--=======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=======--