Great-great-great-great grandparents of 1. Peter Symon, or his grandparents' grandparents' grandparents (there were a maximum of 64, of whom 47 are identified, or about three quarters).  The ancestors of this generation were born generally in the second half of the 18th century, principally during the third quarter of that century.  In other words this is the generation born and bred in the years following the Jacobite rebellion during a period of rapid economic change at the start of the industrial revolution, fuelled by the profits from overseas slave estates.   At least a half of the ancestors of this generation were Gaels, and the rest were Lowlanders.  More than half of the ancestors were peasantry who had not yet moved or been removed from the land.  

No records have been found for David Symon other than his m. 1785 to Elizabeth Wilson, in Errol (both "of this parish"), and to the births of five children (2 sons, 3 daurs), including John Symon, whose probably mortcloth charge is recorded on 25 May 1810 in Errol "Mortcloth for John Symond 6s."

Absence of an entry in the Errol established Church of Scotland register of births and baptisms does not necessarily mean that David was an incomer.  Many people had left the Kirk to join one of the seceding, "dissenting" congregations, principally the Associate congregation but later the Relief congregation.   The registers for both these congregations have not survived.

Possibly daur of George Wilson, Kinnaird parish, bap. 13 Feb 1763, Kinnaird. m. David Symon, 12 Jun 1785, Errol, 3 daurs & 2 sons.

The following is a conjectural genealogy.  One James Kelt was bap. 10 Apr 1748, Kilspindie parish, a younger son of John Kelt, farmer in "Godens" (hill farm The Goddens), and either his first wife, Agnes Scot (m. 1743), which is more likely, or possibly his second wife, Margaret McFarlane (d. 1803).  However another James Kelt was bap. 10 Jun 1764 in Kilspindie, son to William Kelt in Rait and Ann Shepherd his spouse. 

Two marriage records survive for James Kelt.   One was in Errol parish, where his spouse resided.  The Register of Contracts and Marriages in Errol Parish records (Parochial Registers of Errol, Perthshire, of marriages 1655-1819, deaths 1685-1790, ref. 351/5, on page 92): "1783 Jany 26th James Kelt in the parish of Kilspindie and Barbara Wylie in this parish."   The other was recorded shortly after, in the register of Kilspindie parish, where he resided: m. 14 Feb 1783, Kilspindie, Perthshire, Barbara Wylie.

Barbara was residing in Errol parish at the time of her marriage. 

James Kelt had three or four daurs and five or six sons, probaby all with Barbara Wylie, unless he had remarried. 

In 1791, James Kelt was tenant of in the farm of Flawcraig and Middle Fingask on Fingask estate, paying £249 rent for the two farms.  Flawcraig is largely on the Carse land while Middle Fingask on the Braes.  Rents of hill farms in Kilspindie parish in the early 1790s were from 15s. to £1.15s. the acre, Carse farms from £1.15s to £2.15s. (A. Dow, Stat. Acc. Kilspindie Parish, 206).  So each farm may have been around 90 to 100 acres.  Fingask was an entailed estate that had been forfeited as a result of the Thriepland family's Jacobite sympathies.  They got it back and on 2 Jan 1797 was registered at Perth Sheriff Court an instrument dated 22 & 27 Dec 1796 whereby Patrick Murray Thriepland undertook to make various improvements under the Montgomery Act, including subdivision and enclosure of 'the lands of Flawcraig, [another farm], Middle Fingask and Clashbenny [Clashbenny here being fields close to Flawcraig, and not the lands west of Errol] which are at present in the possession of James Kelt Tennant thereof' and 'to make a direct road to the Kings high way from Perth to Dundee' from a new bridge across the Craigburn at Fingask 'thro' the above Jas. Kelt's farm for the benefit of the entailed Estate'. 

In 1803, the lease of the farm of Flawcraig, part of the farm of Rait, was advertised (papers in Perth & Kinross Council archives, catalogue ref MS169/3/1/1/1190).  It would appear to have been let to Patrick Jack.

By the time his daughter Elizabeth was born, on 2 Dec 1805 (and baptised on 27th December 1805 in the parish church of Abernyte), James Kelt was recorded as 'Farmer in Pitkindy' in Abernyte parish, and Patrick Jack was tenant in Flawcraig (Perth archives MS69/3/1/12(6)(A)). Even after improvement the steading of Flawcraig was 'entirely thatched' until the mid-C.19.

