Good morning, Linda:---could you send me the addresss of where to contact the HBC as my FLATTS came from Kirkwall, Orkney Isles and worked for the Hudson Bay Co. transporting prisoners across Canada and settled here in Ontario. Very interesting, thanks for sharing, Pat from Canada where I confuse the dead and irritate the living! ---------- > From: Linda Baikie Gee <gees@home.com> > To: ORKNEY-L@rootsweb.com > Subject: [ORKNEY-L] HBC INFO RECEIVED: BAIKIE, ROBERTSON, MOWAT, RENDALL ... > Date: Saturday, June 19, 1999 2:28 AM > > When the Hudson's Bay Company Archives sent me information on BAIKIES > who had been recruited from Orkney, they also sent a bonus -- a list of > some seventeen other men who worked for the HBC during the period > 1792-1808. I have the Hudson's Bay Company reference numbers so that you > can contact them for additional information. Plus, I can send you what > details I have: > > BAIKIE: Thomas - Birsay, Orkney Served 1858-1875 > Andrew - Costa, Evie, Orkney Served 1804-1822, age 28? > John - Walls, Orkney Served 1851-1861 > George -- Entered service 1807, age 37 > > ROBERTSON: > David Entered: 1797, age 31 > James 1792, age 41 > Thomas 1808, age 20 > John 1804, age 25 > > ROBINSON, George 1807, age 43 > > MOWAT: James 1803, age 49 > William 1809 > > RENDALL, George 1808, age 21 > Magnus 1807, age 39 > > ARTHUR, Magnus 1808, age 24 > > JOHNSTON, Thomas 1808, age 24 > > HARPER: Peter 1807, age 31 > William 1803, age 41 > > BALLENDEN, John 1807, 28 years > > I have no idea if these men were all from Orkney, if they worked > together, or what -- they were listed below the service record of Andrew > Baikie (described in HBCA's records as, "An excellent and trustworthy > man".) > > Linda > > P.S. Thanks again to Ron Garson who first put me on to the HBCA > P.P.S. If you want me to send you the attaments HBCA sent me, first let > me know whether you have Windows '95 or Windows '97 -- and if you have > neither, I'll send them anyway and we'll see what happens! >