W.I.S.E. Words Index 1999-2015

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W.I.S.E. Words is the quarterly newsletter published by the W.I.S.E. Family History Society, Denver. Index compiled by Zoe Lappin, 2016

Table of Contents, 1999 edition

Names . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Places . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .2 Topics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Book Reviews and Mentions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 Feature Articles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3

Table of Contents, 2000-2015 editions

Names . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 Places . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25 Topics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32 Book Reviews and Mentions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41 Feature Articles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48 W.I.S.E. Seminars . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50

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Campbell, Robert Issue 3: 6 Celestine, Pope Issue 2: 6 Charles, Lewis Issue 2: 4

1999

W.I.S.E. Family History Society – Wales, Ireland, Scotland, England based in Denver, Colorado -- began publishing a newsletter in January 1999. Its title was W.I.S.E. Newsletter and it was a bimonthly publication of eight pages. Each issue started with page 1 and ended with page 8; there was no
Charles, Mary Issue 2: 4, 5; Issue 4: 4, 5 Crown, James Issue 4: 4

Drummond Issue 3: 5 Drummond clan Issue 3: 4

Drummond, Donald MacGregor Issue 3: 4

Forby, George Issue 1: 4 continuous numbering throughout the year. It lasted one year and in January 2000, the society started over, publishing a quarterly with a new format and new name, W.I.S.E.

Words, as it’s been known ever since.

Gregor clan Issue 3: 4

Gregor, King of Picts & Scots Issue 3: 5

Griffiths, Griffith Issue 4: 4 Hughes, Mary Issue 4: 4
Both versions, however, started with Volume 1, Issue 1. Here is the index for the six issues

of the 1999 volume only. It’s organized by

issue and page, like this: Issue 1: 4.
Jeffrey, James Issue 2: 3; Issue 4: 1; Issue 5: 3;
Issue 6: 5
Jones, Berwyn Issue 6: 5

Kilburn, Paul Issue 2: 3; Issue 3: 2, 4 King Langhaire Issue 2: 6
The index for subsequent volumes follows

this one starting at the “new” Volume 1 with

newsletter pages numbered consecutively throughout each year. Please pardon the confusion.
Lleyn, Ieuan Issue 2: 4 Lord of the Isles Issue 2: 3, 6

Maas, Jane & Michael Issue 6: 5

MacDonald Issue 2: 6
W.I.S.E. Words has been digitized and posted in PDF form online at the WISE website, WISE-fhs.org, These are fully searchable. This index also is posted there. All editions are bound and housed at the Denver Public Library genealogy collection or a researcher may contact Zoe Lappin for a photocopy of an article. She may be reached at

MacGregor, Alexander Issue 3: 4, 5

MacGregor, family Issue 3: 2, 5 MacGregor, Gregor Issue 3: 5 MacGregor, Rob Roy Issue 3: 2

MacGregor(s) of Roro Issue 3: 2, 4, 6

MacIain clan Issue 2: 3, 6 Maewn, aka St. Patrick Issue 2: 5 Maewn (?), Darerca Issue 2: 5 Maewn (?), Lupida Issue 2: 5 Marc, Siarl Issue 4: 2, 6 Mark, Charles Issue 2: 4; Issue 4: 2, 4, 5 McKeen Issue 2: 6
[email protected] The society does not conduct research.

NAMES

Angus, Og Issue 2: 3, 6 Argyll, Earl of Issue 2: 6
McGregor, Richard Issue 3: 2, 5

Muchdragan MacRi Lochlunn Issue 2: 3

Betit, Kyle J. Issue 6: 4 Boatwright, Sharon Issue 1: 5 Brown, Elizabeth “Betty” Issue 2: 4, 5;
Issue 4: 1, 2, 4, 5
Parry, Eleanor Issue 4: 5 Pearson, Ann Lisa Issue 1: 2; Issue 2: 2, 3; Issue 3: 1; Issue 4: No page number; Issue 5: 2; Issue 6: 2
Campbell Issue 2: 6; Issue 3: 4, 5

