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Offline Julie Carver

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Re: Uig Cemetery
« Reply #9 on: Friday 16 June 17 05:41 BST (UK) »
Thanks Annie for all the suggestions. I have actually found him on the 1841 census! After 15 years of looking on and off. He is living with his mother Agnes Jackson and brother Jackson McNab. William names his second daughter Agnes, and third daughter Annie Jackson McNab.

Having found out more about where he died and his parents from his brothers death cert, I think I may have used up all my luck for today. Common names without useful middle names make the detective work more "indepth".

I will check the newspapers next.

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Re: Uig Cemetery
« Reply #10 on: Thursday 29 June 17 10:19 BST (UK) »
But now I am confused about the location. So the Sands of Uig or Uig sands are not near Uig town on Skye? What are the other two places mentioned on the RCE? Sands of Uig near.... 
No. There are several places called Uig (it is from the Norse word 'vik', meaning a bay, and also occurs in other places as Wick, and in Berwick, Lerwick and dozens of other places ending in '...wick'.

The village of Uig on the Isle of Skye is in the parish if Snizort in the county of Inverness.

Uig Sands are on the west coast of the Isle of Lewis, in the parish of Uig, county of Ross and Cromarty. See
http://www.geograph.org.uk/gridref/NB0332
http://www.geograph.org.uk/gridref/NB0432
http://www.geograph.org.uk/gridref/NB0433

If any burial records survive from 1877, they should be in the care of Comhairle nan Eilean Siar (the Western Isles Council) - see http://www.cne-siar.gov.uk/ - but I would not bet on them ever having existed for Uig, never mind them having survived.

The places named in the certificate include Ardroil, which is an anglicisation of Eadar Dha Fhadhail, and the modern map uses the Gaelic version.

I think the next one is something like Fairview, but I can't be sure and I can't identify it. I speculate that it was a croft or cottage with an alien (i.e. English rather than Gaelic) name.

Lastly, the place of registration is Miavaig, which is an anglicisation of Miabhaig.
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Re: Uig Cemetery
« Reply #11 on: Thursday 29 June 17 10:43 BST (UK) »
But now I am confused about the location. So the Sands of Uig or Uig sands are not near Uig town on Skye? What are the other two places mentioned on the RCE? Sands of Uig near.... 
No. There are several places called Uig (it is from the Norse word 'vik', meaning a bay, and also occurs in other places as Wick, and in Berwick, Lerwick and dozens of other places ending in '...wick' or in '...uig' or '...aig'.

The village of Uig on the Isle of Skye is in the parish if Snizort in the county of Inverness.

Uig Sands are on the west coast of the Isle of Lewis, in the parish of Uig, county of Ross and Cromarty. See
http://www.geograph.org.uk/gridref/NB0332
http://www.geograph.org.uk/gridref/NB0432
http://www.geograph.org.uk/gridref/NB0433

If any burial records survive from 1877, they should be in the care of Comhairle nan Eilean Siar (the Western Isles Council) - see http://www.cne-siar.gov.uk/ - but I would not bet on them ever having existed for Uig, never mind them having survived.

The places named in the certificate include Ardroil, which is an anglicisation of Eadar Dha Fhadhail, and the modern map uses the Gaelic version.

I think the next one is something like Fairview, but I can't be sure and I can't identify it. I speculate that it was a croft or cottage with an alien (i.e. English rather than Gaelic) name.

Lastly, the place of registration is Miavaig, which is an anglicisation of Miabhaig.

As for where people were buried, there is an old kirkyard at Baile na Cille. See
http://www.geograph.org.uk/search.php?i=73094417
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Re: Uig Cemetery
« Reply #12 on: Thursday 12 September 19 22:14 BST (UK) »
hi on the first post  it states body was viewed by Alexander Maclean of Garynahine,
Garynahne is in uig, Isle of Lewis


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Re: Uig Cemetery
« Reply #13 on: Friday 13 September 19 07:01 BST (UK) »
it states body was viewed by Alexander Maclean of Garynahine,
Garynahne is in uig, Isle of Lewis

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Re: Uig Cemetery
« Reply #14 on: Saturday 14 September 19 01:39 BST (UK) »
1877 August. Night of 18th or Morning of 19th. On the Sands of Uig near Ardroil Farm in the Parish of Uig.

[Cause of Death] Drowning. Dr. Alexander MacLean, Garynahine, saw body after death.

The informant was: John MacAulay, His X Mark, Employer, 56 Surrey St., Glasgow.  [And the informant's "signature" [i.e., the "X"] was witnessed by the Registrar, James Macrae. If the informant (or bride or groom) could not write his/her name, the Registrar would write the name and add His   Mark, leaving enough space between the two words for the informant to make a cross, and that would serve as a legal signature for the purpose. The Registrar would have to watch as the person "signed", so that the Registrar could describe himself as a witness to the signing]. The spelling of names and places was always the Registrar's spelling ... and not all registrars were competent spellers!

As I said in my original reply to this, burials were not recorded at that time anywhere in Lewis and the incident would hardly merit a mention in the mainland newspapers unless the other family members thought to place a death notice in the paper - and that is unlikely, I would surmise.

If he was the only member of his family in Lewis at that time, he would simply have been buried in the cemetery (plot of land) used by the people in that area at that time and the location in that cemetery would be unmarked (but it would be obvious that there was a body in that spot). Do you really think that family would have been able to afford preparation of the body and transport of the body to the mainland? That would have incurred quite some expense.

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Re: Uig Cemetery
« Reply #15 on: Saturday 14 September 19 12:11 BST (UK) »
hi on the image 20th august at,
i believe that is miavaig 4km  from ardiol
have you considered he may have been
a fisherman and john macaulay was the owner of the fishing boat
there a lot of macaulays in uig

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Re: Uig Cemetery
« Reply #16 on: Saturday 14 September 19 12:36 BST (UK) »
hi back again this is may be of interest
wherever he came from it looks like the reason
he drowned at uig sands certainly had something to do
with macaulay, near uig sands is Baile na Cille Cemetery,
dates back to late 1600s and is the burial ground for the macaulays,
what is really interesting is a dr Mclean from garynahine is burried there
though it looks possibly the father of the dr that viewed the body,
now to get to the point if the body was nt returned to the familly
theres thats where he ll be close to uig sands, ardoil, and miavaig