Hello Iain Thank you for the link to your site. It was very interesting to read about your visit to Islay, it was wonderful that you found so much on such a short visit. I have not visited Islay yet but hopefully will be making my first visit soon. Debbie Iain Sinclair <iain@iainsinclair.me.uk> wrote: Hello Deborah, Today, Cruach is a small number of scattered houses in farmland just outside Bowmore which is the main town on Islay. Corrary is a farm, also not far from Bowmore, where the Bowmore to Port Ellen road crosses the river Laggan. 2 miles along the river is Curalach where my Sinclair ancestors lived and worked. a few years ago I wrote a note about my first visit to Islay. It is on Steve's website at http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~steve/islay/sinclair.htm It might give you a flavour. If you look at an OS map of Islay you will find them quite easily. In the time of your forebears each of these farming areas, and many others, were worked by tenant farmers and farm labourers living in small 2 room cottages which were very basic. Most have been demolished over the years or had new buildings erected. There would typically have been several families working on each farm, and many of them moved from farm to farm, so your family living at Cruach and then Corrary would have been quite normal. They are probably less than 2 miles apart. Hope this helps. Iain ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to SCT-ISLAY-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message