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Inverness / Re: Where are all the McKinnon's?
« on: Sunday 07 April 24 06:50 BST (UK)  »
I've been told by a cousin that one of the male relatives of Catherine MacKinnon was kidnapped and made to work on a boat (shanghaied).  We have no idea of his name, but would love to know who he was and where he ended up.

I know sometimes back in the 1800s people's surnames would get changed to what their master's surname was.  I'm hoping this isn't the case, in relation to my distant ancestoral uncle or cousin.

Does anyone know where you can find out the names of boats, that the kidnapped male Islanders were forced to work on?  Kind of wondering if they ended up in Jamaica, as I have a 4th to 6th cousin who is partially black American but somehow we are connected through DNA.

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Inverness / Re: Where are all the McKinnon's?
« on: Sunday 07 April 24 06:46 BST (UK)  »
Just read Rosinish's post (but didn't know how to reply to her post directly) and I too have the surname MacIntyre somewhere in my ancestry I believe, but as yet haven't figured out where this line came from.  My great grandmother's name was Mary MacIntyre Greaves and she descends from the MacKinnon's of Skye.

Was wondering too from Rosinish's post what a "cotar" was?

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Inverness / Re: Where are all the McKinnon's?
« on: Sunday 07 April 24 06:22 BST (UK)  »
I am the descendant of Catherine McKinnon who apparently came from Peinchorran on the Isle of Skye and John Smith who apparently came from Stornoway on the Isle of Lewis.   This is what I found.

 1851 Scotland Census
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Name   Catherine Smith   
Birth   1787 Punkurson   
Residence   1851 city, Argyll, Scotland   New
Spouse   John Smith


 1841 Scotland Census
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Name   Catherine McKinnon   
Birth   1786 Inverness, Scotland   
Residence   1841 township, Inverness, Scotland

Unfortunately, due to the fact that I don't subscribe to Ancestry.com I am not sure which township she lived in in 1841.  Would anyone know?

Below is what my cousin wrote to me:

"I know she was married in 1825 in Greenock to John Smith  child Marion born 1829  then sometime later the family moved to live in Argyll I found them there living in Carrick".

John Smith was a fisherman for a period.

They appear to only have had one child and her name was Marion Smith.

Marion had Scottish born descendants, but then they started to immigrate to New Zealand, while the Scottish side either remained in Scotland or moved to England.

That all said we cannot find Catherine McKinnon's birth certificate so I am thinking I wonder if she was Roman Catholic and if those records were destroyed some how.










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