbant? Here I suspect the answer may lie with the parents of the child. Did either parent come from Sandwick, or were either relatives of Tyrie? If the answer to both these questions is no, then perhaps Bremner not popular with some of his parishiones (he had been presented the previous year by Lord Dundas and James Moodie of Melsetter), and the child's parents took this opportunity to snub their new incumbant. But this would have placed Tyrie in an awkward position, so I think this possibility unlikely. Alas the surviving Kirk Session Minutes for Walls do not go back before 1837, so you can't check there. James Irvine ----- Original Message ----- From: "Bruce Young" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Sunday, January 08, 2006 7:01 PM Subject: REV. JAMES TYRIE - REV. JAMES BREMNER > Would any readers care to suggest why Rev. James Tyrie, Minister of > Sandwick > Parish would travel to Walls Parish to baptize a Walls child there on 12 > March 1772, when Rev. James Bremner was the Minister in Walls at the time? > Thanks, > Bruce Young > [email protected] > > > > ______________________________

The CWGC site tells he was attached to HMS Black Prince See <http://www.cwgc.org/cwgcinternet/casualty_details.aspx?casualty=3033817> Cheers, Barry, on the Sunshine Coast, Queensland [email protected] (Constant Virus Monitoring by NAV - 04/01/2006 update.) David Armstrong wrote: >As a seaman in the Royal Navy (RN), his next of kin details would have been on file. The Fiscal obviously obtained them from the Navy. > >Scapa Flow was a major base for the Royal Navy in both World Wars. Interestingly your transcription doesn't give a ship's name. Perhaps he was attached to the Lyness shore station which only closed in the 1950's. > >I believe ships of the U.S. Navy that operated in European waters during the First World War were also based in Scapa Flow. > >Regards > >David Armstrong >Maylands, Western Australia >Researching Stewart, Baikie, Heddle, >Malcomson, Stout, Gray, Cromarty, >Oman, Anderson, Sutherland > ----- Original Message ----- > From: Greenwood > To: [email protected] > Sent: Sunday, January 08, 2006 3:30 PM > Subject: [Orkney] Frank LONG death, Orphir 1915 > > > Came across a drowning in the 1915 Deaths for Orphir. The deceased was > from England. No relation to this family, posting it for the unexpected > link to Hertfordshire. Not sure how parent's names were gotten if he > wasn't a local.....perhaps he was swept off an English ship in Scapa > Flow and had no links to Orkney at all. Meg Greenwood > > Frank Edwin LONG, Able Seaman, R.N. Single./ died Sept 30 about 12:30pm > aged 22y at Scapa Flow. Usual residence Hawkswich Lodge, St Albans, > Herts. Parents were George Long, Cowman & Emma LONG ms CONSTABLE. Cause > was Accidental Drowning. Body not recovered. Registered on information > of James BEGG, Procurator Fiscal. Registered Oct 27 at Orphir, Thomas > Inkster, Registrar. There is an RCE notation in the margin - See Reg. of > Corr. Ents. Vol 1 p53, Oct 27, 1915. > > > ==== ORKNEY Mailing List ==== > >>>> Orkney list now has 329 subscribers <<<<< > > ============================== > Search the US Census Collection. Over 140 million records added in the > last 12 months. Largest online collection in the world. Learn more: http://www.ancestry.com/s13965/rd.ashx > > >==== ORKNEY Mailing List ==== > > >>>>>TIP: To unsubscribe, send an e-mail message to: [email protected] In the body include only one word: unsubscribe >>>>> >>>>> >Use Orkney-D if you're receiving digests.<<<< > >============================== >Search Family and Local Histories for stories about your family and the >areas they lived. Over 85 million names added in the last 12 months. >Learn more: http://www.ancestry.com/s13966/rd.ashx > > > > >

Hi all, I have a Catherine M, born Holm, Orkney, married to James Brown, born Echt, Aberdeenshire,living at Braehead, Holm in the 1871 Census of HOlm. I believe Catherine to be Catherine Manson from the transcribed records at www.cursiter.com [Thank you so much for the transcriptions!!]. Does anyone have any information concerning Catherine and her family? Are the Mansons an Orkney family? Any information or hints appreciated. Jane __________________________________________ Yahoo! DSL – Something to write home about. Just $16.99/mo. or less. dsl.yahoo.com