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From: "Wendy Lowry" <>
Subject: Re: [ORKNEY] Mill Dam
Date: Mon, 20 Nov 2000 21:42:30 +1100


Dear Ken

Thank you for your information regarding Voy and Mill Dam as well as
Mazery. I must admit there are not too many people over here in Australia
that would know where the Orkney Islands are let alone be able to tell you
anything about them.

Thanks again

Wendy
----- Original Message -----
From: Ken Harrison <>
To: <>
Sent: Monday, November 13, 2000 4:19 AM
Subject: [ORKNEY] Mill Dam


> There are still the remains of a mill right in the centre of St. Andrews
> parish, near the shore and on the road to Tankerness House, and very close
> to the ruined St. Andrews parish manse. This probably ties in with the
> 1821 census information I sent in a separate message.
>
> Ken Harrison
> North Vancouver, Canada
>
> HARRISON Yorkshire, Staffordshire, London (Highgate/Hampstead)
> POTCHIT Yorkshire
> FISHER London (Highgate/Hampstead)
> GRIFFIN Staffordshire
> STANLEY Staffordshire
> SMELLIE Lanark, Orkney, Glasgow, Tasmania
> STIRRAT Glasgow
> BAIN Caithness
> MILLER Caithness, Swaziland
> SPENCE Orkney
> TRAILL Orkney
> SELKRIG Lanark
> WICKETSHAW Lanark
> MORRISON Perthshire, Islay, Dumbarton, Glasgow, Australia (Vic)
> BAIRD Renfrew
> HAM Australia (Vic)
> THOMPSON Suffolk
> AGGUS Suffolk
> BRIGHTWELL Suffolk
> LAWSON Clackmannan
> McNABB Islay
> MURRAY Dumfries, Renfrew
> GILLESPIE Dumfries
> HENDERSON Dumfries
> TAKET Dumfries
> CALDWELL Tyrone, Renfrew
> GRAHAM Tyrone, Ontario
> Genealogists never die ... they just lose their census.
>
> 7 weeks to the end of the 20th Century & the 2nd Millennium
>
> Message text written by INTERNET:
> Date: Sun, 12 Nov 2000 05:16:57 -0000
> From: "Mike Clouston" <>
> Subject: RE: [ORKNEY] Orkney Maps
>
> > I have found two places where my ancestors have come from in the
> > Orkneys (snip)
> >
> > One place is MILL DAM and the other is CRINGLEFIELD. They are both near
> Kirkwall and evidently in the St Andrews Parish I believe.
> >
> > Wendy
> >
> Welcome to the group Wendy!
>
> Be very careful with place names in Orkney - there are numerous Milldams -
> anywhere there was a meal mill there would have been a dam to hold water
to
> power the mill.
>
> Mike Clouston
> <
>
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