Thanks Sue!! More great information!! This group is so helpful -- much appreciated!! I'm not sure when Angus moved out of Kintra, but he appears in the 1861 Census on Page 6, Parish of Oa, #24, Kentraw. In the 1871 Census he was living at 50 Shore Street with his daughter and son-in-law, and he died there on 23 January 1873. His wife Mary (nee Campbell) died 6 Dec 1870 in Bowmore. Yes, I would like to visit Islay and am hoping to stay at the Kintra B&B -- even though it isn't the original farm house that my ancestors lived in, they still would have walked those beaches and worked on the land there. I would be interested in pursuing this further if you have some suggestions Sue!! I don't have any plans to visit this year, but within the next two years I will make it there and plan to walk the land where they lived. Linda Message: 4 Date: Fri, 12 Mar 2010 09:56:54 -0500 From: "Sue Visser" <[email protected]> Subject: [SCT-ISLAY] Kintra To: "ROOTSWEB - ISLAY LIST" <[email protected]> Message-ID: <[email protected]> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" "Do you know if the B&B presently operating in the Oa as "Kentraw" is part of that old homestead? " Hi Linda It's Kintra B&B. My McCuaigs lived there also. The present buildings were built after my McCuaigs emigrated 1851. There is a stone cottage down by the beach (a ruin in 1997 but now renovated and rented to tourists) that a cousin mistakenly thought had been where our ancestors had lived but documents later found show that this cottage belonged to the agricultural workers. Letter on the wall at The Old Granary of Kintra Farm from Freda Ramsay (in response to the Kintra owners' request about information about the history of their buildings): 1820; The Survey of Kintra by Wm. Gemmel, shows the two Tenants' houses with their garden path, and the two agricultural workers' cottages beside the shore, still with you. These were built of stone and lime, slated and with chimnies in the gables. The three other buildings were most probably of "Black House" construction, ie. dry stonewalls and the thatches roofs and were probably byres, etc. It is difficult now to know what was kept and what was demolished, but it seems possible that the inner of the Tennants' house is the building you refer to. The cots may be the byre; 1856/71; Angus McNab were the last two tenants to occupy Kintra. Their lease fell in in 1871 but they may have continued a few years more. At any rate when the present house was completed in the 1880's, the first family to live in it were our own. Alterations were being made at Kildalton and their living for a summer at Kintra meant that John Ramsay could more easily supervise the building at Machrie and other farms in the neighbourhood and also the construction of the Low Road. 1888/90: The first single tenant was Daniel Simpson; he asked for another cottage to house two more workers; 1890/1911; Ronald and John Campbell took over the lease. In both these leases, there was a clause to the effect that "the threshing mill and the oil engine connected therewith" were property of the proprietor and were to be left in good working condition at the end of the Leases; 1911/16: When another pair of brothers, Wm and Geo Taylor, took over the Lease in 1911, they were given the choice of taking over the Threshing Mill and engine at valuation or allowing it to be removed. I imagine it must have been removed because there is no mention of it in James McTaggart's Lease of 1916. Undoubtedly, the building in which it was housed, which was probably also used to store the grain, would become known as "the old Granary". Below this written portion was a copy of the survey of the property. At the time I didn't have a digital camara so hand drew it (next time I'll photograph it). From the Ramsay drawing I was able to find what I believe was the location of the 2 tenant's houses. If you are going to play detective with this, contact me off list and I'll try to help. Cheers, Sue Visser