Hi I have the spreadsheets saved a long time ago, I was looking mainly at Campbell and McArthur families who would have had links to Isle of MULL and MacDougall families. Anyone? Tricia

Hi Lynn I get a "not found" error when I try to get at the Kilmeny and Killarow records from Ted's site. I didn't ask earlier because I thought you might get fed up with all the requests that were coming in, but now that you have offered again, yes please! John Kemplen (Islay relatives mainly MacKellars (Kilbhraenan > Torrabus > Tighnaspeur > Ardilistry > ... > Auchnaclach) and Campbells (Ayen) with some MacLugash connections) -----Original Message----- From: Lynn Seamark via Sent: Tuesday, November 3, 2015 7:58 PM To: sct-islay@rootsweb.com Subject: [SCT-ISLAY] Birth OPR Hi, I believe I got the birth OPR spreadsheet sent to all those who requested it. If anyone else would like it - the offer is still out there. This spreadsheet is from Ted Larson's old site - I did find the link. http://homepages.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~steve/islay/ted/tribute.htm Thanks, Lynn --- This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus software. https://www.avast.com/antivirus

Me too, please -- researching McNeills on Islay, 1700s. -----Original Message----- From: Lynn Seamark via Sent: Tuesday, November 3, 2015 12:58 PM To: [1]sct-islay@rootsweb.com Subject: [SCT-ISLAY] Birth OPR Hi, I believe I got the birth OPR spreadsheet sent to all those who requested it. If anyone else would like it - the offer is still out there. This spreadsheet is from Ted Larson's old site - I did find the link. [2]http://homepages.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~steve/islay/ted/tribute.htm Thanks, Lynn ------------------------------- Quoting the entire text of a previous message in a reply is poor netiquette. Please don't do it. ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [3]SCT-ISLAY-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message ------------------------------- Quoting the entire text of a previous message in a reply is poor netiquette. Please don't do it. ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [4]SCT-ISLAY-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message ------------------------------- Quoting the entire text of a previous message in a reply is poor netiquette. Please don't do it. ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [5]SCT-ISLAY-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message References 1. mailto:sct-islay@rootsweb.com 2. http://homepages.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~steve/islay/ted/tribute.htm 3. mailto:SCT-ISLAY-request@rootsweb.com 4. mailto:SCT-ISLAY-request@rootsweb.com 5. mailto:SCT-ISLAY-request@rootsweb.com

Did RootsWeb hijack Ted Larson's research? The transcriptions that I'm trying to access aren't available. Can anyone help please? Thank you, Diana in British Columbia, Canada

I too would appreciate receiving a copy. Thanks so much. Nancy -----Original Message----- From: sct-islay-bounces@rootsweb.com [mailto:sct-islay-bounces@rootsweb.com] On Behalf Of Lynn Seamark via Sent: Tuesday, November 03, 2015 2:59 PM To: sct-islay@rootsweb.com Subject: [SCT-ISLAY] Birth OPR Hi, I believe I got the birth OPR spreadsheet sent to all those who requested it. If anyone else would like it - the offer is still out there. This spreadsheet is from Ted Larson's old site - I did find the link. http://homepages.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~steve/islay/ted/tribute.htm Thanks, Lynn ------------------------------- Quoting the entire text of a previous message in a reply is poor netiquette. Please don't do it. ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to SCT-ISLAY-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message

Hi, I would like to get the spreadsheet as well. My cousin Cam McMillan has been so good at our McMillan history but I am now working on it also. And I have been to Islay 2 amazing times! Thanks Islay McMillan Perkins eiperkins@shaw.ca -----Original Message----- From: sct-islay-bounces@rootsweb.com [mailto:sct-islay-bounces@rootsweb.com] On Behalf Of Lynn Seamark via Sent: November-03-15 12:59 PM To: sct-islay@rootsweb.com Subject: [SCT-ISLAY] Birth OPR Hi, I believe I got the birth OPR spreadsheet sent to all those who requested it. If anyone else would like it - the offer is still out there. This spreadsheet is from Ted Larson's old site - I did find the link. http://homepages.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~steve/islay/ted/tribute.htm Thanks, Lynn ------------------------------- Quoting the entire text of a previous message in a reply is poor netiquette. Please don't do it. ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to SCT-ISLAY-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message

