Basil, Great to have another McGilvray connection. I have been pursuing all of the Islay McGilvray lines in a WorldConnect project called McGillivrays of Islay which is at http://wc.rootsweb.com/~islaymcgillivray You will see that I have some information on William and Catherine Johnson and their family, but I am sure there is more you could add. I take William's father Donald back another generation to Donald McGilvray and Catherine McNiven. Please let me know if you have your tree anywhere on the Web as I can hyperlink to it from my WorldConnect database. Russ McGillivray >From: "Basil" <basil.j@absamail.co.za> >Reply-To: "Basil" <basil.j@absamail.co.za> >To: SCT-ISLAY-L@rootsweb.com >Subject: Re: [SCT-ISLAY] McCuaig Question >Date: Thu, 22 Jun 2006 15:09:37 +0200 > >Hello Russ, >I came across your inquiry today about the McCuaig children, unfortunately >searching my records of Islay, came up with naught. But did you know that >William McGilvray, son of Donald McGilvray and Margaret Olilvie, married >Catherine Johnston daughter of Donald Johnston and Mary Brown who by the >way are my 2nd Great grandparents. >I have been researching the Johnston of Tallent for some years now and I >would like to know more about the McGilvray family if you would be kind >enough to let me have some information on them. >Many thanks >Basil Johnston >South Africa. >----- Original Message ----- From: "Russ McGillivray" ><russmcgillivray@hotmail.com> >To: <SCT-ISLAY-L@rootsweb.com> >Sent: Wednesday, June 21, 2006 9:03 PM >Subject: [SCT-ISLAY] McCuaig Question > > >>In pursuing my McGilvray lines in the 1851 census I have at Neriby in >>Kilmeny: >> >>Catherine McCuaig (9) and Donald McCuaig (7) living with their >>grandparents Donald McGilvray and Margaret Ogilvie. The only daughter of >>Donald and Margaret who could be the mother of these children seems to be >>Katherine b. 1814, but I cannot find any marriage or baptismal records to >>substantiate this. >> >>Do any of you McCuaig researchers know anything about these children? >> >>Russ McGillivray >> >> >> >>==== SCT-ISLAY Mailing List ==== >>Click on this link for some wonderful stories, and general information >>about Islay: http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~steve/islay/misc.htm >> >> > > > >==== SCT-ISLAY Mailing List ==== >To find Vital Statistics for islay from the earliest records to 1875 visit: >HTTP://freepages.family.rootsweb.com/~tlarson/bdm/ >

The LDS libraries have a microfilm with the Fergusons of Islay listed and followed through for several generations. It may have the ones you are looking for.

In my family, they switch back and forth between McCuaig and McLeod. Have you check for McLeod? -----Original Message----- From: Russ McGillivray [mailto:russmcgillivray@hotmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, June 21, 2006 3:04 PM To: SCT-ISLAY-L@rootsweb.com Subject: [SCT-ISLAY] McCuaig Question In pursuing my McGilvray lines in the 1851 census I have at Neriby in Kilmeny: Catherine McCuaig (9) and Donald McCuaig (7) living with their grandparents Donald McGilvray and Margaret Ogilvie. The only daughter of Donald and Margaret who could be the mother of these children seems to be Katherine b. 1814, but I cannot find any marriage or baptismal records to substantiate this. Do any of you McCuaig researchers know anything about these children? Russ McGillivray ==== SCT-ISLAY Mailing List ==== Click on this link for some wonderful stories, and general information about Islay: http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~steve/islay/misc.htm

In pursuing my McGilvray lines in the 1851 census I have at Neriby in Kilmeny: Catherine McCuaig (9) and Donald McCuaig (7) living with their grandparents Donald McGilvray and Margaret Ogilvie. The only daughter of Donald and Margaret who could be the mother of these children seems to be Katherine b. 1814, but I cannot find any marriage or baptismal records to substantiate this. Do any of you McCuaig researchers know anything about these children? Russ McGillivray

