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From: Dixie Cutler <>
Subject: Re: [SCT-ISLAY] Traill in Ontario
Date: Fri, 05 Jan 2001 20:14:18 -0800


"upper class twit" eh? I just bought the book -- please Ken, don't give away any more of her misbehaviors
till I get to read it!
Best
Dixie Cutler

Ken Harrison wrote:

> Toni
>
> Yes it is the same family. The famous Catherine who kept burning down the
> cabins and generally behaving like an upper-class twit..... (an in-law
> only, married to a distant cousin, of course) !!
>
> Message text written by INTERNET:
> Date: Thu, 04 Jan 2001 21:26:00 -0400
> From: Toni Sinclair <>
> To:
>
> Hi Ken,
> I know I'm sometimes slow, so I only just noticed that you are researching
> the name "Traill" from Orkney. I've just finished reading "The
> Backwoods of Canada" by Catharine Parr Traill, wife of Lieutenant Thomas
> Traill of Orkney, and their experiences in the wilds of early Canada
> (Peterborough County).
>
> Is this the same family?
>
> Toni Sinclair
>
> Ken Harrison
> North Vancouver, Canada (where the cherry trees are starting to blossom)
>
> 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.
>
> Happy New Year & Welcome to the 21st Century & the 3rd Millennium !!
>
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