Heather MacFarlane's Page - 1
Another Series of Fascinating E-mails
Ian,
I am transcribing the legal papers involving the Eviction of the people of Arichonan. Arichonan is in North Knapdale, and the eviction occurred in 1848. It was a violent proceeding, and people were put on trial.
The papers include testimony given by almost all participants, including the Doctor. It is interesting to me because Arichonan lies about midway between Ormsary and Keills, home grounds of two branches of my ancestors, both of whom left Scotland for Canada soon afterwards.
Anyway, it occurred to me that it would be interesting to others. But, the area is not Kintyre. Do you think it has a place in your website? It is, if nothing else, very exciting. It is counted as an archaeological site now, and is described at:
www.kht.org.uk/kilmartin/sites/cot1.html
Also, I have made two very interesting contacts resulting from your website: the MacAlister project (Bill Vincent); and a man involved in the Ardchattan Campbells, who knows a lot about Lucy Campbell. This fellow disappeared during the past summer, but I hope to hear from him soon, now that he is near a computer again ..
As to a genealogy/history centre, I will write a letter for the "Campbeltown Courier." The trouble is, it would be a big project, and would require close cooperation with the Argyll Bute Archives. Actually, I would think Campbeltown, given the will, could outdo the latter, and lure Murdo Macdonald to their area if they could offer better facilities. I don't know how the local politics works, but a shot of competition never hurt anyone. Also, the birth of the Web makes a lot of things a lot easier.
I keep coming across Ian Macdonald's name. He has had a long and respected career as a local historian, hasn't he? Also, I have heard that Marion Campbell of Killberry has died this past spring. I was fortunate enough to meet her a couple of years ago. Her deep knowledge of Argyll and its history , as well as her kindness and civility, was so very impressive. I was sad to hear of her passing.
Have you come across the Islay/Jura website? It is new, and very beautiful. It has little information right now, but has a good contact in Scott Buie, an American who has done a lot of work on Jura people. Their address is: www.islay-jura.com
There is another site starting out on the history/information thing, on Colonsay, maintained by Kevin Byrne, owner of the publisher, House of Lochar. The one I have read is about the ancient days, and vikings, etc. His local history newsletter , "The Corncrake"part of the website is at www.colonsay.org.uk/lochar.html
Yours,
Heather
More:
Ian, I was thinking that you could get Bill Vincent to report
on this project they have going... he communicated with me because of
the items in your website. I think a lot of people would be interested
in this project. It sounds VERY sophisticated!!
From Bill to Heather:
Heather,
I will send this to Mr. Fields as the McNeills
& Campbells are his forte and will ask for
his help. We have abstracts of the sasines for Argyll & Bute including Arran
that mention McAlisters for the period 1780 to 1825 as well as most of
those earlier for Argyll but have not yet put them on a database for ease of
study. At least three members of our committee, including myself, will
be splitting up the chore of typing-in all of the data into the database.
We hope to start this within the next several months and then hopefully
we
can transmit them via E-mail, or a closed circuit webpage, within our
committee of researchers of Scot McAlisters. You are pre-qualified
as an honorary member, however with 10 members, digging out, printing and sending
data to each by mail is getting too time consuming and expensive, so I will
probably only send certain items of particular interest to the three who are
not yet on line, (soon to be only two when Lee McAlester goes on line) until
we get everything on the database and can electronically transmit the entire database,
or any period thereof, for study and for copying or reading from any
on-line home, office, library or university computer.
I have also abstracted all the McAlister information
from Fasti and it will eventually get typed into the database along with many other
source documents we have assembled.
I would like to add all the post-1800 McAlister
records that we have to the database but am afraid the volume might require a server
capable of allowing access to a CD ROM especially if the format allows us to
click on the given name cell and access the digitized source record as we would
like, as the digitized graphics take an inordinate amount of hard disk space
which we fear might be a problem for either the server or the recipients' equipment.
The personal computers manufactured within the last few years, or have added
disk space, all probably have more than enough hard disk available capacity to handle what
we contemplate. I do hope to put at least the the post-1800 cemetery records,
sasines and emigration records that we have on the database, however we
will be concentrating initially on
entering all the pre-1800 data.
Let me have your mailing address so that Mr. Fields, or I,
can send you anything we come up with of interest to you in the meantime.
