Thanks Jean. Yes I did see it but didn't connect it with our conversation. I've referred him to Elaine Scott, an excellent Islay researcher. Cheers, Sue -----Original Message----- From: Jean Hutchinson via Sent: Sunday, October 25, 2015 5:46 PM To: James F Thoma ; sct-islay@rootsweb.com Subject: Re: [SCT-ISLAY] Henry / Malcolm / William McQuigg (McQuaig orMcCuaig) I think likely you got this one . Jean On Fri, Oct 23, 2015 at 3:13 PM, James F Thoma via <sct-islay@rootsweb.com> wrote: > Hello, I am Jim Thoma from Kingsport, East Tennessee, USA. I live in an > area that you would feel right at home in. Just the other side of the > Continental Divide they still hold the Highland Games every single year. > Having been to Scotland and floated by Islay I will attest I live in your > second homeland. > > > > But, alas, I am not Scots. Well if you count that Douglas lineage there > might be Scots blood in me. I do confess to liking the malt in all > beverages, so that may make me an honorary Scots. > > > > But now, my wife, she is a McQuigg. And all her Aunties and even her > Grandpa Pop told her lies. You see they said that she was Irish. I mean > after all James Malcolm McQuigg and his wife Jane Brown immigrated to > Wincester, Canada from Culcrow Townland, Aghadowey Civil Parish, County > Londonderry in 1847. So who was she to believe her kin or husband? > > > > I knew better because I knew that James Malcolm's father was Henry McQuigg > and Henry's father was Malcolm McQuigg. And well even the Aunties knew > that > Malcolm McQuigg (1760 - 1817) and his wife Jane Stewart had been born in > Scotland. And they would tell the tales about how three brothers left the > Hebrides or Western Isles during the late Plantation of Ulster and settled > in Northern Ireland. They would clutch their breast and moan about > persecuted Presbyterians. Which I always thought was strange since they > were all devout Methodists. > > > > But now I find out that Henry McQuigg (1780? - 1847?) was also a Scotsman. > I have discovered a letter by a woman who married into the family and > converted them all to Methodism. In between her prayer vigils she wrote > how > Henry came to Knockaduff Townland, Aghadowey Civil Parish, County > Londonderry as a young man. She claimed that Henry's father, Malcolm, was > a > wealthy man; even to the extent of importing horses from Scotland into > Ireland. Me I would rather he had imported Tomintoul "the gentle dram" > and > aged 14 years. But my mother, a nice German lady, always told me to stay > away from politics, religion, and strong drink. > > > > So now I know that Malcolm brought his family from the Hebrides sometime > between 1785 and 1790 to Knockaduff Townland. His grandchildren (James > Malcolm and his brother William Henry) were all in Canada farming just > north > of the St. Lawrence river by 1847. Holding back the invading Americans > for > the British. Oops gone political again. So 57 to 62 years in Northern > Ireland does not make one Irish, I claim, just slowly migrating Scotsmen. > Furthermore, my wife should trust me not her Aunties and Grandpa Pop. > > > > But there were those three brothers that I mentioned. Family lore from > the > Aunties deceased sister claim that one went to live in Aghadowey, one to > Bushmills, and one jumped ship to Australia. I found that the family lore > actually started with Malcolm Moon McQuigg of Coleraine, Northern Ireland > back in 1964. But I discovered that Malcolm knew his stuff. I suspect > that > the three brothers were Malcolm of Knockaduff, Samuel of Ballyclough, and > John of Islandcarragh; and their father is William McQuigg (1730 - 1797) > and > their mother is Janet Steen and all of them were from Scotland. > > > > But where in Scotland could they have come from. So as we were leaving > Belfast aboard the Norwegian Star I leaned over the cabin balcony rail, > waved my hand towards Scotland, and asked my wife where she believed she > came from in Scotland. She thrust her right index finger out over the > water > and said "THERE". But I said honey that is the Isle of Islay and so many > people left there for Ireland, Canada, and America that I would never be > able to find them. She told me that "THAT" was my problem and to lay off > the Glenlivet. > > > > So here I am trying to find a combination of Henry, Malcolm, John, Samuel > and William McQuigg that will fit the dates and times for living on the > Isle > of Islay. I know that McQuigg, McQuaig, and McCuaig (also Mac) are all > the > same surname. But I have searched all of the parish records of Islay and > have not found them. I swear I could hear John and Charles Wesley > snickering at me. So I am at my wits end. > > > > I need help! If anyone can help me I would be most grateful. And if > anyone > has the email of a professional genealogist, I am not above paying for > help. > That really hurt, it must the Douglas heritage! > > > > Sincerely, > > > > James Frederick Thoma (see I am German) > > jfthoma@chartertn.net > > > > > ------------------------------- > > Quoting the entire text of a previous message in a reply is poor > netiquette. 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