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L82 February 3rd 2010
Dear Trevor
Noting your letter to "The Campbelltown Courier" (Scotland) (Letters,page 8,Friday January 15th,2010) about a "Scots-Australian Heritage and History Database",the following points may be of interest to your own goodself and others in the various clans.
Of "Lachlan MacQuarie",the "Father of Australia",(only one "R" in the spelling of MacQuarie!),who belonged to the "Isle of Mull",there is a "local history" page link at www.hollidaymull.co.uk/history/macquarie.php and of course,the ever useful Wikipedia has a page and links at en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lachlan_Macquarie
Your general database links should include my own "archive" uploads to scribd "Kintyre On Record" at
http://www.scribd.com/Kintyre%20On%20Record and to scribd "Clyde Steamers" at
http://www.scribd.com/Clyde%20Streamers and to my "Kintyre On Record" website at
http://www.kintyreonrecord.co.uk/articles.php where you will find some 400 articles,Google and Geograph-linked digital maps and online books which cover everything from Scotland's first 1776 drawn "Road Atlas" to the present day.
Of bearing on any "Scots-Australian Heritage and History Database",you will find links to some 33,000 burials and headstones "South of the Crinan Canal" and Place Names and Genealogy Links at
http:www.kintyreonrecord.co.uk/articles.php?cat_id=8 and I have a list of more than 4000 prisoner
records for Inveraray Jail online at http://www.scribd.com/doc/6358354/Inveraray-Jail-Prisoner-Records
some of these citing deportations to Australia.
There are some pieces on my uploads to scribd "Clyde Steamers" at http://www.scribd.com/Clyde%20Steamers which will give one an insight into the old emigrant trade and its ships,but one will have to patiently trawl all of the various scribd links above for these as I can't remember them off hand,it some time since I've put the works online!Although one can read everything online,to download anything from scribd.com,it is necessary to create an ID and password,a simple step to log in.
I would also recommend a link to the Canadian run "Electric Scotland" website at
http://www.electricscotland.com/ as it has many interesting diversions!
You should too find many Scottish stories in "National Library of Australia's Newspaper Archives " at
http://newspapers.nla.gov.au/ndp/del/home these stories,from the period 1803 to 1954,easy to copy directly from the webpages and not,as in other newspaper archives in JPG or PNG image form.
Letter kindly submitted by; Donald Kelly,Kintyre,Scotland
L 83 February 23rd 2010
Dear Mr Smurthwaite
I read your letter in a Highland newspaper asking for information about folk who left Scotland for Australia.
Please note the information in the attatchment about the people from Ballachulish,Glencoe and district (Argyll,Scotland) who emigrated to Australia in 1852.The letter writer's name is almost certainly A.MacInnes.I hope it may be of interest.
About 30 years ago,when I lived in Glencoe where my folk had lived for centuries,an Australian couple on holiday asked me for information about the Marquis family in Glencoe.I told them that my maternal grandmother was Catherine Marquis and that,coincidentally,the young apprentice who was working in our house at the time also had a maternal grandmother who was called Mary Marquis.That young man's uncle Ian MacPhee,has done more research into his family tree and tells the rest of the story,
-forwarded by Ewen MacIntyre
Hi Ewen
Nicol Marquis as you probably know is our Great-Grandfather.He came to Glencoe about 1860 with his wife Isabella (nee Turner) and your young grandmother Catherine who was born 5/4/1860 in the district of Cumlodden (Furnace near Inveraray).Nicol and Isabella had a further 5 children,Isabella,Hugh,Mary,Christina and Dugald.His wife Isabella died in childbirth when Dugald was born.Nicol then married my Great-Grandmother,Catherine MacLaren and she had three sons to him,Donald,Nicol (only lived 6 days) and my Great-Grandfather John Marquis.
Nicol Marquis had 6 siblings,Mary,Hugh,Findlay,Donald,Giles and Julian.
I think I have been quite thorough in my research and I would say there was definately no Neil,I would suggest the writer saw the name N.Marquis and assumed it was Neil.
from Ian MacPhee
Dear Ian
I came accross a book in the Inverness library which mentions Nicol Marquis,our relative,the local shepherd who is credited with the first recorded ascent into Ossian's Cave in Glencoe.
Letters and article kindly submitted by;Ewan MacIntyre,Scotland
Any information that comes in regarding any of the Letters to the Editor will be passed on to
the article submitter.