Porter, Donna Issue 2: 3; Issue 4: 3

Pritchard, Evan (var.) Issue 2: 4, 6

Campbell, Duncan Issue 3: 4

Glen Lyon Issue 3: 5 Glenorchy Issue 3: 4, 5

NAMES, continued

Gretna Green Issue 6: 8
Quirke, Terence T. Issue 1: 3; Issue 2: 1;

Gwynedd Family History Society Issue 4: 2, 6

Issue 6: 4, 5
Innerwick Issue 3: 6 Isle of Eigg Issue 2: 6 Isle of Muck Issue 2: 6 Isle of Mull Issue 2: 3 Isle of Rhum Issue 2: 6 Isle of Skye Issue 2: 3
Radford, Dwight A. Issue 6: 4

Rhisiard, Evan (var.) Issue 2: 4

Rob Roy Issue 3: 2, 5 Roberts, Gordon Issue 4: 2, 6

Rowlands, John and Sheila Issue 4: 2, 6

Ryan, James G. Issue 1: 3
Kilchoan, Scotland Issue 2: 3 Killin Issue 3: 4
Sprangaich, John Iain Issue 2: 3 St. Patrick Issue 2: 5, 6 St. Thomas Issue 2: 4
Llantwit Major, Wales Issue 2: 5 Lln/Lleyn Peninsula Issue 4: 5 Loch Doine Issue 3: 2 Loch Sunart Issue 2: 6 Loch Tay Issue 3: 2, 4, 5
Stockdill, Roy Issue 1: 5 Thomas, Didymus Issue 4: 4 Thomas, John Richard Issue 4: 5 Thomas, Mary Issue 2: 5 Thomas, Richard Issue 2: 4, 5; Issue 4: 4, 5 Thomas, Thomas Issue 4: 4
Loch Voil Issue 3: 2

Lyon, Loch, Glen & River Issue 3: 5, 6

Tranter, Nigel Issue 2: 6; Issue 3: 2
MacGregor’s Leap Issue 3: 5 Meggernie Castle Issue 3: 6

Mingary/Mingery Castle Issue 2: 3, 6

PLACES

Adoronnack, Scotland Issue 3: 2

Ardeonaig, Scotland Issue 3: 2, 4, 5 Ardnamurchan, Scotland Issue 2: 3, 6
Remsen, Oneida County, NY Issue 4: 2

Roro, Scotland Issue 3: 2, 4- 6

Roromore (var.), Scotland Issue 3: 6

Balgie Bridge Issue 3: 6 Ballnahald Issue 3: 6

Ballymoney, Antrim, Ireland Issue 2: 6

Balmenoch Issue 3: 6 Balquhidder, Scotland Issue 3: 2 Ben Hiant Issue 2: 6

Steuben, Oneida County, NY Issue 4: 4 Trossachs/Trossocks Issue 3: 2, 4, 6

British depositories Issue 4: 3

British Navy Issue 4: 4

Bryncroes/Byncroes, Wales Issue 2: 4;

Issue 4: 2, 4-6

TOPICS

Addresses of pertinent resources Issue 6: 3 Anglo-Saxon land terminology Issue 1: 4

Brynorgas, Caernarvonshire, North Wales

Issue 4: 2

British Isles Genealogical (BIG) Register

Issue 5: 2, 5

Caernarvonshire/Canarfonshire, (var.) Wales,

Issue 2: 4; Issue 4: 2, 4, 6

Capel Ucha Cemetery, Remsen, NY Issue 4: 4 Cloyne, Diocese of Issue 2: 1
Center for British Studies, University of

