Jenny, I am interested in your reference to the Bain and Dallas surnames. I didn't reply to Stuart's original Email as I could find no connection to the individuals he was looking for. However, I have extensive Bain connections in Caithness, but your Elizabeth Bain pre-dates most of my data. My earliest is Peter Bain, I believe born around 1794 in Watten, but this may be wrong. It's the only Peter Bain I can find in the right time frame. I also have extensive links to the Dallas/Dollas family in Caithness. This family appears to be quite small and I think I'm probably related to most of them. Any further information on the Bain and Dallas lines would be appreciated as I have pretty much exhausted the archives that are available. My Family Tree is located at http://www.familytreemaker.com/users/s/h/a/Christopher-Macneill. Regards, Chris Macneill -----Original Message----- From: Jenny Evans [mailto:jen39@tpg.com.au] Sent: 04 February 2003 23:29 To: SCT-CAITHNESS-L@rootsweb.com Subject: Re: SCT-CAITHNESS-D Digest V03 #15 Dear Stuart, Not directly relevant to your query, but mentioning some of the surnames you are looking at. Concentrating on your gg grandfather John Oal (or Auld?) did he have a father or grandfather (or even uncle) John Oal born c 1817 who was the son of Thomas Oal born c 1771 who was the son of William Oal? Thomas Oal married Elizabeth Bain 1802. Further back an Agnes Sutherland married a William Dallas 1722. Yours hopefully, Jenny

I too am interested in the BAIN family name. It is brick wall time! :-) I have Janet Bain married to Robert Donaldson in Watten in 1785 - and that is all I have about her or Robert except that Robert was a miller. It appears that their banns were called/proclaimed in Lunmore. Does anyone have a Janet BAIN in their families? I would expect her to have been born around the 1760s. and ... does anyone have any DONALDSONS??? ________________________ Susan Simmons searching for: Wright, Hughes & Kellett in India Wright, Donaldson, Bain, Green in Caithness