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19 March, 2010
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SUTHERLAND ROOTS » Seeking The Past
Published:  18 February, 2010

I AM a Canadian descended from Hugh Gray (born around 1780 in Dornoch, died 27 March, 1872, at Golspie Tower) and Janet Cosgrove, through their daughter Grace (Gray) Dempster.

Published:  14 September, 2009

I AM trying to trace Roderick Mackay. He was born in Dornoch on February 9, 1925 and went to Australia in 1946. He left Australia some time after 1950.

Published:  30 July, 2009

MY sister's partner is trying to find information on his late father, who he thinks lived in the Dornoch area.

Published:  16 July, 2009

I AM a history student at university in the United States. I am working on a research project on British country houses during the Second World War.

Published:  02 July, 2009

I WONDER if any of your readers can still remember Dr William Wagner Turner and his wife Anna. They are both buried at Assynt. They had lived in Inchnadamph and Dr Turner died in 1948.

Published:  15 June, 2009

I AM trying to trace my Scottish ancestry to the Munro family from Dornoch.

Published:  21 May, 2009

I AM trying to find any information regarding George McRae who returned from Canada in 1824 to sheep farm in the Lairg area.

Published:  15 April, 2009

I AM looking for information on a relative who passed away in February. His name is Gordon Mackay, from Bettyhill.

Published:  01 April, 2009

I AM trying to get in contact with John Fleming of Tain, who posted a message on this subject in February 2007.

Published:  23 March, 2009

I AM coming to Scotland in August and would like to find the descendants of my lost cousins.

Published:  05 January, 2009

I AM researching my great grandmother's family in Melvich.

Published:  31 December, 2008

I AM looking for relatives of the William and Margaret (Munro) Ross family, from Ardgay, Hilton, and Bonar Bridge areas.

Published:  17 November, 2008

I AM looking for information on the family of Lexie (Alexanderina) Mathieson, born 1906 at Clashmore.

Published:  30 September, 2008

I AM seeking living relatives descended from Robert Macleod, b.1776 in Sutherland, crofter/farmer and Fanny Liddle (Francis Leighton) b.1781 in Ireland.

Published:  28 August, 2008

IN the early 1940s, Culmaily Farm, lying between Golspie and The Mound, was tenanted by a Mr Roberts.

Published:  11 August, 2008

I AM seeking the names and relevant dates of my great great grandfather's and his wife's ancestors.

Published:  14 July, 2008

USING the resources of Scots Family, I have established that a gg-grandfather, William McDonald, was born in Golspie Parish.

Published:  10 July, 2008

I AM trying to trace any relatives or childhood friends of a young man called David Mackenzie, who grew up in Helmsdale in the 1920s and 30s.

Published:  03 July, 2008

WE would like to say hello to anyone who went to school with Bill McDonald, now living in Wellington, New Zealand.

Published:  19 June, 2008

IN the late 1950s, during one of our holidays in Golspie, we went to see a film at the YMCA hall. It was a sort of travelogue, shot around the Sutherland area, including Golspie. Judging by the fashions, it was filmed in the mid 1920s.

Published:  23 April, 2008

I WAS born in Nova Scotia, Canada, and now reside in Alberta. I am trying to trace my Scottish ancestry but I do not have a lot to go on and hope someone still living in the area may recognise a name.

Published:  24 March, 2008

I LIVE in Australia and my name is Julie Macdonald. I am currently doing my family tree.

Published:  17 March, 2008

I USED to live in Golspie and left Sutherland in 1989. I now live and work in Florida. Could anyone please help me find my old school friends?

Published:  03 March, 2008

MY wife believes that one of her grandparents of the name Moore, lived in Dornoch and may have been in business there.

Published:  15 February, 2008

A LITTLE-remembered piece of Highland railway history appears to have found itself bizarrely on the other side of the Atlantic and high in the Canadian Rockies.

Published:  08 February, 2008

I AM currently on the third year of the degree Culture Studies of the Highland and Islands. For the pre-dissertation project I have chosen to do the Clearances in Sutherland.

