Hi again Ian, Continuing on from my previous message, although I think the 1776 census for Mull should be easy to obtain, the story about the 1792 is a little more complicated. Last year, when making copies of MacDougall genealogy research done by my Scottish cousin, I came across a handwritten list ofall the MacDougalls of Tiree as enumerated in the 1792 Census. My cousin explained that she had visited Eric Cregeen at his office in the 1970’s and he told her about the 1792 Census. He let her copy the MacDougalls from his work. It appears that he was working on the 1792 census with an eye to publishing it in book form similar to the book he published in 1963 called Inhabitants of the Argyll Estates 1779. Unfortunately, he passed away in 1983, with this and many other projects unfinished. The question is, what became of the orginal 1792 census and also his own work he was doing on it? Last year, the Tiree Archive told me that enquiries had been made after his death to his widow about the 1792 census. But it was apparently not to be found in his papers. At last report, the Duke of Argyll’s Archives also said they did not have it. But I think these enquiries were done a long time ago, and maybe new enquiries might turn up different results. It is quite likely that the original 1792 census was still in Eric Cregreen’s possession when he passed away. I makes sense that he probably wouldn’t have returned it to the Duke’s Archives until his book was ready for publication. However,it is also possible that he returned it earlier if he felt he had all the data he needed from it. But either way, his own work on it would still be in his own papers. So, I’m wondering if you can talk to the various Mull archives about putting in official enquiries about the 1792 census? Or find out if it would be of use for a grassroots petition to be started to find that census? It would be such a treasure of genealogical information, falling as it does between the 1779 and the 1841. Thanks again, Louise ___________________________ Louise MacDougall Vancouver Island, BC Canada