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9 May, 2008
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SUTHERLAND ROOTS » Seeking The Past
James Alexander Sutherland
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.

Macdonald/Sutherland families
Published:  24 March, 2008

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

MacDougal, Grant, Herbertson and Ross
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?

Moore, Dornoch
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.

Why did duke's train go abroad?
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.

Clearances project
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.

Jessie Maclean
Published:  18 January, 2008

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

Nicol MacNicol and Eliza Lumsden
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.

Logan family, Airdens
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.

James Cameron Forsyth
Published:  05 October, 2007

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

Hugh and Janet Campbell
Published:  24 September, 2007

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

Malcolm Ross
Published:  17 September, 2007

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

James Campbell and Jane Sutherland
Published:  15 August, 2007

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

Roger Sutherland
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.

Matheson and Ross
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.

William Sutherland
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.

Macleod family
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.

Gordon family
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).

Hamish Roberts
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.

Margaret MacKay (nee Macrae)
Published:  06 April, 2007

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

Roy Allan
Published:  23 March, 2007

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

McKenzie and Ross
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.

Whose photo?
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.

What was fishermen’s treat?
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.

James Bannerman Cunningham
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.

Fraser family
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.

Cambusavie Hospital
Published:  09 February, 2007

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

Bomber crash, 1943
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.

John Corbett and Alexandrina Ross
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.

Private John Calder, Bonar Bridge
Published:  14 December, 2006

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

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