Thank you ALL for responding to my post. It sure is nice to, not only meet with new people, but to gain knowledge from them as I embark on the wondrous, exciting journey into the past. Thank you All !!!
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Don,
Thank You for the links you provided. I am learning so much about the environment that my ancestors lived in back in the 18th century. I was amazed to learn that contrary to my perception of the freezing and shivering in the winter, the in fact lived in an area that temperatures rarely dropped below freezing. And learning of the " Highland Clearances" certainly suggests a reason for them to immigrate to Canada.
I still have not determined the wife of William ( 1715 ) the mother of the 3 sons.
Again, Thanks for your help Don.
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Skoosh
I really appreciate your help with the "MacLennan / MacLellan " confusion. I am finding references to MacLennan in my searches in Lochbroom through the links that Don had posted and I am trying to make the connection.
I just saw your second post regarding Strathconnon and will put on another pot of coffee for a long night ( but enjoyable one ) persuing that lead.
Thank You Skoosh for your help.
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don_niagara ,
I have to admit that I giggled when I read your "Username", then laughed out loud when I checked your profile ( curiosity got the better of me
). So here I am soliciting help in searching out my ancestors in Scotland and I get a response from someone, basically, in my own back yard. I too live in the Niagara Peninsula .... more precisely in Sherkston ( between Fort Erie and Port Colborne). Small world ....EH !!
I just read you post and will search out if there is any connection. I really appreciate your input.
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tmack,
Ah .... the Ship Hector. There is so much information our there but I am having a wee bit of difficulty tying it all together.
The link that you posted for the 2003 archived post matches with the wife and children that I have listed for John ( 1735 - 1829 ). So that is great.
I have seen a number of sites that show the passenger list for the Ship Hector, and the ones that have been transcribed tend to show only John and William as McLennan and no listing for their brother James.
I came across a reproduction passenger list on the following link:
http://www.greatclanross.org/hector.htmlWhat intrigues me about the passenger list is that when I saved it to my computer, and viewed it as a larger image, it clearly shows John as a MacLellan and William as a MacLennan. I can appreciate that the list is a reproduction, but I don't know if it was a copy of the actual document. My uncle had done some genealogy research back in 1984 ( pre-internet) and had noted that the list was written up "nearly 70 years after the event".
Here is a cool link regarding the Ship Hector. In 2014, Fèis Rois commissioned John Somerville to write a new piece of music inspired by the voyage of The Hector, a ship that left Ross-Shire and sailed to Canada in 1773. There is a link on the page to hear an interview with the music in the background.
http://forum.handsupfortrad.co.uk/discussion/22273/the-voyage-of-the-hectorThanks for helping me on this journey tmack
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Again, Thank You everyone for helping me out with this. If you come up with any more info or thoughts, I would be anxious to read them
Regards,
Scott
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