Sornweb Guestbook
Since May 1999
This may be a better opportunity to view the
guest book, as it is all on one file, and the people who have defaced the guest
book by inserting blank entries, and double entries have been removed.
| 48 | Friday 03/03/2000 10:11:36am |
| Name: | Margo Cathcart |
| E-Mail: | margo.cathcart@e-ayrshire.co,uk |
| Homepage Title: | Ayrshire Electronic Community |
| Homepage URL: | http://www.e-ayrshire.co.uk |
| Referred By: | From a Friend |
| Location: | Ayrshire Electronic Community |
| Comments: | The Ayrshire Electronic Community is a new community project designed to improve information technology awareness in a range of communities throughout Ayrshire. It will help ensure that socially excluded communities can play their full part in today's information society. If you would like further information or are interested in any collaborative work please contact me. |
| 49 | Friday 03/10/2000 5:05:03pm |
| Name: | Jamie McIntyre |
| E-Mail: | |
| Homepage Title: | |
| Homepage URL: | |
| Referred By: | Just Surfed On In |
| Location: | Sorn Castle |
| Comments: | An excellent web site,
I learnt a great deal about both the history of Sorn and Sorn Castle that
I did not know before.
Kind regards Jamie. |
| 50 | Thursday 04/06/2000 8:09:00pm |
| Name: | Brian Baxter |
| E-Mail: | brianbaxter@newport.fsbusiness.co.uk |
| Homepage Title: | |
| Homepage URL: | |
| Referred By: | Just Surfed On In |
| Location: | Newport on Tay |
| Comments: | Am researching my family
history: Baxter, Muir/Moore, Crawford, and Henderson living in Sorn, Catrine,
Darnconner and Auchinleck during the 19th C.
Grandfather: Hugh Brown Baxter, b.Sorn, 1874 (miner at Barony Colliery) lived Darnconner, m. (1)Agnes Ewing (2)Mary Piper. Great web pages - my great-grandparents lived in Mill St and Ford St, Catrine. |
| 51 | Thursday 04/20/2000 8:55:22pm |
| Name: | Alastair Mitchell |
| E-Mail: | AMITCHELL35@COMPUSERVE.COM |
| Homepage Title: | |
| Homepage URL: | |
| Referred By: | Just Surfed On In |
| Location: | Winchester, Hampshire |
| Comments: | Looked you up as my GGGGrandparents were McCrones who were farmers in Sorn and district. |
| 52 | Monday 04/24/2000 3:41:36am |
| Name: | Kaye Koeberle |
| E-Mail: | koeberle@home.com |
| Homepage Title: | |
| Homepage URL: | |
| Referred By: | Yahoo! |
| Location: | Garland, Texas USA |
| Comments: | I am a direct descendent of Alexander Peden (born in Sorn 1626) It is exciting to be able to read about him! Thanks! |
| 53 | Saturday 04/29/2000 10:20:03pm |
| Name: | John & Rena Woodward (nee Hume) |
| E-Mail: | dale@woodw22.freeserve.co.uk |
| Homepage Title: | |
| Homepage URL: | |
| Referred By: | From a Friend |
| Location: | Catrine |
| Comments: | Well done Kenny and friends
we are on the map at last
10 10 all the best. |
| 54 | Tuesday 05/09/2000 8:30:56pm |
| Name: | Brian Morton |
| E-Mail: | b_morton@douglas.bc.ca |
| Homepage Title: | |
| Homepage URL: | |
| Referred By: | From a Friend |
| Location: | Coquitlam, British Columbia, Canada |
| Comments: | Great Job!! Mauchline/Catrine and Sorn have such a rich past. My great grandfather (Hugh Morton) was the mill manager in Catrine until he died in 1893. My grandfather emigrated to Edmonton Alberta Canada in about 1904. My wife and I visited Ayrshire (and of course the Catrine area) in May of 1999, the first time a Canadian Morton of our branch had been back since 1915. We fell in love with the area and are very envious. Again, great job and I am looking forward to any updates. |
| 55 | Monday 05/15/2000 5:26:13am |
| Name: | Bonnie Suchan (Shaw) |
| E-Mail: | suchan@sk.sympatico.ca |
| Homepage Title: | |
| Homepage URL: | |
| Referred By: | Just Surfed On In |
| Location: | Canada |
| Comments: | Excellent Job! Our family lines include Shaw, Wallace, Miller, Mitchell, Flemming, Baird, Brown, Bicket, Crawford all from Sorn and area. It's great to see the places they lived and worked. Thanks. |
| 56 | Tuesday 05/30/2000 3:25:06am |
| Name: | Kirkland R. Darling |
| E-Mail: | dell@clarityconnect.com |
| Homepage Title: | Kirkland Genealogy & Family History |
| Homepage URL: | http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Oaks/9952/ |
| Referred By: | Net Search |
| Location: | New York State, USA |
| Comments: | My gg-grandparents, Thomas Kirkland & Agnes Gibb, were married in Sorn on 20 Dec. 1822. They later emigrated to Quebec, Canada. Visiting the Sorn page has given me a much better understanding of my ancestors background. You did a great job. I especially enjoy the old photographs. Would love to compare notes with anyone else researching the Kirklands. |
| 57 | Friday 06/02/2000 9:03:41pm |
| Name: | Kathy Duncan Cawley |
| E-Mail: | nyfromca@aol.com |
| Homepage Title: | |
| Homepage URL: | |
| Referred By: | From a Friend |
| Location: | New York |
| Comments: | Wonderful site, beautiful pictures! While doing my family tree, my research led me to Sorn and a new cousin! Without him, I would have never found some of my rich roots! I will visit one day soon. Kathy KIRKLAND/DUNCAN Cawley. |
| 58 | Thursday 06/08/2000 10:48:29pm |
| Name: | Robert Guthrie |
| E-Mail: | jascam@aol.com |
| Homepage Title: | History of the Parish of New Cumnock |
| Homepage URL: | http://members.xoom.com/guthrienew/nchistory/welcomex.html |
| Referred By: | Just Surfed On In |
| Location: | Barrhead via New Cumnock |
| Comments: | Enjoyed returning to my Ayrshire roots - particularly enjoyed the page on old books . best wishes bob |
| 59 | Sunday 06/11/2000 8:41:03pm |
| Name: | Big Sanny |
| E-Mail: | smcfadyean2@tinyonline.co.uk |
| Homepage Title: | |
