Shona..., you are a one ! Lol !
Do you by any chance have enough space for a “tinker’s tent” in your back garden. If so, I’d like to spend a few months with you discussing your credentials and contacts ? Lol !
If so, I’ll promise to take my wellies and help you search for those illicit whisky barrels and dried-up burns.
Angus Martin's Book 'Kintyre - The Hidden Past'..., is this a digital download ? Lots of info I didn’t have on that ! Thanks !
Daniel (Dane) Black is my 2xGr, born in 1835 in Ballycastle, Rathlin Island, (Rachrainn) Antrim, Ireland.
And his great grandmother was Mary McCurdie...
Despite her life of apparent poverty, she provides a Black lineage to the Stewarts and the McDonalds.
MARY McCURDIE
Your 4th great grandmother
Birth 1760 in Raithlin Island, Ireland.
Death 1 Apr 1840 - Age: 80
(Middle Bally Ghaol, Raithlin Island, Ireland.
Headstone..., erected by "Dunkin" Black in memory of his father John, late of Middle bally ghaol who departed this life 20th Jan 1837 aged 87 yrs. Also his mother Mary, 1st April 1840 aged 80 yrs.)
Source..., Rathlin Island records
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JOHN BLACK
Your 4th great grandfather
Birth Abt 1750 in Raithlin Island, Antrim, Ireland.
Death 20 January 1837 in Ballygill Middle (Bally Ghaol) Raithlin Island, Ireland.
MARY McCURDIE
Your 4th great grandmother
Birth 1760 in Raithlin Island, Ireland.
Death 1 April 1840 in Middle Bally Ghaol, Raithlin Island, Ireland
Marriage 1782 - Age: 32 Castle Ballygill, Rathlin Island, Ireland.
Children :
Duncan Black 1790 – 1840
ARCHIBALD BLACK 1791 – 1877
ARCHIBALD BLACK
Your 3rd great grandfather
Birth Abt 1791 in Island of Rathlin, Ireland.
Death 12 April 1877 in Campbeltown, Argyll, Scotland
JANE (Jean) McKINLAY
Your 3rd great grandmother
Birth abt 1798 in Rathlin Island, (Rachrainn) Antrim, Ireland
Death 23 July 1886 in Campbeltown, Argyll, Scotland
Children:
Daul Black 1833 –
Duncan (Dunkin) Black 1834 –
Alexander Black 1835 –
DANIEL (Dane) BLACK 1835 – 1898
Paul Black 1835 –
James Black 1837 – 1860
Janet Black 1839 –
John Black 1840 –
Daniel Black
DANIEL (Dane) BLACK
Your 2nd great grandfather
Birth 1835 in Ballycastle, Rathlin Island, (Rachrainn) Antrim, Ireland
Death 28 December 1898 in Campbeltown, Argyll, Scotland
MARGARET MORRISON
Your 2nd great grandmother
Birth 1835 in Campbeltown, Argyll, Scotland
Death 29 April 1874 in Campbeltown, Argyll, Scotland
Married 1854.
Children:
Archibald Black 1855 – 1891
Mary Black 1855 –
Duncan Black 1858 –
DANIEL BLACK 1860 – 1939 (Great Grandfather; fisherman)
Janet Black 1862 –
John Black 1864 –
Margaret Black 1866 –
James Black 1868 –
Agnes Black 1870 – 1923
Robert Black 1872 –
DANIEL BLACK
Your great grandfather
Birth 6 October1860 in Main Street, Campbeltown, Argyll, Scotland
Death 30 January 1939 in 53 Longrow, Campbeltown, Argyll, Scotland
JANET McMILLAN
Your great grandmother
Birth 1862 in Dalmellington, Ayrshire
Marriage 1881 at Shore Street.
Children:
Mary Black 1882 –
Daniel Black 1888 –
Isabella Black 1891 –
James Black 1893 –
John Black 1895 –
Annie Black 1897 –
Archibald Black 1898 –
MALCOLM BLACK 1900 – 1944 (Granddad... died following a WW2 mine at sea)
Duncan Black 1905 –
Agnes BLACK 1906 – 1991
Nancy Black 1907 –
MALCOLM BLACK
Your maternal grandfather
Birth 27 March 1900 in 70 Burnside Street, Campbeltown, Argyll, Scotland
Death 24 June 1944 in 53 Longrow Street, Campbeltown.
