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. William Taylor was my great-grandfather's younger brother, and he was included in my own writing about Orphir ancestors coming to the USA. Caroline, perhaps the William Tait also mentioned is your 19th-century relative: "Concluding their short stay in America sometime during 1853, William Tait and his family resolved to return home to Orkney. Joseph Halcro also aimed for those familiar shores. Some months earlier, all had left Scotland on the same boat which had transported William Taylor to the New World; but now they were expecting to be back in Orkney for the New Year." Best wishes, Dick Taylor Pawnee NeGenWeb <http://www.rootsweb.com/~nepawnee> At 01:40 PM 7/30/99 PDT, Caroline wrote: >Dear Meg & List > >thanks for the tip Meg, yes I do have some details on my particular >side of the Tait family:- > >Robert Tait (born about 1810)wed Margaret Wick (they lived in "Deerness" in >the Orkney Islands). They had 7 kids that I know of: > >William Tait (born 5 May 1833) >Jane Tait (born 1836) >Robert Tait (born 21 Jan 1838) >James Tait (born 6 Dec 1841) >John Hamilton Tait (born 29 Jan 1843) >David Tait (born 1845) >Andrew Smellie Tait (14 Jan or Feb 1847) - MY Great Great Grandfather >Married Kate Ellis 24 Jan 1883 > >I would appreciate any further details on this family, in particular Robert >Tait snr and Andrew Smellie Tait. > >thanks again > >Caroline Tait