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From: "Elaine Robinson" <>
Subject: Re: [Mull] Family Re-location on Mull
Date: Mon, 1 May 2006 12:47:50 -0400
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I would love to have some answers to that as well. I remember Jo
Currie saying that the Kilpatrick cemetery in the Ross was known as
the Ulva cemetery. The whole of Ardtun was changed from a few families
to hundreds from other parts of Mull. I suspect a lot of the answers
may be in the archives of Inverary.
Elaine Robinson

Georgetown Ontario

Chairperson MUGG2006
(Mull Genealogical Gathering)
----- Original Message -----
From: "Lyston Sadler" <>
To: <>
Sent: Monday, May 01, 2006 11:26 AM
Subject: [Mull] Family Re-location on Mull


> Some of the recent posts have wondered about whether
> families found in the north of Mull, would suddenly
> show up (for example) in the Ross of Mull.
>
> Does anyone have clearly documented information about
> how much re-location within Mull was going on in the
> late 1700s and early 1800s?
>
> For example, I have been told that the clearance of
> Ulva in the 1770s moved some families to Tresnish,
> supposedly one of the poorest places on Mull at the
> time. I would expect they would want to leave there
> for something better ... and might well move to the
> Ross of Mull.
>
> My Archibald Ferguson family appears to be a case in
> point as described above, but lack solid evidence.
>
> Walt Sadler
>
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