Published:  18 January, 2008

I AM looking for information about Jessie Maclean, who was living at 2 Station Terrace, Dornoch, in 1939.

Published:  05 November, 2007

I AM researching my family tree and would like to contact any MacNicols in the area who might be descended from Nicol MacNicol, born 1854, and his wife Eliza Lumsden.

Published:  12 October, 2007

I HAVE searched the net high and low for something to bring to life the origins of my family, who I only recently discovered by chance were from near Bonar.

Published:  05 October, 2007

I AM seeking information on the above named, who passed away in September, 1981.

Published:  24 September, 2007

I AM seeking more information on Hugh and Janet Campbell - nee McLeod.

Published:  17 September, 2007

I AM researching my Scottish ancestors, a Ross family who about 1790s lived and farmed in Sutherland, Creich parish, Tutumtarvach.

Published:  15 August, 2007

I AM seeking information on James Campbell b: 1806 Ireland, married Jane Sutherland b: 1811 Tongue.

Published:  06 August, 2007

I AM looking for more information as to the birthplace of Roger Sutherland who emigrated from Aberdeen on a ship bound for Perth Amboy, NJ IN 1684. I presume he was from Sutherlandshire.

Published:  03 August, 2007

I AM looking for information about the family of William Ross and Ann Matheson who resided in Shinness, Lairg. They are known to have had three of a family: Jane, Angus and Catherine.

Published:  27 July, 2007

I AM trying to find my great-grandfather’s family. His name was William Sutherland, he was born in Rogart in 1855 and married Catherine MacLeay in 1878.

Published:  15 June, 2007

I AM trying to trace my family tree and have found out that my aunt, Elizabeth Macleod, lived in Tower Street, Golspie.

Published:  23 May, 2007

I AM from Roxburgh in Central Otago New Zealand and I am looking for information about my ancestors who were the Gordons, Native of Sutherlandshire (as appears on the headstone of the family headstone in the Roxburh cemetery).

Published:  17 April, 2007

I ATTENDED Golspie School from 1941 to 1944, and would like to know if anyone knows the whereabouts of one of my friends Hamish Roberts.

Published:  06 April, 2007

I AM looking for information on a past resident of Bonar Bridge, Mrs Margaret MacKay (nee Macrae).

Published:  23 March, 2007

I WOULD like to find out what happened to an old friend I haven’t heard from since the 1960s.

Published:  02 March, 2007

MY name is Donna Corker and I live in Perth, Western Australia. I am in the process of tracing my ancestors and putting together a family tree.

Published:  15 February, 2007

This photograph of a soldier in uniform was found in a chest donated to Brora Scout and Guide Hall Committee for their Grannie’s Attic Sale a few months ago.

Published:  15 February, 2007

I am writing to ask if any of your readers can help me find more information about the “fishermen’s treat” mentioned in your Old Files a couple of weeks ago.

Published:  09 February, 2007

MY great-grandfather, James Bannerman Cunningham, was the resident GP in Tongue from about 1886 to 1891, and a number of his children were born there.

Published:  09 February, 2007

I AM trying to trace my family tree and have found out that my great-great-great-grand-uncle, Alexander Fraser, was a master blacksmith in Skelbo Street in the 1850s.

Published:  09 February, 2007

I AM researching Cambusavie Hospital at the Mound, whilst it was in use as an infectious diseases hospital.

Published:  02 February, 2007

ON 13th March 1943 a Whitley bomber of 612 Sqn, Wick, crashed on Ben Hutig north-west of Tongue in a snowstorm.

Published:  26 January, 2007

I AM a 59-year-old retired teacher living in Brantford, Ontario, Canada. My paternal great-grandparents, John Corbett and Alexandrina Ross, left Kinlochbervie around 1847 and emigrated to Canada.

Published:  14 December, 2006

I AM trying to find any relatives of the late Private John Calder of Bonar Bridge.

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