There seems to be a lot about McQuilkans, just now. I am a McQuilken, although I am from Argyllshire, my family name hails from Glasgow, where there were a number of McQuilkens. My research, took me to discover that the name originated in Ireland. The various spellings of the name, "in", "an", and "en" denoted where they came from, this was another McQuilkin that told me this, he said that the last two letters more or less can tell you locality. When McQuilken's arrived in North America with the wave of Scots that landed in Cape Fear in the Carolinas, the name was Anglicised to fit in with the settlers that were already there. I have information on some McQuilkens, but they are my immediate family, it has been a very hard name to research. The main male names in my line are Alexander, and George. Christine Joudrey ----- Original Message ----- From: "Rona Allan" <rona@allan21.fslife.co.uk> To: <SCT-ARGYLL-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Friday, July 11, 2003 12:10 PM Subject: [ARGYLL] Gigha > Hi Mary > > I didn't know there was a 1827 census for Gigha, thanks for the information. > > If you manage to visit the Island in September please come and say hello. There are only about 100 people living on the island at the moment so I'm not difficult to find! > > What Galbreaths are you descended from? Are you related to the McQuilkans too? > > Regards > Rona Allan > > > ==== SCT-ARGYLL Mailing List ==== > ******************************************************************** > http://members.aol.com/theweeharp/argyll.htm is the Argyll GenWeb site >