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Inverness / Re: Dugald Thompson and Anne MacLean-Moidart
« on: Wednesday 30 May 18 09:04 BST (UK)  »
Quote from: MonicaL on Thursday 10 May 18 22:16 BST (UK)
Hi Greg

Will not be easy to get records for the family  :-\  Roman Catholic records can be so very hard to find, especially the further back you go. Likely you know this already from your searches to date.

I have RC family (MacIsaac/McDonald) from Moidart and found this site really useful www.moidart.org.uk.

There are some RC records on www.scotlandspeople.gov.uk in the 'Church Registers' databases. I have found very little on my lines there unfortunately.

Spellings were fluid in those days. Good to use wildcards where you can, for example, M*C, to pick up on both Mc/Mac. Also, Thomson without the 'P' was the more common spelling of the surname in Scotland, so again seaching for Thom*son will let you pick up on all the variations.

Monica  :)


Thank you Monica, I was hoping you'd see this given your MacIsaac knowledge.

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Inverness / Re: Dugald Thompson and Anne MacLean-Moidart
« on: Wednesday 30 May 18 09:02 BST (UK)  »
Quote from: Skoosh on Thursday 10 May 18 09:43 BST (UK)
Thompson spelling sounds English/Irish but possibly known by Gaelic MacThomais?

Skoosh,

Wonderful suggestion. Thanks.

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Inverness / Michael MacDonald (Micheil na Guiseld)
« on: Wednesday 30 May 18 04:36 BST (UK)  »
Can anybody tell me what na Guiseld means?

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Inverness / Re: Alexander MacDonald - Tacksman of Knocknageil
« on: Wednesday 09 May 18 23:58 BST (UK)  »
You should check out this site..

https://www.scotlandspeople.gov.uk/search-our-records

From memory, there are two wills I've been meaning to look up.

1. Roderick MacDonald- tacksman Knocknageil. Late 1700s?
2. Margaret MacDonald- daughter of the above who died in Edinburgh a few years after him.

I am currently reading the book by Rev. Charles MacDonald. Very interesting.

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Inverness / Re: Dugald Thompson and Anne MacLean-Moidart
« on: Wednesday 09 May 18 23:48 BST (UK)  »
Forgot to add, they were Roman Catholic.

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Inverness / Dugald Thompson and Anne MacLean-Moidart
« on: Wednesday 09 May 18 23:41 BST (UK)  »
Looking for any information on the above couple from Moidart, and most likely Glenuig.

They emigrated to Pictou, Nova Scotia in 1810, with children Alexander b. 1806, and Mary b. 1808.

Anne MacLean's father was Duncan MacLean, and her mother was either his first wife, Mary MacIsaac, or his second wife, Cicely MacDonald.

Her older brother or half-brother was Donald MacLean b. 1760, who emigrated to Pictou, Nova Scotia in 1791.

Due to the ages of her children, Anne MacLean may have been born of her father's second wife, or had older children who didn't make the journey. I would estimate her birth around 1775, give or take.

Nothing is known of Dugald Thompson, other than the name is very uncommon in Moidart.

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Ireland / Re: *COMPLETED* Irish pronunciation help needed?
« on: Tuesday 10 April 18 05:51 BST (UK)  »
It is the same. I see it spelled Tombey in the registers I was looking through. Oftentimes, a new priest arrives and the spelling changes.

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Dublin / Re: Daniel Daly & wife Julia Kavanagh
« on: Thursday 05 April 18 22:12 BST (UK)  »
 " Do you mean daughter of Patrick, son of Timothy, son of Timothy??"
Yes.
She married first, Robert Daly, who died young. Then she married his brother, Daniel. These brothers, and six other siblings where very famous in Vaudeville from 1880-1904. All actors, comedians, dancers.



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Dublin / Re: Daniel Daly & wife Julia Kavanagh
« on: Tuesday 03 April 18 17:13 BST (UK)  »
These Daly's and Kavanagh's may be related to my ancestors just based on name frequency. My g-g-g-grandmother, Jane Cavanagh, married Timothy Daly somewhere in Ireland in the early 1820s.

By the 1830s, they were living in Bathurst, New Brunswick, Canada. Their son, William Daly, moved to Boston in the 1860s and worked as a stevedore. His son's married a Mary Mooney, son of Patrick, son of Timothy, son of Timothy. The Mooney's were from Galway, as lore says the Daly's were.

In the 1860 Boston census, there are Carr's(Cair's) living with them. You'll note on the church register for your Julia Kavanagh's marrieage, there are Carr's just below their entry.

My Jane Cavanagh could be the aunt of your Michael Kavanagh.



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