Hi Diana: There is one McKechnie in the 1841 census at Ballygrant and 16 at vaious places in the 1851 census. See HTTP://freepages.family.rootsweb.com/~tlarson/bdm/ Ted Diana wrote: >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 > > >. > > >