Quote Originally Posted by trinkie View Post
Echidna,

Most of Vansittart Street - as your grandfather would have known it - has now gone.
In the 1960s the old Fishermens' cottages were knocked down and
new houses put up, with running hot and cold water and inside toilets ! Such luxury.

My grannie lived in Vansittart street - so she would have known your grandfather!
Hi Trinkie

thanks for the very interesting information, it great reading stories about the auld days and the herring industry of Caithness. It is always a shame when progress destroys the heritage. Do you know of any photos of this area?

However, the David Alexander of Vanisttart St was my great uncle, a brother of my 2xgreat grandfather Andrew Bremner Alexander, born Keiss 1853, died Drummoyne NSW Australia 1923. My grandfather was also a David Alexander and lived his whole life in NSW without ever having visited the auld country. His father was also David Alexander, another native of NSW. It appears the name David came down from the Nicolson forbear David Nicolson of Slickly and Strubster.