Dear Flora, I am interested in the 1776 church records for Coll as my Kennedy ancestors emigrated from Coll to South Australia in 1860 and I have only been able so far to get back to the marriage of Samuel Kennedy and Mary McLean on at Aritluic, Coll in 1792. Samuel Kennedy was born about 1760. I have nothing else on either of them. Would the 1776 church records reveal anything to help me? [If Samuel and Mary followed Scottish naming patterns, his parents may have been John and Catherine, her parents may have been Marion/Sarah and Roderick or Duncan] As far as I know I don't have any of the families you are interested in. Sorry about that Mary Mary Herbert herbert@westserv.net.au snail mail to "Slimbridge" Bedgerebong NSW 2871 -------Original Message------- From: SCT-ARL-TIREE-L@rootsweb.com Date: Friday, June 04, 2004 23:20:06 To: SCT-ARL-TIREE-L@rootsweb.com Subject: RE: [SCT-ARL-TIREE] Parish of Tiree & Coll - COLL CHURCH RECORDS 1776 Everyone, I have a copy of the 1776 church records for Coll if anyone is interested. I find Coll very difficult to get info on and 3 different ancestors of mine came to Canada from Coll. MacDonald, MacFadyen, MacKinnon. If anyone is researching these names in Coll, please drop me a line. Maybe we can build on each other`s info. And if anyone wants the Coll Church Records from 1776, let me know. Thanks Flora -----Original Message----- From: Keith Dash [mailto:dashjk@ozemail.com.au] Sent: June 4, 2004 6:32 AM To: SCT-ARL-TIREE-L@rootsweb.com Subject: [SCT-ARL-TIREE] Parish of Tiree & Coll Louise is right that Tiree & Coll were for many years included in the same parish. The minister was based in Tiree and an assistant was based in Coll. However, from what I have seen of photocopied pages or transcripts of the Tiree Parish Register of the 1700s and 1800s, I think separate registers must have been kept for Tiree and Coll. I have not come across any entries for Coll baptisms or marriages in the Tiree register. Also, statistics on population and local economy were recorded separately for Tiree & Coll. For instance, the population of Tiree was 1509 in 1755, 2416 in 1792, and 4687 in 1843; in contrast (perhaps because of a different approach to land tenure than that followed by the Duke of Argyll in Tiree?), the population of Coll remained relatively static - it was 1193 in 1755, 1041 in 1793, and 1409 in 1843. In 1843, the annual average of baptisms was 143 in Tiree and 44 in Coll; the annual average of marriages was 25 in Tiree and 6 in Coll. In 1843 the gross value of produce, of which the major commodities were potatoes, grains & pasture, was estimated at 10,609 UK pounds for Tiree and 4,419 UK pounds for Coll. These figures suggest that food production per head in Tiree was already much less (about 30% less) than that in Coll before potato blight struck in 1846, so it's no wonder our ancestors looked for a way out. _________________ Keith Dash Sydney, Australia You can manage your RootsWeb-Review subscription from http://newsletters.rootsweb.com/ Gain access to over two billion names including the new Immigration Collection with an Ancestry.com free trial. Click to learn more. http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetidI30&sourceid37