From: Deborah Braden    debbraden@yahoo.com

Sir,

My ggggg-grandfather is Robert McEachern who was born on the Island of Kintyre, Scotland in 1735.  He left Scotland, bound for North Carolina, in 1756, and we believe he landed at Wilmington, North Carolina, although we have not found definite proof of the port of entry.  He married Jenette Henderson, who also was born on the Island of Kintyre in 1743, and they settled in Robeson County, North Carolina.

I am interested in learning more about the McEachern families of Kintyre, and about the Hendersons.  I realize this isn't much information, but can you point me in the direction of someone who might
be able to help?  Anything you can tell me will be most appreciated.

You can contact me at debbraden@yahoo.com  or at  dbraden@esc18.net

Thanks,
Debbie Braden

I thanked Debbie for contacting me and.....

Ian,

Thanks so much for taking time to write back to me.  I am very happy that you will post my questions on your site, and look forward to receiving any information anyone may have.

I have been looking at the archives of your web site and have very much enjoyed reading the articles.  The photographs are beautiful.  Maybe someday I'll get to visit Scotland!

Debbie Braden

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Ian,

I so enjoy your magazine every month!  My first cousin (thrice removed), Carl Porter, started me waiting eagerly for the first of the month to get online and see what was new (old?) in the Wee-Toon.  I especially enjoy the colored photographs.  They make me feel like I belong there.  And one day I hope to see for myself!

This month's magazaine has the article on John Porter, my line from Crossibeg.  So I had to let you know
how excited I was to see him remembered. I don't believe there are any descendants left  there now,
but we across the pond still feel we have connections in Campbeltown.

My line is long and my daughter, Sharon Agabra, has also been in touch and shared our names:

Armour, Greenlees, Langlands, McMurchy, Porter, McNair, Mitchell, Thompson, Picken, Ralston,
Galbraith and Colvill

Many thanks for your efforts.  You are making many people happy-------and proud of our heritage.

Very best regards,

Carolyn Porter Fugedy

Carolyn again...

Greetings!

I now have a new e-mail address and wanted to let everyone know before I cancel my MCI.

c.fugedy@mc2k.com

I KNOW this will be a better serve and I won't have to change again.  MCI was the pits!!!!

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Found your article on Campbeltown, PEI. and you mentioned that you had some information on the McCormicks.

I am a McCormack and  have been searching the net in PEI on the history of the name. My Father was born in Naufrage, 1872, son of Simeon  who was the son of Donald. It appears that this [dide] may be from Uist, Scotland and came in 1803. I would like to read what you know about the clan if possible.

My e-mail address is bosfrank@cts.com or bosfrank@earthlink.com.  I am in the process of evaluating which net I will stay with.

Hoping to hear from you.

Frank McCormack,
Vista,
California

I got back to Frank.....

Hi Frank,

Thank you for your welcome e-mail..... Please correct me if I am wrong, but  you appear to be under the impression that the 'article' was about Campbeltown on Prince Edward Island. I, in fact, edit and produce the online Magazine from a wee room in England.

I am a native of Campbeltown, Argyll, Scotland and I reproduce the hard-copy, bi-annual Magazine of the Kintyre Antiquarian and Natural History Society. My mother's maiden name was McCormick and, on the front page of my January online edition, I said that I hoped to do an article on her family for a future edition. As soon as I have gathered all my information, you will, of course, be welcome to a copy.

In Campbeltown, Argyll, their resides a minister by the name of the Rev. John Cormack, who is very knowledgeable about his genealogy. May I suggest that you drop him a line via snailmail. He might know something of your line.

After all that, welcome to the online Mag. It's always nice to hear from new readers. Do take a look at the Surnames and Searchers Archives.

Until the next time, take good care of yourself and yours, and ca' canny.

Ian
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Hello Ian,

I thought I might put my two-bob's worth in regarding the millennium.

As the Romans had no zero in their maths there was no year zero in Pope Gregory's calendar. It would follow that the new millennium would then start on 1/1/2001. Simple mathematics.
However, ponder this. The gospels stipulate the birth of Jesus during Herod's great census. Said census was most definitely held in what the Gregorian calendar would say was the year 4 B.C.
The new millennium should have been celebrated around 1/1/1997.
Oops!!
regards
John McIntyre

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Sandra had, previously, mentioned that she might have an article for us....

Ian

I have not fallen off the face of the earth.  I meant to write the  Campbeltown/ St Nazaire story over my Christmas holidays, but got the flu on January 2.  I promise it will arrive sometime before Easter.

