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Hello Valerie

Trying very hard to contact you about the Boyd-Falconbridge family from Prestonpans to (South) West England. I believe that our families may be connected through the BOYDs.  When Samuel Falconbridge and Jean/Jane/Jessie/Janet Boyd migrated from Prestonpans to the Shropshire/Worcestershire/Bristol area, I don't think they went alone.  I'd been trying to find out how my 5th great grandmother Isabella Boyd fell out of the sky in the Bewdley area of Worcestershire.  Still no birth or baptism record for Jean BOYD, but I think my Isabella BOYD 1740 and George BOYD 1747 were likely her brother and sister, all born of parents Alexander BOYD & Susanna PATULLO (Pittilloch etc).  I think when Samuel & Jean relocated to ENgland, that George and Isabella went along too, both marrying and settling in the Bewdley/Dowles area.

I'll wait to hear from you before continuing.
Also sent a message on Ancestry.
My name is Katie de Haan.
Janet McKellar is merely one of my Scots personae.

Katie

Hello Museum Man and others

I quite understand your time's at a premium, but I'm interested in what you say.  You mention Thomas Harkness, his daughter Janet and her husband Duncan McNuiar in Invervegain. 

When my 4xgreat grandmother Janet McKellar married Patrick Cl(e)ark, in 1781, he was said to be from Glendaruel, but presently servant to Duncan McNuiar tenant in Invervegain.

If there is anything on McKellars in the Loch Striven area, I should be interested to learn where I might find out more.

Thank you,
Katie
The Netherlands

Hello David and others

On the subject of similar place names around Loch Striven, I, too, had been considering Goirtan..asaig and first wondered whether it could be the same place as Goirtanlaois(t)ge.  However, I have since realised they are different settlements in the same area. 

Goirtan...asaig is close to Kilmichael as you say, while I think Goirtanlaoisge is what showed as Gartan Laoisge on an 1832 map.  I now think that must be further north, between Invervegain and (cnoc) Lecknagall, so definitely two different settlements.  Gone from view now, though there is still a Garden Wood on almost the exact spot.

So is your GoirtanIonfarge another settlement altogether, or merely yet another spelling /interpretation of Goirtanlaoisge, am wondering now. 

Trying to trace ancestors of Archibald McKellar and More NcEwn who raised their children at Goirtan Laoisge in the 1750s and 1760s, the family migrating to Troustan on the other side of Loch Striven by the 1780s.

After examining the local McEwns, I'm now considering whether More might be an unrecorded daughter of Duncan McEwn from Kilmichael who married Mary Ferguson on Bute in 1735.  They had children at Goirtan..asaig and Kilmichael.
Hence my trail of these Goirtan settlements.

Hoping to hear more of the history of this area, particularly migration and or clearances of the population.

Katie
The Netherlands