Pitkindie farmhouse was extensively done up and extended a few years ago by Charles Hay, then Viscount Dupplin, now the Earl of Kinnoull (a relative of the Lowsons, owners of neighbouring Bandirran estate, of wind farm proposal notoriety); now of course it is no longer simple Pitkindie but Pitkindie House, manorial suffix de rigeur amongst the new rural élite. 

As per the details for her spouse James Kelt, two marriage contracts are recorded, one in each of the home parishes of the spouses.  The first was recorded in Barbara's home parish, Errol,  on 26 January 1783; the second was recorded in James' parish register, as m. 14 Feb 1783, Kilspindie, Perthshire, James Kelt, who was residing in Kilspindie parish.  (The difference in dates may be due to one being the first bann, the second the marriage, after two banns had been read.) Barbara was living in Errol parish at the time of her marriage. 

Her parents' names are not recorded.   A possible record of her birth is a baptism of a Barbara Willie in Kinfauns parish, a few miles west of Errol, on 10 October 1762, father "David Willie", mother "Jean Lawson" (from ancestry.com).

Barbara may have been a girl's name linking Wylie and Kelt girls.  I have found a death record for a Barbara Wylie, married to James Wylie. This Barbara Wylie died on 7 February 1839, aged 46 years, and was buried in Greyfriars burying ground, Perth, cause of death "decline".  There is also a record of the death of a Barbara Kelt, on 13 January 1812, aged one month, buried on 15 January 1812, also in Greyfriars burying ground, Perth. Cause of death "fever". The father was John Kelt and the mother's name is not recorded.

Wylie was a name found in the Perth area at the time.  The Wylie name is found in Strathearn from at least the early C.18th., particularly in the Methven area.  James Wylie and Moses Wylie were Perthshire "Radicals" at the time of the United Scotsmen and Friends of the People movements (what we would now call civil rights) in French Revolutionary times. James Wylie in particular was a prominent Radical.

This Barbara Wylie ancestor may have been of the same family as a Dr Wylie, father and son medical doctors in Errol village in Victorian times (and who had built the house called Northfield). 

Tailor in Errol. 5 children with Euphemia Bell.

Farmer in Stronamuck, Kirkmichael, Strathardle, Perthshire, probably the son of John Bruce, farmer in Pitcarmick, Kirkmichael parish, Perthshire and his wife Jannet Ferguson, bap 16 Oct 1768 Kirkmichael, Perthshire.  Possibly married first Kathrine Ferguson, 10 Jan 1792, Kirkmichael, with whom one or two children.  Married (possibly second marriage) Isabell Ferguson on 30 January 1796, both parties being in the parish of Kirkmichael, Strathardle in Perthshire.  [The bride's given name is spelt 'Isabell' but entries for births of her children are all spelt 'Isabel'.  Probably she was a Gaelic speaker.]  Six children were baptised (the dates in Kirkmichael parish register would appear to be the dates of birth, not baptism, as they do fall mainly on days of the week other than Sundays): Margaret, 6 October 1794, i.e. born 15 months earlier than the marriage of David and Isabell, at Tomdow [again, the handwriting is difficult to decipher, but Tomdow, the place where Isabell was living when she gave birth to Margaret, was the next farm to Stronamuck, David's farm, Tomdow being a few hundred yards to the south of the latter; Janet, 16 Dec 1796; Annie, 20 or 28 Apr 1800 [the handwriting is difficult to decipher]; Marjory, 12 May 1801; Isabel, 21 Mar 1803; John, 21 Feb 1805.  All the five legitimate children were born to 'David Bruce in Stronamuck and Isabel Ferguson his spouse', including John, the last, born 21 February 1805.

There are a large number of baptisms of children named Bruce in the parish of Kirkmichael and neighbouring parishes during the whole of the 18th century.  Indeed, it is the part of Perthshire, along with the Carse of Gowrie, where the name seems to be found most frequently at that time, according to the old parish registers. 

