Yes Malcolm and everybody on the list, Allan has a great lot of history,he is my 6th cousin once removed. His mother was a MELVILLE. sheryl aust ----- Original Message ----- From: <Malcolm.Bangor-Jones@scotland.gsi.gov.uk> To: <SCT-SUTHERLAND-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Tuesday, March 27, 2001 5:46 PM Subject: MEVILLES IN SUTHERLAND > **************************************************************************** * > This email and any files transmitted with it are intended solely > for the use of the individual or entity to whom they are addressed. > **************************************************************************** * > > Extract from The Northern Times (and Weekly Journal for Sutherland and the > North) 16 March 2001: > > Mr Alan Lannon, headmaster of Thurso's Miller Academy, to give a talk in > Golspie about family history, including "his own maternal family, the > Melvilles, who lived in Strathbrora in 1670, long before the coming of the > Great Sheep. Mr Lannon has researched the fortunes of the family over > several generations, tracing as many as 2700 connected names in his quest of > this ubiquitous tribe. "I have got back as far as 1730 with my own family > in the Doll area, but I have a reference to a John Melville paying Hearth > Tax somewhere above Carrol 60 years before that." Others lived up the > Blackwater above Balnacoil at a place called Crislich and that family, > cleared in 1820, ended up in Edinburgh and then in Australia." > > Malcolm Bangor-Jones > > > ==== SCT-SUTHERLAND Mailing List ==== > You may, at times, wish to check out previous messages to this list. You can do this at http://archiver.rootsweb.com/SCT-SUTHERLAND-L/ > > ============================== > Visit Ancestry's Library - The best collection of family history > learning and how-to articles on the Internet. > http://www.ancestry.com/learn/library > >