Edward, Do you have any other information about the 1818 immigration to NC? Name of ship, etc? I am searching for Margaret MacNeill and James McNabb and family, who arrived in NC from Islay in late 1818. Brenda Cameron -----Original Message----- >From: Ncscot1818@wmconnect.com >Sent: Aug 4, 2006 4:21 PM >To: SCT-ISLAY-L@rootsweb.com >Subject: Re: [SCT-ISLAY] Calder/McNabb, Calder/McNeil, Calder/White, White/Adams, Adam... > >Hi Vicki, > >Thanks for posting the info about your Caulders and their stay in North >Carolina. This is wonderful, I have been searching for years with the misconception >that the Donald and Duncan Calder came to North Carolina as adults. > >A great-grandfather, John McFadyen, came to North Carolina from Islay in >1818. Others in the party of about 35 that have been identified thus far included >his elderly father and four of his siblings with their families. Also in that >number were an uncle, Alexander McMillan, with his family and Colin Campbell >and family. Colin was related by his marriage to Isabella Carmichael, sister of >Ann Carmichael McMillan and Mary Carmichael McFadyen, wife of Archibald >McFadyen. > >Despite the deaths of the two patriarchs and perhaps as many as three >children, the number had increased to about 53 by 1828 when the decision was made by >the majority to leave North Carolina for Ontario. Nine of that number remained >in Richmond County, NC until the next decade when Mary McFadyen McFadyen and >her family of eight left for Alabama. > >I have yet to find your Thomas Calder in North Carolina in 1820 so he may >have arrived between then and the birth of Donald in 1825. I did find an >Alexander Colder in Richmond County, so a more thourough search may prove fruitful. > >Colin McFadyen, nephew of my great-grandfather, was born in Richmond County >in 1821 and died in Ontario in 1911. In 1910 he talked about the journey to >Eldon Township in an interview and mentioned the Calders as fellow travelers from >North Carolina but did not state if there were other connections. > >Others of that party that settled in Eldon and Thorah Townships beside the >Campbells, the McMillans and the McFadyens were John and Marion McFadyen Ray and >James and Margaret McFadyen McLachlan. > >If you know anything else about the Calders while in North Carolina or their >journey to Ontario I would be pleased if you would share it. > >Thanks, > >Edward King > >Seagrove, NC > > >==== SCT-ISLAY Mailing List ==== >To find Vital Statistics for islay from the earliest records to 1875 visit: >HTTP://freepages.family.rootsweb.com/~tlarson/bdm/ >