The Cisterian Abbey of Coupar Angus held extensive lands in Strathardle for at least two and a half centuries before the Scottish Reformation. The Abbey also held lands in the Carse of Gowrie, principally at Carse Grange, within the eastern section of the parish of Errol.  As the Bruce family held extensive lands in Strathardle, and the neighbouring Angus glens, it is tempting to speculate that there may have been a trading or other feudal connection between two different areas in which the Abbey had once had extensive business interests, later transferred to private hands following the dissolution of the monasteries after the Scottish Reformation.  An Act of the Scottish Parliament granted to the Carnegie family, Earls of Northesk, who held the Barony of Errol for the second half of the of the 17th century, raising the town of Errol into a burgh of barony, with the privilege of holding weekly markets and a yearly free fair, cited the importance of seving the interest of people bringing "bestial" (cattle) from the highlands, as a principle reason for holding such a fair and markets.

The township or farmstead of Stronamuck no longer exists but plans continue to show its place name into the late 19th century, by which time there appears to have been perhaps only one inhabited building.  In 1841 there were still several households living in Stronamuck, but no one called Bruce (Janet Hooper, 2002, PhD thesis, Glasgow University: downloadable here). 

On the hills above Strathardle, to the west, are a number of prehistoric buildings including a type of long, turf-walled building with a rounded end, that derives its name from the location, being known to archaeologists as "Pitcarmick-type".  Interesting to speculate about when the last of these buildings was in use and whether any ancestors may have used it.  The Cateran Trail, a long distance walking route, passes through the old fermtoun of Stronamuck.

Stronamuck, along with the neighbouring farms of Pitcarmick and Cultalonie, is first mentioned in a charter of 1510 (Hooper, 2002: 147).  Although it had once formed part of the lands and barony of Dounie, a ratification under the Great Seal in 1671 included Stronamuck and its neighbouring farm of Cultalonie within the lands of John Murray, Earl of Atholl.  Hooper (2002: 151) cites Fergusson (1896-7: 362) to the effect that the Earl of Atholl was buying up lands in the barony of Dounie in order to strengthen his grip on this part of Atholl, having been granted an Act of the Scottish Parliament in 1669 to hold a yearly free fair on the 29th September on his lands of Dalnagairn, north of Kirkmichael.  Hooper notes that the Earl's aims would have included that of challenging the growing influence of the local families such as the Spaldings. By 1696 he had been granted the privilege of holding a weekly market on the usual day, Friday.

Stronamuck was abandoned probably early in the 20th century (Hooper, 2002: 147).  It ruins, along with the other two above farms, which continue to exist, are today on Pitcarmick estate.  In the 1970s Pitcarmick estate covered about 8,300 acres (3359 ha; 33.6 sq km; 13 sq. miles) which, according to John MacEwen, made it the 41st largest estate in the county of Perthshire (MacEwen, 1978: 55).  Plans for improvements to farm workers’ dwellings on Pitcarmick estate in 1948 and 1949 were lodged with Perthshire County Council by factors for Michael Nairn, owner of Pitcarmick estate (CC1/T&CP/48/29; CC1/T&CP/49/150, 152, 217, 243), and a further application for a building conversion on the estate in 1962 were lodged on his behalf by the Nairn Estates Office, Kirkaldy (CC1/T&CP/62/883).  These plans are held in the PKC archives.  Commercial hunting and fishing is operated on the estate, including trout fishing on the Ardle and fallow deer and game shooting on the moors of the Forest of Clunie. It is owned (2013) by Sir Michael Nairn, industrialist, of a family of Kirkaldy linoleum manufacturers and managed by land agents Bell Ingram in Forfar.  The Nairn family (who have long connections with the lands of Atholl) purchased Pitcarmick estate in 1912 or thereabouts.