Hi, I believe I got the birth OPR spreadsheet sent to all those who requested it. If anyone else would like it - the offer is still out there. This spreadsheet is from Ted Larson's old site - I did find the link. http://homepages.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~steve/islay/ted/tribute.htm Thanks, Lynn

Yes please...with thanks -----Original Message----- From: Lynn Seamark via Sent: Tuesday, November 3, 2015 12:58 PM To: sct-islay@rootsweb.com Subject: [SCT-ISLAY] Birth OPR Hi, I believe I got the birth OPR spreadsheet sent to all those who requested it. If anyone else would like it - the offer is still out there. This spreadsheet is from Ted Larson's old site - I did find the link. http://homepages.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~steve/islay/ted/tribute.htm Thanks, Lynn ------------------------------- Quoting the entire text of a previous message in a reply is poor netiquette. Please don't do it. ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to SCT-ISLAY-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message

Hi Lynn Could you send it to me. Several Curries and a Ferguson appear on the tenants list for 1798-99. Bob On 3 November 2015 at 11:58, Lynn Seamark via <sct-islay@rootsweb.com> wrote: > Hi, I believe I got the birth OPR spreadsheet sent to all those who > requested it. If anyone else would like it - the offer is still out > there. This spreadsheet is from Ted Larson's old site - I did find the > link. > > http://homepages.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~steve/islay/ted/tribute.htm > > Thanks, Lynn > > > ------------------------------- > > Quoting the entire text of a previous message in a reply is poor > netiquette. Please don't do it. > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > SCT-ISLAY-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message > -- *The best part about genealogy is searching for ancestors and finding friends. *

