Hi Celia: I had a McFadyen family in Canada make reference that their immigrant father was from Glasgow. I found the whole family on Islay for births and for the 1841 and 1851 census. They were in Canada in 1861. I think that things like that come from just reflecting a city that you will recognize. Ted Larson Sharon J. Huber wrote: >Celiageary, > >Thank you for posting your message about the families from Islay relocating >to Paisley, Scotland. I just noted on my map of Scotland that Paisley is >near Glasgow. Does that make put it in the region of Oban? I ask because >last summer 2005, my cousin Dugald McCallum, lives in Grey County, Ontario, >asked if I had found any references to the McCallum family being from Oban? >He said that as a child he remembers hearing the older generation talking >about being from Oban. His grgrandparents are Isabella McLarty and Dugald >McCallum whose headstones say they we natives of Islay, Scotland. This past >March 2006, I went to my son's wedding in Oklahoma. To get from Washington >State to Oklahoma I had to drive through the state of Wyoming where Dugald >McCallum, third son of Dugald McCallum and Isabella McCallum lived in both >Cheyenne and Wheatland. I stopped at the library in Wheatland and got a copy >of Dugald's bio from a book entitled, "PROGRESSIVE MEN OF THE STATE OF >WYOMING" (1903). In his bio Dugald states that in 1844 his parents emigrated >from Paisley, Scotland to Canada, locating in Quebec. Dugald McCallum, son >of Dugald McCallum and Isabella McLarty, was the first child born in Canada >in November 1845, at St Andrews, Carillon, Quebec. He goes on to say that in >1847 the family relocated to Owen Sound, Ontario. > >I have a second question for The List. Has anyone else found that their >family members weren't living in the "Cities" that the family said they were >from? Dugald McCallum, third son of Dugald McCallum and Isabella McLarty is >the second of my relatives to tell people that he was from Owen Sound. > >John Fawcett McCallum, grandson of Dugald McCallum and Isabella McLarty told >his family, Manitoba branch, that he was from Owen Sound rather than 60 >miles south in Grey County. Too, he never told his family that he was the >oldest of the seven children born to Neil McCallum, eldest son of Dugald >McCallum and Isabella McLarty. Nor did he tell them that his father was the >eldest of the nine children born to Dugald McCallum and Isabella McLarty. >You can imagine the SHOCK these people received when I located them, >confirmed that they are the grandchildren of my grandmother's eldest brother >and began to share with them the information on the "REST OF THE FAMILY". >One member, Evelyn, didn't believe what I was saying until she took a look >at the copy of my grandmother's wedding photo and saw the resemblance she >bears to my grandmother. The copy of John Fawcett's, her grandfather, birth >certificate wasn't proof enough. > >Sorry this is so long. > >Sharon Huber , >Bellingham, Washington >----- Original Message ----- >From: "celiageary" <celia_geary@infogen.net.nz> >To: <SCT-ISLAY-L@rootsweb.com> >Sent: Saturday, April 15, 2006 4:10 AM >Subject: Re: [SCT-ISLAY] 2009 Heads up > > > > >>Many Islay people relocated to Paisley after the potato famine in 1847(yes >>it affected Islay too). Whole families relocated. Usually the husband went >>first and then the teenage boys and finally the younger members of the >>family and the mother. It was a chain emigration and often resulted in >>further emigration to other countries such as Canada, Australia and new >>Zealand. Celia. >> >> >>==== 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 ==== >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 > > > > >