Hi Doug Thank you for the info of the Statistical Accounts and to others that replied to me. Sure glad Sir John Sinclair pushed for these to be done as they do make for interesting reading now. One of them in Barray/Barra has a part from the 1500's and how our english spelling has evolved since then. Checked out Sir John's picture on your sight also so I knew who he was. Much appreciated. Lorraine Ottawa, Canada ----- Original Message ----- From: "Douglas MacKenzie" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: 04 August, 2003 7:27 Subject: [SCT-INV] Re: Statistical Accounts/Ships from Portree > --=======508A10F2======= > Content-Type: text/plain; x-avg-checked=avg-ok-48440F1; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed > Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit > > At 05:11 04/08/03 -0600, Lorraine wrote: > > >as of January 1840. Would anyone know how often these > >Accounts were prepared in each area. Would there likely > >have been others > > Poor old Sir John Sinclair. He wrote to each parish minister > of the Church of Scotland between 1790 and 1797 with 160 > questions (no photocopies, no email !) and, no doubt, > chivvied them along to respond and you thought it might be > a more regular occurrence :) There are just the two, the > "Old" and the "New". See more on Sir John Sinclair of > Ulbster at > http://theclearances.org/clearances/articles.php?articleid=36 > > At 12:16:07 03/08/03 Jan Robison wrote: > >any information on any other ships that left there (Portree) besides > >the ones in 1803 > > The original point of departure may well have been Portree but the > transatlantic crossing may have been Glasgow, Greenock, > Campbeltown etc. Again, check out the Clearances site for > info on such emigrations. > > Regards > Douglas > > The Highland Clearances > http://www.theclearances.org > > --=======508A10F2======= > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; x-avg=cert; x-avg-checked=avg-ok-48440F1 > Content-Disposition: inline > > > --- > Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. > Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). > Version: 6.0.489 / Virus Database: 288 - Release Date: 10/06/03 > > --=======508A10F2=======-- > > > ============================== > To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records, go to: > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237 >