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From: "Iain McKenzie" <>
Subject: Re: [ARGYLL] : WALLACES in Kintyre
Date: Thu, 5 Jan 2006 11:08:45 -0000
References: <005701c6117f$1f24ebf0$4100000a@SONY2>


There is a full account of the Lowland Church of Campbeltown on Ian
Forshaw's Kintyre Mag website at http://www.kintyremag.co.uk/

Click on Back Issues and then 2000. The four part article starts in the May
2000 issue.

Regards,

Iain McKenzie
----- Original Message -----
From: "Glenyce Voevodin" <>
To: <>
Sent: Wednesday, January 04, 2006 10:35 PM
Subject: RE: [ARGYLL] : WALLACES in Kintyre


> Hi John, Sarah & List,
>
> I agree with Sarah about the Lowland Plantation; I base this on this
> Marriage
> Record:
>
> Mathew WALLACE married Agnes McNeil 28th Feb 1767 at Campbeltown - he is
> noted
> as being a member of the "Loland [sic] congregation". I believe that Les
> [Horn]
> can probably shed more light on the Lowland Congregation than I can
> (thanks
> again Les).
>
> Coming from Ayrshire, I think so too, as there appears to be a number of
> possible WALLACE ancestors there (again, I have nothing conclusive though
> yet).
>
> We have also found that once Margaret WALLACE emigrated to Australia in
> 1838,
> the WALLACE name has been used as both a First & middle name, for males
> only,
> through all generations (up to the current generation), through the
> various
> inter-marriages.
>
> For example, from Margaret's 2nd marriage to John Hughes in Sydney in
> 1839,
> their only son was named John Wallace Hughes.
>
> Margaret's first marriage was to William McKinlay in 1825 in Glasgow - no
> info
> on his ancestry at all, yet!
>
> So John, yes, I would be interested in any information regarding Wallaces,
> that
> you would be happy to share.
>
> Regards & Thanks,
> Glenyce Voevodin-Keough in Western Australia


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