Kate/Catriona - I think Scampeter *must* be in Lewis as there are well over 100 people recorded there in the 1841 census. If you Google for Scampeter you'll see what I mean. And Blackpool has 8 people of two families, and is listed right next to Grigaspool. So I don't think any amusement parks, trams, and illuminations are involved ;-) But.... these places are definitely not all in Lochs! The numbers 534-705 include Carloway and Shawbost! However let's start at the beginning - I think these places may be in some sort of order (please will someone from Lewis who speaks Gaelic come and help out as I really am talking through a hole in my head here - but I am good at using Google and reasonably good with a map). Here are the places in order: Airnish (presumably now spelled Arnish or Airinis) - up on the very northern side of the Loch-covered area, and near Stornoway Kinliniavary (I can't identify this from a map, or from Google, but it was once a sizeable settlement) Raernish (presumably now spelled Ranish or Ranais and presumably related to the geographic features Aird Raerinis and Rudha Raerinis) - now we're clearly down in North Lochs Liverbost (could this be Leurbost?) Scampeter (as yet unidentified) Cuither (there's a Cuidhir right by Ranais on the map) Keose (marked on the OS map as Ceòs) - this is the next road down off the main Stornoway to Harris road Valtos (could this be what is now called Laxay or Lacasaidh as there is a Loch Bhaltois and a Taigh Bhaltois right next to it?) Habost (there's a Tabost - the same as Habost, directly across the loch from Laxay) Kershader (next to Tabost, Cearsiadar on the map) Cavesta (Cabharstadh on the map) Torsta (Torasdaidh on the map) Need I go further - these places are in order - sometimes there are modern places in between which do not seem to be mentioned, sometimes they are just slightly out of the geographical order one might expect from a map, but they are in order - which places Scampeter somewhere near Ranais and Leurbost! Kind regards Peter Reynolds ----- Original Message ----- From: "Catriona Ferris" <kate@globalnet.co.uk> To: <ROSSGEN-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Tuesday, June 28, 2005 6:25 PM Subject: Re: [RossGen] place name in Lochs > That is not a place in Lochs - in common with Blackpool, which I see as > another Place of Birth (I presume). > Kate > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Joan Cairney" <jocair@lineone.net> > To: <ROSSGEN-L@rootsweb.com> > Sent: Monday, June 27, 2005 7:46 PM > Subject: [RossGen] place name in Lochs > > >> Hi >> I have been reading an online transcript of the 1841 census for Lochs and >> one of the places mentioned is Scampeter. I can manage to make out what > the >> other place names are although they are not spelled correctly but i am >> completely stuck on this one. Can anyone help? >> thanks >> Joan >> >> >> >> -- >> No virus found in this outgoing message. >> Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. >> Version: 7.0.323 / Virus Database: 267.8.1/28 - Release Date: 24/06/2005 >> >> >> ==== ROSSGEN Mailing List ==== >> To remove your email address from this list, visit this url: > http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~cheps/maillist.htm >> >> >> > > > ==== ROSSGEN Mailing List ==== > To remove your email address from this list, visit this url: > http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~cheps/maillist.htm > >

That is not a place in Lochs - in common with Blackpool, which I see as another Place of Birth (I presume). Kate ----- Original Message ----- From: "Joan Cairney" <jocair@lineone.net> To: <ROSSGEN-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Monday, June 27, 2005 7:46 PM Subject: [RossGen] place name in Lochs > Hi > I have been reading an online transcript of the 1841 census for Lochs and > one of the places mentioned is Scampeter. I can manage to make out what the > other place names are although they are not spelled correctly but i am > completely stuck on this one. Can anyone help? > thanks > Joan > > > > -- > No virus found in this outgoing message. > Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. > Version: 7.0.323 / Virus Database: 267.8.1/28 - Release Date: 24/06/2005 > > > ==== ROSSGEN Mailing List ==== > To remove your email address from this list, visit this url: http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~cheps/maillist.htm > > >

Hi I have been reading an online transcript of the 1841 census for Lochs and one of the places mentioned is Scampeter. I can manage to make out what the other place names are although they are not spelled correctly but i am completely stuck on this one. Can anyone help? thanks Joan -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.323 / Virus Database: 267.8.1/28 - Release Date: 24/06/2005

My great-grandmother, Mary Matheson Bain, was born in Cromarty in 1843. Her parents were James Bain, ferryman, and Margaret Mackeddie [McKeddy]. We do not know why 'Matheson' was given as a middle name, but perhaps there is a connection to the Bain/Matheson family mentioned in Kate's note. Betsy Rugala - USA > From: "family lucas" <family_lucas_5@hotmail.com> > To: ROSSGEN-L@rootsweb.com > Subject: Bain,Matheson,McCray Highfield 1830's > > Seeking > Alexander Bain/Catherine Matheson who's child > Margaret Hannah Bain was born > 1838 Highfield Ross Shire. > Margaret married Robert Buchan > Cheers > Kate from Australia > > _________________________________________________________________ > Winks & nudges are here - download MSN Messenger 7.0 > today! > http://messenger.msn.co.uk > __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com