Your in-depth Argyll Campbell and McNeill research may well be mutually beneficial
to
Mr. Fields who has extensively researched numerous Campbell lines to find his elusive
Farquard Campbell's ancestry. Sincerely, Bill Vincent
Reply from Heather:
Dear Bill,
Your information was really useful: I am interested in Malcolm
McNeill who died in Skipness (no relation, but his brother was in Drumdrissaig,
when my progenitor, Mary McNeill, went to that area after the birth of
her son, Hector Lang). I will follow up on this, as well as the will
of Lachlan McNeill, tacksman of Druimdrishaig, the father of Malcolm and
Hector.
Did I tell you I have the legal records involving the eviction of
people in Arichonan, in 1848 by Neil Malcolm of Poltalloch. My ancestors,
both Campbells (in Keills), and the Langs (at Ormsary), were in that area at
the time and must have seen the writing on the wall. The Langs left
in 1853, and the Campbells?? don't know. I am looking at that event,
too, and checking out who lived in Arichonan at the time, and where they went,
by the 1851 and 1861 census.
I only have the Landranger series of the area, as well as a "Victorian
Ordnance Survey Maps of Scotland" 1st ed 1896. But some of the farms
I know were there, are not to be found...
When I work through the Sasines from 1821 to 1855, I will let you
have all the MacAlisters. Old Angus, and etc. had a certain something
the other families do not...
The McNeills really disappeared from the scene in the 19th century,
did they not?
I will be interested in anything that William C Fields may come up
with. The farm, Putachan, is now a hotel, and was a hunting lodge owned by the Duke
of Argyll. As to Mary MacNeill's brother, Neil, he married Katherine Watson in
1797. The first batch of children were born in Killean, the last in 1811.
After that, beginning in 1813, to 1826, the children were born in Campbeltown.
But I could not find the family in Campbeltown in the 1841 census.
Poor Neil was a "carter" in Campbeltown.
I obssess over all this, because I am trying to figure out what exactly
was the reason Mary went north to S Knapdale after Hector was born
(probably a family connection of some sort??) Also, I think it is
interesting that the father's first name is a nickname, the only one such between 1764
and1811 ( I have checked).
As to Lucy Campbell, a man interested in the Campbells of Ardchattan
has been in communication with me: my info on Lucy was very useful
for his study. Apparently, after the death of 2 cousins, she came
into an inheritance (for which she had to fight in court).
Her aunt (who, apparently, raised her at Lemnamuick, north Kintyre)
Lucy Campbell, was married to the Minister of Kilcalmonell and Kilberry, Archibald
McNeill. Lucy, who died in 1816, was the daughter of Charles
Campbell of Ardchattan. They had issue: Anna, born 31st May 1756,
married John MacAlister of Cour James, born 30th May 1757; Charles, born 15th July 1758.
(The above info to be bound in the Fasti...- the bios of Ch
of Scotland ministers - it is on microfiche, I just looked at it at
the FHC)
This Archibald McNeill was named in a seisin dated 21 Jan 1769:
vol 10, page 192.
Lucy, his wife, and MY Lucy's aunt, is to be found in the following seisins:
July 7, 1781, GR387.235
July 9, 1781, GR387.253
March 18, 1808, GR808.105
I hope to hear from Duncan Crawford, the student of the Ardchattens,
in ept - apparently he uses the computer at the school he
works at..
Are you aware of the Fasti....(collection of bios on the Ministers
of the Church of Scotland, from the Reformation)? There is very
good genealogical info to be found here..
Yours,
Heather McFarlane
From Bill Vincent:
Dear Heather,
Many thanks for all your interesting E-mails. I apologize for
taking so long to get back to you but was out of town most of August and am
simply backed up with things that I must do. Today I did go through all the
records we have accumulated for our Scottish Record project and I believe
that we have abstracts of all the items that you mentioned
except Grant's Commissariot Record of Glasgow - Register of Testaments 1674-1800; Grant's
The Commissariot Record of the Isles, Register of Testaments, 1661 - 1800 and the Argyll Commissariat;
Register of Confirmations, 1819 -1875 Probate Records all of which you
so generously supplied and we are so grateful for your kindness.
I know I have read a lot
about Lucy Campbell, probably in the KAS magazine, but in looking through
my index to some 600 files recently and through all the data we have collected
for the Scottish Record Project
today, I couldn't find her but my data is related
almost exclusively to McAlisters.
