Hi All I found this information and thought it might be useful to someone. Count: 20108 Official_Number: 148765 Departure_Date: 1927-06-16 Contract_Ticket_No: 0 Title: Passenger_Surname: Sinclair Passenger_Name_s: James M Date_of_Birth: 0000-00-00 Organised_Group: Hudson's Bay Company Travel_Agent: Gender: Male Marital_Status: Name_of_Building: Strathrale? Sub_Street_Number: Sub_Street_Name: House_Number: Street_Name: Burray Urban_District_or_Village: St Margaret's Hope Town_City_or_Island: Orkney County: Orkney Type_of_Passenger: British Class_of_Passage: First Destination_Port: Montreal Occupation: Apprentice Clerk Age_Category: Male over 12 Age: 20.000 Country_of_Birth: Not stated Origin_Country: Scotland Destination_Country: Canada Journey_Cancelled: 0 Country_of_which_subject: Not stated Port_of_Arrival_in_UK: Steamship_Line_to_UK: Notes: The ship details: Ships_Name: Bayrupert Official_Number: 148765 Steamship_Line: Hudson's Bay Company Masters_Name: Thomas F. Smellie Registered_Tonnage: 2414 Passenger_Footage: 0 Number_of_Statute_Adults: 0 Where_Bound: Montreal Provisions_for_Adults: 100 Provision_days: 180 Departure_date: 1927-06-16 Date_signed: 1927-06-16 Dock: Port_of_Embarkation: Ardrossan TNA_Catalogue_Reference: BT 27/1146 Notes: Owned by the Hudson's Bay Company Original_Port_of_Departure: Number_of_Statute_Passengers_from_This_Port: 0 William Sinclair

Hello, The info that you provided will no doubt be of interest to someone but I was going to ask you for the reference in case there was other useful info [for me, at least] from this source. Finally, tho', I saw a reference near the end of your e-mail: TNA_Catalogue_Reference: BT 27/1146. For me it would have been helpful if I knew where this reference came from and what time period that it covered. However I did find the source and the following reference will help others: I now know it will not be of any use for me to trace my Leith ancestors who left S. Ronaldsay in the early 1870's. Thank you, William, for leading me to this reference from The National Archives that is cited online at: http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/displaycataloguedetails.asp?CATLN=6&CATID=3172754&j=1 I wouldn't have known about the "Outwards passenger lists" otherwise! ======================================================== Piece details BT 27/766 BT Records of the Board of Trade and of successor and related bodies Division within BT Records of the Commercial, Companies, Labour, Railways and Statistics Departments BT 27 Board of Trade: Commercial and Statistical Department and successors: Outwards Passenger Lists Record Summary Scope and content: Outwards passenger lists Covering dates: c1890-1960 Availability: Open Document, Open Description, Open Immediately, 3 working days notice to produce Held by: The National Archives, Kew ========================================================= Roger Leith Cockerline Guelph, ON, Canada ----- Original Message ----- From: "William Sinclair" <sensiblegrandad@googlemail.com> To: <orkney@rootsweb.com> Sent: Saturday, July 12, 2008 10:13 AM Subject: [ORKNEY] James M Sinclair St Margarets Hope > Hi All > > I found this information and thought it might be useful to someone. > > Count: 20108 > Official_Number: 148765 > Departure_Date: 1927-06-16 > Contract_Ticket_No: 0 > Title: > Passenger_Surname: Sinclair > Passenger_Name_s: James M > Date_of_Birth: 0000-00-00 > Organised_Group: Hudson's Bay Company > Travel_Agent: > Gender: Male > Marital_Status: > Name_of_Building: Strathrale? > Sub_Street_Number: > Sub_Street_Name: > House_Number: > Street_Name: Burray > Urban_District_or_Village: St Margaret's Hope > Town_City_or_Island: Orkney > County: Orkney > Type_of_Passenger: British > Class_of_Passage: First > Destination_Port: Montreal > Occupation: Apprentice Clerk > Age_Category: Male over 12 > Age: 20.000 > Country_of_Birth: Not stated > Origin_Country: Scotland > Destination_Country: Canada > Journey_Cancelled: 0 > Country_of_which_subject: Not stated > Port_of_Arrival_in_UK: > Steamship_Line_to_UK: > Notes: > > The ship details: > > Ships_Name: Bayrupert > Official_Number: 148765 > Steamship_Line: Hudson's Bay Company > Masters_Name: Thomas F. Smellie > Registered_Tonnage: 2414 > Passenger_Footage: 0 > Number_of_Statute_Adults: 0 > Where_Bound: Montreal > Provisions_for_Adults: 100 > Provision_days: 180 > Departure_date: 1927-06-16 > Date_signed: 1927-06-16 > Dock: > Port_of_Embarkation: Ardrossan > TNA_Catalogue_Reference: BT 27/1146 > Notes: Owned by the Hudson's Bay Company > Original_Port_of_Departure: > Number_of_Statute_Passengers_from_This_Port: 0 > > William Sinclair > ------------------ > List Archives, information on contacting list administrator, Subscribing > and UnSubscribing can be found at: > > http://lists.rootsweb.com/index/intl/SCT/ORKNEY.html > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > ORKNEY-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes > in the subject and the body of the message > > > No virus found in this incoming message. > Checked by AVG - http://www.avg.com > Version: 8.0.138 / Virus Database: 270.4.9/1548 - Release Date: 7/12/2008 > 7:40 AM > > >

I have already made enquiries about the History of Halcros on the Caithness and Shetland Rootsweb Lists. I received information about a History of Halcros document written by Sandy Annal. I contacted the Orkney Family History Society but they could not trace this document. Can anyone on this list help? I was also enquiring about suggestions that Rattars from Caithness took over the Halcro lands in Orkney, in the 1400s, and also took the Halcro name. Does anyone have any knowledge of that claim? My Halcro(w)s are thought to have moved from Orkney to Shetland in the 1500s. Best wishes, Jim Halcrow