| Homepage URL: | |
| Referred By: | From a Friend |
| Location: | Catrine |
| Comments: | Great stuff, have been logging on for a while. Congratulations on an excellent site |
| 60 | Wednesday 07/05/2000 1:54:31am |
| Name: | Donald Finlay |
| E-Mail: | dfinlay@xtra.co.nz |
| Homepage Title: | |
| Homepage URL: | |
| Referred By: | Just Surfed On In |
| Location: | New Zealand |
| Comments: | I visited the villages of Sorn & Catrine in August 1998, in search of family history (Ramage family), and discovered the website. It is great to see the additional photographs - keep up the good work. |
| 61 | Thursday 08/10/2000 8:30:49pm |
| Name: | Joseph Peden |
| E-Mail: | joe@peden66.freeserve.co.uk |
| Homepage Title: | |
| Homepage URL: | |
| Referred By: | Just Surfed On In |
| Location: | Liverpool |
| Comments: | I am very interested in my surname and my family tree. For many years I heard stories of this strange monk type person who lived in caves and hid from people. I was told I was related to him. I have come to believe it is Alexander peden .The story I was told was that, a young girl had gotten pregnant and when questioned she said the father was the stranger who lives in the caves, and she believed his name to be peden. I would just like to thank you for such a helpful site |
| 62 | Saturday 08/19/2000 2:25:41pm |
| Name: | Tom Leith |
| E-Mail: | tomleith.farmyard@virgin.net |
| Homepage Title: | |
| Homepage URL: | |
| Referred By: | NewsGroups |
| Location: | Strathaven |
| Comments: | Preparing Family Tree. Looking for relative circa 1791 who was a Grain Miller in Catrine. His brother James McGaan lived in Sloanstoun Farm, Dalmellington. |
| 63 | Wednesday 08/23/2000 4:19:09am |
| Name: | jim harvey |
| E-Mail: | harv_jim@hotmail.com.au |
| Homepage Title: | |
| Homepage URL: | |
| Referred By: | Just Surfed On In |
| Location: | Australia |
| Comments: | My father was born in Sorn and is now buried there. I visit if I can but unfortunately that is not often enough. |
| 64 | Thursday 08/31/2000 8:16:38am |
| Name: | John Robertson |
| E-Mail: | john.robertson@paisley.ac.uk |
| Homepage Title: | |
| Homepage URL: | |
| Referred By: | Net Search |
| Location: | Ayr |
| Comments: | Tremendous!
I'll be directing student teachers to your site to help them resource local history activity in school placements. John Robertson
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| 65 | Saturday 09/30/2000 0:11:24am |
| Name: | Stirling Moore |
| E-Mail: | stirling@hosewinder.force9.co.uk |
| Homepage Title: | Stirling's Web Site |
| Homepage URL: | http://www.hosewinder.force9.co.uk |
| Referred By: | Just Surfed On In |
| Location: | Keighley, West Yorkshire |
| Comments: | Have already an entry in the guestbook, am still looking for any old schoolmates that went to GILMILNSCROFT SCHOOL in the early 60's. Also, can anybody tell me what has become of the old building that used to be the school? |
| 66 | Saturday 09/30/2000 7:45:48pm |
| Name: | Jane Cavell |
| E-Mail: | janecavell@aol.com |
| Homepage Title: | |
| Homepage URL: | |
| Referred By: | Just Surfed On In |
| Location: | Witney, Oxon, UK |
| Comments: | Looking for any long-lost relatives out there. Great-great-grandfather George Park (b.1835) was from South Limmerhaugh farm but left to become a surgeon. His parents were Hugh Park (b.1799) and Jean Hamilton; Hugh's parents were George Park and Agnes McGaan or McGavin. Other farms connected with this family: Burntshield, Merkland. George married Marion Clark, daughter of James Clark and Marion McKinlay, of Auchenlongford farm. Marion McK. died young and James then married Marion Lindsay. Would love to hear from anyone who knows these farms or is descended from the same people. |
| 67 | Saturday 09/30/2000 11:24:47pm |
| Name: | Elaine M. Dickson |
| E-Mail: | elnpet@edickson.fsnet.co.uk |
| Homepage Title: | |
| Homepage URL: | |
| Referred By: | Clicked on a 'Guestbooks by GuestWorld' Button |
| Location: | Sorn, Ayrshire |
| Comments: | My mother attended a preview of the materials at Sorn School and gave me the web address, knowing that I am fascinated in old photographs of our family. There are photos of my mother, father, myself and other family members who attended Sorn Primary. The web site is particularly helpful, as I now live in Aberdeenshire. |
| 68 | Sunday 10/01/2000 5:39:59pm |
| Name: | Susan |
| E-Mail: | susanmad@hotmail.com |
| Homepage Title: | My Home Page |
| Homepage URL: | http://members.home.net/madan/ |
| Referred By: | Just Surfed On In! |
| Location: | |
| Comments: | I liked your website. It has some really good information. |
| 69 | Thursday 10/05/2000 11:57:54pm |
| Name: | Elizabeth D. Moore |
| E-Mail: | moor877@attglobal.net |
| Homepage Title: | |
| Homepage URL: | |
| Referred By: | Just Surfed On In |
| Location: | Calgary, Alberta, Canada |
| Comments: | Keep up the good work.
I am researching my grandparents from Maybole. (Peden). They emigrated
to Canada. How would a person find out the port of departure and the name of the ship?? |
| 70 | Saturday 10/14/2000 3:46:29pm |
| Name: | Agnes Irene Harrison Lindsay |
| E-Mail: | sheenal@supanet.com |
| Homepage Title: | |
| Homepage URL: | |
| Referred By: | Lycos |
| Location: | Ayr |
| Comments: | Hello Sorn
Thanks for the memories love Irene |
| 71 | Monday 10/16/2000 6:02:59am |
| Name: | Angela Davidson |
| E-Mail: | activemd@one.net.au |
| Homepage Title: | |
| Homepage URL: | |
| Referred By: | Just Surfed On In |
| Location: | Australia |
| Comments: | Fantastic site. I came
across a picture of my Great Grandfather whom I have never before seen
a picture of.
