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Blue-Sten
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I have some info on Crofts in North uist and would be happy to share my findings with anyone who is looking for specific families of areas.
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Grey Seagull
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Hi,
I am just discovering my North Uist connections, so don't have too much info to share at the moment.
My main names are Macdonald and MacCorquidle/MacCorquodale and they seem to have lived in Knockintorran. On one census, a father and son, both fishermen, are missing from the family home and I believe they are 'Visitors' in two different homes in Heisker.
Some of the family stayed on in North Uist while some moved to Glasgow in the late 1890s/early 1900s.
Any information would be most welcome. 
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Fleming: Campsie, Glasgow, E Kilbride, Cumbria, Canada/USA, Oz (NSW)
Cant: Kilmichael, Inverness, Resoles, Moray
Stewart: Dingwall, Strathpeffer
Rankin(e): Argyll, Glasgow
Ferrier: Kinnell, Red Castle, Inverkeillor, Glasgow, Greenock
Morrell: Dundee, Oban, Perth, Rothesay
Harris: Glasgow, Dunoon
Hart: Govan
McDonell/McDonald: Knoydart, Kilmonivaig, Inverness, Paisley
(Mc)Niven: Islay, Glasgow
MacDonald: N Uist, Glasgow
MacCorquodale: N Uist
Dear: St Cyrus
Gibb: St Vigeans
Bell: Forfarshire
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Blue-Sten
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Have you located them on the heisker census?
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McVitie
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Hello,
I'd like to take you up on your offer, thanks.
I know that my Nan Alice Maclean, was from Benbecula, but her father, Alexander Maclean, was born in Hougharry, NU, circa 1847 and died South Uist in 1901. His parents are a John Maclean, and Jessie MacInnes.
Alexander married twice, his first to Catherine McCuish, in 1877, in North Uist.
Any info you have would be greatly appreciated.
Regards
McVitie.
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Kennedys (Skye), MacIntyres (Skye), Macleans (South/North Uist), Macdonalds (Skye/South/North Uist), MacKinnons (Skye), MacInnes (Small Isles), Macraes (Kintail/Harris), Morrisons (Kintail), Buchanans (Skye), Maclures (Skye)
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ADP
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If you are looking for places in Scotland's Western Isles on a modern map, be aware that the the Gaelic names are more commonly used there nowadays.
Western Isles: Na h-Eileanan an Iar
North Uist: Uibhist a Tuath
Benbecula: Beinn na Faoghla
Balemore: Baile Mòr - see map
Hougharry: Hogha Gearraidh - see map
Heisker or Monach Islands: Theisgeir no na h-Eileanan Monach - see map
A North Uist video clip can be seen at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3euWpdGbrJw
For the non-Gaelic speaker travelling around the Western Isles, a bilingual tourist map is useful.
ADP
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ali607
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GG Grandad John Collier 'The Contratenor Singer'
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if you need any help, iv been to outer hebrides and know them well
Alison
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Surname interests:
Salter, Fulford, Woodcock, Finney, Tissington, Driscoll, Shea, Maxfield, Collier, Hughes, Williams, Petty, Pearson, Prescott, Baldwin,
Area interests:
West Riding Yorkshire: Rotherham, Hemsworth, Darfield, Sheffield
Worcestershire/Staffordshire: Oldbury, West Bromwich, Halesowen, White Heath
Lancashire: Wigan, Aspull,
Nottinghamshire: Worksop
erbyshire:alfreton, ironville, codnor
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MacMunks
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Census information Crown Copyright, from www.nationalarchives.gov.uk
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In response to McVitie re Alexander MacLean B 1845
Greetings from County Cork!
Alexander MacLean was my Great Grand Father. His son John b 1877 Houghharry North Uist married Eliza Bostok 1912 in Bulawayo, Rhodesia, (Zimbabwe) and their son Alistair Charles b 1914 was my father.
I am looking for living relatives and information on descendants. Any info on the ancestors/dates etc for John b c1798 d 1855 and Janet MacInnes b? d? and m 1836.
Thank you in anticipation.
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McVitie
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Well hello to you 'cousin' MacMunks! 
We both share the same gt grandfather but I'm guessing your a descendant of Alexander's first marriage to Catherine MacCuish?
I've done a fair amount of research on our Maclean's history and have one or two documents I've drawn up that I'd be happy to share with you. I've also got a great summary tree from a Canadian researcher, Blair Macaulay, whose roots hail from NU and I can forward you his notes on our Macleans - please send me your PM ad I'll email to you.
Kind regards
McVitie
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Kennedys (Skye), MacIntyres (Skye), Macleans (South/North Uist), Macdonalds (Skye/South/North Uist), MacKinnons (Skye), MacInnes (Small Isles), Macraes (Kintail/Harris), Morrisons (Kintail), Buchanans (Skye), Maclures (Skye)
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MacMunks
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Census information Crown Copyright, from www.nationalarchives.gov.uk
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Dear McVite, (are we really cousins?)...talk about serendipity.
My pm is (*)
Thank you, I would be seriously chuffed to receive anything of interest that you feel generous enough to share.
I have recently found the maclean.org site but can't find my way around it with any dexterity yet and haven't been able to locate any of my own MacLeans, even with the aid of the optional spelling. This McLean/MacLean spelling has always been a cause for concern, but I see on the birth certs and census records that I have been able to research, that the spelling appears to be almost random. Any ideas in this regard?
I thought I was making real progress, until I found the Maclean Clan web site, (I now feel swamped) and now the task seems awesome and rather daunting. I suspect there are tricks to this new trade and that I shall learn the nifty ones, as I go along.
Greetings from a grey, very cold County Cork.
Kindest regards.
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warrawillah
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I have just started helping a friend with her North Uist families and would appreciate any help at all.
The family is Macphail, Norman born c 1846 at Locheport, son of Archie Macphail and Margaret Maclellan, and his wife Anne Macormack. born 1849, daughter of Roderick Macormack and Janet MacRury in Ole Sollas?,
I have no death dates for Norman or his wife Anne and no details at all of the Macormack, Maclellan and MacRury lines and would dearly love to know more about them.
Norman Macphail's son Archie, his wife Christina Macdonald and their five sons emigrated to NSW in 1922 and my friend is descended frm this couple.
Many thanks, Marie in Sydney.
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DONALDSON from Aberdeen,Orkney. and Newport, MONS Wales. Williams/ Caughter from Bangor Caernarvonshire, WALES
WISEMAN from ELGIN and LOSSIEMOUTH. MARTIN from Winchelea in Sussex, RICHARDSON from Rovelden in Kent
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