David Bruce's son, John, moved over the hill to become tenant of a smalholding above Butterstone.  Today the land John farmed is part of Riemore and Butterstone estate, which marches with Pitcarmick estate in the middle of the Forest of Clunie.  I don't know why John moved away from Strathardle, or indeed if David, his father, had already moved away before his death.  Formation of large sheep walks was taking place in the early years of the 19th century, with numbers of sitting tenants being removed through legal action taken by landlords.

m. 2 Jan 1816, at Pitcastle, Logierait parish, Perthshire, Grizel Nicolson, in Wester Clochfoldich, Logierait parish, Perthshire.  Not sure if this was in the Episcopalian chapel at Inver, a mile to the east of Pitcastle, which may have been a later construction (and was present in 1842, according to the statistical account of the parish, when there said to be 50 Episcopalians in the parish), or in the township or one of the farms of that name.  Today Pitcastle estate 1,500 acres and mansion are managed, as usual, in Edinburgh for commercial hunting and fishing and baronial mansion hire (£2,000 a night plus VAT, for 14 guests) (http://www.georgegoldsmith.com/properties/pitcastle, 25 Nov 2013).  Neighbouring Derculich estate seems to be owned by William Jackson (http://www.fishthetay.co.uk/documents/TayFoundationAuctionCatalogue2013.pdf).

Daughter of John Nicolson, Logierait parish, Perthshire.  m. 2 Jan 1816, at Pitcastle, Logierait parish, Perthshire, John Robertson; 8 children baptized (7 daurs & 1 son), the eldest of whom, Lizzy (Elizabeth), is the successor ancestor in this table [entry 37].  Grizel lived at Wester Clochfoldich, Derculich, about six miles north east of Aberfeldy, in Strathtay, Perthshire.  The marriage was solemnised by the Rev. John Robertson, Episcopal minister in charge of Episcopal churches at Strathtay, Strathtummel and Kilmaveonaig (near Blair Atholl).  All the children were born while John and Grizel were in Toberindonich of Derculich.  

Birth record not found so far.  Married Helen Watson on 20 February 1784 by minister of Associate Congregation and recorded in Perth marriage register on 30 January 1784.  David seems to have worked at the salmon or sparling fishing on the Tay all his adult life.  On his marriage record his occupation was described as "Fisher in Tarsappie" (near the Rhynd, on the right bank of the Tay just downstream of Perth, fertile farmland land sloping north towards Kinnoull Hill), and also in both the entries in the register of baptisms of two different Associate Congregations: for his daughter Helen, born 9 January 1785 and baptized "by Mr James Drysdale Minister of the Associate Congregation at Craigend" on 16 January 1785 (OPR 387/8 Perth); and also for his daughter Ann's birth on 24 June 1789 and her baptism, "by Mr Richard Black Minister of the Associate Congregation in Perth" on 26 June 1789 (OPR 387/9 Perth).  The Perth Session Clerk misspelt the farm as "Tirsappie".  No death record has been found for David Hall, but was dead by the time of the marriage proclamation on 19 January 1816 of "William Taylor Ploughman in Leitchhill in the East Church Parish of Perth and Ann Hill in said Parish Daughter of the Deceased David Hill late Fisher there" by Mr Robert Forsyth Minister of the Associate Congregation Craigend Perth, having been contracted 6 January 1816 (OPR 387 Perth). 

David probably was one of a large number of servants working in the new and rapidly expanding, export-oriented, salmon fishing industry, the main merchant master being John Richardson.   The parish minister of the Rhynd, Reverend William Taylor, estimated there to be about 30 fishers out of a male population of about 235, men and boys, living in the parish at the time of the first Statistical Account in the 1790s: in other words, about one in five of all men aged 14 or over were (seasonal) fishers.  Reverend Taylor was of the opinion that, along with travellers, fishers, "during the time of the salmon fishing", were the chief frequenters of the two ale-houses in the parish.  About the ale-houses, he considered that "they give more easy and frequent opportunities for tippling to those who are addicted to that vice" but added, generously, that nevertheless "the morals of the people can hardly be said to suffer from them".  Perhaps the Reverend had one eye on the statistic reported in his account: that, of "the total parish population of abou 495, About 160 are of the Established Church, and about 270 Seceders".

Tarsappie farm today looks over Tay towards the Friarton bridge but in the late 18th century the farming township was nearer to the Tay.  John Ainslie's map of the County of Fife, published in 1775, shows a township named "Carsappy".  A later fishing lodge is situated below the site of the township, of which no trace remains, by the time the first Ordnance Survey 25-inch map series was surveyed in 1860 (published 1866).  The fermtoun of Tarsappie and its openfields had been replaced by the enclosed fields of Easter and Wester Tarsappie farms.