L82 February 3rd 2010
Dear Trevor
Noting your letter to "The Campbelltown Courier" (Scotland) (Letters,page 8,Friday January 15th,2010) about a "Scots-Australian Heritage and History Database",the following points may be of interest to your own goodself and others in the various clans.
Of "Lachlan MacQuarie",the "Father of Australia",(only one "R" in the spelling of MacQuarie!),who belonged to the "Isle of Mull",there is a "local history" page link at www.hollidaymull.co.uk/history/macquarie.php and of course,the ever useful Wikipedia has a page and links at en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lachlan_Macquarie
Your general database links should include my own "archive" uploads to scribd "Kintyre On Record" at
http://www.scribd.com/Kintyre%20On%20Record and to scribd "Clyde Steamers" at
http://www.scribd.com/Clyde%20Streamers and to my "Kintyre On Record" website at
http://www.kintyreonrecord.co.uk/articles.php where you will find some 400 articles,Google and Geograph-linked digital maps and online books which cover everything from Scotland's first 1776 drawn "Road Atlas" to the present day.
Of bearing on any "Scots-Australian Heritage and History Database",you will find links to some 33,000 burials and headstones "South of the Crinan Canal" and Place Names and Genealogy Links at
http:www.kintyreonrecord.co.uk/articles.php?cat_id=8 and I have a list of more than 4000 prisoner
records for Inveraray Jail online at http://www.scribd.com/doc/6358354/Inveraray-Jail-Prisoner-Records
some of these citing deportations to Australia.
There are some pieces on my uploads to scribd "Clyde Steamers" at http://www.scribd.com/Clyde%20Steamers which will give one an insight into the old emigrant trade and its ships,but one will have to patiently trawl all of the various scribd links above for these as I can't remember them off hand,it some time since I've put the works online!Although one can read everything online,to download anything from scribd.com,it is necessary to create an ID and password,a simple step to log in.
I would also recommend a link to the Canadian run "Electric Scotland" website at
http://www.electricscotland.com/ as it has many interesting diversions!
You should too find many Scottish stories in "National Library of Australia's Newspaper Archives " at
http://newspapers.nla.gov.au/ndp/del/home these stories,from the period 1803 to 1954,easy to copy directly from the webpages and not,as in other newspaper archives in JPG or PNG image form.
Letter kindly submitted by; Donald Kelly,Kintyre,Scotland
L 83 February 23rd 2010
Dear Mr Smurthwaite
I read your letter in a Highland newspaper asking for information about folk who left Scotland for Australia.
Please note the information in the attatchment about the people from Ballachulish,Glencoe and district (Argyll,Scotland) who emigrated to Australia in 1852.The letter writer's name is almost certainly A.MacInnes.I hope it may be of interest.
About 30 years ago,when I lived in Glencoe where my folk had lived for centuries,an Australian couple on holiday asked me for information about the Marquis family in Glencoe.I told them that my maternal grandmother was Catherine Marquis and that,coincidentally,the young apprentice who was working in our house at the time also had a maternal grandmother who was called Mary Marquis.That young man's uncle Ian MacPhee,has done more research into his family tree and tells the rest of the story,
-forwarded by Ewen MacIntyre
Hi Ewen
Nicol Marquis as you probably know is our Great-Grandfather.He came to Glencoe about 1860 with his wife Isabella (nee Turner) and your young grandmother Catherine who was born 5/4/1860 in the district of Cumlodden (Furnace near Inveraray).Nicol and Isabella had a further 5 children,Isabella,Hugh,Mary,Christina and Dugald.His wife Isabella died in childbirth when Dugald was born.Nicol then married my Great-Grandmother,Catherine MacLaren and she had three sons to him,Donald,Nicol (only lived 6 days) and my Great-Grandfather John Marquis.
Nicol Marquis had 6 siblings,Mary,Hugh,Findlay,Donald,Giles and Julian.
I think I have been quite thorough in my research and I would say there was definately no Neil,I would suggest the writer saw the name N.Marquis and assumed it was Neil.
from Ian MacPhee
Dear Ian
I came accross a book in the Inverness library which mentions Nicol Marquis,our relative,the local shepherd who is credited with the first recorded ascent into Ossian's Cave in Glencoe.
Letters and article kindly submitted by;Ewan MacIntyre,Scotland