He was a ship’s carpenter on the Dalriada. I never met him as he died from injuries following a mine explosion in the Thames Estuary. The boat went down.
http://www.wrecksite.eu/wreck.aspx?31158http://fr.scribd.com/doc/1461313/Kintyr ... -1939-1945MARY Martin McCuaig Rankin MacARTHUR
Your maternal grandmother (my hero)
Birth 12 January 1895 in Campbeltown, Argyll, Scotland
Death 09 June 1964 in Campbeltown, Argyll, Scotland
Married 22 February 1924
Children:
Netty Black
Daniel (Dan) Black 1924 –
Robina (Bina) MacArthur Black 1926 - 1983 (my Mother)
Mary (May) Black 1931 – 1977
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All from the history books :
Margaret Stewart
Your 8th great grandmother
And; 1xGr grand daughter of James Ardmaleish Stewart, <Sir> birth 1531 in Isle of Bute, Firth of Clyde, Scotland
Birth 1644 in Ballintoy, County Antrim, N. Ireland.
Death 1747 in Cavan Parish, Antrim, N.I.
Petheric (Patrick) McCurdy Cairn McKirdy
Your 8th great grandfather
Birth 1640 in The Isle of Bute, Firth of Clyde, Scotland.
Death 1700 in Ballintoy, County Antrim, N. Ireland.
Children :
James McCurdy 1668 – 1691
David McCurdy Cairn McKirdy 1670 – 1747
Petheric McCurdy McKirdy 1670 –
William McCurdy 1673 –
John McCurdy 1675 – 1698
DANIEL McCURDY 1677 – 1747
Daniel McCurdy
Daniel McCurdy
Your 7th great grandfather
Birth 1677 in Ballintoy, County Antrim, N. Ireland.
Death 1747 in Antrim, Northern Ireland
Mary Aloysia Laughlin
Your 7th great grandmother
Birth 1702 in Antrim, Antrim, Northern Ireland
Children :
Lucretia McCurdy
ARCHIBALD McCurdy 1722 – 1810
John McCurdy 1724 –
Neil McCurdy 1728 –
Daniel McCurdy
Archibald McCurdy
Your 6th great grandfather
Birth 1722
Death 1810
Mary Morrison
Your 6th great grandmother
Birth 1724 in Antrim, Antrim, Northern Ireland
Marriage 1746
Children :
JOHN McCURDY 1747 – 1810
Abram McCurdy 1750 – 1790
Archibald McCurdy 1750 – 1805
Thomas McCurdy 1750 – 1821
Hugh McCurdy 1752 – 1832
Daniel McCurdy
John McCurdy
Your 5th great grandfather
Birth Abt 1747
Death 1810
Margaret Black
Your 5th great grandmother
Birth before 1745 in Rathlin Island, Ireland.
Death 1783 in Pennsylvania, USA
Children :
John G McCurdy McCurdy (McCurdie) – 1881
Margaret McCurdy – 1878
MARY McCURDIE 1760 – 1840
Charles McCurdy 1776 – 1876
Dennis "Daniel" McCurdy
MARY McCURDIE
Your 4th great grandmother
Birth 1760 in Raithlin Island, Ireland.
Death 1 April 1840 in Middle Bally Ghaol, Raithlin Island, Ireland.
JOHN BLACK
Your 4th great grandfather
Birth Abt 1750 in Raithlin Island, Antrim, Ireland.
Death 20 January 1837 in Ballygill Middle (Bally Ghaol) Raithlin Island, Ireland.
Marriage 1872
Children :
Duncan Black 1790 – 1840
ARCHIBALD BLACK
Note : My Uncle Dan Black is the only person alive today who could eventually give an insight into the life and times of this family. Unfortunately..., I’m never in Scotland !
As such, you’ll have to forgive me for my “welly” proposition !