I do have McMillan ancestry
from Kintyre who went to the Cape Fear area of NC in 1770 and have distinguished
many of the McMillans in eastern
NC where there were hundreds. I have not
tried to distinguish any
McNeills
although they were even more prolific in NC as
well as Kintyre and the off shore islands. I have completely given up on trying to get all
the Argyll
Campbells straight, however an aquaintence, Archibald
Campbell of Airds, has recently completed an updated history of the Campbells, a project
which took many years when he was Executive Secretary for the Clan Campbell at Inveraray
Castle. It should be out now I believe.
While in NC on a research trip
in August I saw a leading genealogist
who is a member of our SRP committee, William C.
Fields, who is a McAlister,
Campbell and McNeill descendant and expert in addition
to being a full-time
portrait painter. Currently he is editing
his third volumn of Abstracts of Cumberland Co NC Deeds, and is co-authoring an article on a family
of Argyll Campbells with Duncan Beaton, (a renowned part-time genealogical author in Britain)
while trying to find the origins of one Farquard Campbell who came to NC in 1739 as a young
man. There are a number of Farquard Campbells in Argyll but they are not his family.
He also is a font of information to our committee. I gave him a
copy of all the data you sent me on Mary McNeill and Lucy Campbell but we did'nt
have time to discuss it. The farm in
southern Kintyre, Putachan, as I recall,
he will be familiar with and may have something on the McNeill
families there. I also sent a copy of your query to George Maynard in Birmingham,
AL as he is a McNeill descendant and may have
something of interest especially since you know the farm and the brother
of Mary, Neil. Although the name Neil McNeill was probably the most popular name among the NC Argyll
Colony there is a good possibility that some McNeill researchers have
distinguished your family. I will be following up with them within
the week as I will be getting a new batch of McAlister Sasine abstracts from
Edinburgh and want to report on our progress.
If you need anything on McAlisters,
don't hesitate to contact me. Eventually we hope to make our research available
on the web but first want to find an ideal database and computer software for all the data and
then input it. We hope to decide on the format and software next
month and then start the laborious task of putting it on the computer. We are
toying
with the idea of just having a simple spreadsheet with the chronological
dates on the left column vertically and the place, farm or family on
the top and then just add the given name in each cell that we have a record
for and be able to click the given name cell and go to notes where we can scan
in the document or abstract. Then as a committee determine which people
are the same and their relationships and copy them to FTM seperate family
files.
I might mention Frank Bigwood's Argyll
Commissary Court, A calendar of Testaments, Inventories, Commissary Process and Other Records (mostly debt) 1700-1825.
It mentions Capt. James Lang of the Argyll and Bute Militia
dying 10 March 1821. I have run into Lang, by various spellings
in Dumbarton area of Argyll but not in Kintyre. No Mary McNeill
is listed as dying and the only reference to farms similar to Putachan in Killean
is Putechan in Kilkenzie where Janet McMillan, spouse to Robert Greenlees
is mentioned. Lachlan McNeill is the tacksman of Druimdrishaig
in South Knapdale whose testament was given up by his son Hector McNeill 23
Nov 1790.
Strangely I didn't see anything on Lucy Campbell but she would normally
be listed under under her maiden name. There was a Malcom McNeill
who died 27 September 1816 at Skipness and the Testament Dative was given up by
Hector
McNeill, Esq of Drimdrissaig and Mary McNeill, residing at Skipness, executors
and nearest in kin to the defunct who was their brother Also there
was a Lt. Col. Malcom MacNeill of Carskey who died at Carskey in Southend
29 Sept 1824, his widow was Jean MacMillan. Another Malcom McNeill died
in North Knapdale in Kilmicheal Inverlussa parish in 1723 but only cousins
are mentioned. A Neil McNeill of Machrihanish, A Neil of Taynish and a
Neill of Arichonan are also mentioned as deceased. I don't think any of
this is any help to you but at least you won't have to find the book which
just came out last year.
I have good farm maps of Islay but
have never seen a good one for
Kintyre in the 17th and 18th century. We
have the Landranger Series
Ordnance Survey and a lot of maps but nothing clearly
defining the farms
like there is for Islay. Have you ever seen
such detailed maps for Kintyre and Knapdale?