Colorado at Boulder Issue 5: 3 Clan Gregor Society Issue 3: 2

Culcrieff Issue 3: 4

Gretna Green marriage records Issue 6: 8

Fortingall Issue 3: 5

Institute of Heraldic & Genealogical Studies,

UK Issue 6: 8

TOPICS, continued

FEATURE ARTICLES

“MacGregor of Ardeonaig” by Paul Kilburn

Issue 3:4

“MacIain Clan of Ardnamurchan, Scotland”

by Paul Kilburn Issue 2: 3

“St. Patrick, a Welshman” by Betty Brown

Issue 2: 5

“Where Oh Where is Roro?” by Paul Kilburn

Issue 3: 2

Ireland, England marriage records Issue 6: 8 Ireland Heritage Centres Issue 1: 5

Irish records research Issue 1: 3; Issue 6: 4, 8 Irish vital records Issue 5: 4 Irish wills Issue 6: 5

Land terminology Issue 1: 4 New books at DPL Issue 1: 6, 7; Issue 2: 7; Issue 3: 7; Issue 5: 3; Issue 6: 3

Ordnance Survey maps Issue 1: 4 Picts & Scots Issue 3: 5 Prevoyance Issue 4: 4

Society of Genealogists, London Issue 1: 2 Victorian Ordnance Maps Issue 1: 2 Websites for British Isles genealogy Issue 1:

3, 4, 5; Issue 4: 3; Issue 5: 3 Welsh in Colorado Issue 6: 5 Welsh research Issue 4: 2 Welsh surnames Issue 2: 4

BOOK REVIEWS & MENTIONS

Asterisk * denotes full review

*Christmas in Wales: A Homecoming by Jane &

Michael Maas Issue 6: 5

Dictionary of Welsh Biography Down to 1940

Issue 4: 2, 6

Emigrants from Gwynedd to the United States
. . . 1805-1932 by Gordon Roberts Issue 4: 6
*Ireland, A Genealogical Guide, The Irish at

Home and Abroad by Kyle J. Betit & Dwight

A. Radford Issue 6: 4

*Irish Records: Sources for Family and Local

History, 2^ndedition, by James G. Ryan,

Issue 1: 3

Lord of the Isles by Nigel Tranter Issue 2: 6 MacGregor Trilogy by Nigel Tranter Issue 3: 2 *Rhyming Relations: Genealogy In Verse by

Roy Stockdill Issue 1: 5

Surnames of Wales by Sheila and John

Rowlands Issue 4: 2, 6

Armour, Jean Vol 6: 11

Arres, Marriot/Mariota 4: 27

Arthur, King Vol 15: 14, 62 Asquith, Herbert Henry Vol 3: 14, 17; Vol 12: 1 Aston, Ellen Vol 2: 20

Atchison, Margaret Jane Vol 6: 6, 8

Atkinson Vol 3: 20

2000-2015

W.I.S.E. Words is the quarterly publication of W.I.S.E. Family History Society in Denver, Colorado. It is devoted to study and understanding of families in Wales, Ireland, Scotland and England and their descendants. The society does not do research.
Attridge, James Vol 14: 64 Audley Vol 15: 16 Austin, Ann Frances Vol 10: 7 Avery, Hannah Minor Vol 13: 32
Volume numbers are in bold-face type, page numbers are in light-face type: Vol 3: 20. Volume 1 covers 2000, volume 2 covers 2001 and so forth.
Baddock Vol 15: 32 Baden-Powell, Lord Vol 13: 25, 27

Baldwin Vol 4: 26

Pages are numbered consecutively

throughout each volume, e.g., if the issue for the first quarter ends on page 18, the next issue begins with page 19.
Baker Vol 4: 12 Baker, Barbara Vol 12: 9, 41, 57, 61; Vol 13: 28

Balfour, Arthur James Vol 3: 4

Ball, Raymond Vol 3: 36
W.I.S.E. Words has been digitized and posted in PDF form online at the WISE website, WISE-fhs.org, These are fully searchable. This index also is posted there.
Ball, Raymond F. Vol 5: 15 Balliol Vol 11: 45 Barbour Vol 16: 29