Sandra

PS  Hogmanay was great ... spent in Fife, Burnturk, at my brother's house.  We lit the bonfire for the village on the hill behind his house, and watched the fireworks from Edinburgh round through Fife to Dundee - not London etc. but imagine in the dark on a Scottish hillside.  Never to be forgotten.  (Also up to the knees in mud, dogs there too - Sspringer spaniels, worried at the noise)  Drams afterwards, of course, till 4 am.

Dear Ian

Found this site via the midges page, I am really enjoying it especially the pictures of the wee toon. I have been out of the toon now for twenty years. I now live in Louisville KY. Hope to be back in May of
2001 with my kids. I am sure they will enjoy seeing where their mum grew up.
We visited North Carolina this summer and found the Lumberton Scots, mostly Gilchrists which is what I was looking for. No wonder I liked that state so much, it is full of Campbeltown folk. Talk to you soon.

Christine Palmer nee Gilchrist.
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Based upon the number of inquiries received recently, I have decided (with permission of his daughters) to print and distribute more copies of Bob's 1997 book. This is basically the same material you can view on the Internet at http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~steve/robertwg/ , but includes a number of exhibits, letters and research notes which we excluded from the internet to more easily maintain continuity.
My local copy shop will copy and bind the 130 pages in a soft spiral bound notebook, which I can ship to you via priority mail for approximately $15.  If you are interested in receiving a copy, please let me know by February 9, 2000.
Best regards,
Dean

bcc. Interested persons not on Gilchrist mailing list

Dean Gilchrist
deanotow@att.net
8696-A  S.W. 88th Ct. Rd.
Ocala, Fl. 34481-9356
352-854-1440

Also from Dean:

Ian,
Do you know the subject person, Tommy MacPherson, or could you please forward my E-mail to someone apt to know him? He used to live in Campbelton and compiled considerable information for Bob Gilchrist's 1997 book. At one time he was in the Royal Marines. Any help to locate him would be greatly
appreciated.
Regards, Dean

I got back to Dean:

Hi Dean,

Nice to hear from you again. I don't personally know Tommy MacPherson, but I'll instigate searches in Campbeltown, and publish your query on the Wee Drams page.

Re your book. I'll also publish that e-mail but can I just ask; When you say, "My local copy shop will copy and bind the 130 pages in a soft spiral bound notebook, which I can ship to you via priority mail for approximately $15." Do you mean anywhere, i.e. UK,  or just in the States?

I look forward to hearing from you before my deadline which is Sunday!

Ian

Once again from Dean:

Ian,
Thanks for your speedy response, and thanks for putting my e-mails on the Wee Drams page. I have done some additional checking with the Post Office and my cost for delivery of Bob's book to the UK will be 18 US $ or 11 British £s.  I can exchange checks drawn in £s at my local bank.
You are a great help to us. I would be a pleasure to get this book in the hands of some more folks from Kintyre.
Regards,
Dean

And, finally, from Dean:

Ian,
I just realized the "pound sign" didn't come out right on my previous E-mail and double checking with the copy shop turned up some new numbers. Won't bore you with all that but the price for delivery to the
UK by air with 5-7 day delivery time will be 9.5 British pounds.
Everybody is getting about a $3 (US) reduction because I mixed up the math!

Dean Gilchrist

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Hey Ian,

........I think when I wrote you last we were getting freezing rain on top of the snow.  To give you an update... yesterday we got 5 inches of snow on top of the 3 inches of snow and quarter inch of ice.  Needless to say, we have tree limbs down all over the yard today.  It is truly beautiful to look at.  The ice and snow is piled high on every bush and tree and the sun is brightly shining!  Our power went off at 2:00 this morning and was restored only a few minutes ago.  Thousands of people are still without electricity due power lines being snapped by trees falling under the weight of the ice and snow.  I really wonder why they don't just put the lines underground and be done with it!  But what do I know?  Some parts of North Carolina got as much as 18 inches of snow and parts of upstate South Carolina got as much as a foot.  Atlanta and north Georgia had a terrible ice storm.  After being fairly mild, winter has hit The South with a vengeance over the last week..........

...........I found another of Angus MacVicar's books, "Gremlins in My Garden," through the Advanced Book Exchange.  It arrived yesterday............
 

Janet

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Wee Drams

Page  2:    Janet and Marie Morrison's 1999 Trip to Scotland - Part Three

Page  3:    A Series of e-mails from Heather McFarlane

Page  4:    An American Lady in Southend, 1878 - Part Two

Page  5:    The Heather McFarlane Page

Page  6:    The War-Time Record of the Campbeltown Fishermen

Page  7:    The Press Gang

Page  8:    By Hill and Shore - Part Two

The A.I.B. Stewart Page