>Raymond and Linda Gee wrote: >And can anyone suggest what seaport someone emigrating from Orkney to >America/Canada would take? >Linda >Fremont, California, USA >Hi Linda. >For 200 years between 1690 & 1890, every year, hundreds of Orcadians signed >contracts with the Hudson Bay Company and sailed from Stromness to Canada. >Some >returned some settled in N America. >Longhope itself was a busy harbour in the18th and 19th century. J. G. Moodie >recorded that about 1805, at one time, there would be 300 vessels, of one >or two >masts, moored in the harbour. He recalls that he had seen 22 vessels, America >bound, set sail from Longhope in an afternoon. > I am researching Anderson, Banks, Cromarty, Mckay, Nicolson, Oman, Rich and >Robson from Walls. >Ron Hello Ron, you may want to check my web page re orkney's. http://www.island.net/~hme/mr.html Monte