Hi Dennis, Thanks for the info. I'd love to know who the lady on the train was. There were three houses in Kintra occupied by MacDonalds, all from the same family - one of them was my grandparents, so I must be related to the lady on the train! Small world isn't it? Cheers, June > From: dennis@donjon1.demon.co.uk> Date: Mon, 10 Dec 2007 09:02:35 +0000> To: sct-isleofmull@rootsweb.com> Subject: Re: [SCT-ISLEOFMULL] Kintra> > June,> > I had the following information from a lady I met on a train in > Scotland. She was a MacDonald with links back to to Kintra.> > According to her, the 5th Duke of Argyll established Kintra as a > model fishing community in the late 1700s. Families were brought to > the village from elsewhere on the duke's estates and taught fishing > skills by experienced fishermen. There were originally 10-12 > cottages, each named after a family's fishing boat. The idea was that > the tenant families would make enough money from fishing to generate > a good income for themselves and the Duke. Apparently, the scheme > failed because the village was too far from anywhere that needed > fish. The families then found work in the granite quarries, but when > these closed some families emigrated while others were evicted. There > was almost no one living there by the early 1900s.> > Dennis> > > > > >> > > > -------------------------------> 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 _________________________________________________________________ The next generation of MSN Hotmail has arrived - Windows Live Hotmail http://www.newhotmail.co.uk