Hello Mel and Carol Winthrope from Canada. You appear to be related to me as per the following research. Kind regards, Alistair McArthur Australia ............................... Descendants of John McArthur Generation No. 1 1. JOHN1 MCARTHUR was born 1765 in Islay, Scotland, and died 1835. He married CATHERINE GRAHAM 1788. She died 1837. Children of JOHN MCARTHUR and CATHERINE GRAHAM are: i. NEIL2 MCARTHUR, d. 1840. More About NEIL MCARTHUR: Baptism: 16 Jan 1802, Ballivicar, Islay, Scotland1 ii. GILBERT MCARTHUR, d. 1873, Lawrenny, Caramut, Victoria, Australia. 2. iii. PETER MCARTHUR, b. 04 Jul 1819, Ballyvicar, Islay, Scotland; d. 01 Jul 1897, Meningoort, Camperdown, Victoria, Australia. iv. JOHN MCARTHUR, d. 1860, Toronto, Canada. More About JOHN MCARTHUR: Baptism: 1809, Ballivicar, Islay, Scotland v. MARY MCARTHUR, d. 1862; m. DUNCAN MCARTHUR. More About MARY MCARTHUR: Baptism: 03 Mar 1794, Ballivicar, Islay, Scotland vi. CHARLES MCARTHUR. More About CHARLES MCARTHUR: Baptism: 24 Mar 1798, Ballivicar, Islay, Scotland vii. MARGARET MCARTHUR. More About MARGARET MCARTHUR: Baptism: 23 Feb 1800, Ballivicar, Islay, Scotland viii. CATHERINE MCARTHUR. More About CATHERINE MCARTHUR: Baptism: 30 Nov 1803, Ballivicar, Islay, Scotland ix. ANNE MCARTHUR, m. GILCHRIST. -----Original Message----- From: sct-islay-bounces@rootsweb.com [mailto:sct-islay-bounces@rootsweb.com] On Behalf Of Sue Visser via Sent: Friday, 30 October 2015 11:12 PM To: SCT-ISLAY-L Subject: [SCT-ISLAY] An "Ileach" article involving GRAHAM, DOUGLASS, CAMPBELL >From the latest issue of the Ileach Ileach 43/01 31 October 2015 Islay visit Mel and Carol Winthrope, Canadian tourists visiting Islay, write: Both my husband and I have been researching our family trees. My mother is a ‘Graham’ and there was a ‘Clan Graham’ tour from North America offered this summer. We decided that we would make the trip and try to find my heritage in Scotland, specifically on the island of Islay. My family has a very old Bible dated 1819 in which all my GGG and GG family members are recorded, with their names and birth dates. My GGG Grandfather was Alexander Graham and my GGG Grandmother was Mary Douglass. We knew they were from the island of Islay because that was recorded in the Bible. We have a baptism record showing Mary Douglass being baptised at the Round Church in Bowmore. The record lists her residence as Neriby. We also discovered from an archivist in Lochgilphead that Alexander Graham’s family was from Ballivicar. She was born in 1790 and her future husband, Alexander was born in 1783/4. We gingerly knocked on the door of the residents at Neriby Farm and to our amazement we were asked in for tea. What a friendly welcome we received from Liz and Bob Cunninghame. I got to feel the area where my GGG Grandmother lived. There was no record from the Archivist that the Douglass family lived there, but he did mention that sub-tenants or common labourers would not be recorded. However, Alexander Graham was recorded because he was a tenant and paid rent to Daniel Campbell, the then owner of the island. We found a record of his family paying rent on a farm at Balivicar in 1733 and 1741. We had picked up a little booklet from the Bowmore Church, “The Campbell Heritage” Kilarrow Series (6). Daniel Campbell appears to be in our ancestors’ lives on my mother’s side and very possibly on my father’s side as well. This was definitely not in a good way for my father’s family. My father was a ‘Mickey’ and while working on research this year I discovered his Great Grandfather was a run-away slave from Virginia, USA. He lost his wife in the process, but escaped with one small son, Reuben, who was aged about 3-4 years, to Canada in around 1855-1858. It was one of the most horrible practises the world has known, the trading of other human beings for financial gain, and an accepted mal-treatment of unbelievable magnitude was the basis of Daniel Campbell‘s fortune. Fortunately for me, William Mickey (my GG Grandfather) made it with his son to freedom in Canada through the Underground Railroad. What I discovered in the “Campbell Heritage” booklet is that Daniel Campbell became a New England ship-owner and trader. He returned to Scotland and became a Glasgow ‘Tobacco Lord’, trading as far as Virginia, Sweden and Africa. His trade included iron ore, tobacco and slaves,”, so Campbell made his fortune trading families like mine into a life of pain and misery. Another quote from the Campbell booklet in “Daniel Campbell’s Day Book”, in the handwriting of Fferquhard Campbell the Notary Public, is an entry of the Latin inscription which appears on a tablet in the face of the church tower translated, “For the pious study of truth and honour, this church is dedicated to the supreme deity by Daniel Campbell, Lord of the Island, who built it at his own cost.” This is referring to the Round Church in Bowmore, where we picked up this pamphlet. So much for truth and honour as he condemned thousands of Africans to slavery, my family possibly on one of his ships. I discovered Elizabeth (Betty) Douglas who had married Robert Hamilton in 1811. They had five children before Robert met an untimely death in 1820. Being an Excise officer on Islay, I suspect he may have been murdered. Does anyone’s family memories stretch that far back? Elizabeth is probably a sister to Mary Douglas, being born only two years apart. Interesting enough, my Graham family settled in eastern Ontario, Canada. The Mickey side of my family settled in the southwestern side of Ontario, Canada after escaping slavery in the US in the 1850’s. The Grahams and the Mickeys eventually moved to Saskatchewan, Canada where my mother met and fell in love with my dad. My husband and I thoroughly enjoyed your wee island, the friendly people and the beautiful sunsets. It was a trip of lifetime. ------------------------------- Quoting the entire text of a previous message in a reply is poor netiquette. Please don't do it. ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to <mailto:SCT-ISLAY-request@rootsweb.com> SCT-ISLAY-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message

I believe it was Edward King of this list who was interested in the Ray/Darrach family of Islay, then North Carolina, then Eldon township in Ontario. I was just finally reading the Journal of the North Carolina Scottish Heritage Society, when I found a very long and detailed article about this family and its descendants. The one who came to Ontario was John, son of Gilbert son of Gilbert, son of John, if that helps you. Edward, if you are not a member of that Society, I can give you a summary of the article, or direct you to getting a copy of the journal for yourself. There is also an excellent article by Douglas Purcell, who is, or was a member of this list too, regarding the dna connection between the Purcells and Maloy family. Toni

