From: firstname@lastname.oc.ku   
      
   On 9/22/2015 6:19 AM, Adam Whyte-Settlar wrote:   
   > On Sunday, 7 June 2015 00:15:02 UTC+12, Alan Smaill  wrote:   
   >> 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?   
   >>> 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" ?   
   > Dunno. Never heard of that name but then I'm no expert on Scottish names.   
   Did they once live in the lands around Cromarty?   
   > Not many left in the old group now eh? Sad in a way but I guess everything   
   changes in the end. I still remember the heady days when I was awarded "The   
   second least successful troll in the history of Usenet 1998 Award". I was so   
   proud.   
   >   
   MacVanish looks like a variation on MacManus.   
      
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