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Subject: [SCT-ISLAY] McCormick/MacKenzie
Date: Tue, 31 Aug 1999 22:06:03 EDT

I'm new to this list, so I thought I would introduce myself and ask if anyone
can give me an idea where to look next. My name is Zack McCormick, and I am
researching my ancestors from Islay. They seem to have been in Kilchoman for
generations.
My g-g-g-grandfather was Donald McCormick, who was married to Mary Shaw.
I don't have dates, but I am guessing they were married around 1800. Donald
had five sons, Donald , James, Dugald, Duncan and Francis, and four
daughters, Euphemia (m. Donald Ferguson), Mary, Susannah, and Catherine.
Francis (my gg-grandfather) married Anne MacKenzie, daughter of Alexander
Mackenzie and Janet Ferguson. (That Alexander Mackenzie immigrated to Canada
in 1862. He was the son of Alexander MacKenzie of Gearach, Islay, and his
wife Flora Campbell). Francis was a blacksmith in Kilchoman. Francis and
Mary had twelve sons and two daughters; four died in infancy, but Donald,
Alexander, John, Duncan, Dugald, Francis, Robert, Mary and Janet survived.
The family moved to Glasgow in 1862. Francis moved back to Glaenaidagal,
near Port Ellen, then returned to Glasgow in 1895 (?), where he died.
Alexander McCormick immigrated to Canada with his grandfather Alexander
Mackenzie in 1862, then went to Kansas to look for gold and eventually
settled in Bayneville, Kansas where he married Josie Cartwright.
Donald McCormick was minister of the Congregational Church is Castleford,
Yorkshire, and then moved to Canada where he served in several churches
before moving to Boothbay Harbor, Maine, where he served as minister of the
Congregational Church.
Dugald (my g-grandfather) and his brother Francis both ended up in
Wichita, Kansas, and became Methodist ministers. Dugald married Lulu
Anawalt; Francis married Susan Campbell McLeod (the granddaughter of the
Catherine of two generations back-- still trying to work that one out).
Janet also moved to Wichita, after a short stay in Canada, along with her
mother Anne.
I don't know what happened to Duncan, Robert, or Mary, but I think they
all came to the United States as well.
If any of these names rings a bell with anyone, or if you have any ideas
on how I can track this farther back, I'd like to hear from you.

Zack McCormick,

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