My apologies Gary, While I'm very familiar with family genealogy research, I've never used forums before, and therefore didn't fully understand procedures, but now I've got the general idea of using 'existing' topics for comments. Thanks for the guidance, and for transferring my comments to the appr...

On the page for Francois Mercredi (1832-1900) there is reference to daughter Harriet (Henriette) who married Joseph Hourston, an HBC Post Master from Ireland. HBC records him as being from Evie, Orkney, and not Ireland, and I can confirm this, as he is in my Family Tree. For those who may be interes...

The James Corrigall 1795 – 1874, who married Margaret Flett is most certainly not the James born/christened 14 Feb 1795, in Firth & Stenness, Orkney. This James married Christian Yorston on 31 Mar 1822 in Evie, Orkney and died 23 Mar 1874 at Rushabreck, in Evie. He never left Orkney. Provenance ...