As a reminder here are the details as to how to prepare you families Roll Call. Thanks, Scott -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ----- Original Message ----- From: "Louise MacDougall" <macdougallclan@shaw.ca> To: <macdougallclan@shaw.ca> Sent: Thursday, July 15, 2004 1:54 PM Subject: ROLL CALL on Tiree Mailing List, 2004 > Copy to the Gathering List of message posted to the Tiree Mailing List: > > Dear Tiree Listers, > > Let's begin the Roll Call of family stories in this order, giving the larger > clans a headstart since most researchers have at least one of these first 5 > surnames in their ancestry: > > July 15 -- MacLean starts. > July 16 -- MacDonald, MacKinnon start. > July 17 -- Cameron, all variations of MacFadden & MacPhaiden start. > July 18 -- all other clans/surnames start. > > The instructions are as follows: > 1. Email "To": send your email to SCT-ARL-TIREE-L@rootsweb.com > 2. Email "From": Remember that the email address which you send from will > be displayed on the Internet for many years! (If you want to get a new > address for this purpose, Yahoo is offering free ones right now with 100mb > of storage space.) > 3. Email "Subject": In your subject mention the surname and the location of > the family you are featuring. E.g. the McLean sample which will follow has > the Subject as "Red Hector McLean of Little Souris, Manitoba, Canada" > 4. Email length: Up to one page--which means that if you printed it out, it > would fit on one sheet of regular Canadian paper (8.5 by 11 inches). That > size allows for the possibility that people can easily print out these > histories, one per page, and keep them in a binder. > 5. Format required: "Plain Text" only, no attachments. (or Rootsweb will > reject your email) You can include links, but if you want them to be active, > you must start them as http://www.... > 6. Where to View: the Roll Call will become part of the Archives of the > Rootsweb Tiree Mailing List: > http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/index/SCT-ARL-TIREE/ > 7. Contact Info for Researcher: Please add your name and general location. > Repeating your email address at the end is also a good idea. > > You can submit as many histories as you like. Remember that each side of a > family has a history of its own, e.g. for my great-grandparents, Malcolm > MacDougall and Isabella MacLean, I could submit a family history from the > MacDougall side of the family and another from the McLean side, with > different titles of course. > > Also, you may want to submit a history for a family which was not of Tiree > or Coll origin but married into those families and then added a distinctive > surname to their Tiree descendants. E.g. in my family, the Carletons are of > Irish origin, but married a number of Tiree descendants around Tiverton, > Ontario. Therefore, Tiree descendants bearing the Carleton surname from > that location are almost certainly related via this Irish family. > > If you don't have time to do justice to a family story, then just submit a > few lines so that your family at least appears in the Roll Call, if only > briefly. You can submit a longer story later. > > Thanks to Jeanette Robertson of Winnipeg who has submitted her material to > start us off (see McLean message following). > > Although this Roll Call is starting before the Gathering 2004, it will also > continue afterwards in order to accommodate all the new discoveries that > will be made there. > > Let's hear from everyone on the Tiree List over the next few weeks! > > Louise MacDougall > Vancouver Island, BC Canada -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Example "RED" HECTOR MCLEAN of LITTLE SOURIS, MANITOBA ---------------------------------------------- SE 1/4 24 -9-19 (Ward 3) SW 1/4 24-9-19 (Ward 3) Hector's parents, Alexander (Alex) MacLean; fisherman at Balephuill and Catherine Lamond were married on June 8, 1851 at the Barony, in Glasgow, Scotland. Hector was born on January 15, 1856 to Alex and Catherine. Catherine died of peritonitis at 6 am on January 21st, 1856 and was buried in the Soroby Cemetery in Tyree. Alex registered the birth of his son Hector and the death of his wife Catherine on the same day, January 30, 1856. Hector had an older sibling, Murdoch who was born on April 16th, 1854. However, since Murdoch doesn't appear on the 1861 census, it is assumed that he passed away sometime during this period. Hector was the grandson of Donald and Ann McLean of Balephuill and he resided with his grandparents and their children. Hector was of slim build and wiry. He was on the fishing boats by the age of 15 and became a ship's carpenter. He sailed the Baltic and Mediterranean Seas. It appears he enjoyed sailing because later he shipped aboard the China Tea Clippers which raced 'round Cape Horn with tea cargoes and on one occasion his ship was first to come in. Perhaps because of his seafaring days, it was well known that Hector enjoyed a 'wee dram or two' and had 'an eye' for a pretty lady. In 1878 Hector came to Canada with his two uncles, in a party of 'three McLean families'. The uncles and Hector wintered in Kincardine Bruce County Ontario and in the early spring of 1879 came to Manitoba. Hector's trade was that of a shipwright and because of this naval background he was well acquainted with the use of a sextant. This became very useful in order to survey their properties. He shot the lines from the north hill, now Highways 1 and 10. In the winter of '79, Hector obtained work as a labourer in Winnipeg, and became a construction foreman for the original Louise Street Bridge until its completion. He had several other skills as well. He was a shoemaker, harness-maker and a steam 'engineer'. In those early years Hector also served as a Trustee for the Little Souris School #227. He got his homestead underway by the 5th of July, 1879. While in Winnipeg, he met Anne (Annie) Black of Clochlea, Isle of Lismore, Argyleshire and they married on May 5, 1882 in the original Baptist Church located on Main Street and Rupert Avenue. The Reverend A. McDonald officiated. Anne was the youngest of four children born on August 14, 1858 to Neil Black and Sarah McIntyre of Clochlea. Anne also had a half sister named Anne born to her father Neil and a Janet Black on September 2, 1846. Annie and Hector had ten children, John Black (Jack); CatyAnn (Kate) married Fred Gilbert; Maryflora (Mary) married Dougald McKinnon; Charles; Neil; Alexander; Duncan married Alma Olafson; Sarah Marion married James Hardcastle Robertson; Daniel (Dan) and Margrete. Annie passed away in 1934 and Hector passed away on July 8, 1943 , both are buried together in the Brandon Cemetery. (Submitted by Jeanette Robertson of Winnipeg, Manitoba, dusable@escape.ca) --------------------------------------------------------------------------------