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Scotland (Counties as in 1851-1901) => Scotland => Argyllshire => Topic started by: fionnghal on Thursday 22 September 05 16:42 BST (UK)
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i noted with interest in a post that John McSporran, see url below, had managed to access the 1792 survey of hte Duke of Argyle's estate.
can anyone tell me if this is available on-line, or, how does one go about accessing it .. even hte slow-slog way?
i'm researching McShannons / McShenoigs etc and would love to have a deco at it and see if any of ours are there.
http://website.lineone.net/~john.mcsporran/kilkerran.html
thanks for your time
le durachd
fionnghal
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Hi Fionnghal,
I see this posting was made a year ago, so I hope you haven't given up ...
Just to say that I visited Campbeltown recently and had a chance to look at the survey of the Duke of Argyle's estate in the library there. They were very kind and helpful people: maybe if you were to give them a call they would be happy to look up the relevant info for you?
Cheers,
Ros
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thankyou very much. i'll do that :-)
le durachd
fionnghal
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I have McCallum & McDermid/McDiarmid ancestors from Southend in Argyle.
please, how does one contact the Campbeltown library?
BD
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http://www.bt.com/index.jsp
'the phone book' produced these 2:
Campbeltown Library
telephone: 01586 552367
Shore St, Campbeltown. PA28 6BS
Campbeltown Library
telephone: 01586 552366
Hall St, Campbeltown. PA28 6BJ
le durachd :-)
fionnghal
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no email??
I live in Canada, not the UK :(
BD
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i'm afraid they didn't list one. you could try googling for it, otherwise all i can suggest is you write to them airmail stating what exactly you're interested in finding out and asking for a quote for the search and include your e-mail address for the answer.
if it is a straightforward search, it may not be too expensive. our library charges about £1 for each newspaper lookup as long as dates are supplied. but a council archivist, who usually work from the library reference/archive section, who did a few searches for me, required £20 in advance for the 1st hour's search then £10 for up to each additional 30 minutes.
you'd have to find out that first.
good luck
fionnghal
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There was somebody offering to do look-ups earlier on this year on the Argyll board at RootsWeb: http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/read/SCT-ARGYLL/2006-01/1136210622
Not sure if they are still doing it, but maybe worth a try!
Monica
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Thank you. :)
BD
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A softback edition of this book is available from the Scottish Genealogy Society for the modest sum of £4 (plus postage):
http://shop.scotsgenealogy.com/cgi-bin/sh000001.pl?REFPAGE=http%3a%2f%2fshop.scotsgenealogy.com%2facatalog%2fshop.html&WD=argyle&PN=Argyllshire_-_Miscellaneous_Censuses.html%23a1378#a1378
ISBN is 0 902054 12 0
Rather that deprive the society of funds by doing lookups for free, why not buy a copy, it's hardly a great sum, indeed amazing value for 313 pages!
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Am I right in thinking that this 1792 census only included Campbeltown and Kintyre ?
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Kintyre website here, www.kintyreforum.com very helpful peeps! ;D
Skoosh.
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Campbeltown is part of Kintyre. The survey covers only that part of Kintyre that was the property of the Duke. The parishes covered are Kilcolmkill, Kilblaan, Kilkivan, Kilkerran, Kilmichael, Kilchousland, Kilkenzie, Killean and Carradale. Note that Kilcolmkill and Kilblaan form the parish of Southend; Kilkivan, Kilkerran, Kilmichael and Kilchousland form the parish of Campbeltown; and Carradale is part of Saddell & Skipness parish.