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.
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Macdonald/Sutherland families
Published: 24 March, 2008
I LIVE in Australia and my name is Julie Macdonald. I am currently doing my family tree.
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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?
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Jessie Maclean
Published: 18 January, 2008
I AM looking for information about Jessie Maclean, who was living at 2 Station Terrace, Dornoch, in 1939.
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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.
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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.
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James Cameron Forsyth
Published: 05 October, 2007
I AM seeking information on the above named, who passed away in September, 1981.
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Hugh and Janet Campbell
Published: 24 September, 2007
I AM seeking more information on Hugh and Janet Campbell - nee McLeod.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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).
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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.
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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).
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Cambusavie Hospital
Published: 09 February, 2007
I AM researching Cambusavie Hospital at the Mound, whilst it was in use as an infectious diseases hospital.
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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.
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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.
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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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