hi My Hector Campbell from Ardtin was a reformed baptist.There probably quite a few of them. It would be interesting to to know why they all turned. Gerry ----- Original Message ----- From: "Elizabeth McMillan" <libbymcm@tpg.com.au> To: <sct-isleofmull@rootsweb.com> Sent: Tuesday, February 05, 2008 7:31 PM Subject: [SCT-ISLEOFMULL] McMillans and Free Church&Baptists > > Dear Jean > I would very much like to have some background on the MacMillans that > you mention from the Ross of Mull. > I look forward to hearing from others about the resources that you > have identified re the Baptists and Dissenting Evangelists. They > would make very interesting reading. > Regards > Libby McMillan >> >> ------------------------------ >> >> Message: 3 >> Date: Mon, 4 Feb 2008 12:55:34 +0100 >> From: "JeanetJean" <jeanetjean@wanadoo.fr> >> Subject: [SCT-ISLEOFMULL] McMilllans & free churches >> To: <sct-isleofmull@rootsweb.com> >> Cc: jeanolive@samoa.ws >> >> I am not related to MacMillans but very close friends and neighbours >> of my >> family left the Ross of Mull about 1842 for Canada, Finlay and James >> MacMillan and some in-laws. I know a bit of their background and >> quite a lot >> about what happened to them later if that is of interest to you. >> >> While on the subject of free churches, I would like to know more >> about the >> very first Baptists on Mull of whom my gg-grandfather must have been >> one. >> D.E. Meek has some tantalizing titles in the bibliography of >> "Sunshine and >> Shadow" but they are probably not easy to find. I believe the >> University of >> Edinburgh has Dugald Sinclair's Journals but I was not able to find >> a trace >> elsewhere. As for "Evangelicalism and Emigration: Aspects of the >> Role of >> Dissenting Evangelicalism in Highland Emigration to Canada, in G; >> MacLennan >> [ed.], Proceedings of the First North American Congress of Celtic >> Studies >> (Ottawa, 1988), I expect it is rather rare. Has anyone access to >> either of >> these? >> >> Best wishes, Jean >> > > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > SCT-ISLEOFMULL-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without > the quotes in the subject and the body of the message

Morning All I have been following this thread with interest. My paternal great grandmother was called Catherine Maclean, and her brother Hector was a Baptist, and might even have been a lay preacher, but I may be mistaken in that. The source for this is family oral history. Donald Meek is definitely the authority on this aspect of Mull and Tiree, and indeed his father was the Baptist minister on Tiree. I am not sure if the reason people turned to the Baptist church was similar to the reasons behind the 1843 Church of Scotland disruption, in that they were not in approval of the system of patronage practised by the established church. I also seem to remember reading that there were huge evangelical rallies in Scotland in the Victorian period and that conversion might have been as a result of these. It's a project for another day! James Beaton > From: graudzen@bigpond.net.au> To: sct-isleofmull@rootsweb.com> Date: Wed, 6 Feb 2008 08:01:25 +1100> Subject: Re: [SCT-ISLEOFMULL] McMillans and Free Church&Baptists> > hi> My Hector Campbell from Ardtin was a reformed baptist.There probably quite a > few of them.> It would be interesting to to know why they all turned.> > Gerry> > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Elizabeth McMillan" <libbymcm@tpg.com.au>> To: <sct-isleofmull@rootsweb.com>> Sent: Tuesday, February 05, 2008 7:31 PM> Subject: [SCT-ISLEOFMULL] McMillans and Free Church&Baptists> > > >> > Dear Jean> > I would very much like to have some background on the MacMillans that> > you mention from the Ross of Mull.> > I look forward to hearing from others about the resources that you> > have identified re the Baptists and Dissenting Evangelists. They> > would make very interesting reading.> > Regards> > Libby McMillan> >>> >> ------------------------------> >>> >> Message: 3> >> Date: Mon, 4 Feb 2008 12:55:34 +0100> >> From: "JeanetJean" <jeanetjean@wanadoo.fr>> >> Subject: [SCT-ISLEOFMULL] McMilllans & free churches> >> To: <sct-isleofmull@rootsweb.com>> >> Cc: jeanolive@samoa.ws> >>> >> I am not related to MacMillans but very close friends and neighbours> >> of my> >> family left the Ross of Mull about 1842 for Canada, Finlay and James> >> MacMillan and some in-laws. I know a bit of their background and> >> quite a lot> >> about what happened to them later if that is of interest to you.> >>> >> While on the subject of free churches, I would like to know more> >> about the> >> very first Baptists on Mull of whom my gg-grandfather must have been> >> one.> >> D.E. Meek has some tantalizing titles in the bibliography of> >> "Sunshine and> >> Shadow" but they are probably not easy to find. I believe the> >> University of> >> Edinburgh has Dugald Sinclair's Journals but I was not able to find> >> a trace> >> elsewhere. As for "Evangelicalism and Emigration: Aspects of the> >> Role of> >> Dissenting Evangelicalism in Highland Emigration to Canada, in G;> >> MacLennan> >> [ed.], Proceedings of the First North American Congress of Celtic> >> Studies> >> (Ottawa, 1988), I expect it is rather rare. Has anyone access to> >> either of> >> these?> >>> >> Best wishes, Jean> >>> >> >> >> > -------------------------------> > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > > SCT-ISLEOFMULL-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without > > the quotes in the subject and the body of the message > > > -------------------------------> To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to SCT-ISLEOFMULL-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message _________________________________________________________________ Telly addicts unite! http://www.searchgamesbox.com/tvtown.shtml