Thanks Jan, I'll file your Shearer names in case they come up again. Regards Peter >Hello Peter, >Sorry no I have not come across your Shearer. My connection is William >Shearer who married Elizabeth (Betsy) Smith on 10 January 1843 at Hurliness, >Walls. Betsy was the sister of my g-g-g-grandfather. All relatives I have >traced have been from Walls and Flotta or Caithness only spreading out to >the mainland and other places around 1900. > >Please let me know if there is any connection. > >Regards, >Jan > >-----Original Message----- >From: Peter Davis <pdavis@nrg.com.au> >To: ORKNEY-L@rootsweb.com <ORKNEY-L@rootsweb.com> >Date: Sunday, 28 March 1999 4:32 PM >Subject: [ORKNEY-L] SHERAR > > >>G'day Jan >> >>I noticed that you are researching the SHEARER name. Have you come >>across a Mary SHERAR [ an alternate spelling of Shearer] b. abt. 1806 >>in Shapinshay? >>Mary married William SCOTT on 7-11-1827 on Eday, and they and their >>children emigrated to Australia in 1849. >> >>Different Islands to your family I know, but worth checking >> >>Regards >> >>Peter >> >>Coffee Camp >>NSW >>Australia >> >> >> >>>Thanks for the info Shyama. Yes I was one of the very first to >>purchase the >>>fiche of the 1851 census of Walls and Flotta from David. We >>connected >>>through the Genealogical Research Directory in 1990 as we were >>researching >>>the same surname in Orkney and are something like 8th cousins. >>>Unfortunately, or fortunately, my relations all seem to come from >>Walls and >>>Flotta with a few moving to Orphir and only spreading out to mainland >>>Scotland and other parts of the world around 1900+. The names I am >>>researching are Smith, Nicholson, Sinclair, Groat, Ritch, Shearer, >>Thomson, >>>Robson. Further back they came from Caithness around early 1700's >>and that >>>is where I have come to a dead end. >>> >>>Regards, >>>Jan Grant >> >> >>