Dear Listers I hope someone might have some ideas for me. I have been searching for a McIntyre connection in Portland, Victoria Australia - noting that Archibald McMillan who mararied Flora McIntyre in 1816 was from Oskamull, travelling to Portland Australia in 1853. At the death of their grandson Angus McMillan (1874-1888) in Victoria in 1888 (son of their son John McMillan - born in Mull in 1830 and Margaret McDonald from Stenscholl, Skye), one of the witnesses was Dugald McIntyre. The other interesting fact is that my father was named Neil McIntyre McMillan and there was a tradition in my family to name people with the given name and surname of other relatives (as a middle name). Hence my father had a brother Hector McDonald McMillan and another Colin Campbell McMillan and so on. The Ballarat Genealogical Website has this family listed. Incidentally, for those of you who have family who came to Victoria should check this website which is managed by Daryl Povey - it is fantastic. http://www.ballaratgenealogy.org.au I have looked up Lochgilphead and it is clear that it is not in Mull. So I am wondering if Flora McIntyre who married Archibald McMillan in fact came from this place. I have found the following information: Lochgilphead stands, as the name suggests, at the head of Loch Gilp, a short loch leading north west from Loch Fyne. The town was first laid out as a planned settlement in about 1790, only a few years after the completion of the road from Inveraray to Campbeltown. Lochgilphead's position became still more important in 1801, with the opening of the Crinan Canal providing a short cut across the Kintyre peninsula. After passing down Lochgilphead's western side this meets Loch Fyne at Ardrishaig, two miles to the south. From 1819 Ardrishaig had a regular steamer connection to Glasgow, with an onward connection along the canal to Lochgilphead. In 1831 Lochgilphead acquired its own pier, and by then it had also been linked to Oban by road. Dugald McINTYRE 1793-1873 & Mary McGILP 1802-1863 Lochgilphead, Argyllshire, Scotland to Hotspur & "Laggan" Merino, Victoria, Australia Dugald McINTYRE b. 1793, Lochgilphead, Argyllshire, Scotland, son of John McINTYRE and Mary Mary LIVINGSTONE was married in 1826 at Kilmichael Inverlussay, North Knapdale, Argyllshire (Arl), Scotland to Mary McGILP, b. 1802, North Knapdale, Argyllshire, Scotland, daughter of Neil McGILP and Mary CAMPBELL. The McINTYRE family arrived at Portland, Victoria, Australia in 1853 on the 'Duke of Richmond' and first settled near Hotspur before aquiring land to the north at Merino which they named "Laggan". The family lived at Hotspur, Merino, with some branches moving north to Nareen and later to Toowoomba in Queensland where they remained for a few years before some returned to Merino in Victoria. (Note: This is the same area where my McMillan family settled.) Dugald & Mary McINTYRE died in 1873 and 1863 respectively and are both buried in the "Laggan" Private Cemetery at Talisker, near Merino, Victoria. Dugald McINTYRE and Mary McGILP had the following known family: Neil McINTYRE, b.1827, Lochgilphead, Argyllshire, Scotland, d. 1890 "Laggan" Talisker (nr Merino), Vic. John McINTYRE, b.1829, Lochgilphead, Argyllshire, Scotland, d. 1857 "Laggan" Talisker (nr Merino), Vic. Nancy "Ann" McINTYRE, b.1831, Lochgilphead, Argyllshire, Scotland, d. 1877 Toowoomba, Queensland, m. Archibald CONNELL 1829-1909. Margaret McINTYRE, b.1834, Lochgilphead, Argyllshire, Scotland, d. ___? Duncan McINTYRE, b.1834, Lochgilphead, Argyllshire, Scotland, d. 1911, Dalby, Queensland. Angus McINTYRE, b.1837, Lochgilphead, Argyllshire, Scotland, d. 1910 "Laggan" Talisker (nr Merino), Vic., m. Mary CAMPBELL 1841-1928 Dugald McINTYRE, b.1839, Lochgilphead, Argyllshire, Scotland, d. 1900, Merino, Victoria, m. Ann GARDINER 1848-1929. Mary McINTYRE, b.1842, Lochgilphead, Argyllshire, Scotland, d. 1916, Merino, Victoria, m. Henry Michael BRADY. Archibald McINTYRE, b.1845, Lochgilphead, Argyllshire, Scotland, d. 1897 "Laggan" Talisker (nr Merino), Vic. Catherine McINTYRE, b.1848, Lochgilphead, Argyllshire, Scotland, d. ___? Queensland, m. John MATHESON 1838-1909. I hope that someone can help me with either some information or some ideas. Regards Libby McMillan (libbymcm@tpg.com.au)