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Can you let us know which of your MacKenzie ancestors came from in Nigg? Anne Subject: [RossGen] surname interest Lochcarron: FORBES, MacKAY, TOLMIE, McLEOD, MacLENNAN, Nigg: MacKENIZE, MUNRO Kilmiuri-Easter: SUTHERLAND Forbes Sutherland (Colorado) ==== ROSSGEN Mailing List ==== To remove your email address from this list, visit this url: http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~cheps/maillist.htm ___________________________________________________________ How much free photo storage do you get? Store your holiday snaps for FREE with Yahoo! Photos http://uk.photos.yahoo.com

G'day Cobbers, For those of you with an interest in the McLEAN surname, please have a look at my homepage, through the Greg's Ancestry: http://member.melbpc.org.au/~kennethb/ Hope of interest to some viewers. Regards Greg Baldwin Ferntree Gully, Victoria, Australia Homepage: http://member.melbpc.org.au/~kennethb/ Email: kennethb@melbpc.org.au All incoming & outgoing files & emails checked by VET Anti-Virus software. AIGS 9842 A&NESFHS 9933 KFHS 7736 Researching Surnames: ALLEN - Cornwall, Eng. BAILEY - Plymouth, Eng>New Plymouth, Taranaki, NZ BALDWIN - Kent, Eng>New Zealand> Qld, AUS BENTON - Warwick, Eng BIRCH - Yorkshire, Eng> Qld, AUS BRODIE - Parish of Boyndie, Banffshire, SCT BROWN - Wellington, NZ CAMERON - Black Isle, SCT CLARK - Rhynie & Essie, Aberdeen SCT COKER - Rongeta, Wellington, NZ CROZIER - Banbridge, Down, NIR > NZ DEAN - Elgin, Elgin, Scotland EDWARDS - Cornwall, Eng. FRANCES - AUS GRANT - Rhynie, Aberdeen, SCT INCH - Cornwall, Eng>New Zealand INGLIS - Banff/Moray, SCT LANGDON - NZ LAURANCE - Banff, SCT. LEYLAND - Warwick, Eng. LUMSDEN - Banff, SCT>New Zealand MacDONALD - Inverness, SCT. MASSEY - Down/Antrim, NIR>Qld, AUS MELVIN - Elgin, Elgin, Scotland McFADDEN -Down, NIR McINTOSH - Inverness, SCT > Qld, AUS McINTOSH - Ross Shire, Scotland>Qld, AUS McKENZIE - Banff/Moray, SCT McLEAN - Garmouth, Moray, SCT>Qld, AUS McLEAVY - Jedburgh, Roxburgh, SCT>Qld, AUS OLIVER - Jedburgh, Roxburgh, SCT>Qld, AUS RAFFAN - Banff, SCT REEVES - Yorkshire (?), Eng. RUNNALLS/REYNOLDS - Cornwall, Eng. ROBERTSON - Ross & Cromarty, SCT RUDD - Westmoreland, Eng>Qld, AUS SIMPSON - Banff/Moray, SCT SMITH - SCT SPRENGER - Qld, AUS STUART - Moray, SCT WAKEFIELD - Stroud, Gloucester, Eng>Qld, AUS WARBURTON -Cheshire, Eng>New Plymouth, Taranaki, NZ WHITEHOUSE - Warwick, Eng. WILSON - Ayr, SCT>New Zealand Helen's Stolen Generation Program: http://www.abc.net.au/rn/history/hindsight/default.htm

Would some kind lister who has access to Burke's Peerage for Scotland be able to do a lookup for me? The person listed under Lineage (John Fraser of Easter Rarichie) is in my family line, brother to my ancestor Simon, both sons of James Fraser of Pitcalnie, Nigg. I would appreciate any information quoted in the Lineage section about this Fraser line. Thank you from Canada, W. Fawcett FRASER SIR IAIN MICHAEL FRASER, 3RD BT, of Tain, Co Ross [Sir Iain Fraser Bt, 30/7 Elbe St, Edinburgh EH6 7HW]; b 27 June 1951; s f 1997; educ Trin Coll Glenalmond and Edinburgh U (BSc); m 1982 (divorce 1991) Sherylle Ann, dau of Keith Gillespie, of Wellington, NZ, and has: Lineage: JOHN FRASER, of Easter Rarichie Farm, Ross-shire; d Dec 1903, leaving: Record Type(s): 1999 Peerage

Lochcarron: FORBES, MacKAY, TOLMIE, McLEOD, MacLENNAN, Nigg: MacKENIZE, MUNRO Kilmiuri-Easter: SUTHERLAND Forbes Sutherland (Colorado)

This is not a custom but I suspect just to do with the location of the death. Perhaps one parent died at the family home and the remaining parent went to live with or near a son or daughter and died there. I have grand parents and the parent of one of them in the same grave and my parents both near by. Tina