Hi! I have been sitting on the sidelines reading various letters in the hope of finding out my roots. I have very little information but my great grandmother was Flora Fergusion(married name), her mother was Elizabeth McMillian Gibson, both of which were born in Argyll. Was wondering if you had ever come come across either of their names? Heather ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jim Bostock" <jimboz@bigpond.com> To: <SCT-ISLAY-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Tuesday, June 20, 2006 6:58 AM Subject: [SCT-ISLAY] Ferguson, Peter married Cameron, Margaret. > > Hi, > > I have been researching Margaret Ferguson. I found her in the 1841 > Census - > Born Outside County. I think she was 45. > > In the 1851 Census, she may be 56 or 58 ?? born in Argyle, Islay. > > * * * * > I think I may have found Margaret on the IGI. > > Parents: Peter Ferguson & Margaret Cameron. > > Four children: > > 1. Allan Ferguson. bap. 19 Oct. 1792. Marysburgh, Killmallie, Argyll. > 2. Malcolm Ferguson. bap. 4 July, 1794. Marysburgh, Killmallie, Argyll. > 3. Margaret Ferguson. bap. 19 August, 1795. Correybeg, Kilmallie. > 4. Luisa Ferguson. bap. 19 June, 1796. Correybeg, Killmallie. > > Batch No. C.115202. > Dates: 1773 0 1823. > Film: 1041070. > > * * * * > Do you think I am on the right track? > > Any advice or suggestions on how to prove this is my Margaret Ferguson > would > be very gratefully received. > > Three of the children (Nos. 2 to 4) were on the IGI on the above film. > The > first child, Allan Ferguson was listed by a family member of the LDS > church. > > Kind regards, > Pat Bostock. > Sydney, NSW. Australia. > > > > ==== SCT-ISLAY Mailing List ==== > Click on this link for some wonderful stories, and general information > about Islay: http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~steve/islay/misc.htm > > > > -- > No virus found in this incoming message. > Checked by AVG Free Edition. > Version: 7.1.394 / Virus Database: 268.9.2/370 - Release Date: 6/20/2006 > >

Hi, I have been researching Margaret Ferguson. I found her in the 1841 Census - Born Outside County. I think she was 45. In the 1851 Census, she may be 56 or 58 ?? born in Argyle, Islay. * * * * I think I may have found Margaret on the IGI. Parents: Peter Ferguson & Margaret Cameron. Four children: 1. Allan Ferguson. bap. 19 Oct. 1792. Marysburgh, Killmallie, Argyll. 2. Malcolm Ferguson. bap. 4 July, 1794. Marysburgh, Killmallie, Argyll. 3. Margaret Ferguson. bap. 19 August, 1795. Correybeg, Kilmallie. 4. Luisa Ferguson. bap. 19 June, 1796. Correybeg, Killmallie. Batch No. C.115202. Dates: 1773 0 1823. Film: 1041070. * * * * Do you think I am on the right track? Any advice or suggestions on how to prove this is my Margaret Ferguson would be very gratefully received. Three of the children (Nos. 2 to 4) were on the IGI on the above film. The first child, Allan Ferguson was listed by a family member of the LDS church. Kind regards, Pat Bostock. Sydney, NSW. Australia.

Dear Diana: As far as I know it is the same name. My old tree notes that my ancestor Donald Lamont was married to a Miss McKechnie and in the death certificate of Godfrey Lamont ( age 93 died in 1860 Keills, Kilmeny) his parents are listed as Donald Lamont and Janet McEachern ( both deceased). Anne Goeden

Diana--I have McKechnies whose story says he definitely was from isaly, came in l833 to Erin Twop in Ontario.Margaret in Ontario ----- Original Message ----- From: "Diana" <dianado@shaw.ca> To: <SCT-ISLAY-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Monday, May 22, 2006 1:23 PM Subject: [SCT-ISLAY] McEachern/McKechnie of Islay > Hello again, Listers! > > Just wondering if someone can tell me if McKECHNIE is a variant spelling > of McEACHERN? > > I have an ancestor who is a McKECHNIE from Islay but I haven't found that > surname in the census that I've searched so far for Islay. > > Is anyone familiar with the surname McKECHNIE from Islay? > > Thanks, > Diana in British Columbia, Canada > > > ==== SCT-ISLAY Mailing List ==== > You can find older, archived messages from this mailing list by visiting: > http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~steve/islay/archive1.htm - and from April > 1999, you can access archived messages at > http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/index/SCT-ISLAY > > >