Barbour, Alexander & Agnes Vol 13: 45, 46

Barbour, Diane Vol 11: 22; Vol 12: 47, 53, 54; Vol 13: 5, 24, 45; Vol 14: 27, 59-61; Vol 15:

11, 27, 45, 61; Vol 16: 7, 27, 39, 58 Barbour, John, at Agincourt Vol 12: 1

Barclay, Robert Vol 1: 21

Barde, Robert, at Agincourt Vol 12: 1

Bardon, Jonathan Vol 16: 50, 51 Barnard Vol 15: 65 Barnes, Bernard Vol 12: 64 Barnes, Charles Vol 10: 58, 59; Vol 12: 64

Barnes, Ellen Cross Vol 10: 58, 59;

Vol 12: 63, 64

Barnes, George & Johanna Vol 12: 64

Barnes, Paul Vol 10: 58, 59 Barnet, Humphrey Vol 2: 21 Barnstein Vol 15: 45
All editions are bound and housed at the Denver Public Library genealogy collection or a researcher may contact Zoe Lappin for a photocopy of an article. She may be reached

at [email protected]

NAMES

Abbot of Scone Vol 12: 25, 27 Abernethy, Eliza Vol 6: 21 Abrahams, Nancy Vol 10: 45 Abrahamson Vol 10: 45 Abrahamson, Jonas B. Vol 10: 45 Achmutie Vol 16: 51 Adams, Matthew Vol 14: 40

Akenson, Donald Harman Vol 8: 10 Alan, Radous, at Agincourt Vol 12: 1

Albert, King Vol 7: 45, 47 Albert, Prince Vol 12: 17; Vol 14: 1 Alden, John Vol 5: 34; Vol 9: 18 Alexander III Vol 13: 24

Aleyn, John, at Agincourt Vol 12: 1

Allen, Pat Vol 10: 44 Alling Vol 4: 26
Barr, Catherine Vol 13: 46 Bartrum, Peter Vol 16: 62 Bate Vol 15: 32 Baxter, Angus Vol 16: 25 Baxter, David Vol 1: 7 Baxter, family Vol 1: 5-7 Baxter, John Vol 1: 7 Baxter, Margaret Vol 1: 5, 7 Baxter, Thomas Vol 1: 7 Bayard, Thomas F. Vol 3: 7 Beard, Alice L. Vol 12: 12

Beaton, Alexander/Alex Vol 6: 4, 5

Amore, Shirley Vol 12: 3 Anderson, Robert Vol 10: 46

Anderson, Virginia DeJohn Vol 4: 33

Betit, Kyle J. Vol 1: 28; Vol 3: 3 Betjeman, John Vol 16: 44

Bicknell, Thomas Williams Vol 9: 48, 49

Bird Vol 11: 4

Bird, Alpha/Alfa/Alfarata Vol 14: 25, 26

Birmingham Vol 2: 23; Vol 6: 51-53 Birmingham, Ada Vol 6: 51 Birmingham, Orlo Vol 6: 51

Birmingham, Robert Vol 6: 51, 52 Birmingham, Thomas Vol 6: 51, 53 Birmingham, William Vol 6: 51-53

Bishop Vol 3: 28

Beaton, Archibald Vol 6: 4 Beaton, Bud Gary Vol 6: 8

Beaton, Donald Alexander “Dan” Vol 6: 4, 7

Beaton, Donald Ban Vol 6: 4

Beaton, Donald C. “Hunter” Vol 6: 4, 8

Beaton, Duncan Vol 6: 4 Beaton, Edith Vol 6: 4, 8 Beaton, family Vol 6: 4 Beaton, Flora Vol 6: 4

Beaton, John Grant “ Jack” Vol 6: 6

Beaton, Jean Vol 6: 5, 8

Bishop, Elizabeth Vol 14: 26

Blackbourn, Thomas Vol 10: 7

Blackburn, Elizabeth Vol 13: 22, 23 Blackburn, family (Quaker) Vol 13: 22 Blackburn, Gamaliel de Vol 13: 22

