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 > > >