Somehow I ended up owning the book The Highland Scots of North Carolina, 1732-1776. Sounds like a dull narrow-interest book... But I read the first few pages...
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windhover@...
Mar 3, 2001 2:50 am
In a message dated 3/2/01 3:15:20 PM Central Standard Time, ... Well, there are a couple of reasons. One, many of the newly arriving Scots were greeted and...
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chris@...
Mar 3, 2001 9:37 pm
Many of you know Dixie and Andy McCaskill, who wrote a history of the McCaskills of North Carolina. I sent her email last night asking if I could digitize...
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j. p.
jpingjco@...
Mar 4, 2001 5:10 pm
Hello out there, are any of you relatives of mine? I have a genealogy of the descendants of Daniel McCaskill written by George E. McCaskill of Coral Gables,...
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windhover@...
Mar 4, 2001 5:52 pm
Hi Jimmi, All MacAskills, McAskills, MacCaskills, MacCaskills, McKaskles, MacKaskills, etc. are related. Spelling variations are do to the fact that most ...
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j. p.
jpingjco@...
Mar 4, 2001 9:01 pm
Thanks for your reply. Yes, I was aware of the different spellings of the name and was just pointing out how we spelled our name in case anyone else with the...
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Brian McCaskill
macfam1@...
Mar 5, 2001 12:36 am
JP, Hi my name is Brian McCaskill. It is nice to meet someone who spells their name like I do. Sorry though, I don't think that we are related. I do have some...
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j. p.
jpingjco@...
Mar 5, 2001 1:01 am
Thank you Brian for the note about your name being spelled the same as mine. My father and mother split up when my sister and I were about 8 & 9 years old and...
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jerry mckaskle
jerrywmc@...
Mar 5, 2001 11:14 am
Hiya Jimmi, It seems that I recall seeing Daniel as oneof my more direct ancestors. I'm not speaking with absolute cetrtainty here, but I know I recognize the...
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j. p.
jpingjco@...
Mar 5, 2001 7:41 pm
Thanks for your reply, Jerry. Briefly, from the chart I have our branch of McCaskills belonged to the McLeod of Lewis clan, later to become the McLeods of...
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ecowley
ecowley@...
Mar 5, 2001 9:56 pm
Hi, My name is Edith McCaskill Cowley. My linage comes from Angus.Their father was Finley, b. 1770. My Angus was born 1737 Isle of Skye. My linage goes,...
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j. p.
jpingjco@...
Mar 5, 2001 11:51 pm
Hello Edith: I am so delighted that I've heard from so many of you McCaskill's out there. None of the names you listed are familiar to me, but who knows, we...
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Evelyn Hlabse
hlabse@...
Mar 6, 2001 1:33 am
Hello, I thought I'd introduce myself since I'm new to this list and I thank you for the invitation to join you. My name is Evelyn Hlabse and I live in...
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j. p.
jpingjco@...
Mar 6, 2001 6:08 pm
Hi Evelyn: How nice to hear from you. I'm new to this group to having received an invitation to join only recently and have been blessed with so many people...
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Evelyn Hlabse
hlabse@...
Mar 6, 2001 8:52 pm
I don't have anything with MacCaskills in the US. I don't have much of anything yet - really - I'm searching for my grandmother' family. She was Julia Grant...
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Chris MacAskill
chris@...
Mar 9, 2001 2:52 am
Alisdair Murray, a descendant of Captain Kenneth MacAskill of Rhu an Dunain, has written a book on the MacAskills of Rhu. While I was waiting for my copy to...
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j. p.
jpingjco@...
Mar 9, 2001 4:14 am
Hi Chris: You must be kin. I recognized the subject the moment I read it and referred to my genealogy report where it tells about a Gilbert McCaskill who was...
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Jackie Karena
j.karena@...
Mar 15, 2001 3:19 am
Kia Ora My name is Jackie Karena (Nee McCaskill). I am from New Zealand and I have just joined the group. I can be e-mailed at j.karena@... That's...
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Kathy
krestin555@...
Mar 24, 2001 10:27 pm
I am a McCaskill, through and through. About 4 years ago, I found a website on Dunvegan Castle, Isle of Skye. It totally caught my attention and interest,...
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Chris MacAskill
chris@...
Mar 24, 2001 11:05 pm
... Great post. I feel exactly the same way. I'm in the middle of converting Alisdair Murray's history of the MacAskills of Rundh an Dunain to HTML so it can...
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Kathy
krestin555@...
Mar 25, 2001 12:51 am
Thank you, Chris. Oh, but that we COULD go back in time. My husband, of the English Morrison Clan, and from Cambridge, himself, has promised me a trip to...
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jerry mckaskle
jerrywmc@...
Mar 25, 2001 4:15 am
HI Kathy! I was really excited when I saw your letter posted, because I can trace my roots straight back to that same Daniel MacAskill, although I was told the...
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Chris MacAskill
chris@...
Mar 25, 2001 8:34 am
The Cape Breton Giant is featured in the May issue of MuscleMag (print version). It's quite the two-page write-up, complete with a photograph of his statue in...
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Kathy
krestin555@...
Mar 25, 2001 1:08 pm
Thanks for the message, Jerry. I have uploaded a picture of Great Grandad, William Hampton McCaskill. Made an attempt to imbed it into this post, but with no...
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Robin MacAskill
bis@...
Mar 26, 2001 3:51 pm
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Chris MacAskill
chris@...
Mar 27, 2001 5:15 pm
Bill is a wonderful man, father of four, husband of famous Gaelic singer with the hauntingly beautiful voice, Ishbel MacAskill. He wrote with passion in the...
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dion macaskill
dionmacaskill@...
May 11, 2001 5:38 am
Hey Guys My mother returned from N.Z. last year after visiting my grandmother and was raving how she had discovered that an ancestor named Angus was the ...
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dianne doan
dianne_doan@...
May 12, 2001 9:26 pm
In reply, Thanks, I am in the process of putting all of the info I have on to the Net, it is a big project. I will be linking my site to Diane Mackenzie which...
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t_t_brennan@...
May 13, 2001 2:30 am
Hi, all.... I'm another McCaskill descendent. My grandfather was Hadyn McCaskill, descended from Daniel McCaskill, Isle of Skye. This branch came (most...
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dion macaskill
dionmacaskill@...
May 15, 2001 2:48 pm
Dianne I found your site Dion MacAskill (dill) _____________________________________________________________________________ http://messenger.yahoo.com.au -...