Thanks Sue Jean On Fri, Oct 30, 2015 at 8:33 AM, Sue Visser via <sct-islay@rootsweb.com> wrote: > Hi all > > This link gives data sources for Islay’s parishes. Click on each parish > for > specific information. And you'll want to bookmark the site too *smile* > > https://familysearch.org/learn/wiki/en/Argyllshire,_Scotland_Genealogy > > Sue Visser > > PS By the way -- similar information is available for other counties. See > https://familysearch.org/learn/wiki/en/Scotland_Genealogy > > > ------------------------------- > > Quoting the entire text of a previous message in a reply is poor > netiquette. Please don't do it. > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > SCT-ISLAY-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message

Hi all This link gives data sources for Islay’s parishes. Click on each parish for specific information. And you'll want to bookmark the site too *smile* https://familysearch.org/learn/wiki/en/Argyllshire,_Scotland_Genealogy Sue Visser PS By the way -- similar information is available for other counties. See https://familysearch.org/learn/wiki/en/Scotland_Genealogy

>From the latest issue of the Ileach Ileach 43/01 31 October 2015 Islay visit Mel and Carol Winthrope, Canadian tourists visiting Islay, write: Both my husband and I have been researching our family trees. My mother is a ‘Graham’ and there was a ‘Clan Graham’ tour from North America offered this summer. We decided that we would make the trip and try to find my heritage in Scotland, specifically on the island of Islay. My family has a very old Bible dated 1819 in which all my GGG and GG family members are recorded, with their names and birth dates. My GGG Grandfather was Alexander Graham and my GGG Grandmother was Mary Douglass. We knew they were from the island of Islay because that was recorded in the Bible. We have a baptism record showing Mary Douglass being baptised at the Round Church in Bowmore. The record lists her residence as Neriby. We also discovered from an archivist in Lochgilphead that Alexander Graham’s family was from Ballivicar. She was born in 1790 and her future husband, Alexander was born in 1783/4. We gingerly knocked on the door of the residents at Neriby Farm and to our amazement we were asked in for tea. What a friendly welcome we received from Liz and Bob Cunninghame. I got to feel the area where my GGG Grandmother lived. There was no record from the Archivist that the Douglass family lived there, but he did mention that sub-tenants or common labourers would not be recorded. However, Alexander Graham was recorded because he was a tenant and paid rent to Daniel Campbell, the then owner of the island. We found a record of his family paying rent on a farm at Balivicar in 1733 and 1741. We had picked up a little booklet from the Bowmore Church, “The Campbell Heritage” Kilarrow Series (6). Daniel Campbell appears to be in our ancestors’ lives on my mother’s side and very possibly on my father’s side as well. This was definitely not in a good way for my father’s family. My father was a ‘Mickey’ and while working on research this year I discovered his Great Grandfather was a run-away slave from Virginia, USA. He lost his wife in the process, but escaped with one small son, Reuben, who was aged about 3-4 years, to Canada in around 1855-1858. It was one of the most horrible practises the world has known, the trading of other human beings for financial gain, and an accepted mal-treatment of unbelievable magnitude was the basis of Daniel Campbell‘s fortune. Fortunately for me, William Mickey (my GG Grandfather) made it with his son to freedom in Canada through the Underground Railroad. What I discovered in the “Campbell Heritage” booklet is that Daniel Campbell became a New England ship-owner and trader. He returned to Scotland and became a Glasgow ‘Tobacco Lord’, trading as far as Virginia, Sweden and Africa. His trade included iron ore, tobacco and slaves,”, so Campbell made his fortune trading families like mine into a life of pain and misery. Another quote from the Campbell booklet in “Daniel Campbell’s Day Book”, in the handwriting of Fferquhard Campbell the Notary Public, is an entry of the Latin inscription which appears on a tablet in the face of the church tower translated, “For the pious study of truth and honour, this church is dedicated to the supreme deity by Daniel Campbell, Lord of the Island, who built it at his own cost.” This is referring to the Round Church in Bowmore, where we picked up this pamphlet. So much for truth and honour as he condemned thousands of Africans to slavery, my family possibly on one of his ships. I discovered Elizabeth (Betty) Douglas who had married Robert Hamilton in 1811. They had five children before Robert met an untimely death in 1820. Being an Excise officer on Islay, I suspect he may have been murdered. Does anyone’s family memories stretch that far back? Elizabeth is probably a sister to Mary Douglas, being born only two years apart. Interesting enough, my Graham family settled in eastern Ontario, Canada. The Mickey side of my family settled in the southwestern side of Ontario, Canada after escaping slavery in the US in the 1850’s. The Grahams and the Mickeys eventually moved to Saskatchewan, Canada where my mother met and fell in love with my dad. My husband and I thoroughly enjoyed your wee island, the friendly people and the beautiful sunsets. It was a trip of lifetime.