The record of the marriage of "Helen Watson in Perth Daughter of William Watson tenant in Craighead in the Parish of Rhynd" with David Hall "Fisher in Tirsappie" is recorded in the Perth parochial register of marriages (OPR 387/Vol. 20, 1782-91, p. 88) on 30 January 1784, as having been "regularly proclaimed and married the Twentieth day of February by Mr. James Drysdale Minister of the Associate Congregation in Craigend".  The entry states "Parties both in this Parish", which probably means Rhynd rather than Perth.  The entry also notes "Elder Lawrence Wright".  No conclusive birth or death record found.  Two child births for Helen are recorded, both in the parish of Rhynd, both daughters: Helen Hall and Ann Hall.  On both of these Helen is described as the spouse of David Hall.

The settlement of Craighead is shown on John Ainslie's map of the County of Fife, published in 1775, situated to the south of Elcho castle and to the north of the road from Perth to Rhynd kirk, at the eastern extremity of the parish.  By the OS first survey in 1860 it was a shown as "three cottages and their gardens", according to the RCAHMS,  to the south of Craignaughton Knowe and Kippie Wood, but by the late C.20th all the remaining buildings were ruinous. The farmtown of Craighead was probably on Kinmonth (Fingask) estate but more than likely William Watson's tenancy would have been held at will with no written lease. 

Farmer in Myres of Errol, Perthshire.  Son of Laurence Melville [164], pendicler, Kingdom and his wife Catharine Playfair [165].  Born circa 1783.  Described as "labourer, Shipbriggs" on marriage on 19 May 1807 in Inchture parish to Ann Shaw [83]. Records of two sons: Thomas, b. Flatfield, Errol, bap. Errol, 30 Aug 1807); another son John; and one daughter, Catharine Melville [41], b. 1810, d. 1872.  Thomas died 1 June 1857, Myres of Errol.  Buried Errol burial ground, 4 June 1857, division number 189 (belonging to John Melville, baker, Errol; the youngest son of Thomas Melville and Ann Shaw).  Burial register records "Senile debility", age 74 years. 

Moved around at least three farms all within one mile of each other, around the policies of Megginch castle, from 1807 to 1817, then later seems to have obtained the tenancy of Northbank in Errol village, followed by the tenancy of Myres of Errol [or of Megginch].  Probably farm servant at Flatfield farm, Errol parish, in 1807, where eldest son Thomas was born & bapt 30 Aug 1807 Errol parish. His occupation was given as 'servant to James Tullo at Shipbriggs [Errol parish]' on register of baptism of daur Catharine on 28 July 1810.  Described as 'servant' to James Playfair at Kingdom in disposition of 'a piece or parcel of ground with the Buildings thereon on the north side of the Street or high road leading through Errol' dated April 7, 1817 (Particular Register of Sasines for Perthshire). Tenant farmer in Northbank, Errol (1841), Myres (1851). 

Daur of Thomas Shaw [AN186] and Jean Hendry [AN187].  Born circa 1784.  Married Thomas Melville [AN082] on19 May 1807, Inchture parish.  Records found of 1 son Thomas and 1 daur Catharine [AN041], (Catharine b. circa 1810, died ?1872).  Died 3 Feb 1859, Myres [of Megginch], Errol parish, widow, aged 74 years; buried 7 Feb 1859 Errol burial ground, division number 187, belonging probably to her son, Thomas Melville (1807-1890).  

Dyke builder, probably on the island of Lismore, Argyll.

Son of Magnus Swanie, farmer, and Mary Martin.  Born about 1776 on North Ronaldsay, Orkney.  Married Mary Tulloch about 1798-1802 in North Ronaldsay.  Died 26 November 1862 on Eday, Orkney.  According to information provided by his son, Thomas Swanny, on the death certificate of Magnus Swanny, who died on 26 November 1862, Magnus Swanny ("Magnus II") was aged 86 years at the time of his death, suggesting he was born about 1776, to parents Magnus Swanny ("Magnus I"), a farmer, and his wife Mary Martin. However, no record of marriage has been found for Magnus I and Mary Martin.  Nor has a definitive birth record been found for Magnus II and neither has a marriage record been found for Magnus II and his wife, Mary Tulloch.  It is very likely that Magnus and Mary married in 1802 or a year or two earlier, or possibly in the late 1790s, because the register of baptisms for North Ronaldsay records the birth of 'Mary lawful daughter to Magnus Swanie and Mary Tulloch' on 23 March 1802, followed by four 'lawful' sons: Peter (b 23 Mar 1806, four years exactly after Mary), William (b 26 Feb 1808), Thomas (b 18 May 1812) and Charles (b. 26 May 1817). 

