In message <017d01bfea52$450470c0$13cf37cb@pentium>, Jenny Craig <jcraig@hypermax.net.au> writes >Nature >Hello Listers > >I wonder if SKS could lookup the 1851 census for me please. > >I need information on John Macgillivray and his wife Frances who immigrated >to South Africa from Dingwall (near Inverness) in 1859. >They were accompanied by their four children, Margaret, James Finlayson, >and Frances. John was a cabinet maker and the family settled at Fort >Beaufort, not far from Port Elizabeth where they landed on May 10th 1859. >I feel sure that the family was still in Scotland that the time of the >census.. I understand that Finlayson (my ggrandfather) was about 8 when >they arrived in South Africa. He was the third child so guessing Frances and >John could have been married around 1842-47. I am not having any luck >searching in South Africa at this stage. >Any information would be greatly appreciated, I'm really stuck on this one! >Kind regards >Jenny Craig >Australia > > > Hi Jenny According to the 1851 census there was only one McGillivray living in Dingwall "Hellen McGillivray, age 24, born at Daviot by Inverness. There are however a lot living in Inverness. One family is John McGillivray aged 36 and his 4 children, Finlay 2, Isabella 5, Donald 7, Malcolm 9,. There is no sign of a wife. Sorry I can not be of any real help. George -- George D. Christie " Change is not made without inconvenience, even from worse to better "