William PRINGLE b. 1730

[KiwiPringle]

Hi lindemann, my understanding (from he who knows whom I live with) is that a soutar is a shoemaker,- those with a strong association with Selkirk call themselves soutars.  It's also a surname but that's not what this string is referring to.  But I defer to Alan14578's better knowledge as he is the local!  I believe that shoemaking was an important Selkirk industry at one tim

[irvinemg]

Hi KiwiPringle. Thought I'd drop a note. Around 1977 I had the pleasure of meeting
one Tui Pringle, a very elderly lady. I can't remember if I saw her in Christchurch or
Temuka.

Tui told me she used to visit my Uncle Adam Irvine at Pukerau when she was a little
girl, probably around the 1910, but as the generations passed on, she lost touch with
the Irvine family of Southland.

My Grt Grt Grandfather worked at Mislington farm at Roberton from around 1819
until 1832 when William Scott the leasee died ( His wife Janet Arras ). The Irvine family
then moved to Loch Broom in the highlands then moved to NZ around 1853, he died
in 1865 and is buried at Geraldine Canterbury.

I know the Pringles are related but just not sure how.
Regards Mike Irvine.