What he did on North Ronaldsay is also not recorded, but Magnus II was probably a small farmer, as he would later be on the neighbouring North Isle of Eday.  The record is not helped by the fact that Magnus Swanney was a not uncommon name on North Ronaldsay.  When a Danish merchant ship, the Grovindi Schemelman, bound for St Croix from Copenhagen, went aground in Linklet Bay, on the island of North Ronaldsay on 20 December 1781, the islanders saved the Captain and all crew and salvage work commenced immediately and continued into 1782.  Amongst those listed as working on the salvage operations, there were no fewer than three men named Magnus Swanney.  They were from three different places: at Ancum (north of Ancum Loch, in the north-middle), Dennishill (about a mile away to the north east, on Dennis Ness) and Girnival (a place I have not been able to locate, perhaps current day Greenwall, on the southern part of the island) (Beatrice Thomson, 'The Wreck of Grovindi Schemelman', The Orkney View, n.d., circa 1995-96, pp. 26-29; information provided by Karen Wood, Berriedale, South Ronaldsay).  One of these was probably the father, Magnus I, of Magnus II Swanney.

At the time of writing I am uncertain whether Magnus II Swanney was a tenant or owner of the farm he worked at Carpoquoy on Eday.  He would certainly have been a tenant, if a farmer, on North Ronaldsay, the island being owned by the Traill family.  One Magnus Swanny, residing in Cursetter in the Island of North Ronaldsay, seems to have fallen behind with his rent due to the Traill landowner in 1808, because on 14 November 1808, William Rae, Sheriff Depute of Orkney and Shetland signed a summons in Kirkwall requiring the above Magnus Swanny to compear in the Tolbooth of Kirkwall on 1 December 1808 to make payment of the sum of £15-4s-1d sterling due to the late John Traill of Woodwick, represented by his only son John Traill now of Woodwick, with interest from the date of citation, because 'although the Pursuers have frequently desired and required the said Magnus Swanny Defender to make payment to them of the foresaid sum nevertheless he refuses at least postpones and delays so to do unless compelled'.   Sheriff Officer John Tait served the summons on Magnus Swanny on 21 November 1808.  The outcome of the case is not known.  If it was our Magnus II, he seems to have managed to remain on North Ronaldsay for at least a further nine or ten years if not longer.

Sometime after the birth of Charles in 1817, last child of Magnus II and Mary Swanny to be baptised (on 7 June 1807 at North Ronaldsay), when Magnus was perhaps aged about 40, and the mid-1830's, by which time he would have been approaching 60 years of age, Magnus II, Mary and their family moved from North Ronaldsay to the northern end of Eday.  Eday is described as 'long and narrow, eight miles long and pinched at the waist, a dark and hilly island overladen with peat' (Eric Linklater, Orkney and Shetland, London, 1965, p. 147).  Besides any possible push factor on North Ronaldsay, a pull factor may have been the availability of land on Eday, perhaps as a result of parcelling out of moorland for grazing after the commonty of Eday was divided in the early 1820s, followed by the acquisition of the whole of Eday by Samuel Laing in 1824; however it was not until the sale at auction of Eday in 1853 by Robert Hebden that the field boundaries were 'squared' (http://www.visiteday.com/pdf/The_Heritage_of_Eday.pdf, accessed 9 Dec 2013).   Another reason for moving was the possibility of employment at Fersness quarry, about a mile to the north of Carpoquoy.  The yellow freestone in the sandstone quarry had been worked for centuries, tradition holding that Kirkwall cathedral, of which building commenced according, to the Orkneyinga Saga, in 1137, was built from yellow Eday stone.  In the early 1800s the Northern Lighthouse Board had the quarry franchise, with stone being shipped from a stone jetty (The Heritage of Orkney, op. cit.).  There his sons and grandsons, and perhaps Magnus himself, found waged employment as stone quarriers, earning the necessary cash to supplement the meagre income from farming his croft of 4 acres at Carpoquoy (HY533326) on the west side of the island, on the edge of the peat bog that covers much of Eday, on a patch of arable land facing the Atlantic (1851 Census) just south of the Dale of Carpoquoy and under Fersness Hill.  His son Charles lived next door, working as a fisherman in 1851, living with wife Mary, son and daughter, while his son Peter (my great-great-great grandfather) lived at nearby Goackhall or Goakha, at a location I have not been able to find on OS maps surveyed in 1879, farming just three acres, surely not enough to support wife Margaret and their six children.  Son Thomas had moved to Shapinsay by 1861, where he was farming 30 acres at West Lairo. 

