karen, Can I offer one or two suggestions? 1) Lewis in those days was part of Ross & Cromarty, not Inverness. Perhaps worth joining the Ross-shire list? 2) Christiana is more likely to have been 'Christian', a girls' name in Scotland. It was the English rendering of Gaelic Cairistiona. 3) Having found no Christian MacAulay on the IGI for Ross & Cromarty, I looked up 'Donald MacLeod' for the period 1775-1795 --- this is and was an extremely common name in Lewis, yet all the entries for villages in Lewis were submitted by private individuals not from parish registers, so I guess the Mormons never got over to Lewis to copy the parish registers. Have you tried Scotlandspeople? 4) I don't understand Judy's point. The South of England pronounces 'ar' as 'ah', so people there who are unfamiliar with the Gaelic name would be quite likely to spell it with an 'r' so long as it sounds like 'ah'. The Gaelic Mac Amhlaidh sounds like Mahk Aow-lie - to rhyme with Southern English 'Mark how - high' (except the vowels are nasalized in the Gaelic name). 5) MacAulay is a common name in Harris, the neighbouring 'island' (Lewis & Harris are actually one big island). Harris *was* in Inverness-shire. Hope something here will help! Please correct any errors, anyone. Sara ----- Original Message ----- From: "Coastal Faggs" <lakers@exemail.com.au> To: <SCT-INVERNESS-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Sunday, March 19, 2006 9:56 AM Subject: [SCT-INV] macaulay - isle of lewis > G'day > My gt gt gt grandmother came from Lewis Isle. > She was born abt 1785. > She was married in Gravesend Kent in 1810. > She was illiterate, so the person who wrote her name on the marriage cert > in > Gravesend Kent wrote her name as he heard it.........as Marcarla. > I am hoping that this was Macaulay as a Scottish person told me that would > be close the the pronounciation. > Does anyone have an alternative? > Anyway, her name was Christiana Marcarla, and she married John Walford. > > I am having great difficulty finding her a family in Scotland. > Can anyone give me some ideas please? > Thank you > Karen in Australia > > > ============================== > Find your ancestors in the Birth, Marriage and Death Records. > New content added every business day. Learn more: > http://www.ancestry.com/s13964/rd.ashx >