Hi Russ Sorry for the delay in responding. I was up visiting Dad this week and asked him if he knew about any McGillivrays on Islay. No luck. Sorry. Regards Iain -----Original Message----- From: Russ McGillivray [mailto:russmcgillivray@hotmail.com] Sent: 23 May 2006 09:35 To: SCT-ISLAY-L@rootsweb.com Subject: [SCT-ISLAY] McGilvrays of Islay Iain, Saw mention of your elderly grandfather. I am doing a family tree of all of the McGilvray families on Islay and their relations and wonder if he has any knowledge or stories about McGilvrays. Russ McGillivray >From: "Iain & Margaret MacIntosh" <margaret.macintosh@bigfoot.com> >Reply-To: <margaret.macintosh@bigfoot.com> >To: SCT-ISLAY-L@rootsweb.com >Subject: RE: [SCT-ISLAY] McEachern's of Islay >Date: Mon, 22 May 2006 12:06:39 +0100 > >I was up visiting Neil Balameanach on Saturday. Unfortunately he no longer >keeps his herd or supplies milk. Still a great character but enjoys his >porridge. > >Regards > >Iain >-----Original Message----- >From: seann mhaighdean [mailto:seannmhaighdean@yahoo.co.uk] >Sent: 20 May 2006 09:32 >To: SCT-ISLAY-L@rootsweb.com >Subject: Re: [SCT-ISLAY] McEachern's of Islay > >Neil McEachern farms at Ballymeanach, a ten minute walk out of Portnahaven >towards Cladville. Erstwhile supplier of the best creamy milk you could >ever >hope to pour on your porridge. > slainte, > SM > > > > Peter.Bottomley@nab.com.au wrote: > >Hi all, > >Am hoping someone can assist with information on the McEachern family. I am >descended from Donald McEacherna and Mary Hill of Bridgend. > >Am looking for information on Donald's brother John and his family who >farmed at Leek Gruissart from 1840's through to 1900's. > >Donald's son James died at Leek Gruissart aged 93 in 1901, leaving a son >Donald who was 47 at the time. I don't know if Donald ever married or died >a batchelor. > >James' brother Neil returned to Islay from Glasgow in the 1840's following >the death of his wife, Neil and three of his children Alexander, Donald and >Mary lived at Leek Gruissart but don't know what happened to them. > >According to some sources there are supposed to be descendants of this >family still on Islay, but I have not been able to locate them. Any help >would be appreciated. > >Regards > >Peter Bottomley > > > > >National Australia Bank Ltd - ABN 12 004 044 937 >This email may contain confidential information. If you are not the >intended >recipient, please immediately notify us at postmaster@nab.com.au or by >replying to the sender, and then destroy all copies of this email. Except >where this email indicates otherwise, views expressed in this email are >those of the sender and not of National Australia Bank Ltd. Advice in this >email does not take account of your objectives, financial situation, or >needs. It is important for you to consider these matters and, if the e-mail >refers to a product(s), you should read the relevant Product Disclosure >Statement(s)/other disclosure document(s) before making any decisions. If >you do not want email marketing from us in future, forward this email with >"unsubscribe" in the subject line to Unsubscriptions@nab.com.au in order to >stop marketing emails from this sender. National Australia Bank Ltd does >not >represent that this email is free of errors, viruses or interference. > > >==== SCT-ISLAY Mailing List ==== >Find out who has books and research data pertaining to Islay at the Virtual >Library: http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~steve/islay/library.htm > > > >Send instant messages to your online friends http://uk.messenger.yahoo.com > > >==== SCT-ISLAY Mailing List ==== >Find out who has books and research data pertaining to Islay at the Virtual >Library: http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~steve/islay/library.htm > > > > >==== SCT-ISLAY Mailing List ==== >Here are some links related to the Isle of Islay: >http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~steve/islay/links.htm > ==== SCT-ISLAY Mailing List ==== Click on this link for some wonderful stories, and general information about Islay: http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~steve/islay/misc.htm