There are more interesting facts to read at this link: https://familysearch.org/learn/wiki/en/Kildalton,_Argyl,_Scotland Births: Records prior to 1761 have suffered from dampness and lack of care. The pages are blank January 1744–May 1745, July 1755–July 1758, and 1762–February 1789. Mothers' names are not recorded until April 1805. Marriages: Records prior to 1766 have suffered some damage, every page being more or less imperfect and many entries incomplete. The pages are blank October 1766–November 1789. Except July 1798–1802 inclusive, the fact of marriage is seldom added to the entries until May 1814. Sue Visser -----Original Message----- From: Dana Kerr via Sent: Friday, October 30, 2015 6:54 AM To: sct-islay@rootsweb.com Subject: [SCT-ISLAY] OPR 's Islay I've been using Ted Larsons site for a long time but have to note, even when they went over to roots.. There is a huge chunk missing. From 1766 to 1789, there are no records. Is there any explanation or way to retrieve them. Researching the Kerr family. Sent from my iPad ------------------------------- Quoting the entire text of a previous message in a reply is poor netiquette. Please don't do it. ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to SCT-ISLAY-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message

I've been using Ted Larsons site for a long time but have to note, even when they went over to roots.. There is a huge chunk missing. From 1766 to 1789, there are no records. Is there any explanation or way to retrieve them. Researching the Kerr family. Sent from my iPad

Just a note on two of the five parishes of Islay - Birth Marriage and Death Records Kilchoman   from b1821-1854    m 1821 - 1854  d nilKilmeny     from b1802-1854     m nil   d  nil Portnahaven was incorporated under Kilchoman.  The Oa and Kildalton were also combined I'm not sure how accurate this info is or where I got it but perhaps it will help.  Janet  On Thursday, October 29, 2015 8:46 AM, Pat Roth via <sct-islay@rootsweb.com> wrote: Lynn I would also love to see the transcriptions for births especially for Kilmeny.  Thank you very much, Pat > On Oct 28, 2015, at 2:23 PM, Lynn Seamark via <sct-islay@rootsweb.com> wrote: > > > Hi, > > If no one has the link to the old excel spreadsheet transcriptions for > births - I can forward the file to you. > > Lynn > > (I was wondering if anyone can tell me a good source for looking at OPR > for either Kilchoman or Kilmeny pre 1850? I've already looked through > the Killarrow and Kildalton ones located at > http://homepages.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~steve/islay/data.htm. > > Rebecca ) >         > > > ------------------------------- > > Quoting the entire text of a previous message in a reply is poor netiquette. Please don't do it. > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to SCT-ISLAY-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message > ------------------------------- Quoting the entire text of a previous message in a reply is poor netiquette. Please don't do it. ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to SCT-ISLAY-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message

Hi, Merle.  I'm in Ontario, Canada.  I simply type in Pre 1856 Islay Vital Records and I get access to all the info.  I use Google as my browser. Janet On Thursday, October 29, 2015 11:30 AM, Merle Duncan via <sct-islay@rootsweb.com> wrote: Hello All, I recall a post in the last several years about Ted Larsen's transcripts of Islay births, marriages and baptisms. I have tried to access them at http://homepages.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~steve/islay/ted/tribute.htm but I can't get to them. Are they still available? Merle Duncan ------------------------------- Quoting the entire text of a previous message in a reply is poor netiquette. Please don't do it. ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to SCT-ISLAY-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message

Lyn I would love to see the pre 1850 Kilmeny OPR John McKinnon

Hello All, I recall a post in the last several years about Ted Larsen's transcripts of Islay births, marriages and baptisms. I have tried to access them at http://homepages.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~steve/islay/ted/tribute.htm but I can't get to them. Are they still available? Merle Duncan