Great! Blake Allan JOHN KELDAY wrote: > > Hello Stu et al, > We do seem to have quite a few people > interested in the Garrioch surname. You are quite right, the parish of Holm > & Paplay is right next to Kirkwall. Kirkwall is where my name Kelday is > from, from my grandfather Jonathan Garrioch Kelday, way back to 1600 (ish). > Like many Orcadians and other Scots, my grandfather and his brother left > for Canada, and I have relatives on Vancouver Island. However I live in the > UK in North Yorkshire, so Edinburgh and the records office is only a 3 > hour drive from here. > > If you, Karen, and Robert agree we could carry on the correspondence via > our e-mail addresses, if that is what is normally done, as I am planning a > visit to Edinburgh in the spring and if I have names and dates then maybe > we can kill at least 4 birds with one stone as it were. > > Regards > > John Kelday >