Does anyone know of a custom in Scotland where husband and wives are not buried in the same grave? Is this correct and what is the meaning behind this custom? Is the custom throughout Scotland or only in the Highlands? I have two families where the women are buried in one grave and the males are buried in another grave. One of them is in Blair Athol and the other in Dingwall. Hoping someone can help with this little mystery Researching CAMPBELL, CAMERON, STEWART, MACKENZIE Jane Coffs Harbour NSW Australia

I am working my way (slowly!) through the parish records (kirk session, poor rolls, lists of communicants etc.) of Killearnan, and there are quite a few 'Glasses' mentioned. I could begin to take a note of them, if you like. It is likely to be slow progress, since I just grab an hour at the archives when I can, but I'd be happy to do it, if you thought it might be useful! Janice MacDonald Edinburgh

Hello Douglas Urquhart and Logie Wester is a parish in the west of the Black Isle and includes the village of Culbokie, Ferintosh is an alternative name by which the Parish is known. I have some Fraser/MacLennans in my line from the area perhaps you could let me have some of your names to see if there is a connection? George Hamilton >-- Original Message -- >From: " douglas clark" <djclark@netactive.co.za> >Date: Sun, 5 Jun 2005 23:20:15 +0200 >To: ROSSGEN-L@rootsweb.com >Subject: [RossGen] GLASS Family > > >Hello All > Spent most of the day on the possible GLASS connection with my Fraser/Maclennan(Macleman) >family. > At this stage I am not confident to state specifically the connection >but there is a strong possibility the Glass family is from Killearnan or >Kintail. > I have been able to locate Killeanan but not the latter.Can anyone tell >me where it is? > I see on the map that there is a Loch Glass and a River Glass near to >Alness.Is this area "home" to that family/clan? > > Another location that came up was "Urqhart and Logie Wester" but was >only able to locate Urquhart(Moray) and Urquhart(Easter Ross) near Dingwall.Does >anyone know where the first mentioned is? > >Many thanks >Douglas > > >==== ROSSGEN Mailing List ==== >To remove your email address from this list, visit this url: http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~cheps/maillist.htm > ___________________________________________________________ Book yourself something to look forward to in 2005. Cheap flights - http://www.tiscali.co.uk/travel/flights/ Bargain holidays - http://www.tiscali.co.uk/travel/holidays/

Hello All Spent most of the day on the possible GLASS connection with my Fraser/Maclennan(Macleman) family. At this stage I am not confident to state specifically the connection but there is a strong possibility the Glass family is from Killearnan or Kintail. I have been able to locate Killeanan but not the latter.Can anyone tell me where it is? I see on the map that there is a Loch Glass and a River Glass near to Alness.Is this area "home" to that family/clan? Another location that came up was "Urqhart and Logie Wester" but was only able to locate Urquhart(Moray) and Urquhart(Easter Ross) near Dingwall.Does anyone know where the first mentioned is? Many thanks Douglas

(My apologies to anyone who has already received this - I sent it last week, and it doesn't seem to have got through to the list) Does anyone have Donald McDonald and Elizabeth McDonald (married Urray 4.3.1821) in their family tree? (I was wondering whether they could be the same Donald and Elizabeth who had 2 sons, Thomas (b1839), Alexander (b1837) at Killearnan??!!) Janice MacDonald

Hi all Can any kind person tell me where Brahan Mains and Brahan Ferry was situated in the vicinity of Brahan castle in Urray. I cannot see them on a modern map Thanks Mike

Does anyone have Donald McDonald and Elizabeth McDonald (married Urray 4.3.1821) in their family tree? (I was wondering whether they could be the same Donald and Elizabeth who had 2 sons, Thomas (b1839), Alexander (b1837) at Killearnan??!!) Janice MacDonald

Hi all I am researching Logan's from Sutherland and it appears there is a link to Drumderfit in the Black Isle. When some of my cousins were visiting the Black Isle they did meet a relative who showed them a Family Bible. This apparently contained a definite link to our Logans in Sutherland. Is anyone researching the Black Isle Logans by any chance, if there is someone I would like to hear from you. Fingers crossed Richard Logan Wollongong, Australia -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.322 / Virus Database: 267.2.0 - Release Date: 27/05/2005

I am trying to find parents for Daniel Ross and Agnes McKellar. Daniel was born in Blackhill, Logie-Easter, Ross and Cromarty, Scotland in 1790. He married Agnes McKellar in 1814 in Cowel in Bute, Argyll, Scotland. Their two first children were christened in Lanark, Scotland supposedly. Then their next two children are born in Logie-Easter, Ross and Cromarty, Scotland. Then their last 6 children are born in Helensburgh, Dunbarton, Scotland. In 1847 they were in Bonhill, Dunbarton, Scotland. By 1851 they were on a ship headed for the United States. Is it likely that this family would move around this much? The Ross family seems to have truly been from Ross and Cromarty; however, Agnes lists her birthplace as Kilenin, Argyll, Scotland. A church record gives her birth as Glennan, Calphanan, Argyle, Scotland so she might easily have married in Argyll, but would they then go back and forth this much? Maybe I have a poor concept of distances there. Thanks, Grace --------------------------------- Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Small Business - Try our new Resources site!

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