My grandmother Lizzie Liddell still lives in sorn. I have been back 4 times and it is a great place, the church is magnificent and is where my parents Elizabeth (Betty) and Edward (Eddie) Davidson where married. I have emailed my mother a picture of her Grandfather- she was thrilled. |
| 72 | Friday 10/27/2000 2:29:51pm |
| Name: | Mark Sornsin |
| E-Mail: | sorn@i29.net |
| Homepage Title: | |
| Homepage URL: | |
| Referred By: | Just Surfed On In |
| Location: | Fargo, North Dakota, USA |
| Comments: | Most in my family have
acquired the nick name "Sorny" or "Sorn". Natually, when I found the Sorn
villiage site on a search of Sorn, I had to check it out.
The internet makes the world even smaller - and in bizzar fashion, too! Mark Sornsin |
| 73 | Sunday 10/29/2000 4:32:01pm |
| Name: | Campbell Baird |
| E-Mail: | campbell_baird@bigpond.com |
| Homepage Title: | |
| Homepage URL: | |
| Referred By: | Just Surfed On In |
| Location: | Pearl Beach Australia |
| Comments: | Very interesting to find out about the area my ancestors came from. Thanks! |
| 74 | Tuesday 10/31/2000 1:27:17pm |
| Name: | Helen & Mark Lamont |
| E-Mail: | mjlamont@hotmail.com |
| Homepage Title: | The Lamont Family Homepage |
| Homepage URL: | http://www.lamont-family.com |
| Referred By: | Lycos |
| Location: | Bedford, Bedfordshire |
| Comments: | We really enjoyed this site. We have just holidayed in New Cumnock and surrounding area. Mark was brought up in Cumnock, his parents live in Auchinleck. We visited Sorn to look at a house at the top of the hill (which is for sale). From your site, we think it may be the house now standing on the old Woodhead Sorn site. Anyway, we thought the village was lovely and we will visit again some time. The site is really interesting - well done. |
| 75 | Monday 11/06/2000 10:18:07pm |
| Name: | robbie wilson |
| E-Mail: | robbie.wilson@libertysurf.co.uk |
| Homepage Title: | |
| Homepage URL: | |
| Referred By: | Just Surfed On In |
| Location: | mauchline now penicuik |
| Comments: | WAS TOLD ABOUT THIS FROM A DISTANT RELATIVE AS WE ARE BOTH RESEARCHING THE HAMILTONS AND KIRKLANDS OF SORN AND CATRINE |
| 76 | Tuesday 11/07/2000 8:48:49pm |
| Name: | Micthell Stojsavljevic |
| E-Mail: | Stoy@btinternet.com |
| Homepage Title: | |
| Homepage URL: | |
| Referred By: | Lycos |
| Location: | Nuneaton |
| Comments: | Hi all,thanks for all the great childhood memories that came flooding back during and after viewing all of the great photos that you have collated. I was brought up in Catrine from 1953-1964. I am sure I swam or played in the river as seen in the Black-Horse photo ? was there a big house really close to it...seemed big to me in those days. Is anyone there interested in corresponding to an old 47 year old ? Keep up this great work it made my day.... |
| 77 | Friday 11/10/2000 10:31:10pm |
| Name: | Derek Thom |
| E-Mail: | dmtjc@netscapeonline.co.uk |
| Homepage Title: | |
| Homepage URL: | |
| Referred By: | Just Surfed On In |
| Location: | Wolverhampton,West Midlands |
| Comments: | Although my THOM family originate in the Coylton and Dalrymple area I found what I have managed to see so far very interesting. Any chance you could get groups started in other areas of Ayrshire? The project might be able to get help from High Schools or New Deal initiatives - just a thought. Well done to all concerned! |
| 78 | Thursday 11/30/2000 6:30:29am |
| Name: | Fiona Garton (nee Rorison) |
| E-Mail: | fionaga@lineone.net |
| Homepage Title: | |
| Homepage URL: | |
| Referred By: | Friend |
| Location: | Nottingham, England |
| Comments: | Tracing the family tree, can anyone help!!! My Great Great Grandmother Mary Steel Wilson lived and married at Holehouse Farm, is this the same place as the mill? I had been told it is now a ruin. The following names are recorded in our history. Alexander Peden, Margaret Kirkland, Jean Peden, Robert Steel, Mary Steel, James Wilson, Mary Steel Wilson, James Rorison, Isabella Murray...My Father was Peden Murray Rorison, his uncle Alexander Peden Rorison. He also had a great uncle with the same name...I would be very interested to hear from anyone with information in our search. Thank you...... |
| 79 | Tuesday 12/05/2000 6:57:32am |
| Name: | Lena Morris |
| E-Mail: | dnnl519dnnls@icqmail.com |
| Homepage Title: | |
| Homepage URL: | |
| Referred By: | Friend |
| Location: | Ohio |
| Comments: | Ken, this is very impressive a wonderful job you have done with this website a contribute to everyone by the looks of it both young and old. A new friend Lena from Ohio |
| 80 | Wednesday 12/06/2000 3:02:54pm |
| Name: | Jim Johnstone |
| E-Mail: | jimjohnstone@netlineuk.net |
| Homepage Title: | |
| Homepage URL: | |
| Referred By: | Just Surfed In |
| Location: | Cumnock |
| Comments: | Just browsing and I stumbled on this site. Would be interested in finding out dates for post cards I have. If anyone can help please E-mail. |
| 81 | Wednesday 12/20/2000 7:02:45pm |
| Name: | Richard Martin Hall |
| E-Mail: | r.m.hall@btinternet.com |
| Homepage Title: | |
| Homepage URL: | |
| Referred By: | Search Engine |
| Location: | |
| Comments: | How are you all,
My grandfather & family stayed in Sorn before moving to New Cumnock. Fathers name Richard, Grandfathers name Richard, quit a large family. Does any one know where Paddy Waddles was? Brilliant Site Ex Ayrshire if that can be possible. |
| 82 | Thursday 12/21/2000 9:05:18pm |
| Name: | Leonie Malins |
| E-Mail: | android@1earth.net |
| Homepage Title: | |
| Homepage URL: | |
| Referred By: | Just Surfed In |
| Location: | Wollongong, Australia |
| Comments: | Hi to everyone!
