Re:

[Niven Sinclair <niven@niven.co.uk>]

At 20:22 15/10/00 +0000, you wrote:
>While looking through mounds of paperwork for information on kidnappings I 
>came across this information that I wrote down quite sometime ago.
>   I don't know from source this came from because back then I was dummer 
> than now on doing genealogy so I can't help there.
>    major port of departure- Glasgow
>    should have papers w/permission to emigrate.
>    1. departure records are generally kept under       jurisdiction of 
> port of departure.
>    2. or by the state or natational gov. where the       emigrant lived, 
> such as permission to emigrate.
>    Need to Know:
>  1.  emigrants state or region of residence
>  2.  and/or port of departure
>  3.  when emigrant left the country or port
>
>   Some indexes are available in some countries
>
>For Scotland
>    Document - Treasury papers
>    Dates Covered - 1715 - 1820
>    Originals - Public Record Office
>                Chancery Lane
>                London WC2A ALR
>                England
>       Treasury Papers T47
>       Emigration Reg. 23 Vols.
>   Copies - portion published in New England Historical and Genealogy 
> Register (1911)
>   Misc. 12. 1773 - 1776 Lists from Scottish Ports:  Grennock, Kirkaldy, 
> Wigtown, Kirkwall, Stornaway, Stranraer, Lerwick, Glasgow.
>   Misc. 1:500, 231-235 Scots Highlanders to America, 1774
>   Misc. 1:338, Scots Highlanders to America 1776
>
>   Hope this information will help someone.  I am still trying to find out 
> about records for kidnappings.  These kidnappings took place for 
> indentured servants.
>
>   Does anyone on the list know what the "Outer Liberties" of Philadelphia 
> entailed in the 1700's?
>
>   Donna St. Clair Willis
>   Donna St. Clair Willis


You should try to get a hold of a book called "The Kidnapped Child" by 
Dr  Caroline Sinclair

There may be a copy at Noss Head.

Niven Sinclair


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