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Which Scottish name would a Kent person pronounce
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PennyDainty | Report | 19 Apr 2005 12:31 |
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Oo SNAP William! LOL BTW I love Lewis too...even called my son after the Island! Christine |
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PennyDainty | Report | 19 Apr 2005 12:30 |
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Hi Karen There is a visitor centre on Lewis called Seallam. In it there is a genealogy research centre called (Co) Leis Thu?( translates from Gaelic as Who do you belong to?) ran by Bill and Chris Lawson. He has researched almost every household in the Outer Hebrides in the last 200 years. The web site for it is http://www.seallam.*com/coleisthu.htm He may be able to help you. There are quite a few links on there to other web sites too. Another site that could be useful to look at is http://www.rootshebrides.*com remember to remove the * from the addresses. Another thing would be to look at Cyndis list for passenger ships, you might find your ancestor on there leaving Lewis for Australia. Hope you might find something useful there. Christine |
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Wulliam | Report | 19 Apr 2005 12:29 |
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Hi Karen, my granny is from Lewis and I've spent many very happy summers there. Lewis is the most northerly of the Outer Hebrides - aka 'The Long Island' though made up of lots of islands. Running from north to south the main ones are Lewis, Harris, North Uist, Benbecula, South Uist. Lewis and Harris are actually one land-mass though are very different geographically. Web-sites...try googling 'Bill Lawson Co Leis Thu' - he runs an excellent genealogical service - I've just received material from him back to the 1700's. Macarla sounds strange to my ears - is this a typo? Which village did they come from? It is most unlikely - but my granny's uncle) emigrated to Australia. I love Lewis and would chat about it for hours...so I'll stop here. Please get back in touch with whatever you know and I'll see if I can help any more. Regards, William |
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♥♪ˇ Karen | Report | 19 Apr 2005 12:12 |
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I just discovered that my gt gt gt grandmother, Christiana Marcarla was born in Lewis Island Scotland abt 1785. This is my first link to Scotland. I've tried googling but there doesn't seem to be a lot of info. Does anyone have any ideas?? Thanks Update.......does anyone have any ideas of a surname I can search for.......I have tried heaps on Family Search with no luck. Thanks |
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