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Offline DonM

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Re: Where is Caolasraide or Coalasraide, Argyll?
« Reply #18 on: Sunday 26 April 15 15:43 BST (UK) »
If what the archivist wrote to jrhay is correct then there are a couple of possibilities.  http://maps.nls.uk/view/74400200

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Re: Where is Caolasraide or Coalasraide, Argyll?
« Reply #19 on: Sunday 26 April 15 18:26 BST (UK) »
"Caolis is just a narrows Malky, there are a lot of them about."

Can I take it that you loked at the map, then read the text regarding the areas history below?

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Re: Where is Caolasraide or Coalasraide, Argyll?
« Reply #20 on: Sunday 26 April 15 18:33 BST (UK) »
I am inclined to accept what the archivist wrote as accurate.  Given the number of families who came from Caolasraide it being a district rather than  village or farmtoun.

Caolis as a croft on Tiree is, I believe, quite separate.  It seems unlikely that a single croft would have had so many families to emigrate.  On the other hand there is evidence that the families in question came from teh area described by the archivist.

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Re: Where is Caolasraide or Coalasraide, Argyll?
« Reply #21 on: Sunday 26 April 15 18:46 BST (UK) »
Jim, may I suggest that you also read the whole of the text below the posted map.

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Re: Where is Caolasraide or Coalasraide, Argyll?
« Reply #22 on: Sunday 26 April 15 19:29 BST (UK) »
I believe that I have read far enough to understand that the Caolas on Tyree and the aforementioned district of Caolislate or Caolisraide are not the same.  The parish register entries for the birth of Crawfords who emigrated from Caolasraide to Caradoc and Lobo Townships appear to support what the archivist wrote.  I have located records for Dugald, Archibald, Catherine, Neil and Malcolm Crawford in Kilcalmonnel and Kilberry Parish.  There is a record for a marriage between Archibald Fletcher and Margaret Crawford on January 13, 1838 in kilcalmonnel and Kilberry Parish.  This is consistent with what the archivist wrote regarding Cara versus Carse.

One last piece of information which tends to support what the Archivist wrote, in the 1841 census Malcolm Crawford (50), Ann Crawford (50), Neil Crawford (12), Allan Crawford (9) and Malcolm Crawford (1) are all found living at N. Coulghaiter.

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Re: Where is Caolasraide or Coalasraide, Argyll?
« Reply #23 on: Sunday 26 April 15 20:50 BST (UK) »
I would love to know who Archibald Fletcher's parents were. Based on the traditional naming pattern, I would guess that his father was a Duncan Fletcher. His mother was possibly a Catherine or a Nancy/Agnes/Ann.
They connect somehow to my own Argyll Fletchers, but I'm not sure how yet. More info. needed, it would seem.

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Re: Where is Caolasraide or Coalasraide, Argyll?
« Reply #24 on: Sunday 26 April 15 22:24 BST (UK) »
I know this quite well & have crossed the Sound from Coll several times.

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Re: Where is Caolasraide or Coalasraide, Argyll?
« Reply #25 on: Sunday 26 April 15 22:29 BST (UK) »
Quote from: Shirley Crampton on Sunday 06 July 14 19:51 BST (UK)
My Crawford and Fletcher ancestors apparently came from Caolasraide or Coalasraide, Argyll. 

Caolas is Gaelic for "Bay"


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Re: Where is Caolasraide or Coalasraide, Argyll?
« Reply #26 on: Sunday 26 April 15 22:36 BST (UK) »
Caolas is a narrows, as in Ballachulish.

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