This family history works backwards in time from Mary McKechnie and Archibald Campbell. It comprises four main components:

• A traditional family tree in diagram form
• A "CV" page for each person, summarising what we know of the main milestones in their life
• Further detailed information, photographs, and scanned documents.
• Background information on the places and times in which our subjects lived.

The tree diagram uses the following symbols and abbreviations:

Clicking on a name on the tree takes you to the "CV" page for that person.

The CV page comprises a common-format table followed by additional text and photographs where available. Clicking on any name in the table (parents, children, or spouse), will open the CV page for that person, where one exists. In this way it is possible to navigate up or down through the branches of the family tree. Other hyperlinks are to source references, photographs, more detailed information, or in some cases another web site. Where information is based on unconfirmed circumstantial evidence or calculated to be approximate, the text is printed in grey.

To protect the privacy of the living, no details are included for the generations born after 1900; they won't normally be added to the internet edition of the family tree until about 100 years after their birth. Note that hyperlinks leading to these "youngsters" will result in a "page not found" message.

Family Tree

Other information

The medical terms used in the 19th century are often quite different from those used today. To help interpret death certificates, a glossary of medical terms is included.

For an insight into the character of the west coast highlander in the late 19th and early 20th century, there could be nothing more compelling and entertaining than Neil Munro's "Para Handy" (ISBN 1 874744 02 5), Birlinn, 1993).

Extracts from a number of census returns have been collected. These are in mainly tabular format transcribed from the original documents or the LDS 1881 CD set, and in most cases links are provided from the relevant individual's page. Hyperlinks in the following table lead to the extracts currently available:

In some cases, images of pages from the contemporary hand-written documents are also available, and these can be accessed via a hyperlink in the transcribed tables.

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Page last updated 30-03-03