Ross & Cromarty This page is sponsored by HOW TO SEARCH HAPPYHAGGIS QUICKLY Feel free to explore the pages of HappyHaggis. If you are having trouble finding something specific, or looking for a specific name, please use the search box at the top of the left-hand index column. This search engine will check www.happyhaggis.co.uk only. Please note, if you are searching two or more words eg. Bill Smith, place the words inside quotation marks eg. "bill smith". Note that some war memorial name lists have first and last names listed while some have initial and surname only. . FAMILY NAMES Glasgow & West of Scotland Family History Society Highland Family History Society Clan Donald Centre, Armadale - library and study centre. GOVERNMENT SITES Highland Council - home page. Western Isles Council - home page. HISTORY AND CULTURE The Highland Clearances - dedicated to the remembrance of the massive 18th & 19th century evictions. Highland Clearances chronology - a list of significant dates between 1762 and 1856 from the excellent book 'The Highland Clearances' by John Prebble (1969). LIBRARIES, MUSEUMS AND ARCHIVES Familia - directory of family history resources held in public libraries in the UK providing information about the libraries and their holdings. Highland Council - archives. Highland Council - libraries. Western Isles Council/Leabharlainn nan Eilean Siar - libraries. Western Isles Council - local studies. GAIRLOCH Heritage Museum - homepage. LOCAL WEBSITES ACHENDREAN & STRATHCANAIRD - various genealogical notes. ACHILTIBUIE - transcripts and notes from census records 1841-1891. ALTANDHU - transcripts and notes from census records 1841-1891. ALTANDOW - 1851 census. BADENSCALLIE - census transcriptions. BADENSCALLIE - various genealogical notes. COIGACH - parish of Lochbroom. Annotated census transcriptions for all of Coigach, with links between families, and different census years, also history and gazetteer of the area. COIGACH - miscellaneous records. File is based on a previously unpublished article entitled "Coigach", which is also known as "the Mitford manuscript". CROMARTY - Courthouse Museum List of householders in Cromarty 1744. GAIRLOCH - parish death records. GAIRLOCH - surname list. GAIRLOCH - strays from the 1881 Census. ISLE MARTIN - transcripts and notes from census records 1841-1891. LOCHBROOM - parish 1825 Militia List. LOCHBROOM Parish - Reiff 1841 , 1851 , 1861 , 1871 , 1881 , 1891 censuses. LOCHBROOM Parish - Altandu 1841 , 1851 , 1861 , 1881 censuses. NORTH TOLSTA - Historical Society general information, history and emigration. POLBAIN - transcripts and notes from census records 1841-1891. POLGLASS - notes built around transcriptions of various Polglass censuses. REIFF - Camusglassellan & Faochag - various genealogical notes. TAIN - 1881 Census, Residents of Easter Ross Poorhouse. TAIN - 1680-1720 list of the Council and Magistrates of the Burgh of Tain. (file in .pdf format). TAIN - Tain burgh records. A list of persons to be called on to work at the Quarry Road to pay off their arrears 1822 (file in .pdf format). TANERA - census transcriptions. TANERA - various genealogical notes. MAPS, GAZETTEERS AND GEOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION Ordnance Survey maps - free online maps covering the period 1860-1870. Isle of Lewis - historic Ordnance Survey maps in 1:10,560 scale. Ross & Cromarty - historic Ordnance Survey maps in 1:10,560 scale. MILITARY Militia List for the parish of Cromarty, 1814 - Cromarty Courthouse Museum. Highland Archives : North of Scotland - local & military history from 13th Century. Grave Location for Holders of the Victoria Cross in the Highlands Ross & Cromarty Roll of Honour Lochbroom parish 1825 Militia List NEWSPAPERS Stornoway Gazette & The Hebridean West Highland Free Press The Northern Times OTHER BITS AND PIECES Poorhouses in Scotland - Black Isle, Combination (Fortrose), Easter Ross Combination (Tain) & Lews (Lewis) Combination. GENUKI's pages for Ross & Cromarty List of Cromarty Householders 1744 "Some Coigach History" - Lochbroom Parish, Coigach. Ross & Cromarty GenWeb - part of the British Isles GenWeb Project, created to help researchers find local resources and reference information. Census Transcriptions - includes 1841, 1851, 1861, 1871 & 1881 censuses, listed by parish. Terry's Relative Finder - various 1841 census transcripts from Ross & Cromarty. Easter Ross Poorhouse, Tain , Lochbroom & Tain . 1891 Census Rosemarkie & Tain. Ship passenger list - Liverpool to Tasmania on the Sir Allan McNab, 1853/4. includes 15 families from the Coigach Barony (Parish of Lochbroom). Ships passenger lists - from Cromarty by Immigrant Ships Transcribers Guild. Highland Homecomings Research Project - project exploring journeys made by people of Scottish descent returning to Scotland researching genealogy and visiting ancestral places. IGI Batch Numbers for Ross & Cromarty Cape Breton, now part of Nova Scotia in Canada was the destination of more Hebridean Scots than any other part of the then British Empire. There were to be emigrants from England and Ireland in Gabarus and Margaree, and Acadian settlers in Cheticamp and Isle Madame, but otherwise, Cape Breton was to become another Hebrides, on the other side of the Atlantic. (part one) and (part two). In 1772 the first organised emigration from the Hebrides to Canada took place, not on the 'Hector' to Pictou in Nova Scotia as is usually assumed, but on the 'Alexander' to Prince Edward Island. For more information please CLICK HERE. The earliest major emigration from the Western Isles of Scotland was to Virginia and the Carolinas, but this was not, as it is often pictured, the flight of impoverished and demoralised peasantry, forced to leave their land. On the contrary, it was a well-prepared move by some of the wealthier classes in the Highlands and Islands to set up a New Highlands in a New World. For more information please CLICK HERE. Genealogy in The Outer Hebrides - Over the last three centuries many thousands of people emigrated from the Western Isles or Hebrides of Scotland, and a large part of the work at Co Leis Thu? involves trying to trace the earlier history of these emigrants, and making the attempt to link them to families presently in the Hebrides. Miscellaneous Ross & Cromarty 1841 census records. Members of the Lonach Highland & Friendly Society in 1825. Ships in Ross & Comarty - also Caithness and Sutherland 1881 census. Annotated census extracts from various locations around Ross & Cromarty. HappyHaggis.co.uk ©