Hi Keith & June Keith you mention below that your leaving for Mull. How nice :-) I'm taking the liberty of forwarding your reply to the list for the Archives. Please keep us posted through the list of any additional progress you make. thanks Ida Keith A. Bender, Ph.D wrote: >Hi Ida and June, > > I wasn't sure after the last SCT-ISLEOFMULL digest whether I am supposed to >write you directly or via the digest. I've chosen the former, but if the >standard procedure is to write to the digest so that others might read, then >I'll do that in the future. > > In any event, thanks a ton for both of your research. I do think that this is >the connection. Between this info, and my digging around on the Mull genealogy >website, I think that I am pretty certain the connection. It starts with >Alexander Campbell (c.1768-1857) who married Effy McKinnon (1778-1857). They >had several children: John, Duncan, Hugh (the one I am interested in), >Alexander, Janet and Ann(e). John, Duncan and Janet seemed to move away, while >the other three stayed on the Acharanich/Achronich farm, where my obituary of >Hugh says it is where he lived his entire life. Now with June's help, we have >a Janet Campbell born in 1833 to Duncan. It fits my family's dates of my >great, great grandmother's birth and it would make Janet, Hugh's grand neice. >It sounds plausable to me! > > June - I haven't heard about the source of your information. What exactly is >the 'Scotlands People'. Is it a genealogical website? > > Thanks again for your help. We are actually going to Mull at the end of this >week, so I may do a bit of poking around there, if I can convince my wife and >daughters that it will be fun to try to find relatives from 170 years ago! > >Best, > >Keith >