This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Macintosh Jack Patience Reid Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/TeC.2ACE/1121 Message Board Post: My male Macintosh ancestors were "fishermen on the North Sea". They lived in Avoch, Ross & Cromarty, but when the census was taken they were aboard the "Viking" and the "Margaret Reid". Is there any way I can find out if these were big clipper ships or local fishing vessels. Granny Maggie, I think like many Highlanders, had a way of ...exaggerating. <kind grin> and told great stories of them going far away and being gone for a year at a time.