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Link: Highlands and Islands Emigration Society 1852-1857
« on: Tuesday 10 February 09 00:34 GMT (UK) »
There's a searchable database of migrants leaving the Scottish Highlands between 1852 and 1857 on this webpage:

http://www.scan.org.uk/researchrtools/emigration.htm

There's also help with sources from the National Archives of Scotland's Highland Destitution series (HD) to help find out more about the Highlands and Islands Emigration Society who assisted individuals to leave western Scotland


Aberdeen: Findlay-Shirras,McCarthy: MidLothian: Mason,Telford,Darling,Cruikshanks,Bennett,Sime, Bell: Lanarks:Crum, Brown, MacKenzie,Cameron, Glen, Millar; Ross: Urray:Mackenzie:  Moray: Findlay; Marshall/Marischell: Perthshire: Brown Ferguson: Wales: McCarthy, Thomas: England: Almond, Askin, Dodson, Well(es). Harrison, Maw, McCarthy, Munford, Pye, Shearing, Smith, Smythe, Speight, Strike, Wallis/Wallace, Ward, Wells;Germany: Flamme,Ehlers, Bielstein, Germer, Mohlm, Reupke

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Re: Highlands and Islands Emigration Society 1852-1857
« Reply #1 on: Thursday 11 March 10 20:00 GMT (UK) »
Thank you, very interesting.
Steadwood worldwide, Horsburgh, McBean (and variants), Pride, Ross, mostly in the Lothian and Borders area, Ingles and variants from Buckie, Wilson, Stoddart.
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