Re: Connections with Portugal??

["John S. Quarterman" <jsq@mids.org>]

Laurel,

>There are 48 Sutherland names in the index of Vol 1 of Pete Cummings
>"Genealogy of Prince Henry Sinclair"  See book section of website.

Your report on the Bell book, along with its particulars, are also now on
 http://www.mids.org/sinclair/
Look under Publications for the books page.

>    I was about to return the borrowed book "A Prospect of Sutherland" by
>Gilbert T. Bell.  I don't know whether you were on this site at the time I
>gave a brief report of it???
>It gives a chapter of the ancient history of the Sutherlands.  It goes into
>depth about family from about the 1700's  and gives a good account of a
>great family scandal.  It tells about the Duke of Sutherland who built the
>RR a branch of which went over to wick.  He promoted many schemes to help
>employ the people around there.  I'm sure that some of our Sinclairs must
>have gone over to work in the mines or on the RR.  He brought in great
>agricultural machinery but the land just wouldn't be fruitful.  Really
>interesting to read some of the nuts and bolts of the economy.

John Sinclair Quarterman <jsq@mids.org>
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