This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: MacDonnell Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/TeC.2ACE/999.1.1.1.1.2 Message Board Post: Lori I was in Scotland a few months ago. There is a Keppoch in the Highlands, near the West coast... close to the coastal area across from the Isle of Skye. It's rural but the area still exists. Other towns near by would be Dornie, Glengarry. A bigger town not too far away would be Fort William. Or Mallaig (I might not be spelling that one right). It's a beautiful area, I was cycling by day and camping or B&Bing by night! I wasn't in Keppoch but I was pretty close and I even saw an old map in an antique store which now I wish I would have purchased. It was one of those ordinance survey maps that show the hills and elevations and stuff. (Good to have when cycling!) I am trying to research info on some MacDonnell people, the man was born in 1708 and he had a wife named Mary; at least one son; and the man had at least 1 sister. His name might have been Ian, or Iain, or Eoin, or Angus. It's hard to do on these boards, I'd like to go back and poke around in the cemetary and see if I can find out more! In each area it seemed like all the people in the cemetary had the same name. I saw Campbells, Fergusons, etc in the towns I went through.
We are having trouble locating a family c. 1790s in the OPRs and was wondering whether there was another 'religious faction' at that time and could our family be recorded in another set of records. Or .. if there were other religious factions at that time, did those people still have to be recorded in the Church of Scotland Registers (OPRs)? (They were not Catholic). The family is CAMERON who are believed to have lived at Invermaille on the South shore of Loch Arkaig, so my cousin searched the Kilmallie film. Although finding 'hundreds of Camerons', he was unable to find brothers John & Angus. Their father was Angus and their mother's maiden names were Ann McINTYRE &/or McMILLAN and we have another dozen or so names of siblings, so we believed we had enough information to positively identify this family. Given there were families from Invermaille on that film and ours wasn't there, should we be looking elsewhere - like Kilmonivaig OPRs or another set of religious registers? Has anyone got any suggestions please? Many thanks Elizabeth O'Connell New Zealand