SCOTLAND: Argyll Isle of Islay Passenger Lists

The New York Colony – Passengers from Islay, June 1739

by Capt Laughlin Campbell

33 families, 42 passengers, 177 persons

Neil Gillaspie & Mary McIlpheder, his wife, Gilbert and Angus his two sons.

Heads of Families 1739

#31 Neil Gillaspie, living as also his Wife and one daughter

Single persons imported in 1739:

  • Archibald McIlpheder
  • Catharine McIlpheder

Other family names,  including some maiden names of wives, on document were:

Anderson, Caldwell, Campbell, Cargill, Carmichael, Clark, Creighton, Ferguson, Fraser, Green, Hyman, Keith, Lindsay, Livingston, McAlister, McAulla, McChristian, McCuarg, McDearmid, McDonald, McDougall, McDuffies, McDuffy, McEachern,  McEuen, McGown, McInnish, McIntosh, McLean, McPhadden, McQuary, McVurich, Nutt,  Reid, Robertson, Shaw, Thomson, Quarry,

List continued for November 1740 transport of passengers from Islay, repeating many of the same family last names. A few new ones as well: Brown, many Campbells, Cargill, Christy, Leech, McAlpine, McArthur, McCollum, McKay, McNeil,  McKinven, Murphy


Total Records:  4

Record Source:  The Day Book of Daniel Campbell of Shawfills 1767 with related papers concern the Estate of Islay, Scotland – edited by Freda Ramsay © 1991.

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