Scotland and Scottish Ancestry

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Comment by Lynne Sanders-Braithwaite on October 8, 2009 at 2:22pm

Hi Elizabeth, All I know is that my grandmother Mary Ann McNeill was the daughter of a John Mcneil(1816-1882) and his father was also John. Don't have mother's name. John Jnr was born 1816 Nova Scotia. I don't at the moment know when he came to Australia, why or on what ship. Yrs Lynne.

Comment by Russ on October 8, 2009 at 11:31am

I'm Looking for MITCHELL/STEVENSON from Scotland

Comment by Elizabeth Campbell on October 8, 2009 at 7:43am

Hi Lynne...saw your comment on the Scottish group. Who were your McNeills? My grandmother McNeil had at least one brother who went out that way, and perhaps some sisters.

Comment by Jan Westcott on October 8, 2009 at 4:42am

On my grandfather's Australian Army enlistment papers he wrote his trade or calling was carpenter. His answer to the question 'are you, or have you been, an apprentice', he wrote Robertson & Sons, Glasgow for three and a half years. Does anyone know of this firm, is it still in existence, how might I find out some information about the firm? I'm assuming this would have been about 1905-1910, maybe earlier, depending on when he went to work.

Any help appreciated.

Thanks Jan Westcott

Comment by Lynne Sanders-Braithwaite on October 8, 2009 at 4:34am

Apologies for the 3 entries. The other site with my ancestral names is

Comment by Lynne Sanders-Braithwaite on October 8, 2009 at 4:32am

http://www.myheritage.com/site-29656891/lynnes-heritage

Names in which I am interested include JAMES BELL, GLASGOW- covicted of robbing an oyster bar in GallowGate, THOMAS CRAIG AND FAMILY who came to Australia 1853 on Beejapoore, then the Macleans, McNeills, Mackays, Macleods.
As I said I am new to Scotland . Yrs Lynne.

Comment by Lynne Sanders-Braithwaite on October 8, 2009 at 2:34am

I have only recently come across much of my Scottish Ancestry and am very new to it.

All were out here in Australia by the early-mid 80s.Yrs Lynne.

Comment by Christopher J. Valin on October 7, 2009 at 1:00pm

William, is there anything that can be done about it?

Comment by William Douglas on October 7, 2009 at 11:18am

Historic graveyards placed on 'under threat' watchlist

Five historic graveyards providing the last resting place of some of Scotland's most influential philosophers and poets are on an international watchlist of threatened heritage sites.

The graveyards in the heart of Edinburgh are among six sites in the UK and Ireland that the World Monuments Fund (WMF) has placed on its watchlist for 2010, released today.

Years of exposure to nature's elements, vandalism and neglect have led to the deterioration of the graveyards at the Greyfriars Canongate and St Cuthbert's kirkyards, the Old Calton Burial ground and New Calton burial ground.

Notable names among the headstones are figures such as philosopher and historian David Hume (1711-1776), buried at Old Calton Burial ground; inventor Robert Stevenson(1772-1850), buried in New Calton burial ground, political economist Adam Smith (1723-1790) and Robert Fergusson, the poet who inspired Robert Burns, both buried in Canongate Kirkyard.

The WMF 2010 watchlist includes 93 sites at risk in 47 countries, ranging from the famous Peruvian site of Machu Picchu, to the Merritt Parkway road in Conneticut, US.

The five other UK heritage sites under threat are Sheerness Dockyard in Kent, the Tecton Buildings, Dudley Zoo, in the West Midlands, St John the Evangelist Parish Church, Shodon, Herefordshire, Carlisle Memorial Methodist Church, Belfast, and Russborough mansion, Blessington, Co Wicklow.

Comment by Iain Kennedy on October 4, 2009 at 8:01am

I have created a Perthshire group http://www.genealogywise.com/group/perthshire
can you add it to your list of place groups at the top please. Thanks. Iain Kennedy

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