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I'm glad I found this.  I have writen a novel set in Orkney at the turn of the twentieth century.  I have gotten a little bit of my research wrong as I thought the founder of the floating shops was Robert Gardner or Gardener.  (Book's been published so too late to change it now.)  I was born on the island of Stroma and I remember my mother often mentioning a James Jolly.  (I think I may have Jollys in my tree, I'll need to check that)  What she did remember, and often talked about, was the floating shops of Kirkwall.  I would be very interested to find out more.