Frank Bigwood says that
when they made the ordnance survey maps in the 1800s they noted all the new
and old names in a ledger by square mile to correspond with the map grid and
he says they can be inspected in Britain, probably in London.
He thought they might now be published and was to let me know but never has. Have
you heard of this series of books which cover all of Great Britain?
Heather, l've got to get to sleep.
Thanks again and please keep in
touch.
PS: We were in the NW last Fall but
didn't get up your way. Bet it has already started to get dark early.
Kind regards, Bill Vincent
A letter to the Editor of the Campbeltown Courier from Heather:
Dear Sir,
I have a suggestion that I hope you will not take amiss (I live on the other side of the world, after all). However, I worked in the tourism business (Northern Canada and Alaska) for 17 years, and before that, I was a librarian. In the past few years, I have become interested in the history of western Scotland (Kintyre and Knapdale), as well as computers. Also, I visited your city a couple of years ago, and have since been a contributor to a website dedicated to Kintyre/Campbeltown history.
I understand from stray comments that Campbeltown's economy is poor these days. At the time I am interested in (the early 19th century), Campbeltown was booming. My impression of your city's appearance is of a charming, oldfashioned harbour. So, I have a suggestion that may spark a tourism rush.
Combine the modern Internet, and the boom in genealogy studies, with local heritage resources. People who are interested in their family's history are generally people who will stay in an area for more than one day, if they have reason to do so. They would be interested in maps of local farms; indexes to census and parochial registers; walking tours to farms on which their ancestors worked; well presented information, and friendly people to help puzzled folk in finding their ancestors.
Argyll Bute Archives in Lochgilphead is stuffed with information, and is graced with the remarkable Murdo Macdonald, who is ever helpful and knowledgeable. However, the Archives is tiny, dark, piled with materials, and Mr. Macdonald has only 1 helper (or so it was when I was there a couple of years ago) - there is little or no help in sorting, cataloguing, or making available all the information in that Archive.
In other words, there is not financial backup in Lochgilphead to make this a resource to anyone except those who know exactly what they want, and who can wait for Mr. MacDonald's help. My impression of Mr. Macdonald is that he is constantly on the run, in his attempt to keep up with demand. (I know all this, not because I had any such conversation with Mr. Macdonald, but because I was a librarian, and I notice that sort of thing)
In the Scottish Record Office, information is available - but the help to clients is specialized. They are VERY helpful to people who know exactly what they want. But most people do not know what they want - a good heritage centre would lay a lot of emphasis on the reference aspect of an archive.
The Mitchell Library in Glasgow has excellent and helpful people, and a marvellous collection. But it is in Glasgow. A Campbeltown Centre would concentrate on the local history.
Campbeltown and Kintyre in general, has produced a few very impressive and knowledgeable local historians. This sort of resource could be of extreme value, if it were built upon. The internet has facilitated worldwide connections among folk interested in their own genealogy. The Scottish diaspora is huge, and concentrated in prosperous areas of the world. Genealogy appeals to people in middle age. What I am describing is the Ideal Tourist, folks. This is not the sort that pours off the bus and boat for half a day of sight seeing and shopping. This is the sort that wanders around and takes local tours and pours over maps and chats to locals and stays for a few days if things are interesting.
I am not talking about "industrial" tourism, dominated by huge international chains of retail stores and hotels and boats. This is the kind of tourism that is small enough for a small population to handle, and where most of the money generated stays in the community.
Thanks for the forum.
Yours,
Heather McFarlane, Whitehorse, Yukon, Canada.
Heather asked me if I had received some stuff, (for later Mags) and mentions the above letter:
Ian,
Did you receive my stuff on Arichonan? It is a transcription of the law case, etc. I purchased copies of the papers from the Scottish Archives. There is a lot more, too.
I am glad you like my letter to the Campbeltown Courier. I wasn't sure about mentioning Murdo Macdonald by name, but he is a truly wonderful resource. I was serious about a tourism industry appealing to the Scottish Diaspora - given local interest and support, with maps, etc., tours, that sort of person would spend days in one place! I can remember here in Whitehorse, people desperately trying to figure out ways to keep tourists here in town for one more HOUR, let alone one more day.. And so many people left via Campbeltown. And it is on the way to Ireland, and I assume that a ferry comes down from the Clyde, too. anyway, the trouble is, and I know it, local politicians rarely if every read anything. And little or no honour is paid to local historians like Angus Martin or Ian Macdonald..
cheers,
Heather
No more ferries from anywhere - anymore! Then Heather writes - prophetically - given Campbeltown folks' recalcitrance?
