Family Surnames in Caithness - My List of Names I'm Researching
Hello all,
I'm posting the list of surnames in which I am interested in. It has been a long while since I have done so, and hope there will be some new interest. Alphabetically, here we go...
Banks; Bartlett; Bremner; Cameron; Dallas; Fairweather; Forbes; Grant; Green; Macaulay/McInlay; McGregor; McKay; Miller; Nicolson; Oman; Wares; Young
These are my main-line families, and a summary of where they originate/lived follows...
Banks - Canisbay
Bartlett - Aberdeenshire and Wick
Bremner - Wick
Cameron - Portskerra, Halkirk, Watten
Dallas - Inverness and Wick - latterlt links to Australia, New Zealand, South Africa and USA
Fairweather - Wick
Forbes - Wick
Grant -Wick
Green - Stroma and Wick
Macaulay/McInlay - Thrumster
McGregor - Latheron, Watten
McKay - Portskerra and Wick
Miller - Thrumster and Wick
Nicolson - Bower and Dunnet
Oman - Latheron, Halkirk, Bower
Wares - Wick
Young - Wick
These are generalised areas of the county, and there are specific areas such as Sarclet, Thrumster, Ulbster, etc.
I am in the process of building a website, and it can be found at http://stevenmcgregor.cwahi.net/
I haven't updated this since last September, but I have been concentrating on writing up a book on what I know so far. There is a good deal of information on Dallas, McGregor, Bartlett, and a few selected others, but more is to follow.
If anyone is researching these family names I would love to hear from you to exchange information. I look forward to any queries, and hope to get some response as I have been specific enough to generate some interest, but not too vague.
Regards,
Steven
(Hope there aren't too many spelling mistakes)
Family surnames in caithness
Hello steven, Think we may just have some ancestors in common. Briefly my gt gt grandmother Helen Bremner b 1797 in Mireland married to my gt gt grandfather Donald Mckay (b 1799 Resolis) In Thrumster in 1831. Their elder children including my Great grandfather Alexander Mckay (b 1835) were born in Sarclet. Get in touch if this is of interest mary mackay6