James, McWatters may not be a common Caithness name, but WATTERS and WATERS are. Waters + birth=Caithness on Rootsweb's WorldConnect turned up 121 entries. Might be a lead there. I have some ancestors from Caithness Peter Waters (1814-1888 m Janet Swanson > Dora Cormack (Waters), Mary Waters and others. http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~caithness/ http://www.caithness.org http://home.pacbell.net/len_g/clanMacCormack.html <- some pictures -----Original Message----- From: James Ludwigsen [mailto:jammer@kiski.net] Sent: Saturday, 31 May 2003 5:18 AM To: SCT-CAITHNESS-L@rootsweb.com Subject: McWatters families Hi From Usa. I am looking for the McWatters families in Caithness. I have seen the families in the book called The Surnames of Scotland by George F. Black. Can any body help me find the McWatters.I have found them in Monteal, Canada, in the early 1800's. I thought they might have can there from Scotland. My grand mother is an McWatters.Or as her names is MacWatters but they early family spells it as McWatters. Thanks Best Regards Jim Ludwigsen