Hi Paul, I have also been wondering why a long standing Yorkshire family would move to Islay. What did Herman do for a living in Yorkshire? Having been on Scotlands People the last few days, I took a look for Eric today and Johan is correct, it has to be him I also searched on the surname in Kildalton and remember seeing 1 Dawson who had died aged 88 years. Scotlands people has deaths up to 1955. I would think this is your only record you would get from here as all the others will be too new.........if you get my drift. I would write directly to the Parish Priest, (or all of them around Kildalton!) you will find most of them quite accomodating if you are prepared to wait for them to get back to you. As you know the dates of their deaths it will not be a case of them searching through years of records. I am about to go back on SP site so I will have a dig around for you and if I have enough credits I will pull off the Eric record. If you e-mail me direct aqtu56@dsl.pipex.com save clogging the list with chit chat, I will mail you any findings. Bye for now Ann (Wales)
Yes, well, there has been a couple of wonderings on the subject of long standing English families moving to Islay and why would they do that and how could it be . . . Well, well, well, I don't know the answer, but let me tell you that the island is hoaching with English families at the present. They have come from down south of the border and bought up all the property and soon it will be a very different flavour to this island that you will experience when you come over. Neffer you mind all those romantic notions of staying in a wee croft where your old seanair maybe did or maybe didn't stay. Yes, yes, there is a very different colour and sound to the whole place coming - you mark my words. Right enough, a lot of them are nice people, but different, you know. Not celtic. No Islay connections. Just want out the rat race and so they come and push up all the house prices till no Ileach can afford them. And what with the global warming and the Atlantic turning just like the Mediterranean . . . then the sunseekers will be crowding the machair and Bogh Mhor will be swarming with tourists. Och, yes, all change. I can feel it in my old bones. Suas leis a'Ghaidhlig Tioraidh, SM ann <aqtu56@dsl.pipex.com> wrote: Hi Paul, I have also been wondering why a long standing Yorkshire family would move to Islay. What did Herman do for a living in Yorkshire? Having been on Scotlands People the last few days, I took a look for Eric today and Johan is correct, it has to be him I also searched on the surname in Kildalton and remember seeing 1 Dawson who had died aged 88 years. Scotlands people has deaths up to 1955. I would think this is your only record you would get from here as all the others will be too new.........if you get my drift. I would write directly to the Parish Priest, (or all of them around Kildalton!) you will find most of them quite accomodating if you are prepared to wait for them to get back to you. As you know the dates of their deaths it will not be a case of them searching through years of records. I am about to go back on SP site so I will have a dig around for you and if I have enough credits I will pull off the Eric record. If you e-mail me direct aqtu56@dsl.pipex.com save clogging the list with chit chat, I will mail you any findings. Bye for now Ann (Wales) ==== 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 --------------------------------- Yahoo! Photos NEW, now offering a quality print service from just 8p a photo.