Ive got a Frances Baikie married to a Lieutenant Gilbert Traill RN from Orkney. There is a book called the Frotoft Branch of the Orkney Traills that a guy called Ken Traill sent to me that has lots of my Liddells in it and the Baikie reference came from that. Id be interested to hear if that is your branch and if you can add more names of her descendants. Regards, Deirdre Liddell Hay. -----Original Message----- From: Raymond and Linda Gee <gees@home.com> To: ORKNEY-L@rootsweb.com <ORKNEY-L@rootsweb.com> Date: Wednesday, June 02, 1999 1:15 PM Subject: Re: [ORKNEY-L] Longhope, Orkney >Hi, Jan ~ > >Thank you for the information. I've come across some of your surnames >in following the ancestral line I'm currently tracing: > >As of right now, I do not have confirmed starting information, so am >just "cruising" web sources. I know only that my great-grandfather was >a William Baikie >of Orkney, who emigrated to Illinois, USA where my grandfather James >Petrie Baikie was born in 1901. I'm assuming there was a Petrie in >his line somewhere close, so have settled upon 2 William Baikies born in >the >appropriate timeframe as probables ancestors. From there I've traced >back through >the Custer list and using the LDS FamilySearch website. Much of the >ancestor line that I'm following on the LDS site comes from work >submitted by D.S. >Armstrong in Australia (who I've not contacted yet). I'm waiting until >I can confirm (through US sources) the exact name of my >great-grandfather before I jump in any deeper than what is available >online. > >The surnames I'm looking at right now are: Baikie, Petrie, >Robson/Robertson, Malcomson, Dunnet, Nicholson, Sinclair, Gray, Wilson > >Linda Baikie Gee >Fremont, California, USA > > > >Robert Grant wrote: >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: Raymond and Linda Gee <gees@home.com> >> Subject: [ORKNEY-L] Longhope, Orkney >> >> >Can anyone tell me what parish Longhope is in, and what island it's on. >> >Is there somewhere on the web an Orkney reference that lists the towns >> >in each parish? And can anyone suggest what seaport someone emigrating >> >from Orkney to America/Canada would take? I'm interested in searching >> >passenger lists. Thank you. >> >> I was just wondering what surnames you are researching since most of my >> family came from Longhope. My main line is Smith, with others being Rich, >> Nicolson, Allan, Wilson, Robson, Cromarty, Thomson, Omand, Bruce, Stout and >> Sinclair. The small strip of land between North and South Walls is called >> The Nyre. >> >> Jan Grant >> Canberra, Australia > >______________________________