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Offline KathyN

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Re: Shaw Family West Indies to Scotland
« Reply #9 on: Sunday 07 May 17 10:14 BST (UK) »
Hi Kat
Have sent you a PM.  Thanks
Kathy

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Re: Shaw Family West Indies to Scotland
« Reply #10 on: Monday 02 April 18 12:35 BST (UK) »
I don't know if I'm the only Scot that didn't know/is very surprised at this, but on researching a branch of my family from Banffshire to Jamaica (with the army) I found that there was already a large concentration of their unusual surname there (Farquharson) - anyway it turns out that some of these people were Jacobites shipped over after Culloden.  I was horrified to find that there is a place called Farquharson Wharf where slaves were bought and sold, and the UCL slave-owners study has a great deal of north-east Scotland names.

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Re: Shaw Family West Indies to Scotland
« Reply #11 on: Saturday 05 July 25 08:05 BST (UK) »
Have a Donald Shaw born around 1780 on Isle of Mull Scotland in my family tree. Living at the Marquis Estate in St Lucia West Indies He was mentioned in the inquiry into slavery on the island in the early 1830s.Married in c1835 and no more information on him. Believed to have 1 son.
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