The crew agreements should be at the Maritime History Archive, Memorial University, St John's, Newfoundland. Cheers David, Perth, Western Australia ----- Original Message ----- From: Yarbro Family <yarbro@wctc.net> To: <ORKNEY-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Wednesday, December 15, 1999 10:33 PM Subject: [ORKNEY] Tea Clipper > A cousin passed away before explaining to anyone what all her genealogy notes meant. Her daughter and I have been able to decipher many of them, and I'm trying to follow up on some of them. One note mentions the TEA CLIPPER, 'MARY NELSON" with the date 18 Nov 1872. At first I suspected this might be one the ships that WILLIAM LEITH (b. Sept. 15,1822) worked on. However he died in 1869 (if my records are correct) Does anyone have more on this ship? > > He sailed back to Orkney in 1853 and married MARGARET ANN CLOUSON. William is the son of J.D. LEITH. That is all we know about their ancestry right now. Is anyone is looking into Leiths or Cloustons?. > > Kate > yarbro@wctc.net > >