Ian, I have a horrible feeling I'm going to get abuse. But so far, it is even worse - nothing!
Cheers,
Heather
An e-mail from Heather to the Magazine in Campbeltown:
I know you and your friends are doing a LOT, and the work done on local history is of an extremely high calibre.
However, what I was talking about was a concerted and intelligent effort on the part of the city government, advertising the resources available, at the Heritage Centre, with people there who are paid to help tourists. Campbeltown was a major jumping off point for people whose descendents live in the US, Canada, and NZ/Aus. But it must be marketed as such. There are the various Clan Societies in the States and Canada, to work with, for a start. And, of course, the Internet.
The will and interest is there on an individual level, but marketing is what is necessary. And that should be up to the Campbeltown government. The tourists who you want would come SPECIALLY to Campbeltown, to look at the maps and farms where their ancestors worked, and etc. Then, getting a tour (which they PAY for), will be an honour! They will plan their trip around times the Heritage Centre is open. They will make arrangements through the local Tourism website, and etc.
I know that factories, etc are great. But they will be in your area only if the wages are low enough to compete easily with other poor spots. Campbeltown has a unique history to sell, and the sort of travellers I am talking about are not poor - people interested in genealogy are over 40 years of age; and travellers that would go on such a trip have taken numerous other trips.
When my sister and I were in Campbeltown, we met a very charming lady who helped us out a lot, someone we met on the street. That sort of thing is totally wonderful,and makes you feel really great about a town. But our plans at that time were such that staying any longer was out of the question. You want to become a "destination", not an interesting interlude.
I have been to lots of meetings here in Whitehorse, Yukon, plotting out ways to encourage tourists to stay even one hour longer in our area. Becoming a tourism destination for descendents of people from Kintyre would mean that AUTOMATICALLY people have to stay for a couple of days. And lousy weather?? Well, their ANCESTORS lived in it - rain can be, depending on how you see it, a misery, or an EXPERIENCE!!
I can also tell you that there are plenty of other things around Kintyre that would appeal to tourists. Like those magnificent hills - great for yuppies trying to stay in shape!! What about that "Duchess of Limecraigs" - she is a remarkable figure to talk about. What about the McAlisters, and the McNeills?? The slaughter at Dunaverty Castle??
You see? You have the place. Now CAMPBELTOWN should tell people about it, to make them come to experience it!!
I am taking the liberty of sending a copy of this interchange off to the Courier, as I think it indicates the problem here: the heritage of Kintyre seems to be seen as a scholarly and individual pursuit (and so it is! - not many areas in the world can boast such well known and respected historians) - but the community itself has not recognized the value this can be to the area, in terms of a tourism industry. I am not saying that this would be as big as Disneyland - but it could be a very prosperous little sideline for Campbeltown and Kintyre..
Heather McFarlane
A reply:
Dear Heather
Your letter was published in last week's paper. Your suggestions are not new however and what Campbeltown really needs is another 1 or 2 factories with employment. We have a high unemployment rate, but sad to say many of those are unemployable.
In answer to some of your points. The census, index etc are already in the library; walking tours were tried but most were cancelled or unsuccessful due to lack of people, bad wether etc. My friend frances though did say she may try it again next year. unfortunately the people who are tracing ancestors are mainly from abroad and have not packed walking shoes or their spouse is unfit etc. but many of us, including myself do the things you suggest voluntarily. I have driven many to the farms and walked with them to the ruins of their ancestors, I have taken them to the Mull of Kintyre, have introduced them to the current farmer or taken them to meet distant relatives. I even arranged B&B for someone in the farm her ancestors had worked in 1830's/40's before emigrating. II also arrange for the Tourist Board to send out accommodation brochures. And I am not the only one doing this. Even my neighbour bumped into an American last year in a car park who was diasppointed to find the local library closed for a Public holiday , so when she came over this year, My neighbour arranged for me to meet her in our own library, and she took them after on a guided tour around Kintyre. What I am trying to say is that many of us do this voluntary, that there would probably not be enough for a paying job.
