Thank you so much! Happy New Year to ALL! Harold Ralston Sarah Galbraith wrote: > MacNeill of Carskiey was a landowner in Southend in the 18th century, and he > kept a journal detailing the various transactions on his estate. > > The journal was transcribed and published in 1955 by Frank Forbes MacKay, a > descendant. The book makes wonderful reading, and copies occasionally turn > up on Abebooks, Amazon etc. > > The full details are: > MacNeill of Carskey - His Estate Journal, 1703 - 1743 > Frank Forbes MacKay > Publ M McDonald, Edinburgh, 1955 > > > To help researchers who might have relatives in the area, I plan to > transcribe and post five pages from the book which list all the personal > names and locations mentioned in the book. Mr MacKay's reasons for providing > such a list are delightfully expressed, and I've extracted them below: > > "... I am aware of numbers of people now scattered over all the Earth who > believe that their forebears come from the Mull of Kintyre. To such, should > it meet their eye, this table may be of help in tracing their ancestry." > > Over the next week or so, I'll post five more messages which give all the > details about the names mentioned in the summary. > > (Unlike last year, when I offered to do look-ups in another historical > document, my contribution this year is confined to these posted messages.) > > Sarah Galbraith > > > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message > >