Hi Mary          Nice to hear from you but i don't think the Alex Fletcher you refer to is the same one i am chasing. Alexander Fletcher born Abt 1840 his son Neil Mcpherson Fletcher Born 1875 Kilcalmonell.as per 1891 census. Cheers for now Ron in OZ ________________________________ From: "sct-argyll-request@rootsweb.com" <sct-argyll-request@rootsweb.com> To: sct-argyll@rootsweb.com Sent: Thursday, 12 February, 2009 6:01:57 PM Subject: SCT-ARGYLL Digest, Vol 4, Issue 28 Today's Topics:   1. Re: BBC Alba (EDWARD PAXTON)   2. Re: BBC Alba (Katie de Haan)   3. Re: Neil Mcpherson Fletcher (Ron and Mary Harris) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Wed, 11 Feb 2009 20:16:23 +0000 (GMT) From: EDWARD PAXTON <e.paxton@btinternet.com> Subject: Re: [ARGYLL] BBC Alba To: SCT-ARGYLL@rootsweb.com, JEAN REYNOLDS     <jean.reynolds1@btinternet.com> Message-ID: <436821.52975.qm@web86204.mail.ird.yahoo.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 I love it too Jean... ? Persevere and you'll start to pick up a few things, and?understand it a little (not THAT easy, all the same!) ? ?start with "agus" = and ? Then look for other words, eg "glayva" that you will know from "English" ? edward ? ? No trees were destroyed in the sending of this email but a large number of electrons were terribly inconvenienced. --- On Wed, 11/2/09, JEAN REYNOLDS <jean.reynolds1@btinternet.com> wrote: From: JEAN REYNOLDS <jean.reynolds1@btinternet.com> Subject: [ARGYLL] BBC Alba To: SCT-ARGYLL@rootsweb.com Date: Wednesday, 11 February, 2009, 12:46 AM BBC Alba is available online.? http://www.bbc.co.uk/bbcalba/programmes/schedules Click on any programme and it will take you into the details where you can watch most of them.? I am hooked on it, so many interesting programmes.? Only problem, being unable to speak gaelic, I have to sit and read the sub-titles? ? Jean from Portsmouth UK jean.reynolds1@btinternet.com ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to SCT-ARGYLL-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message ------------------------------ Message: 2 Date: Wed, 11 Feb 2009 23:15:38 +0100 From: "Katie de Haan" <gallorosso@home.nl> Subject: Re: [ARGYLL] BBC Alba To: "EDWARD PAXTON" <e.paxton@btinternet.com>,     <SCT-ARGYLL@rootsweb.com>,    "JEAN REYNOLDS"     <jean.reynolds1@btinternet.com> Message-ID: <78AFE2FBFF3F4A2289FE1848224B6C3E@medion> Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset="utf-8";     reply-type=original I really envy you for this, Jean, Edward and others in the UK. You may not be aware that this online service is not available to those outside the UK.  (Applies to all BBC iplayer programmes as well. :-(  Not that I watch much tv at all, but I'd love to be able to receive these programmes and do just as Edward says.  The odd word has become familiar simply from all this family history, and as he says, I'd pick up more as time went on.  I know I can listen to the radio, which helps to familiarise me with the lilting sounds, but the visual input and the subtitles would bring me closer, take me further and give so much pleasure on the way. I am at a loss to understand why there can't be a service for those overseas, even if only a paid one.  I'd be far more likely to contemplate paying for something like Alba than for all the stuff on the satellite channels. Oh well.  I suppose I should be grateful I can receive any BBC channels at all here. Katie de Haan The Netherlands ----- Original Message ----- From: "EDWARD PAXTON" <e.paxton@btinternet.com> To: <SCT-ARGYLL@rootsweb.com>; "JEAN REYNOLDS" <jean.reynolds1@btinternet.com> Sent: Wednesday, February 11, 2009 9:16 PM Subject: Re: [ARGYLL] BBC Alba >I love it too Jean... > > Persevere and you'll start to pick up a few things, and understand it a > little (not THAT easy, all the same!) > > start with "agus" = and > > Then look for other words, eg "glayva" that you will know from "English" > > edward > > > > > No trees were destroyed in the sending of this email but a large number > of electrons were terribly inconvenienced. > > --- On Wed, 11/2/09, JEAN REYNOLDS <jean.reynolds1@btinternet.com> wrote: > > From: JEAN REYNOLDS <jean.reynolds1@btinternet.com> > Subject: [ARGYLL] BBC Alba > To: SCT-ARGYLL@rootsweb.com > Date: Wednesday, 11 February, 2009, 12:46 AM > > BBC Alba is available online. > http://www.bbc.co.uk/bbcalba/programmes/schedules > > Click on any programme and it will take you into the details where you can > watch most of them. I am hooked on it, so many interesting programmes. > Only > problem, being unable to speak gaelic, I have to sit and read the > sub-titles > > Jean from Portsmouth UK > jean.reynolds1@btinternet.com > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > SCT-ARGYLL-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > SCT-ARGYLL-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message ------------------------------ Message: 3 Date: Wed, 11 Feb 2009 18:24:20 -0500 From: "Ron and Mary Harris" <r_harris@sympatico.ca> Subject: Re: [ARGYLL] Neil Mcpherson Fletcher To: <sct-argyll@rootsweb.com> Message-ID: <BLU0-SMTP7609803E76F05EB8A0E5A78FBA0@phx.gbl> Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset="utf-8";     reply-type=original Hello Ron, Funny thing - turns out my grandfather actually knew Alexander FLETCHER, his son Neil and 2 other sons Calum and Alex! Both my parents knew Calum. We are somehow related, but not sure how - my grandfather's name was Alex FLETCHER too. I can tell you more later, but around 1913 my grandfather, then aged 23, was employed at a farm called Cononish near Tyndrum. Your FLETCHERs were living in the house at Cononish and employed there too. Oddly enough, years later in the mid 1930s, my grandfather was again employed at Cononish and my Dad has many happy memories of that place. I had the pleasure of visiting Cononish and talking with it's present owner this past September. I have pictures of the house your FLETCHERs (and later mine) lived in. Mary Fletcher Harris Canada ------------------------------ To contact the SCT-ARGYLL list administrator, send an email to SCT-ARGYLL-admin@rootsweb.com. 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