Hello, everybody I must express thanks to Meg and Ken for their very informative responses to my previous message. For anyone interested, Reginald George SMELLIE's published verse from 1908 has been uploaded (earlier I mistakenly said the book was copyrighted 1906). And here is where you can click a link to that selection: <http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~oldtimes/yesteryear> Signatures of John Brass and John Spence are online, and soon I will upload an old map of Orkney. Much obliged, Dick Taylor At 02:40 PM 8/2/99 -0400, Ken wrote: >Dick (and others interested in surname SMELLIE) > >Reginald George SMELLIE was born 1880 and died 1924, the son of Robert >Scarth SMELLIE and Mary Lucy MACRAE. Robert Scarth SMELLIE was born 1855 >in Fergus, Ontario, Canada, the 7th of the 10 children of George SMELLIE >(b. 1811 in St. Andrews, Orkney) and Margaret Lendrum LOGIE (b. 1815 in >Kirkwall). > >George was an elder brother of the Andrew Smith SMELLIE after whom Andrew >Smellie TAIT, at the bottom of this string, was named, and which started >this string) and the 5th of the 18 children of James SMELLIE (minister of >St. Andrews) and Margaret SPENCE (my GGG-Gparents). > >Margaret LOGIE was the eldest of the 11 children of Dr. William LOGIE.DD >(minister of St. Magnus Cathedral (1824-1856) and Elizabeth SCARTH, >daughter of James SCARTH of Cursiter and Margaret LENDRUM. > >I have FAR more information on all of these persons, their ancestors and >descendants, but won't bore the list with it now. > >Dick, would you please send me any more pertinent details from the humour >book you mentioned, pertaining to Reginald George SMELLIE? > >Thanks > >Message text written by INTERNET:ORKNEY-L@rootsweb.com >>X-Message: #6 >Date: Sun, 01 Aug 1999 21:07:29 -0500 >From: Dick Taylor <husker@sky.net> >To: ORKNEY-L@rootsweb.com >Subject: Re: [ORKNEY-L] Tait Family > >Hi, Caroline & others > >Only a couple days ago I received a book copyrighted 1906: _Caricature - >the Wit & Humor of a Nation in Picture, Song & Story - Illustrated by >America's Greatest Artists_. While browsing through those old pages, I >noticed something oddly reminiscent about a byline associated with poetic >parodies. The contributor was Reginald G. Smellie, and later it came to me >that I'd seen his surname on Orkney-L. > >(snip) > >Best wishes, > >Dick Taylor >Pawnee NeGenWeb <http://www.rootsweb.com/~nepawnee>