Blackburn, John I Vol 13: 22

Blackburn, John II (aka Sr.) Vol 13: 22, 23

Blair, Duncan Vol 12: 32, 33

Blair, John, Capt.Vol 14: 26

Blake, Thomas Vol 11: 39, 40

Blennerhassett, Richard Vol 14: 64

Blythin, James Vol 16: 20 Boardman, Marian Vol 6: 4

Bockstruck, Lloyd de Witt Vol 16: 15

Boggs Vol 6: 10

Boland, Eavan Aisling Vol 8: 39 Boland, Frederick Henry Vol 8: 39 Boland, Henry Patrick Vol 8: 39

Boleyn, Anne Vol 12: 21
Beaton, Kenneth Vol 6: 5

Beaton, Kenneth Cyril Bothwell “Cy” Vol 6:

5, 6, 8

Beaton, Lillian Vol 6: 6

Beaton, Margaret Vol 6: 4, 6, 8

Beaton, Mary Vol 6: 4, 6 Beaton, Murdoch Vol 6: 4

Beaton, Nancy “Annie” McCrimmon Vol 6: 5

Beaton, Neil Vol 6: 4, 5

Beaton, Neil & Maggie Vol 6: 1 Beaton, Raymond James Vol 6: 1, 4, 6-8 Beaton, Russell Thomas Vol 6: 6-8

Beaton, Sam Vol 6: 5 Beaton, Samuel Vol 6: 4

Beaton, William Grant (Billy the Blacksmith)

Vol 6: 1, 4, 6-8 Beaton, William J.R. Vol 6: 7 Beaton, W. John Vol 6: 7 Beaufort, Margaret Vol 15: 62 Bebe Vol 3: 20
Boling, Bruce D. Vol 6: 39 Bond, William John Vol 15: 13

Bonnie Prince Charlie (Charles Edward Stuart)

Vol 11: 7, 8, 59; Vol 12: 58; Vol 16: 58 Boone, Daniel Vol 7: 8 Booth, Richard Vol 12: 49 Borodell, Ann Vol 5: 35
Bede (monk) Vol 13: 26 Bedford, Thomas Vol 5: 5

Beecher, Catherine Vol 14: 46

Beecher, Harriet Vol 14: 46

Beecher, Henry Ward Vol 14: 46

Beecher, Lyman Vol 14: 46 Beer Vol 15: 32
Borodell, John Vol 5: 35 Boru, Brian Vol 4: 13; Vol 16: 10. 42 Bostock, Thomas Vol 5: 5 Botsford Vol 4: 26
Begley, D.F. Vol 1: 28 Bell Vol 11: 4 Bell, Sally Vol 14: 26
Boulton, William Vol 13: 41 Bourke Vol 12: 9 Bowen Vol 15: 15 Boyd, William Vol 2: 11 Boyle Vol 15: 33 Bradford, Gov. William Vol 5: 29; Vol 10: 44,
63, 64; Vol 11: 4, 8, 63, 64

Bradley, Hannah Sullivan Vol 9: 13

Bennett Vol 14: 31 Bennett, Carol Vol 16: 15 Bennett, Margaret Vol 11: 29 Bennetts, George Vol 15: 9

Bennetts, William John Vol 15: 9

Benny Vol 15: 15 Berington Vol 15: 15 Bertil, Prince Vol 15: 23-25 Bethune Vol 6: 4, 5

Bulkeley, Peter, Rev. Vol 4: 36, 37, 40;

Vol 5: 1; Vol 10: 45-47
Bulkeley, Thomas Vol 5: 6 Bunker, Nick Vol 11: 63, 64 Burgh, Richard de Vol 10: 65 Burke Vol 9: 9; Vol 12: 9

Burnam, John, at Agincourt Vol 12: 1

Burnard Vol 15: 32
Breed, Sandy Vol 14: 17