« Reply #23 on: Monday 30 October 17 14:37 GMT (UK) »
"Islay" should read "Hay" is, I think, the consensus, especially with the baptismal evidence. Thank you.
the information has not converted into tangible appearances after 1861
It does help when you start out with 'tangible' evidence...
From my
Reply #2"Is your reference for 1851 'Islay' from SP or a transcription?
The reason I ask is, I can't bring up an Islay Fleming on SP for 1851?"I had no response to that question and even now there's no sign anywhere of an 'Islay' which is very different from 'Hay'!
It helps when you're searching the proper person (with an open mind) & whether or not he is to be found is yet unknown but from deaths on SP using his 'proper' names, he doesn't appear to have died in Scotland?
I asked this on
Reply #13Can you verify any of the middle initials of the children as he may have used one of those as an alias just I mentioned about having an open mind, the more info. available, the better.
Even if he wasn't transported it looks as though he left Scotland but having a criminal record it's possible he has changed his name?
Annie
South Uist, Inverness-shire, Scotland:- Bowie, Campbell, Cumming, Currie
Ireland:- Cullen, Flannigan (Derry), Donahoe/Donaghue (variants) (Cork), McCrate (Tipperary), Mellon, Tol(l)and (Donegal & Tyrone)
Newcastle-on-Tyne/Durham (Northumberland):- Harrison, Jude, Kemp, Lunn, Mellon, Robson, Stirling
Kettering, Northampton:- MacKinnon
Canada:- Callaghan, Cumming, MacPhee
"OLD GENEALOGISTS NEVER DIE - THEY JUST LOSE THEIR CENSUS"