Baikie's of Skarskerry

[Ron Baikie]

Greetings from a down-under Baikie.

Baikie’s not a very common name around here, so I’ve recently started a research of local registry and a UK web-site that has linked my Great Grandfather back to Skafskerry in the Parish of Dunnet. His name was James Gunn Baikie, born in 1862, and his siblings were William, Alexander, Maryann and David. It seems that the family lived in Skafskerry for at least 3 generations. My great great grandfather was George Baikie who married Mary Gunn and his father was William Baikie who would have been born around 1786 and married Christina Baikie, born around 1796.

I’d be very interested to hear from anyone related to this family and /or to know more about Skarskerry.

Regards,

Ron Baikie (Sydney, Australia)

[Kingetter]

Welcome Ron.

Our online phonebook shows Baikie isn't by any means rare -
http://www.thephonebook.bt.com/publisha.content/en/search/residential/search.publisha?Surname=Baikie&Location=Caithness&x=24&y=9

http://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php/board,92.0.html would be a good place to post your query.

This might be of interest -
http://boards.rootsweb.com/surnames.baikie/35/mb.ashx
(James Baikie's message)

Will keep looking.

James.

[Ron Baikie]

Hi James,

Thanks for those links. Had a quick look at your rootsweb entry, a coincidence is that my g/g/grandfather’s brother, Magnus, was born in 1831.There may be some link, however it would have to be back to my g/g/g grandfather, William.

I’ll be off until Monday. Thanks again for the response.

Ron