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Subject: [SCT-ISLAY] Re: Re: Who is Stewart McCuaig??
Date: Mon, 11 Aug 2003 00:16:26 EDT


In a message dated 10/8/03 4:48:43 PM Pacific Daylight Time,
writes:

> Date: Sun, 10 Aug 2003 14:53:43 -0500
> From: "sdedrick" <>
> To:
> Subject: Re: [SCT-ISLAY] Re: Who is Stewart McCuaig??
>
> Ken -
>
> Thanks for the info re the clipper ship, 'Daniel Rankin'.
> Are you aware of the route travelled Scotland to New Zealand? any
> stop-overs? the length of the voyage? the passenger capacity of the ship?
>
> (My family history suggests that they travelled around South America.)
>
> Sheila
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: <>
> To: <>
> Sent: Sunday, August 10, 2003 8:52 AM
> Subject: [SCT-ISLAY] Re: Who is Stewart McCuaig??
>
> > In a message dated 9/8/03 8:06:43 PM Pacific Daylight Time,
> > writes:
> >
> > > Date: Fri, 8 Aug 2003 21:04:17 -0500
> > > From: "sdedrick" <>
> > > To:
> > > Subject: Re: [SCT-ISLAY] Who is Stewart McCuaig??
> > >
> > > Sue -
> > >
> > > Family history reads that Malcolm McCuaig, Stuart McCuaig and Kenneth
> > > Campbell along with cousin, Peter McCuaig/ McLeod (c1842 - 1923)
> emigrated in 1863
> > > to Otago, N.Z. on the clipper ship, 'The Daniel Rankin' .
> > >
> > > Elizabeth and John McLeod (McCuaig) were parents to -
> > > Malcolm
> > > Stuart
> > > Tom
> > > William
> > > Eliza
> > >
> > > This Peter McCuaig/ McLeod was my grandmother's uncle. His descendants
> are
> > > living in New Zealand.
> > > I have no info about Malcolm, Stuart,etc.--yet.
> > >
> > > Sheila
> >
> > Sheila,
> >
> > I have no information about Stewart or any of the others, but I can tell
> you
> > something about the ship. At that time, the Captain was a relative of
> mine,
> > Alexander Miller, who came from Wick, Caithness. I have the following
> > information in my files:
> >
> > "Daniel Rankin" reg #21,567, sailed on East Indies, Australia & Coastal
> > routes; built 1858 in Dumbarton, from 1861 owners McAlpine of Glasgow,
> registered
> > Greenock. 13 Aug 1861, landed 70th Regiment, from Calcutta, at Auckland,
> NZ
> > (Illust. London News, 24 Aug) sold 1863 to W. Rankin, who hired A. Miller
> as
> > Captain, sailed that year from Clyde to New Zealand. Miller took her on
> same
> > route in 1864, 65 & 66. Ship not registered 1865/6, so maybe lost or sold
> abroad.
> >
> > Perhaps this may help you in your search. If there is anything more in
> your
> > family history about either that ship, that sailing, or the Captain,
> Alexander
> > (Alick) Miller, please contact me.
> >
> > Unless specifically stated otherwise in this message, there is no
> intentional
> > attachment on this e-mail transmission.
> >
> > Ken Harrison
> > North Vancouver, Canada

Sheila,

I know little else about the ship. Perhaps ask on the Mariners List.

A year later the Captain's wife gave birth to their first son in the Straits
of Malacca and his birth was registered when the ship reached Singapore. I
assume that this might have been part of its regular route, but it appears that
it also took irregular routes. There is also an old story in the family
(perhaps apocryphal) that on one of his sailings he went past Krakatoa, Indonesia
and on the return voyage the island was no longer there. True or not as to
timing, this suggests that the family believed that he sailed via the normal
route of the EasT Indies, rather than around the Horn.

Ken

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