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Sutherland / Re: durness cemetries
« on: Wednesday 17 February 10 22:37 GMT (UK)  »
Carol, Ian

Thank you so much for taking the time to reply.   

Carol - I had a look on the county-Sutherland site, and it does look good.   Haven't joined yet, but perhaps I will...   This search isn't for my own forbears (who aren't from Sutherland), so not enough reason to join yet, but it does look like a really useful site.   I tried looking at the MIs, but couldn't find one either - I just wasn't sure if you had access to more than what was on the website.   thanks for checking!

Ian - I had seen that note about drowning in Ireland as well, but couldn't decide if it meant George had drowned, or his father.   It's a bit ambiguous - I'll have a look at the Fencibles record, and see if I can find when they served in Ireland - might help identify which one it was.   The pedigree on Ancestry is really interesting, although there don't seem to be any sources, so you're right about exercising caution.   Still, it makes intriguing reading.   

Thanks again for helping - this is the first time I've posted on here, so it's quite exciting to find people really answering!

Jo

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Sutherland / Re: durness cemetries
« on: Friday 12 February 10 17:48 GMT (UK)  »
Hi Carol - you seem to be a fount of information!   Any chance you could check your Durness burials for me? 

I'm looking for George Mackay (Bain) and his wife Catherine Mackay (Gow) - they were married at Westmoine Mission (Durness) in 1782, and went on having children at least until 1795, but I've no idea how long they livedafter that.   They lived at Ach a Ghearraiseich, on the east side of Loch Eriboll, sometimes spelt Achucharasait, or other variations...
Children were (at least) Hugh, Margaret, John and James.

Thanks!


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Sutherland / Re: Mackay/McKay (alias Gow)
« on: Thursday 11 February 10 16:59 GMT (UK)  »
I'm doing some work on Mackays for someone, and found a Mackay alias Gow  -  Catherine, married George Mackay alias Maceanbhain on 14th Feb 1782.   George was a soldier with the
Fencibles at the time (does anyone know any more about them?), and later tenant at Achucharasait (there are various spellings for that!).

Does this tie in with what anyone else has?   It's Durness, rather than Tongue, so might be a different lot.

Jo

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