A great site for those of us with roots in Sorn. My ancestors Hugh McLauchlan and Mary Beggs were married in Sorn in 1840 and came to Australia that same year. |
| 83 | Friday 12/22/2000 4:04:21pm |
| Name: | kevin r brown |
| E-Mail: | 11 corserine bank,Bourtreehill, Irvine |
| Homepage Title: | catrine homepage |
| Homepage URL: | |
| Referred By: | Just Surfed In |
| Location: | catrine now irvine |
| Comments: | I found this wonderful site of home! while working in Sweden.It was great showing the swedes our great small village & they thought it was brill.Now i have my parents(janette & ian) hooked on the same site & they have been passing on the address to others.Would love to see some more present day photos.I have a few photos of Newton St,Home Farm Rd & The Parish Church taken a few years ago in beautiful deep snow in black & white. aw'ra'best.Big Kev (no e-mail,borrow computer from Pa cos e pays the bills) |
| 84 | Monday 12/25/2000 9:21:48am |
| Name: | dawn |
| E-Mail: | dawn@arowley.freeserve.co.uk |
| Homepage Title: | mauchline |
| Homepage URL: | |
| Referred By: | Search Engine |
| Location: | |
| Comments: | just wondering if anyone can remember my mum Ann Mellon daughter of thomas and elizabeth mellon . Mum would have been 59 years old, thanks dawn rowley |
| 85 | Tuesday 12/26/2000 11:52:36am |
| Name: | dawn rowley |
| E-Mail: | dawn@arowley.freeserve.co.uk |
| Homepage Title: | my mum ann melon |
| Homepage URL: | |
| Referred By: | |
| Location: | staffs |
| Comments: | great page, still no reply does anyone remember my mum ann mellon, sister of katie , margaret, tommy, betty nancy, daughter of elizabeth and thomas, mum talked of a tommy brown she used too play with, she had many happy memories of her childhood in scotland, she also talked of aplane crash late 40s perhaps, please email me at dawn@arowley.freeserve.co.uk many thanks dawn |
| 86 | Sunday 12/31/2000 10:56:40am |
| Name: | craig mcgarry |
| E-Mail: | jsewing@onmail.co.uk |
| Homepage Title: | |
| Homepage URL: | |
| Referred By: | Search Engine |
| Location: | catrine |
| Comments: | great to see the place as it used to be. the village has changed but the people are still the same |
| 87 | Monday 01/01/2001 11:06:02pm |
| Name: | ncola mccnnachie |
| E-Mail: | jlsewing |
| Homepage Title: | |
| Homepage URL: | |
| Referred By: | Search Engine |
| Location: | catrine |
| Comments: | good site. I'm tring to find a friend who lived in auchinleck around 1992-93(i think) and went to auchinleck academy. she moved when she was around 13-14(i think) she lived in barbiston road. |
| 88 | Friday 01/05/2001 2:42:05pm |
| Name: | Edith Harvey (nee Shaw) |
| E-Mail: | cowspotuk@yahoo.co.uk |
| Homepage Title: | |
| Homepage URL: | |
| Referred By: | Search Engine |
| Location: | Brentford, Middlesex |
| Comments: | Looked at the photos again. Remember the building of the dam at the back of yours. Would love to see other familiar faces of our era. Would love to hear from any old pals. |
| 89 | Saturday 01/06/2001 6:21:33pm |
| Name: | Robert Steele |
| E-Mail: | rab@catrine.fsnet.co.uk |
| Homepage Title: | Catrine House |
| Homepage URL: | http://homepages.tesco.net/~rabsteele/index.htm |
| Referred By: | Friend |
| Location: | Catrine |
| Comments: | Hi Kenny,
Just tuned in again to find you've updated your site. Great stuff. Keep the ayrshire villages on the map. regards, Rab. |
| 90 | Sunday 01/07/2001 2:35:02pm |
| Name: | Leanne Ewing (McConnachie) |
| E-Mail: | jlsewing@onmail.co.uk. |
| Homepage Title: | |
| Homepage URL: | |
| Referred By: | Search Engine |
| Location: | Inverness |
| Comments: | I'm now currently living
in Inverness and am keen to hear from any one living in the same area that
used to live in Catrine.
If there is anyone out there drop me a line NO TIME WASTERS. |
| 91 | Tuesday 01/09/2001 11:18:27am |
| Name: | Nadine Corbett Thomas |
| E-Mail: | ncthomas@santeecooper.com |
| Homepage Title: | |
| Homepage URL: | |
| Referred By: | Search Engine |
| Location: | South Carolina, USA |
| Comments: | Hello, My Aunt recommended
this site and it was nice to look at all the old photos. My gran, Elizabeth
Harrison was from Sorn and is buried in the wee graveyard there. I am originally
from Auchinleck but moved to South Carolina in 1997.
Keep up the good work! |
| 92 | Wednesday 01/17/2001 2:50:46pm |
| Name: | dawn |
| E-Mail: | dawn@arowley.freeserve.co.uk |
| Homepage Title: | ann or hannah melon |
| Homepage URL: | |
| Referred By: | Just Surfed In |
| Location: | staffs |
| Comments: | great page still hoping someone can remember my mum ann or hannah mellon born at her grandmothers house in catrine mill street, then moved too mauchline, daughter of thomas and elizabeth mellon, around 1941 to 1950 mum sadly died in september 29th 2000, its very important i trace her routes she was 59 years old. please someone can you help |
| 93 | Thursday 01/18/2001 6:19:59am |
| Name: | John Seaton |
| E-Mail: | john.seaton@hyper.net.nz |
| Homepage Title: | Seaton Family Tree |
| Homepage URL: | http://home.hyper.net.nz/john.seaton/seaton.htm |
| Referred By: | Search Engine |
| Location: | Dunedin, New Zealand |
| Comments: | Looking for information
about the Seatons in Sorn and Catrine around 1800.
