Cemetery Index Question
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GREG FERGUSON
Is anyone aware of an index for the Inverchaolain Church, Churchyard and how one might get a copy? Is there a website that has pictures of headstones? I'm interested in Whyte or White , Ferguson possibly Brown, Taylor and Adair. NS07NE 2.01 09096 75282 INVENTORY OF GRAVEYARD AND CEMETERY SITES IN SCOTLAND REFERENCE: N.B. This reference applies collectively to NS07NE 2.01 and NS07NE 2.023 Address: Inverchaolain Church Churchyard and Churchyard Extension Postcode: PA23 7UN Status: In current use for burials Size: Churchyard: 0.23 hectares, 0.56 acres; Churchyard Extension: 0.09 hectares, 0.23 acres TOIDs: Number of gravestones: 227 Earliest gravestone: 1732 Most recent gravestone: 2003 Description: Burial ground associated with a church Data Sources: OS MasterMap checked 22 September 2005; Graveyard Recording Form dated 6 March 2003 Thank you Greg Ferguson
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John Kemplen
Hello Greg Could I enquire why you have posted this query to the Islay
list? Inverchaolain is on the Cowal peninsula of Argyll rather
than on the Isle of Islay, Argyll. I have links to both
Inverchaolain and Islay. My McKellar ancestors can be traced back
to Inverchaolain parish, but they moved to Bute and then around
1840 two of them and their wives moved to Islay. Although I can't
help you with your query, I would be interested to hear the answer
if you get one. I do not think it is very likely that any of my
ancestors would be buried at Inverchaolain Church because
Inverchaolain looks, to modern eyes, to be a very strange parish,
straggling all the way round Loch Striven with no direct roads
connecting the eastern and western parts. It made perfect sense
in the old days, because there weren't many roads anywhere and it
was often easier to get around by boat, so centring a parish on a
loch made good sense. However, Inverchaolain Church is on the
east shore of Loch Striven and I think there may have been another
church or churches serving the parts of the parish on the west
shore of Loch Striven and the north-east shore of the Kyles of
Bute, where I believe my ancestors lived. I am descended from one
of the two brothers who moved to Islay around 1840. My paternal
gggg-grandmother was a Margaret Brown from Inverchaolain, born
1763. Good luck with your quest. John Kemplen
On 24/10/2020 20:55, GREG FERGUSON via
groups.io wrote:
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GREG FERGUSON
Sorry my mistake I should have looked closer at the geography of Argyll. Perhaps someone here might have knowledge of the Cemetery anyways and able to share. I was also wondering tonight if many in this Islay group have taken the Ancestry DNA test ? I'm specifically interested in those that might share DNA from the following surnames Ferguson, McArthur, Gillespie, Adair, and Whyte. Others would be Currie, Hyndman, Jamieson mostly from Bowmore, Kilmeny dating back to ancestors between 1760 -1830 time frame Ferguson Went to Paisley, Renfrewshire for 1841 Census then immigrated to Oro, Simcoe, Ontario, Canada about 1850.
On Saturday, October 24, 2020, 05:47:32 p.m. CDT, John Kemplen via groups.io <john.kemplen@...> wrote:
Hello Greg Could I enquire why you have posted this query to the Islay
list? Inverchaolain is on the Cowal peninsula of Argyll rather
than on the Isle of Islay, Argyll. I have links to both
Inverchaolain and Islay. My McKellar ancestors can be traced back
to Inverchaolain parish, but they moved to Bute and then around
1840 two of them and their wives moved to Islay. Although I can't
help you with your query, I would be interested to hear the answer
if you get one. I do not think it is very likely that any of my
ancestors would be buried at Inverchaolain Church because
Inverchaolain looks, to modern eyes, to be a very strange parish,
straggling all the way round Loch Striven with no direct roads
connecting the eastern and western parts. It made perfect sense
in the old days, because there weren't many roads anywhere and it
was often easier to get around by boat, so centring a parish on a
loch made good sense. However, Inverchaolain Church is on the
east shore of Loch Striven and I think there may have been another
church or churches serving the parts of the parish on the west
shore of Loch Striven and the north-east shore of the Kyles of
Bute, where I believe my ancestors lived. I am descended from one
of the two brothers who moved to Islay around 1840. My paternal
gggg-grandmother was a Margaret Brown from Inverchaolain, born
1763. Good luck with your quest. John Kemplen
On 24/10/2020 20:55, GREG FERGUSON via
groups.io wrote:
Is anyone aware of an index
for the Inverchaolain
Church, Churchyard
and how one might get a
copy?
Is there a website that has
pictures of headstones?
I'm interested in Whyte or
White , Ferguson
possibly Brown, Taylor and
Adair.
NS07NE 2.01 09096 75282 INVENTORY OF GRAVEYARD AND CEMETERY SITES IN SCOTLAND REFERENCE: N.B. This reference applies collectively to NS07NE 2.01 and NS07NE 2.023 Address: Inverchaolain Church Churchyard and Churchyard Extension Postcode: PA23 7UN Status: In current use for burials Size: Churchyard: 0.23 hectares, 0.56 acres; Churchyard Extension: 0.09 hectares, 0.23 acres TOIDs: Number of gravestones: 227 Earliest gravestone: 1732 Most recent gravestone: 2003 Description: Burial ground associated with a church Data
Sources: OS MasterMap checked 22 September 2005;
Graveyard Recording Form dated 6 March 2003
Thank you
Greg Ferguson
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