The attached newspaper item was shared on Old Islay on Facebook. I’m not related. Happy Hunting Sue Visser

Thanks for Roger McWee for noticing the error of my ways. The date I wrote for the marriage of son Alexander Sinclair and Annie McLellan was NOT 29 Jan. 1828. That was her birth date! (wrong column).

Hello Robinson! I have a LOT of this Sinclair family information for you! I have John's birth year as either 1782 or 1786, depending on the census. Sarah,b. 4June,1788. She was the daughter of William

Hi I’m hoping for some help in finding a location listed in the 1881 Census for William McEwan and his wife Catherine (nee Niven/McNiven). The address listed on the 1881 transcription on Ancestry has

Hello: My great-great-grandparents were John Sinclair 1779-1859 and Sarah (Marrion) Jamieson born 1790. They were married on April 25 1811 in Killarrow. They do not appear as infants in the baptism li

Islay folks buried in Bethel Cemetery. Please note that many of the stones at Bethel cannot be read so the list is likely incomplete. Sue Visser

Tonight after much searching have found the parents of my Dugald Currie John Curry or Currie and Florence or Flora Kelly m 30 Nov 1790 , Killarrow Children all born Killarrow Effie b 1793 Catharine b

Anyone have any info on an Alex and Janet Currie who had a daughter named Margaret Currie. She was born in 1899 (possibly '98) in Bowmore. Margaret is my grandmother and all I have are her parents nam

Since we have had Curries as a subject lately - Below are the transcribed Kilchoman marriages for Currie (men). I have claimed the couples of Duncan Currie /Janet McNiven, Hugh Currie / Mary Bell, Mal

While the topic on the Curries is hot thought I would like to put in my interest in the Curries . Dugald Currie b abt 1807 , Kildalton and wife Jane Buie b abt 1811 , Jura . Daughters Flora and Isabel

In 1905 my great grandfather was living on Shore Street in Bowmore, Islay. On the Valuation Roll for 1905 he is listed consecutively after the Temperance Hotel. Is it a reasonable hypothesis to sugges

Hello all, I hope you don't mind if I butt into this conversation. I found my record of the marriage between Donald Currie and Katherine Sinclair, Feb.1786. This is what I have for their family: 1. da

Hi all / Roger McWee / Russ McGilvary, Roger was a great help to me with my McFadyen family research a year ago, unfortunately I let the trail go cold and did not follow up – I would like to try and p

Jan - if you'd like some help with the Currie family, please contact me directly. You should be able to e-mail me directly. If not, do let me know here.

Thanks to John Klemplen's help I was able to find the valuation rolls for my great grandfather, Archibald McDiarmid, in Bowmore, Islay. It affirms that he lived on Shore Street which is the street men

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There don't seem to be any Valuation Rolls published for Islay. Is this correct? My grandmother, Flora McDiarmid, was born on Shore Street in Bowmore, Islay, Argyle, in 1883. Of course there are no ho

There has been so much traffic recently I thought I’d have another attempt at seeking more information on my forbears. My Great Great Great-Grandfather Hector McInnes married Marion McCaffer at Kilcho

Hi Malcolm. Nice to hear from you again. Thanks for the information, because I seem to have made a mistake in my records. I agree that Christian S. married Alexander McDougall, but I had their son, Jo

A dcument came out recently that had all the people that were doing research on their Islay ancestry. I noticed that the list had an old e-mail address for me. I had sent in the up-to-date one but it