My GG Grandfather was James Seaton born 1822 son of Robert Seaton and Marion Reid. Nice site! |
| 94 | Monday 01/22/2001 8:31:47pm |
| Name: | Louise Milligan |
| E-Mail: | loumilligan@hotmail.com |
| Homepage Title: | |
| Homepage URL: | |
| Referred By: | Search Engine |
| Location: | |
| Comments: | Hi,
I'm a journalist from Melbourne, Australia (but I spent my childhood years in Irvine and Kilwinning). My Dad is from Irvine, but his father grew up around Hayside, near Crosshouse when the mines still operated in that area. I'm trying to find photographs of people from that time and/or the Cook Bridge in Hayside. If you have any, or know where I can get any, I'd much appreciate it. Cheers, Louise Milligan. |
| 95 | Tuesday 01/23/2001 3:16:10pm |
| Name: | Andy Caldow |
| E-Mail: | andy@handy35.freeserve.co.uk |
| Homepage Title: | |
| Homepage URL: | |
| Referred By: | Search Engine |
| Location: | |
| Comments: | Please ignore earlier
email address.
I have just started to look into my family history and I find that quite a few relatives originate from around Sorn, Muirkirk area. Does anyone have any further information? if so could you please e-mail me. |
| 96 | Thursday 01/25/2001 9:48:28pm |
| Name: | Aby Bain |
| E-Mail: | southfergushill@excite.co.uk |
| Homepage Title: | |
| Homepage URL: | |
| Referred By: | Friend |
| Location: | ex Glenbuck and Muirkirk |
| Comments: |
| 97 | Monday 01/29/2001 10:52:39am |
| Name: | Carolanne McNair |
| E-Mail: | chat901@hotmail.com |
| Homepage Title: | |
| Homepage URL: | |
| Referred By: | Just Surfed In |
| Location: | |
| Comments: | Good page and full of
lots of good information. Will be showing all my friends and asking them
to surf this site.
THANKS |
| 98 | Saturday 02/03/2001 5:38:49pm |
| Name: | anne molloy-vickers |
| E-Mail: | afmv@hotmail.com |
| Homepage Title: | |
| Homepage URL: | |
| Referred By: | Just Surfed In |
| Location: | Canada |
| Comments: | My great great grandmother use to own Poosie Nansie's. Her name was Mary Logan. I'm not sure what her husband's first name was. They had a son called James Frances Logan he was born (Mar 1st 1882)in the Inn. He is my great grandfather. The picture (bottom left) on the web site is my great great grandmother (pink dress) and the little boy in the white suite is my great grandfather. If anyone has any more information on the Logan's please e-mail me. |
| 99 | Monday 02/05/2001 3:46:01pm |
| Name: | Kenny Baird |
| E-Mail: | kenny@bairdscot.softnet.co.uk |
| Homepage Title: | |
| Homepage URL: | |
| Referred By: | Just Surfed In |
| Location: | Sorn Ayrshire |
| Comments: | If anyone wants to contact me or any of us involved in Sornweb direct, there is a contact e mail address on the home page. I don't seem to be able to access the private entries, so please contact me direct. Thank you to everybody for the support |
| 100 | Thursday 02/08/2001 9:09:47pm |
| Name: | Tommy Harrison |
| E-Mail: | ThomasHarrison@condorrat.freeserve.co.uk |
| Homepage Title: | Gorbals |
| Homepage URL: | http://www.condorrat.freeserve.co.uk |
| Referred By: | Search Engine |
| Location: | Glasgow |
| Comments: | I am looking for any Harrison's who originally came from Ireland Co.Sligo around 1860's and settled in West of Scotland |
| 101 | Tuesday 02/13/2001 4:26:19pm |
| Name: | Debbie Murray |
| E-Mail: | debbie@pmathieson.fsnet.co.uk |
| Homepage Title: | |
| Homepage URL: | |
| Referred By: | Friend |
| Location: | Muirkirk / Mauchline |
| Comments: | This is a really good site, my grampa is Nally who provided some of the Muirkirk photos. I have found messages written by family and friends and have e-mailed them as a result. I will definitely be showing this site to others. |
| 102 | Monday 02/19/2001 4:52:38pm |
| Name: | Billy Clark |
| E-Mail: | Tuppence@BTinternet.com |
| Homepage Title: | |
| Homepage URL: | |
| Referred By: | Friend |
| Location: | Dunoon |
| Comments: | Does anyone remember the Gates & Farrells from Sorn. They moved from Sorn to Mauchline around 1950. |
| 103 | Monday 02/19/2001 5:01:43pm |
| Name: | Alison Clark (nee McDowall) |
| E-Mail: | Tupence @ BTinternet .com |
| Homepage Title: | |
| Homepage URL: | |
| Referred By: | Friend |
| Location: | Innellan |
| Comments: | I am searching for any
information on
Robert Allison, Sarah Johnston from Glenbuck (Muirkirk). |
| 104 | Thursday 03/08/2001 10:32:52pm |
| Name: | Joy Davies |
| E-Mail: | fossilhunter45@hotmail.com |
| Homepage Title: | |
| Homepage URL: | |
| Referred By: | Search Engine |
| Location: | Fort St. John, B.C. Canada |
| Comments: | Came across your great site and really enjoyed it. While here I wish to mention that my ancestors were at Muirkirk, as follows: David Anderson m. Helen Moffatt Sept 15,1837, Muirkirk. Their children: David Anderson b. May 31,1853, Muirkirk---Hugh Anderson b.Sept 20,1851, Muirkirk---Gavin Anderson b. Aug 11,1855, Muirkirk---William Anderson b. May 19,1843,---James Anderson b. Oct 19,1849---Jane Moffatt Anderson b. Apr 02,1838---Agnes Kirkland Anderson b. Nov 04,1839. If anyone else is researching the surnames of Anderson, Kirkland and Moffatt and recognizes a possible link with these, please contact me, or if you know anything that can help me research these individuals further. Much appreciated. |
| 105 | Sunday 03/04/2001 3:08:12pm |
| Name: | Janet Smith |
| E-Mail: | jmc.smith@britishlibrary.net |
| Homepage Title: | |
| Homepage URL: | |
| Referred By: | Just Surfed In |
| Location: | |
| Comments: | My 3xgreat-grandparents, James Callan and Grizel Whyte, moved from Crawfordjohn to West Glenbuck Farm about 1798. The Callans farmed there till the 1880s. My granny, Janet Callan, was born in 1876. In 1900 she married Thomas Nelson from Crawfordjohn. I would interested to hear from anyone who is researching these Callans, or any other Callans in the surrounding area. |
| 106 | Tuesday 03/13/2001 4:08:20pm |
| Name: | Dorothy McCool (Begg) |
| E-Mail: | jmccool@attcanada.ca |
| Homepage Title: | |
| Homepage URL: | |
| Referred By: | Search Engine |
| Location: | Toronto Canada |
| Comments: | A great site! Do you know of anyone taught at Catrine Public School by Miss Kate Begg (about 1910-1950)? |
| 107 | Sunday 03/18/2001 3:43:27pm |
| Name: | Robert dempster elder |
| E-Mail: | elder59@freeserve.co.uk |
| Homepage Title: | |
| Homepage URL: | |
| Referred By: | Search Engine |
| Location: | Kilmarnock |
| Comments: | I was born in the village
of sorn on the 1st April 1939. I like your website and I will be visiting
more often.
