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|    Alan Smaill to MichaelMunro84@hotmail.com    |
|    Re: The MacVanish clan has disapeared.    |
|    06 Jun 15 13:14:20    |
      From: smaill@SPAMinf.ed.ac.uk              MichaelMunro84@hotmail.com writes:              > On Wednesday, June 9, 1999 at 8:00:00 AM UTC+1, Adam Whyte-Settlar wrote:       >> I once saw an old clan map that placed a clan called MacVanish (or       >> maybe it was McVanish) on the spit of land at the north end of the       >> Black Isle in Ross-shire at the spot now occupied by the village of       >> Cromarty.       >> Recently I saw another map which showed a different clan name.       >>       >> Of course not a soul will believe me when I say that there was a clan       >> called MacVanish that has now disapeared.       >> Can anyone shed any light on this subject and allow me to win my bet?       >> Where did they go?       >>       >> Adam Whyte-Settlar       >       > The map is called "Scotland of Old" and was published in 1983. It was       > made by Iain Moncreiffe and Don Pottinger.              Is it maybe a typo for "MacVarish" ?              --       Alan Smaill              --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05        * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)    |
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