From: Jean Coker <[email protected]> Add to Address Book Date: 2007/02/09 Fri AM 11:05:54 EST To: <[email protected]> Subject: Scottish SeaCaptains - Peter Rolland and James Auld John, I'm trying to track down a couple of Scottish seacaptains and also the location of a family in Leith which kept one of my ancestors during the last few years of his life. I'll be back in Scotland the end of March, part of the time in Edinburgh and most of the time in Fife. If I send you what information I have on the 2 sea captains (early 1800's) and the family in Leith (that would be in the late 1700's), would you be able to help point me in the direction where I might be able to find information about them? I can send you more details, but here's what I can remember from memory - Peter ROLLAND - probably born in Cleish in about 1765 - was an officer (or some position) on the BRUNSWICK and was later captain of the ALNWICK CASTLE which had a route to Bombay and China. I have been able to pull up some information on the ships on the Internet and apparently there are ships records at the British Archives at Kew - but I've not been there. James AULD - born about 1800 in Dunfermline, Fife - died before 1859 - I do not have the name of his ship - but there is a reference to him (he was an uncle to my mother's grandfather) in a deed where the title to the property (in Garvock, Dunfermline) was apparently left to him by his grandfather, James MURIE (Tenant, Kingseat of Cleish) - but following James AULD's death (the deed is 1859, so his death was before that) the property descended to someone else in the family as the heir. Up until I found that deed, I'd thought he'd died at birth - he was a twin and I thought he didnt' make it. The deed says he was a shipscaptain in Calcutta, so apparently he did survive into adulthood. I don't know if that's where he died, or just where he priimarily sailed. I have found another reference (somewhere) to a James AULD, who was a ships captain, but it didnt' look to me like the dates matched. I suppose there could have been more than one James AULD saiing the globe! I got to Leith last week when I was in Scotland - but only to tour the Brittania. It was my first time to Leith, so I enjoyed seeing the buildings on the way to and from the dock and am looking forward to going back the end of March to look around a little more. It seems like an intereresting place. Any suggestions of what to see in Leith would be appreciated - I'll add them to my itinerary. Thanks. Jean Coker Jacksonville, Florida >