Thanks |
| 108 | Sunday 03/18/2001 8:51:45pm |
| Name: | Dick Harrison |
| E-Mail: | dickharrison@webtv.net |
| Homepage Title: | |
| Homepage URL: | |
| Referred By: | Search Engine |
| Location: | Kalamazoo, MI - USA |
| Comments: |
I am a Catrine native as were my fathers before me. I was born in 1930 and was raised in Catrine. I left Catrine in 1967 for the USA. I knew or my parents knew just about the whole village. I'd love to hear from some of my contemporaries or from anyone looking for information about Catrine during those times. Dick Harrison - Dickie |
| 109 | Tuesday 03/20/2001 7:13:46pm |
| Name: | John Gilley |
| E-Mail: | Mg1908@aol.com |
| Homepage Title: | |
| Homepage URL: | |
| Referred By: | Just Surfed In |
| Location: | Flossmoor, Illinois U.S.A. |
| Comments: | You are to be congratulated on a very nice website. It is important that people, such as you, take the time to preserve local history. Information such as this effects the lives and hearts of many people all over the world. Last autumn my family visited the village of Catrine and found it to be beautiful as well as the surrounding countryside. We visited it because it was the birthplace of my Grandfather. His name was John Cameron Smith. He was born in 1892 and attended the Congregational Church in Catrine. In about 1910 he and his family moved to Glasgow, but he always considered Catrine to be his family home. He served with distinction in the Royal Navy during World War I and afterward immigrated with my Grandmother to the U.S. While I was growing up, he told us often about his childhood on a farm in or near Catrine. He would also tell us stories about how in the past his ancestors were forced to worship outside in the surrounding hills because of religious persecution. I believe he may have been talking about the Covenanters. Unfortunately, we did not have much time at all to spend in Catrine and like so many others, I would like to ask anyone out there for any family information they might have on John Cameron Smith. I believe that both his Father and Grandfather were also name John Cameron Smith or just John Smith. His Mothers name was Jean Muir, also I believe of Catrine. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Please feel free to contact me at this e-mail address. Thank you. |
| 110 | Friday 03/23/2001 9:40:12am |
| Name: | JOHN MCILVEAN |
| E-Mail: | johnmcilvean@aol.com |
| Homepage Title: | |
| Homepage URL: | |
| Referred By: | Search Engine |
| Location: | Catrine |
| Comments: | Congratulations to Sandy and yourself for your excellent demonstration of your computer skills at the local History Group last night. Thank you for giving me your website address which I have accessed and browsed with great interest. |
| 111 | Sunday 03/25/2001 7:26:08am |
| Name: | Libby Piper |
| E-Mail: | libbypiper@waitrose.com |
| Homepage Title: | |
| Homepage URL: | |
| Referred By: | Just Surfed In |
| Location: | West Sussex, England |
| Comments: | Am searching for family tree info on Thomas Caldwell born c1839 at Annandale Farm and birth registered at Catrine. Great to see historial maps and photos of the area. Many thanks |
| 112 | Monday 04/09/2001 11:23:28am |
| Name: | Jan Robinson |
| E-Mail: | janice.robinson@home.com |
| Homepage Title: | |
| Homepage URL: | |
| Referred By: | Search Engine |
| Location: | Alberta, Canada |
| Comments: | My grandmother, ISABELLA Cuthbert Davidson McKie LEES was born in Mauchline at Slatehole Cottage Nov. 29, 1892. Her mother JANET LEES was a farm servant (born Oct. 18, 1865) in Auchinleck) and gave birth to her daughter out of wedlock (illegitimate). I have been looking for photos of the cottages where people lived in Mauchline, specifically Slatehole Cottage. Since Janet Lees gave her daughter, Isabella up for adoption, I have not been able to locate either a marriage certificate or death certificate for Janet Lees. I have located Janet Lees in the 1891 census working at Craigencroy, Maybole Parish. If anyone makes a connection here, I would appreciate hearing from the. Thanks. |
| 113 | Friday 04/27/2001 4:08:40pm |
| Name: | Christine Kennedy (Gibson) |
| E-Mail: | southcrichie@btinternet.com |
| Homepage Title: | |
| Homepage URL: | |
| Referred By: | Search Engine |
| Location: | Aberdeenshire |
| Comments: | just found this and cannot even read about my family or heritage as I have heard my father was in the photo gallery. Surely this could be funded by the community council or visitscotland.com |
| 114 | Wednesday 05/09/2001 6:07:09am |
| Name: | Robert Steele |
| E-Mail: | rab@catrine.fsnet.co.uk |
| Homepage Title: | Catrine House |
| Homepage URL: | http://www.rabs.co.uk |
| Referred By: | Just Surfed In |
| Location: | Catrine |
| Comments: | Come on Kenny where are all the pictures. This is the best site in East Ayrshire and could do more to promote local tourism than the whole of East Ayrshire councils efforts could ever muster. I'm sure something will get sorted out. |
| 115 | Friday 05/11/2001 8:54:51am |
| Name: | Sandy McFadyean |
| E-Mail: | smcfadyean2@tinyonline.co.uk |
| Homepage Title: | |
| Homepage URL: | |
| Referred By: | Just Surfed In |
| Location: | Catrine |
| Comments: | Kenny, I’m very surprised to see that Sornweb has been taken offline. I had assumed that the site would be a permanent feature, especially since it was hosted by a local authority server. For the past three years Sornweb has been the best online resource for finding local Ayrshire history on the internet. I know there are many other excellent local sites, and there are also some statistical sites, like the one created by Edinburgh University. Their are also a great many sites which would cover specific historical themes or subjects throughout Scotland. But I have yet to find a local website which covers such a comprehensive range of topics pertaining to the history of Ayrshire parishes. I am also shocked to see that South Ayrshire Council have removed the site, rather than encourage it and similar sites to come under the same umbrella to create an exhaustive Ayrshire archive online. Perhaps this action will encourage, rather than deter you from continuing to serve the global community by finding a new host and continuing with this worthwhile project. |
