« Reply #483 on: Monday 15 November 10 05:43 GMT (UK) »
Can't recall seeing these, but has anyone said they are researching Argentina, or less likely Mongolia?
I have previously researched Argentina, following the footsteps of my Great Uncle Malcolm MacIntosh. He left the Isle of Skye at a fairly young age to go to Argentina and was a sheep farmer/manager at Puerto Deseado, Santa Cruz, Patagonia. Sadly he died aged 55 (1945) as he was about to make his last trip home to Scotland in search of a wife. He had written to my mother in advance of this trip, asking her to assist in finding a suitable wife.
There were a number of letters between him and family members in Scotland but I have only seen one. In that letter he refers to listening to a Gaelic channel from his radio in Santa Cruz!
There is a lot of information on the internet about Sots who settled in Argentina. I remember finding other MacIntosh families there before my g-Uncle emigrated. I should really take another look at this area to see if I can connect these families to my tree.
In closing, my grandmother would recall that her brother Malcolm was so young when he first left on the boat for Argentina that he had never even seen a motor car on the Isle of Skye!
Liz
Perthshire: MacArthur, Whittet, Mill (Milne), Alexander, Shaw, Pearson, Henderson, Rennie, Comrie, Braid, Ritchie, Roy, MacKillop, Keill, Cumming, Taylor, Marshall, Young, Miller, MacVicar, Murray, Cameron, Croll, Christie, Gloag, Gorrie, Stobbie, Lunnan, Thomson, Crerar, Hepburn.
Dundee: Mill (Milne).
Aberdeen: Mill (Milne).
Skye: MacIntosh, Stewart, MacQueen, Matheson, Morrison, Nicholson, MacLeod, Finlayson.
Peebles: Dickson, Sandilands, Rule, Johnstone.
Edinburgh: Thomson, Sandilands.
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