Summer is here, but in Canada it's easier to do our road research now, nosing around the local cemeteries, visiting museums, old homesteads etc. Much prefer the summer photos as well. Don't wait guys do it now! Norma in Alberta ----- Original Message ----- From: "Dixie Cutler" <cutlerd@shaw.ca> To: <SCT-ISLAY-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Monday, June 19, 2006 8:00 PM Subject: Re: [SCT-ISLAY] Problems? > Ah -- summer in North America. Even genealogists spend some time with > their > LIVING relatives! > Dixie >> In a message dated 19/06/2006 5:37:23 AM Pacific Standard Time, >> hblair@cogeco.ca writes: >>> >>> Celia >>> Check the archives. There are 42 messages posted in June. Several of >>> which >>> were posted as recently as yesterday, June 18. >>> Cheerio >>> Helen >>> >>>> Have had no SCT-Islay emails for several days . Am suffering withdrawal >>> symtoms. Is there a problem? Weather in NZ absolutely atrocious. Celia.> >> >> That's interesting ... I also have had none (or very few) for a week or >> two. >> I just thought we had all got on with something more interesting ..... >> >> Ken Harrison >> North Vancouver, Canada >> >> Only a genealogist regards a step backwards as PROGRESS ... >> HARRISON Yorkshire > Staffordshire > London (Highgate/Hampstead) >> POTCHIT Yorkshire >> FISHER London (Highgate/Hampstead) >> GREAVES Yorkshire > London >> GRIFFIN Staffordshire >> STANLEY Staffordshire >> SMELLIE Lanark > Orkney > Glasgow > Canada + Tasmania >> STIRRAT Ayrshire > Glasgow >> BAIN Caithness >> MILLER Caithness > Swaziland + S. Africa >> SPENCE Orkney >> FOTHERINGHAM Orkney >> TRAILL Orkney >> SELKRIG Lanark >> WICKETSHAW Lanark >> MORRISON Perthshire > Dumbarton > Glasgow > Australia (Vic) >> MORRISON Islay > Ontario >> BAIRD Renfrew >> HAM Australia (Vic) >> THOMPSON Suffolk > Yorkshire >> AGGUS Suffolk >> BRIGHTWELL Suffolk >> LAWSON Clackmannanshire > Ontario >> McNABB Islay > Ontario >> MURRAY Dumfries > Renfrew >> SINCLAIR Perthshire > Renfrew >> GILLESPIE Dumfries >> HENDERSON Dumfries >> TICKET (TAKET) Dumfries + Lanark >> CALDWELL Tyrone > Renfrew >> GRAHAM Tyrone > Ontario >> Genealogists never die ... they just lose their census. >> >> Unless specifically stated otherwise in this message, there is no >> intentional >> attachment on this e-mail transmission. >> >> >> ==== SCT-ISLAY Mailing List ==== >> Here is a link related to tracing your ancestors on the Isle of Islay: >> http://www.isle-of-islay.com/genealogy/index.html >> > > > ==== SCT-ISLAY Mailing List ==== > FOR QUESTIONS REGARDING THIS MAILING LIST - HOW TO UNSUBSCRIBE - HOW TO > CHANGE YOUR EMAIL ADDRESS, ETC, ETC...: > http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~steve/islay/maillist.htm >

