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Dean Gilchrist Dan & Mary Breer J B McMillan
Dear Ian,
My name is Dean Gilchrist and I was a good
friend of the late Bob Gilchrist from Titusville
Florida. Bob once posted to your web site an
offer to share his findings about the Kintyre
Gilchrists. You may not be aware that he and
his wife Peggy were killed in a tragic auto
accident on April 8th last year.
With the help of Steve Gilchrist, a friend in
Seattle, and Bob's daughters, we are about to launch a sub-set to Steve's
web page that contains the major part of Bob's 1997 book about the origin
and history of the Gilchrists of Kintyre. I
think this book is really good and potentially of interest to many other
people in Kintyre. We are hoping the web page will stir up some renewed interest
to the further development of our genealogy. Ian
MacDonald, a member of the Antiquarian Society, prepared a great deal
of material for Bob-- some of it from the Society's library.
My main purpose in writing is to ask you to carry our link on your web site
and if you like what you read there, that you might publish some part of
the material at some point. There will be two URL's , one to Steve's site,
which I'll copy here, and another one going directly to Bob's material which
I will send to you next week. We are planning to link to your site if that
is ok with you.
Please let me hear of your interest and agreement to x-link our web sites.
Dean Gilchrist
Ocala, Florida
Steve's site is at:
http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~steve/
I got back to Dean right away expressing thanks and agreement and he came
back:
Ian,
Thanks for your speedy response. The "direct" address is:
http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~steve/robertwg/
and it's ready to go!
We will link to you and I will be in touch later on.
We would appreciate any comments or suggestions you may have.
Thanks again,
Dean
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From:
Dan and
Mary Breer
dbreer@mars.ark.com
Hi Ian, just wanted to say many thanks for the articles about Gigha
in the current online issue of the Kintyre Antiquarian. I had heard the story
about the Galbraith Harpists from Gigha through a Scottish cousin who now
lives in Yorkshire, but had never seen anything in print. Also appreciate
the listing of tenants 1779, to be sure some of them are my ancestors, there
are about five names that correspond with ones I'm searching, its a matter
of comparing ages and location. Interestingly I have a ggggrandfather by
the name of Archibald Campbell ???
Again, thank you Ian and Happy Easter to you.
Cheers,
Mary
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The following e-mail is exactly as received and is pretty interesting I think:
From: James Bryan McMillan, Jnr big1chair@northstate.net
dear ms. marrison
received your name from johnny mackinnon and
by accident from campbeltown hist. site on the internet. i am mailing a copy
of an old family letter to you and mr. mackinnon
from drumlea. in may around 5/19 or 5/20 i will be on kintyre and
at campeltown looking for my ancestors. alexander
mcmillan married a woman named hunter,
first name unknown, her brother james, in the
late 1700s, and they came here to north carolina. as far as i can tell drumlea
is our only direct physical contact with scotland. i would like to set foot
on it, see if our mcmillans
sailed from campbeltown, and things i
have not yet thought to ask. i tried to send ms. to at address johnny sent
me but it didn't work. i am new at searching for ancestors and terrible with
names but feel i am on a quest for the holy grail. i just came back from
3 days in a swamp in south carolina. one of the guys on the trip said he
once had a bottle of springbank and it was the best whiskey he ever tasted.
perhaps you could tell me what questions to ask on this quest. my travelling
friends are leaving me on kintyre while they go to play on arran. while in
a day and a half on kintyre i find my kin, their gravestones, the dirt they
walked, their names on a ship's list over 200 years ago, an old bookstore,
old maps, a pub, a whiskey i've never tasted, air and light i've dreamed
of, new friends i hope. i would be grateful if you could send me youe phone
no.. i must call mr. mackinnon, too.
thank you.
jim
< james bryan mcmillan, jr. >
I went back to Jim and advised him of Elizabeth
Marrison's address.
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Page 2: Campbeltown Whalers
Page 3: Franciscan Converts in Kintyre - Part 1
Page 4: Mr. Macslimun - Clydeside Cameos
Page 5: Military Echoes
Page 6: The Cuckoo is a Bonnie bird // Roadside Flowers
Page 7: James Watt at Campbeltown - Part 1
Page 8: By Hill and Shore - Part 1
Page 9: The Screws