Magnus was still living at Carpoquoy, the farm on Eday which he worked most of his adult life, with his wife Mary, in 1851.  Mary probably died at a date between April 1851 and December 1854 because there is no record of her death in the statutory records for Orkney from 1855 onward.  From the 1861 Census entry, we are informed Magnus II Swanny was from North Ronaldsay.  Magnus II died at West Laro [or West Lairo] on Shapinsay (National Grid ref. HY 50119 18553), at the farm house of his son, Thomas Swanny.  About his early life we know very little.  Married Mary Tulloch around 1798-1801.  1 daur and 4 sons.  Went to Eday with sons Peter, Thomas and Charles (information supplied by Mrs Karen Wood, Berriedale Farm, South Ronaldsay, his great-great-great granddaughter).  Died 26 Nov 1862, aged 86 years, West Lairo, Shapinsay, Orkney, his wife having predeceased him at some point after 1851. 

Carpoquoy still seems to exist, being a 4 bedroom detached house, according to Zoopla (which also informs us that Eday has 104 houses on it).  Karen Wood's dairy farmer husband Marcus was featured on BBC Radio's On Your Farm programme about farmer-owned Orkney Cheese factory in October 2012 (http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01n605r).

Born probably by 1785.  Father and mother not known.  Married Magnus Swanie, 1 daur and 4 sons.  Predeceased her husband after 1851.

Son of Alexander McDougall and Katherine McLean, m. (1) Catherine McPhaiden, with whom several children, including Malcolm [52], and m. (2) Catherine McKinnon, Tiree.  

Malcolm McDougall's household appear to have lived at Vaul.  

m. Malcolm McDougall, Tiree.  Catherine was Malcolm McDougall's first wife, with whom he had several children.  Catherine appears to have predeceased Malcolm, as we find him recorded as the father of more children when married to another woman, named Catherine McKinnon.  

N.B.  The Ancestor Table entry will be corrected.  It presently shows the incorrect person as ancestor, i.e. Catherine McKinnon. 

Son of Farquhar McKinnon, bap. 13 Sep 1785 Ruaig, Tiree, m. Christy McArthur, 24 Jan 1804 Tiree.

 daur of Malcolm McArthur, bap. 8 Jul 1789 Caolis, Tiree, m. Roderick McKinnon, 24 Jun 1804, Tiree.

110. Archibald McLean

m. Catherine McLean, 5 Apr 1809, Tiree.

m. Archibald McLean, 5 Apr 1809, Tiree.

Farmer.

Miller in Dunmaglass, m. 17??, Ann McIntyre.  Buried in Dores graveyard, Inverness-shire.  Memorial slab in Dores graveyard is inscribed "Sacred to the memory of John McBEAN, millar in Dunmagla[ss], who died <blank>; and his spouse Ann McINTYRE, who died <blank>. " Next to it is a slab, eroding, inscribed, "In memory of Thomas McBEAN, millvert in Kinchyle & his spouse Katren MACBEAN & his second spouse Margret MACBEAN & their <chi>ldren. 1757."  Thomas and one of his spouses were probably the parents of John McBean.  Usually the reason for the blanks on a memorial stone is that the stone was engraved leaving the dates to be added as and when they became known, but whether for reasons of lack of money or because there was no surviving descendent to organise it, the date was never engraved.

Buried Dores graveyard, see above.

Weaver, b. Petty.

Smith, b. Croy & Dalcross parish, Inverness-shire.