| 116 | Monday 05/14/2001 5:45:11pm |
| Name: | Janet Smith |
| E-Mail: | jmc.smith@britishlibrary.net |
| Homepage Title: | |
| Homepage URL: | |
| Referred By: | Search Engine |
| Location: | Perth |
| Comments: | Devastated to find that your excellent site is no longer on-line. What a loss after all the hard work that had obviously been put into it. The pictures and information were excellent. I believe that some Family History Societies have been contacted by the Scottish Assembly. Seemingly genealogy is the new growth industry. In that case there surely must be support somewhere to keep your site on-line. As secretary of Tay Valley Family History Society I found that many of our enquiries came by e-mail, so people out there obviously make use of their computers. My granny was born at West Glenbuck farm where the Callans had farmed since the 1790s. I was over the moon when I came across the pictures of Sorn, Glenbuck, etc. Surely other people shouldn't be denied the joy of finding them. As East Ayrshire is an area from which a great deal of industry has disappeared it is surely imperative that some means of encouraging people to come and spend their money is found. A site such as the Sorn one does just that. It lets people who are interested in the area, but have never visited, see what it is like. Having seen the pictures I am sure that many will be encouraged to come to see the real thing. Thanks for all your hard work. Good luck in finding a new site provider. Hope to find you up and running again soon. |
| 117 | Sunday 05/27/2001 8:41:11am |
| Name: | Kenny Baird |
| E-Mail: | kenny@bairdscot.softnet.co.uk |
| Homepage Title: | ayrshirehistory.com |
| Homepage URL: | http://www.south-ayrshire.gov.uk/sornweb/history.htm |
| Referred By: | Search Engine |
| Location: | Sorn Ayrshire |
| Comments: | I have had trouble accessing private guest book signatures. Please send personal e mails to my home e mail address. I would like to express my thanks for the support shown to Sornweb/ ayrshirehistory.com since we have been taken off line by South Ayrshire Council, amid claims of a shortage of server space!! We are currently in talks with two other separate sources, both of whom have agreed to host the site. As yet though, neither are on line, but I am hopeful for a fast reinstatement. There will be an update and link on the skeleton South Ayrshire site, as soon as the new host URL is known. All signatures of this guestbook are very welcome, and are being used to lobby local authorities for assistance. I find it sad that politics can get in the way of a worthwhile archive, which is certainly the largest digital archive in Ayrshire. Thank you all again, and keep checking the home pages for the latest developments. Kenny Baird |
| 118 | Sunday 05/27/2001 10:24:13pm |
| Name: | Elizabeth Wood |
| E-Mail: | Thewoods@lynchburg.net |
| Homepage Title: | |
| Homepage URL: | |
| Referred By: | Search Engine |
| Location: | Virginia USA |
| Comments: | To whatever authorities this concerns - Please continue to support this site ! As a first-generation American whose whole family hails from Ayrshire I am in need of all available websites pertaining to Ayrshire and its history. They provide invaluable information to me since I have little resources available to me about this Scottish region here in US. I have just discovered this site and would love an opportunity to use it ! Thank You |
| 119 | Thursday 06/14/2001 4:06:06pm |
| Name: | Peter Bolton |
| E-Mail: | peter@haeremai.co.uk |
| Homepage Title: | |
| Homepage URL: | |
| Referred By: | |
| Location: | Preston. lancs uk |
| Comments: | Thanks to willy for notifying me about the site. thanks to Ayrshire or whomever for reinstating this most useful of web sites. I am now starting to see the benefits of using a computer and being on "line". |
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120 |
Friday 06/15/2001 10:41:20am |
| Name: | Jan Robinson |
| E-Mail: | janice.robinson@home.com |
| Homepage Title: | Robinson & Maliszewski Album |
| Homepage URL: | http://homepage.mac.com/janrobinson1/ |
| Referred By: | Friend |
| Location: | Calgary, Alberta, Canada |
| Comments: | Thank goodness you are back on line! What a delight to take a look at all of the photos and garner more historical information of our ancestors. |
| 121 | Friday 06/15/2001 2:37:30pm |
| Name: | Catherine Madina |
| E-Mail: | xhu81@dial.pipex.com |
| Homepage Title: | |
| Homepage URL: | |
| Referred By: | Friend |
| Location: | |
| Comments: | Wonderful! It's great to see this site for all of us who live far from Scotland and are researching our Trees. Thank you |
| 122 | Friday 06/15/2001 7:27:03pm |
| Name: | Marion Robertson Green |
| E-Mail: | marion_green@yahoo.com |
| Homepage Title: | |
| Homepage URL: | |
| Referred By: | Just Surfed In |
| Location: | Dumfries |
| Comments: | Enjoyed thoroughly the old photographs of Sorn and Catrine. I spent most of my school holidays at the A.M. Brown Institute, Catrine where my grandmother was caretaker. My ancestors lived in Sorn - Thomsons, McKnights, Smiths. I have a group photograph circa 1868 of the family at Sorn taken before a daughter left for Canada. |
| 123 | Friday 06/15/2001 8:06:27pm |
| Name: | Vina (Wilson) Urquhart |
| E-Mail: | lavinau@aol.com |
