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Inverness / Re: Bracadale - Skye
« on: Friday 24 September 10 23:24 BST (UK)  »
Hi McLean,
I also have McLean ancestry from Bracadale (but there were a LOT of McLeans in Bracadale), however Ewan is a name that crops up in my family.  What year was your Ewan born and what was his mother's name?
Jacqui

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US Lookup Requests / Re: Angus Cameron from Skye
« on: Saturday 24 July 10 08:12 BST (UK)  »
Thanks for trying, David.  I appreciate it.

Jacqui

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Inverness / Re: Archibald McQueen Isle of Skye
« on: Thursday 22 July 10 22:22 BST (UK)  »
Hi Gerry,

They were on the Hunter for a while but then moved up to the Tooloom goldfields in northern NSW.

Good luck with your research.

Jacqui

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US Lookup Requests / Re: Angus Cameron from Skye
« on: Thursday 22 July 10 22:20 BST (UK)  »
Thanks for the help.  The son's name was Roderick.  He was born in the Bracadale parish on the Isle of Skye which is in the county of Inverness in Scotland.  Angus probably came from Skye as well but I don't have any evidence.

Jacqui

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Inverness / Re: Archibald McQueen Isle of Skye
« on: Thursday 22 July 10 05:09 BST (UK)  »
Hi Gerry, 

My ancestors (Donald McLean and Catherine Ross) were also on the "Midlothian".  Donald was from Bracadale on Skye.  Have you seen the Inverness Emigrant Index?  It lists Archibald as "known in Portree".
 http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~maddenps/INVEM1.htm

If Portree is anything like Bracadale, the parish records are very incomplete.  Not much help, but you have my sympathy.

Jacqui

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US Lookup Requests / Angus Cameron from Skye
« on: Thursday 22 July 10 04:54 BST (UK)  »
I'm hoping someone can help me out by finding some evidence of an Angus Cameron who was living in America in 1856 and may have been a farmer.  His wife's last name was McLean, her first name has been recorded as Dorothy or Elthea but could be something else altogether.  I don't have any more details except that a son (who emigrated to Australia) was born about 1830, so I imagine that Angus would have been born c1800, plus or minus 10 years.  Not many details to go on, I know and any help would be greatly appreciated.

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Inverness / Re: Help with Gaelic, please
« on: Saturday 24 April 10 03:55 BST (UK)  »
Thanks, Angus.  That clarifies a few things for me.

Jacqui

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Inverness / Re: Help with Gaelic, please
« on: Wednesday 21 April 10 22:22 BST (UK)  »
Thanks for the tip, Elinga.

Jacqui

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Inverness / Help with Gaelic, please
« on: Wednesday 21 April 10 03:05 BST (UK)  »
I have a letter written in 1841 by a native of Skye updating his brother in Australia with news from home.  He writes in English but with a few Gaelic names thrown in.  He writes about "Aennes og  (or possibly ag) Coilore" who I think was a man named Angus Matheson who lived at Coilore but I'm not sure what the og or ag means.  And could someone help me with an English version of the name "Niegillebraide", please.

Also in a parish register I found the burial of Marion McDonald Ban and wondered what the word "ban" would mean in that context.

Any help gratefully recieved.

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