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Ross & Cromarty / Re: Angus Macarthur, Lewis
« on: Friday 17 June 11 12:24 BST (UK)  »
Thanks to everyone who posted replies to my post. I am extremely grateful for all the information and for the links.

I am sorry that, due to illness, I have had to discontinue my research for the past year. However, I am hopeful that I will be able to resume in the not to distant future.

Mariac, I am so thrilled to have discovered a new cousin - what a coincidence!! I haven't been able to work out what the exact relationship is but I have a chart somewhere  showing me how to work it out which I intend to put to good use.  Since my last posting I have received a bundle of information, old letters etc. from a cousin in S.Africa but, apart from reading the letters, I have not yet sorted out the rest of the information. When I do,if anything relates to your line, I will let you know.

Please, everyone, keep me in the loop as regards any future information and thanks again.
Cileag

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Ross & Cromarty / Re: Angus Macarthur, Lewis
« on: Thursday 24 June 10 00:30 BST (UK)  »
Sorry to hear your plans have been disrupted, SL.
 As far as I am concerned the delay is not important. I am currently restricted in the length of time I can spend on the computer as I have an RSI problem. As a result, I have had to put my research on hold for the moment - VERY frustrating!!

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Ross & Cromarty / Re: Angus Macarthur, Lewis
« on: Sunday 06 June 10 14:46 BST (UK)  »
Thank you again, SL  It is so generous of you to take time to check this out.
Best wishes,
Cileag

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Ross & Cromarty / Re: Angus Macarthur, Lewis
« on: Sunday 06 June 10 13:29 BST (UK)  »
Thank you, Si
It is very kind of you to offer your assistance  I know how valuable your time at the Scottish Records Office will be so it is a very generous offer.
 Being new and still pretty green as far as my  knowledge of genealogy is concerned, I am not sure of the kind of information that is available from the Scottish Records Office or if it would help my research. Is it possible that the records exist that are not available from other sources and searches?
Thank you for your suggestion re the local paper which I would like to follow up. Can you tell me the name of the paper, please?
Thank you again for your help.

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Ross & Cromarty / Re: Angus Macarthur, Lewis
« on: Wednesday 02 June 10 13:54 BST (UK)  »
Hi Monica and Mariac,

Thank you both for helping in my quest to find my family.  I am relieved to know  that I have been researching the right family!

Monica: Yes, I have found the marriage record and this is what I have been using as a basis for my search for Angus's birth.

Mariac: Thank you for that useful piece of information regarding the registration of some births and not others. I have more research to do and these pieces of information are as valuable as gold nuggets.

The internet is a wonderful tool for people like me who live on the other side of the world (Australia) but this is the kind of information that one does not find in on line research.
Thank you both again for your help.
Cileag

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Ross & Cromarty / Re: Angus Macarthur, Lewis
« on: Tuesday 01 June 10 14:33 BST (UK)  »
Hi Monica,
Thank you for replying to my query and for taking the trouble to search the records.
 I am a relative beginner to genealogy so it is possible I may have made some errors in my research. From what I have discovered  through the  Ancestry census records  Donald and Mary Macarthur  have 6 children by 1871, 3 of whom have been born prior to 1855.  By 1881, the only one still living at home is Duncan. I assumed that the others had married, moved away etc. However, my research did not show Alexdr. so perhaps I have been researching the wrong family?
 However, everthing seemed to fit and I could not find any other Donald Macarthur whose spouse was Mary born in the right year and in the right area.
 From what I have been able to find out about Donald and Mary it seems surprising that they failed to register the birth - yet another of life's mysteries.

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Ross & Cromarty / Angus Macarthur, Lewis
« on: Sunday 30 May 10 13:04 BST (UK)  »
I have been trying unsuccessfully to find the record of the birth of my great grandfather, Angus Macarthur. I have been able to track him through the censuses and it seems he was born about 1848 in the parish of Lochs in Lewis. In 1872 he married Ann MacLeod. His parents were Donald Macarthur and Mary MacLeod.
 I have searched Scotland's People and IGI without success. Scotland's People did not show any matches yet one would expect that there would have been many Angus Macarthurs born over the 5 year period that I searched. I also tried to track him down on The Hebridean Connections website without success.
I have exhausted all the alternatives I can think of. Can anyone help, please?

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Ross & Cromarty / Re: SUAINBOST OR SHAWBOST, LEWIS??
« on: Thursday 27 May 10 13:07 BST (UK)  »
Thanks, Caraid.
I really appreciate your having taken the time to reply
 From what you have said it appears that I may have the correct line so, on with the search!

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Ross & Cromarty / SUAINBOST OR SHAWBOST, LEWIS??
« on: Wednesday 26 May 10 06:34 BST (UK)  »
I have been following, through the various census records, John Macleod (abt 1823) and Ann Macleod
(abt 1825)who are  my 2x grandparents. Both were born in the parish of Barvas. The address on all the census records is Fivepenny or Fivepenny Ness.
 However, I have now obtained, from the OPR, what I believe to be their marriage record on 17/12/1850 at Suainbost. There is no doubt about the spelling of Suainbost as the record is very clear SO can anyone tell me if Suainbost the same place as Shawbost ( Gaelic spelling??) and what the relationship, if any, is between Fivepenny and Suainbost? Is it possible that both records refer to the same place? If not, one of my lines is not correct and I will have to regroup!!

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