In a message dated 19/06/2006 5:37:23 AM Pacific Standard Time, hblair@cogeco.ca writes: > > Celia > Check the archives. There are 42 messages posted in June. Several of which > were posted as recently as yesterday, June 18. > Cheerio > Helen > > >Have had no SCT-Islay emails for several days . Am suffering withdrawal > symtoms. Is there a problem? Weather in NZ absolutely atrocious. Celia.> That's interesting ... I also have had none (or very few) for a week or two. I just thought we had all got on with something more interesting ..... Ken Harrison North Vancouver, Canada Only a genealogist regards a step backwards as PROGRESS ... HARRISON Yorkshire > Staffordshire > London (Highgate/Hampstead) POTCHIT Yorkshire FISHER London (Highgate/Hampstead) GREAVES Yorkshire > London GRIFFIN Staffordshire STANLEY Staffordshire SMELLIE Lanark > Orkney > Glasgow > Canada + Tasmania STIRRAT Ayrshire > Glasgow BAIN Caithness MILLER Caithness > Swaziland + S. Africa SPENCE Orkney FOTHERINGHAM Orkney TRAILL Orkney SELKRIG Lanark WICKETSHAW Lanark MORRISON Perthshire > Dumbarton > Glasgow > Australia (Vic) MORRISON Islay > Ontario BAIRD Renfrew HAM Australia (Vic) THOMPSON Suffolk > Yorkshire AGGUS Suffolk BRIGHTWELL Suffolk LAWSON Clackmannanshire > Ontario McNABB Islay > Ontario MURRAY Dumfries > Renfrew SINCLAIR Perthshire > Renfrew GILLESPIE Dumfries HENDERSON Dumfries TICKET (TAKET) Dumfries + Lanark CALDWELL Tyrone > Renfrew GRAHAM Tyrone > Ontario Genealogists never die ... they just lose their census. Unless specifically stated otherwise in this message, there is no intentional attachment on this e-mail transmission.

Ah -- summer in North America. Even genealogists spend some time with their LIVING relatives! Dixie > In a message dated 19/06/2006 5:37:23 AM Pacific Standard Time, > hblair@cogeco.ca writes: >> >> Celia >> Check the archives. There are 42 messages posted in June. Several of which >> were posted as recently as yesterday, June 18. >> Cheerio >> Helen >> >>> Have had no SCT-Islay emails for several days . Am suffering withdrawal >> symtoms. Is there a problem? Weather in NZ absolutely atrocious. Celia.> > > That's interesting ... I also have had none (or very few) for a week or two. > I just thought we had all got on with something more interesting ..... > > Ken Harrison > North Vancouver, Canada > > Only a genealogist regards a step backwards as PROGRESS ... > HARRISON Yorkshire > Staffordshire > London (Highgate/Hampstead) > POTCHIT Yorkshire > FISHER London (Highgate/Hampstead) > GREAVES Yorkshire > London > GRIFFIN Staffordshire > STANLEY Staffordshire > SMELLIE Lanark > Orkney > Glasgow > Canada + Tasmania > STIRRAT Ayrshire > Glasgow > BAIN Caithness > MILLER Caithness > Swaziland + S. Africa > SPENCE Orkney > FOTHERINGHAM Orkney > TRAILL Orkney > SELKRIG Lanark > WICKETSHAW Lanark > MORRISON Perthshire > Dumbarton > Glasgow > Australia (Vic) > MORRISON Islay > Ontario > BAIRD Renfrew > HAM Australia (Vic) > THOMPSON Suffolk > Yorkshire > AGGUS Suffolk > BRIGHTWELL Suffolk > LAWSON Clackmannanshire > Ontario > McNABB Islay > Ontario > MURRAY Dumfries > Renfrew > SINCLAIR Perthshire > Renfrew > GILLESPIE Dumfries > HENDERSON Dumfries > TICKET (TAKET) Dumfries + Lanark > CALDWELL Tyrone > Renfrew > GRAHAM Tyrone > Ontario > Genealogists never die ... they just lose their census. > > Unless specifically stated otherwise in this message, there is no intentional > attachment on this e-mail transmission. > > > ==== SCT-ISLAY Mailing List ==== > Here is a link related to tracing your ancestors on the Isle of Islay: > http://www.isle-of-islay.com/genealogy/index.html >

Have had no SCT-Islay emails for several days . Am suffering withdrawal symtoms. Is there a problem? Weather in NZ absolutely atrocious. Celia.