Unfortunately I did not find the Mitchell Library very helpful. They were too understaffed. You felt that when someone was asking for info, there mind was on racing onto the next job. Murdo, in Lochgilphead is very helpful.
This letter is a jumble but I am writing as I think - which explains the jumble.
Our first winter meeting is on Wednesday night and is on "Scottish Castles". The weather here has changed and is now wet and windy, though not cold.
My daughter is preparing to fly out to georgia next week on a school exchange visit and I just envy her - but my turn will come when they have all left home.
All for now
A thought from Heather:
One remark resonates: she says that not many people in Cambeltown would be QUALIFIED to work, even if a factory moved in - that is the way it is up here - after a couple of years on the dole, people just are not good employees anymore.
I wonder how much of the current desolation is caused by the ownership of land and property? For instance, how much of the area is owned by "proprietors?" How easy WOULD it be to lease/buy property to start say a health/exercise spa??
Not that I can be a fairy godmother, but just how does the local government work?? I notice that back in 1792, the Duke of Argyll owned a big chunk of Campbeltown. As did Campbell of Glensaddell. Does that pattern continue to exist. If so, no wonder people who want to do something just leave...!
Heather
Something I wrote to Heather...
Hello again Heather,
Firstly - and most importantly - the film has finally been run thro' the camera, and it's on its way to the Labs for processing. Hurrah!
Heather, it will take some time for you to get any feedback from your Courier letter. In the first instance, Campbeltonians are - on the whole - an apathetic lot and, also, apart from around one percent of them, largely uncaring about their heritage. Please remember that the town only has around 8 to 9 thousand of a population! I think that the letter from Liz Marrison says it all. 'We do it this way; we've always done it this way; therefore that's the way it must be done!' On the one hand they cry that they are getting no return from the online Magazine (which is not strictly true), and on the other hand it's all 'voluntary.' As they are fond of saying in the MoD, for whom I work, 'never volunteer's. OK. That's a bit unfair, but they could make a charge for their services. A lot of folks out there would be only too happy to send them dosh!
Anyway, I completely agree with you. During the course of the time I've put the Mag online, I've had hundreds of e-mails. Unfortunately, only about 0.5 percent of them have been from Campbeltown and, of those, most have been from family, friends and Liz Marrison. I have had a good response from Campbeltonians, but mainly because they no longer live there! Go figure!
I know that you have not been holding your breath for the Dalintober snaps (probably just as well, eh?), but they will soon be on their way.
Until the next time,
Ian
Stuff 'n Things:
Hi, Ian, I know you rec'd the first section of this, but I have continued on, and there is a nice little addition in the statements of the Miscreants: Widow Catherine MacLachlan or Campbell, and etc.! This is one of my projects, right now: transcribe the whole thing, and add in all the info I can gather from the Parish Records, and Census for 1841 and 1851, etc. and make a booklet, that will be useful, as it is a lot more accessible to us all if transcribed using all the advantages of modern word processors: ie, print, paragraph separations, etc. I do not change anything else - I arrange so that it is easy for a person of today to follow what is happening...
I liked Catherine: and the rest - they Declare and Decline to take s**, even if they had to go to jail.. Catherine's girls get off, tho,
Yours,
Heather
Ian, can you tell me how to get in touch with this health and
fitness centre?? I certainly need this; also, I am in the throes
of designing a website for our family reunion - it is quite exhilarating!!
I must have it up by the beginning of November,
or my head will hang in shame.
Have you seen the one for Islay Jura? It is so beautiful! Although
it doesn't have much content as yet..
I am looking forward to your photos. Hello to Helen, and your brother.Tell
your brother to say hello to Ian Macdonald, and etc.
Heather
I sent Heather a copy of the Highlander logo - eventually! here it is, and isn't it superb?:
And, finally, I replied to Heather:
Hi Heather,
The Highlander Health and Fitness Centre does not, as yet, have a website or,even,
an e-mail address. I have left a voice message for my bro' to get in touch with
me and, when he does, I'll get more info from him. Watch this space.
Hey. Good luck on the website design. It goes without saying that, if there
is anything I can do, or supply, to help, e me immediately.
My Helen says hi, and I will tell Alex to look up Ian Mac, and say hello. I
have not looked at the Islay/Jura site yet, but I promise to do so soon.
Until we e again, stay well.
Ian
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