Hello Well, where to begin! Rodel, Isle of Harris is part of the Outer Hebrides or Western Isles of Scotland. You have to cross a stretch of water called the Minch to get to the Outer Hebrides - and the stretch of Islands containing the Isle of Harris (which in reality is connected to the Isle of Lewis to the north). Have a look at an atlas and you will see the Islands group at the north west of Scotland. Tarbat is on the mainland of Scotland - and we Islanders consider anywhere on the mainland is far away! Seriously, lots of Islanders left the Islands for the mainland, so there's nothing odd about it. Islanders were pretty well travelled people through most centuries we are researching! Good luck with your McRae search. You might want to search the Internet for info on the Isle of Harris, as there is a researcher called Bill Lawson at Northtom Harris, who does professional research and can be reached via the Internet. Kate At 15:10 20/08/01 -0300, Ross Barrett wrote: >Hi - I am trying to research McRae/Dingwall family connections. I noticed that my great grandmother Marion McRae >(who married William Dingwall) shows that she was born in Rodel Harris - as per centus for 1891 in Glasgow. Is that >a large place? I saw somewhere a reference to Tarbat in Inverness for her as well. Would they be places of close >proximity? The McRae family appear on the IGI searches as John McRae and Catherine Urquhart of Harris along with >their eleven children. Would love to find out more about the McRae-Urquhart connection. >Thanks - Valerie Barrett - Sydney, Nova Scotia, Canada > >david and kate ferris wrote: > >> Hello everyone, >> >> Well, I'm from a mixed marriage of east and west Scotland - the east from >> Banffshire and Aberdeenshire and the west from Skye (possibly), Lochbroom >> (ROC) and ? pre-Lochbroom! >> >> I've got MacLeods who (travelling back in time) were in Lochbroom during >> the latter part of the 18th century up tp the 20th century - and Mathesons >> who, I suspect, travelled up from Lochalsh area to Lochbroom - and met my >> Macleods. There are also Mackenzies, Campbells, Munros and MacLeans, so >> I've plenty to research. >> >> I'm off to Ullapool tomorrow - the forecast is gales - so it's a good job I >> inherited someone's sea-legs and stomachs! >> >> MacLeods I want to find? Roderick in Strathpolly (where his son Murdoch >> was born). Roderick's wife Catherine MacLeod - both these of child rearing >> age in 1770. >> Murdoch MacLeod's marriage to Margaret Munro around 1800? >> >> Duncan Mackenzie and wife Margaret Mackenzie (married around 1800?) who had >> my ancestor Hector Mackenzie (who married Henrietta Campbell). >> >> Kenneth Campbell who married Mary Graham (around 1800?) and had Henrietta >> Campbell around 1802. Henrietta married Hector Mackenzie. >> >> Murdoch Matheson who married Mary Matheson around 1795?) and had my Dugald >> Matheson (who married Catherine Maclean 1825). >> >> and >> Murdoch Mackenzie who married Williamina MacLeod 1837 and who had my >> Williamina Mackenzie, who married my John Matheson 1865, son of Dugald >> Matheson and Catherine MacLean! >> >> According to my late father, granny's granny is buried at Rodel Isle of >> Harris - and that connection I have not been able to find! Would have been >> either Catherine Maclean or Williamina Macleod - but who knows! >> >> Anyway, that's my puzzle at the moment. I shall watch all the postings >> with interest. >> >> Kate Ferris >> nee MacLeod >> >> Kate and David Ferris >> [email protected] >> >> ==== 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 > > > Kate and David Ferris [email protected]