Hi Toni- Was that at Frederica Church - ? My in-laws spend there winters down there and we ususally visit them for a few days, and I'd like to check out the garvestone next time. Steffenie On Mon, Mar 8, 2010 at 3:01 AM, <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Lovely place with fascinating history, so we stopped at a very old church > yard for a snoop. Never expecting to find anything important, I was very > surprised to find a gravestone of someone from Islay. > > It was the grave of "John Campbell Currie, born in Isle of Islay, Scotland > April 15, 1855, died Aug. 14, 1921, St. Simons Island." > > >

Hi Steffenie, Yes, it was at Christ Church, Frederica (Episcopalian, if I spelled it right. "Anglican" in Canadian.) You will find it beside the church, on the west side (I'd say near the southwest corner of the church), and not very far back. Many stones are hard to read, but his is still quite clear. It's a lovely, old church, and worth a visit on its own merits. The reason that we went there in the first place was that I found out that there was a "Sinclair Plantation" on the island, and I had a hope that it might have been an Islay Sinclair that I am trying to trace (Archibald), but I think it wasn't him. The museum at the lighthouse has a reference library about early settlers, as does the town library, but both were closed on Saturday afternoon. After all, there was a chilli cookoff going on! If you get a chance to drop in to either of these libraries, could you do a quick enquiry for me? All I could find out about Archibald was that he was called a "Tytheman" (whatever that meant 250 years ago?) and he sold the plantation in 1765. However, if you don't have time, no worries. We can stop in again next year. Toni > Date: Mon, 8 Mar 2010 06:47:31 -0500 > From: [email protected] > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [SCT-ISLAY] SCT-ISLAY Digest, Vol 5, Issue 41 > > Hi Toni- > > Was that at Frederica Church - ? My in-laws spend there winters down there > and we ususally visit them for a few days, and I'd like to check out the > garvestone next time. > > Steffenie > > On Mon, Mar 8, 2010 at 3:01 AM, <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > > > Lovely place with fascinating history, so we stopped at a very old church > > yard for a snoop. Never expecting to find anything important, I was very > > surprised to find a gravestone of someone from Islay. > > > > It was the grave of "John Campbell Currie, born in Isle of Islay, Scotland > > April 15, 1855, died Aug. 14, 1921, St. Simons Island." > > > > > > > ------------------------------- > > 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 [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message _________________________________________________________________ Live connected with Messenger on your phone http://go.microsoft.com/?linkid=9712958