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The Kintyre Antiquarian & Natural History Society was founded in 1921 and exists to promote the history, archaeology and natural history of the peninsula.

The Society organises monthly lectures in Campbeltown - from October to April, annually - and has published its journal, 'The Kintyre Magazine', twice a year since 1977, in addition to a range of books on diverse subjects relating to Kintyre.

The Society has permitted me to publish web pages containing articles that I feel will be of interest to genealogists. Particularly those with ancestors in Kintyre.

These articles are taken from the magazine issues shown in the menu at the left with title of article listed below.

Kintyre, Scotland is a west coast highland penninsula extending into the Atlantic Ocean to within a few miles of Northern Ireland- Ulster.
The localities of my particular interest are Campbeltown and Southend.

Issue 1; The North Carolina Connection Issue 3; Description of early Kintyre Issue 4; Campbeltown's American Trade Issue 4; Emigration to America Issue 5; Plough Match Issue 6; Plough Match Issue 8; William Ralston of that Ilk Issue 9; Half a Highlander Issue 11; Shannons of Lephenstrath Issue 12; Flora MacDonald in America Issue 12; John Paul Jones & Others Issue 13: The Omeys Issue 13: A Forgotten Campbeltown Issue 13: William McMurchy Issue 14; A Late 18th Century Letter Issue 14; Emigrants on Board the Diana Issue 15; North Carolina Settlement of 1739 Issue 16; Stewart Mystery Issue 17; The Armours Issue 17; Sons of the Highland Manse (Stewart) Issue 18; Saddell Castle Issue 18; The Duel Issue 19; The Annabella (to P.E.I.) Issue 21; Irish Heritage Issue 22; 17th Century Agricultural Tenancies Issue 22; Presidential Brushoff Issue 23; The Blues of N. Kintyre Issue 23; Keil Through The Ages Issue 24; Pages from the Past (1797 Southend Parish Enrollment) Issue 24; Evolution of Gaelic Surnames Issue 25; Mount Pleasant, Philadelphia (McPhearson/McNeill) Issue 26; Researching your Family History (part one) Issue 27; King Aidan Issue 27; Researching your Family History (continued) Issue 28; The McShannons of Kintyre: Harpers to Tacksmen Issue 28; Family History; in the Society's Library Issue 32; Hugh Henry Brackenridge Issue 33; Campbeltown Ships Issue 34; A Maker of Illicit Stills Issue 34; Englishing of Gaelic Personal Names Issue 35; Galbreath Correspondence Issue 36; Galbreath Correspondence, continued Issue 37; Kintyre Smugglers Issue 41; Edinburgh Passengers Issue 46; Back to Adam: A Kintyre Heritage Issue 47; James MacMurchy Issue 50; Templetons of Kintyre Issue 51; A Sang at Least: The Life of William Mitchell Issue 51; A MacNeilage Family of Campbeltown Issue 52; The Rev Alexander Stewart (1755-1798) of the Kintyre 'Park' Stewarts Issue 52; Saddell Abbey Issue 53; A Kintyre Family's Contribution to Australia, McGill Issue 53; Glencreggan - A Pen Portrait of Cantire Issue 54; MEMORIES OF MACHARIOCH 1916 -1920 Issue 54; Dispersal of Brown Family, etc. Issue 55;TenMiles South of Campbeltown Issue 55; Dispersal of Brown Family Part II, etc. Issue 55; Donald Walker Issue 56; Machrihanish Farm Part I Issue 56; Dispersal of Brown Family Part III Issue 57; Photographer Mactaggart Issue 57, Machrihanish Farm Part II Issue 58: DALINTOBER FISHERMAN Issue 58; Machrihanish Farm Part III Issue 59; Holmes Family Issue 61; Life & Times of Andrew Ronald Issue 62; Bruces in Kintyre Issue 64; Two Weddings Issue 66; The Loynachans Issue 67; Kintyre Author Lucy Maud Montgomery Issue 67; Argyll Whisky Barons Issue 67; Notes on Greenlees Families Issue 67; Notes on Glenlussa Issue 68; J Campbell Mitchell, Hamish MacKinven and Donald Kelly, George P McK Stewart, Kilkivan Chapel, Tragedies Issue 69; DNA, Skipness, McNeil and Reviews Issue 70; Gilchrist, Allt Beithe, Book Rievews, Taylor, Adam(s), Brown Issue 71; Reid, MacFarlane, MCLEAN/CLARK., Miscellaneous, from 1865 Issue 72; George Wyllie, Miscellaneous Issue 73; Duncan McEachran, MacAlisters, Book Review, Notes Issue 74: Martin book store; N. Morrison- Photographer; Ian MacDonald Obit. Issue 75; Archive project, Springbank Distillery, 1886 Cycle Club Issue 76: Author Jill McGown, MacNeills Y-DNA Issue 77: Campbeltown Excursion 1914, Road to Drumlemman Issue 78: Private Lachlan MacKinnon, Alisa Craig. Issue 79: Story of Andrew McKellar. Issue 80: Ministers from Mausdale. Issue 81: William McTaggart's Siblings. Issue 81; Symbolism of Wm McTaggart Issue 82; Neil Keith McCallum and not a Foreign Country Issue 83; Miscellaneous Issue 84; Road Surface Men, Early Motoring, 1798 Saddell Volunteers Issue 85; The Macharioch Memorial Cross, Sheep-shearing in Kintyre in 1901 Issue 86, Wm Greenlees 1866 visit to Illinois Issue 87; 1940 and 1941 Air Raid, Kintyre Roots Project Issue 88; Potted Portraits of Kintyreans and Dr Runa Blyth Mackay Issue 89; 1940 Bombing of Royal Hotel § Issue 90; 1849 Letter from Brecklate to Illinois Issue 91; 1861 Letter from Kilmaho, Kintyre to Illinois § Issue 92; 1931 The Big Count, Enumerator Issue 93; Plough Matches

• Map of Kintyre
• Campbeltown Cross- Street View, Google Map
• South Kintyre Place Names
• Kintyre Cemeteries
• Kintyre Gravestone Pictures
• Kintyre in the 17th Century
• Saga of our Kintyre Kin
• Kintyre Place Names
• Kintyre; Norman S. Newton
• Saddell Place Names
• Southend Place Names
• Ancestor Place Names

• Ancestor Ships
• Scot and Irish Passengers
• Ship "Edinburgh" Voyage
• §Genealogy Help
• Surname List
• Cyndi's List of Genealogy Sites
• Help Finding Immigrant Ships

To visit some of my index pages,
choose from this drop down list, and click GO:
Saga of our Kintyre Kin Kintyre in the 17th Century Kintyre Place Names Kintyre; Norman S. Newton Saddell Place Names Southend Parish Place Names Argyll Ancestor Place Names Kilcolmkeil Churchyard, Southend Argyle Settlement in History and Story Scottish Cemetery of Willow Creek Boone County Then and Now 1835 1976 Burlington, Wisconsin First 150+ Years J I Case, 1st Hundred Years Hunter, A Genealogical History of the Area Story of Roscoe The Picture Story of Roscoe Roscoe Twp., Winnebago Co., Ill., 1877 Rockton, Illinois History

Permission to reproduce Kintyre Magazine articles has been granted to me by The Kintyre Antiquarian & Natural History Society.
2021 Harold A. Ralston, Wisconsin, USA.
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MAGAZINE CONTACTS-
Editor:
Angus Martin
13 Saddell St
Campbeltown Argyll PA28 6DN

Subscriptions & Distribution;
Angus Martin
13 Saddell Street
Campbeltown
Argyll PA28 6DN

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