Celia Check the archives. There are 42 messages posted in June. Several of which were posted as recently as yesterday, June 18. Cheerio Helen > Have had no SCT-Islay emails for several days . Am suffering withdrawal symtoms. Is there a problem? Weather in NZ absolutely atrocious. Celia. > > >

No, your right there hasn'y been any messages lately. The weather here in Utah is just as fiercely warm with no letup!!!!!{:>) ----- Original Message ----- From: "celiageary" <celia_geary@infogen.net.nz> To: <SCT-ISLAY-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Sunday, June 18, 2006 5:22 PM Subject: [SCT-ISLAY] Problems? > Have had no SCT-Islay emails for several days . Am suffering withdrawal > symtoms. Is there a problem? Weather in NZ absolutely atrocious. Celia. > > > ==== SCT-ISLAY Mailing List ==== > Here is a link related to tracing your ancestors on the Isle of Islay: > http://www.isle-of-islay.com/genealogy/index.html > > > > -- > No virus found in this incoming message. > Checked by AVG Free Edition. > Version: 7.1.394 / Virus Database: 268.9.0/368 - Release Date: 6/16/2006 > >

Hey Celia, Message received -- weather in Vancouver - "variable." Good night, Dixie > Have had no SCT-Islay emails for several days . Am suffering withdrawal > symtoms. Is there a problem? Weather in NZ absolutely atrocious. Celia. > > > ==== SCT-ISLAY Mailing List ==== > Here is a link related to tracing your ancestors on the Isle of Islay: > http://www.isle-of-islay.com/genealogy/index.html >

Many thanks to those of you responded to our query about places to stay on Islay. We have rented a car, & found a B&B in Port Ellen called the"Trout Fly". Apparently there is a marathon of some sort going the same weekend we will be there--Aug. 5 & 6. If any of you are in the vicinity at that time would love to meet you! We are mainly researching Lamonts, Bells & Fergusons from Islay. The family went to Ontario, then North Dakota, Saskatchewan & places west. I have been out of the loop for quite some time (one of the "lurkers") but hope to get working on this again. I have John Ferguson b4/1821 Killinian m Catherine Bell b1/1836 Gerrach. I had been told this is the wrong Catherine Bell by someone so have hit a brick wall as her tombstone in ND has the dates. I think John & Catherine may have been married in Grey Cty Ontario 1856 but can't confirm. Their farm was in Wellington Cty & John is buried in Bethel Cem. If anyone is researching any of these families I would love to contact you. I am also researching MacMasters & Cooks from Isle of Arran. Will be visiting there as well, on our trip. If anyone has connections there, I have a lot on them Thanks again for help with the trip! Edie Ferguson

Hello List, I informed the Johnstons of the Johnston On Bridge discussion on the Islay site, and received this reply:- ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jenny & Ian Johnston" <elocin2@bigpond.com> To: "Carol Rowe" <carolrowe@iprimus.com.au> Sent: Friday, June 16, 2006 5:11 PM Subject: Re: [SCT-ISLAY] Bridge of Johnston > Johnston is where Ian's cousin Morag Morrison (her mother was a Johnston) > was born. Thank you for this. JJ. > -ISLAY Mailing List ==== >

I've been delving into the Johnston-On-Bridge puzzle, as I have a John Johnston from Renfrewshire who married an Islay girl, Marion Brown. I've found references to the same Johnston-On-Bridge or Bridge -Of Johnston in the November 2002 Islay Archives. John Johnston's father William Johnston lived in Renfrewshire, and there's a William Johnston mentioned in the early history of Bridge of Johnston. This is all hearsay, but I thought that it might help. Toni Sinclair contributed to the discussion in 2002. Carol Rowe (Currie)

This is too early for me. My Donald Jamieson was b.c. 1810, married Margaret McDougall and had son Dugald Jamieson, b. 1836. All on Islay. Celia.

Thank you Celia for your reply it makes a lot of sense, this gives me another avenue to explore. Dona Findlay On 15 Jun 2006, at 01:13, celiageary wrote: > You might find that the families that these two women worked for, also > emigrated to Tasmania and that they were servants who travelled > with them. > There were also Emigration schemes abounding at that time which > encouraged > young women over 21 to emigrate to the colonies as servants. Female > servants > were very difficult to retain as there were far more men than women > in the > colonies and they kept getting snapped up for marriage. Most ships > did leave > from Gravesend, London for all ports overseas, only a minority left > from > Glasgow. Celia from NZ. > > > ==== SCT-ISLAY Mailing List ==== > Click on this link for some wonderful stories, and general > information about Islay: http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~steve/islay/ > misc.htm >