| Homepage Title: | |
| Homepage URL: | |
| Referred By: | |
| Location: | Troy NY USA |
| Comments: | I'm so glad you are back. I was stunned that such a rich, high quality, historically relevant website was off line. As a result of signing the guestbook on the old site I heard from friends of my childhood (Catrine School and Cumnock Academy). Nice to be able to visit again. Thanks to all the generous people who share so freely the photos etc from their family archives. Put the kettle on for a wee cuppa! |
| 124 | Saturday 06/16/2001 1:46:05am |
| Name: | Leonie Malins |
| E-Mail: | android@1earth.net |
| Homepage Title: | |
| Homepage URL: | |
| Referred By: | Friend |
| Location: | Wollongong, Australia |
| Comments: | The site is better than ever! I would love to hear from anyone with information about my ggggrandparents, Charles and Elizabeth McLauchlan and their children: John, Elizabeth Clark, Hugh, Margaret Killin, Mary Kelly, Susannah Jamieson and Charlotte Lucas. They all lived in Sorn/Catrine in the first half of the 1800s. The children eventually moved to Glasgow and Edinburgh. Thank you. |
| 125 | Tuesday 06/19/2001 0:32:32am |
| Name: | Bonnie J. Sell |
| E-Mail: | BonnieSell@prodigy.net |
| Homepage Title: | na |
| Homepage URL: | |
| Referred By: | Search Engine |
| Location: | LaMirada, California, USA |
| Comments: | Many of my ancestors were from Sorn and Mauchline. I saw your URL on the Ayrshire Rootsweb List. |
126 |
Monday 07/09/2001
2:00:06pm |
| Name: | Tom Allardyce |
| E-Mail: | tom@mauchline-online.com |
| Homepage Title: | |
| Homepage URL: | http://www.tomallardyce.freeserve.co.uk |
| Referred By: | Friend |
| Location: | Mauchline |
| Comments: | Great site Kenny and thanks
for the support for our project! Tom Allardyce (Mauchline Spiders - www.mauchline-online.com - Coming soon!) |
127 |
Monday 07/16/2001
5:10:08pm |
| Name: | Rev. Brock Saunders |
| E-Mail: | r.brock.saunders@sympatico.ca |
| Homepage Title: | |
| Homepage URL: | |
| Referred By: | |
| Location: | Hamilton, Ontario, Canada |
| Comments: | Most interesting to me as I am the son of Jessie (Drummond) Saunders (d. William Drummond of Bogwood) |
| 128 | Thursday 07/19/2001 1:45:46am
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| Name: | sherry freed |
| E-Mail: | scotties686@cs.com |
| Homepage Title: | |
| Homepage URL: | |
| Referred By: | Search Engine |
| Location: | |
| Comments: | My grandfather, Alexander Brown, immigrated from Scotland to the United States in 1910. According to immigration records his family came from Catrine. Eighty years later I married a man from Troon. Small world, isn't it? I have found this sight fascinating. |
| 130 | Monday 08/13/2001 7:28:14pm
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| Name: | Ken Dunlop |
| E-Mail: | kendunlop@aol.com |
| Homepage Title: | |
| Homepage URL: | |
| Referred By: | Just Surfed In |
| Location: | Auchterarder |
| Comments: | Brilliant web site and great to see photos of the old days. I tememeber the mill fire and the floods. Would be good to hear from anyone who attended Catrine Primary 1960-66 or Cumnock Academy 1967. My father was the local "bobby" so I'm sure many will remember him. |
| 131 | Tuesday 08/14/2001 0:07:56am
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| Name: | Rhonda Lucas |
| E-Mail: | aussierhonda@hotmail.com |
| Homepage Title: | Aussie Rhonda's Genealogy |
| Homepage URL: | http://www.geocities.com/leesdream9/ |
| Referred By: | Friend |
| Location: | Gold Coast, Qld, Aus |
| Comments: | What a fantasic site, well done
and thank you Living in Australia and tracing my family to Sorn, Catrine & Mauchline has been fun, but to find a site that has photo's and histories to make me feel as though I am there is unbelievable! My GG Grandparents came to Australia in 1885 on the Gulf of Venice. They were William LUCAS & Mary Jane YOUNG. William was born at Sorn in 1855 to Andrew LUCAS & Charlotte McLAUCHLAN. As far as I have ascertained so far two of William's brothers came down here as well. James b.1866 came on the Gulf of Venice with them and Daniel, the eldest born in 1849 came down earlier around 1880. Andrew's parents were Daniel LUCAS and Agnes PATON. From the guest book I have found a link on Charlottes line, YIPPEE. Leonie Malins if you read this please contact. So, please keep up the good work. If any name ring bells for you please visit my pages for Lineages! To Peter Bolton, another cousin recently found, thank you for referring me to this site and bringing Scotland alive for me! |
| 132 | Wednesday 08/29/2001
4:40:29pm |
| Name: | Alistair McClure |
| E-Mail: | Wendy@woodsidefarmhouse.freeserve.co.uk |
| Homepage Title: | |
| Homepage URL: | http://www.woodsidefarmhouse.com |
| Referred By: | Friend |
| Location: | Coylton |
| Comments: | Magic Kenny, the site works really well and is super fast, are you putting on more picture for sorn in the 80s 90s? Speak to you soon |
| 133 | Saturday 09/15/2001 5:04:40pm
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| Name: | Robert Laurie |
| E-Mail: | robert.laurie@bl.uk |
| Homepage Title: | |
| Homepage URL: | |
| Referred By: | Search Engine |
| Location: | |
| Comments: | Well done, an remarkable site,
but could have done with a little more annotation of the illustrations.
Comment from AH.COM (It all takes time, and I may add this site is voluntary unfortunately, ie work done in spare time!!) |
| 134 | Monday 10/08/2001 2:12:05am |
| Name: | Sandra and Alan Winchcombe |
| E-Mail: | samm@bigpond.net.au |
| Homepage Title: | |
| Homepage URL: | |
| Referred By: | Friend |
| Location: | Furnace Road, MUIRKIRK |
| Comments: | Maureen and Nally Murray. Thanks folks for sending the disc.,worked beaut and brought back those memories we would never had but for you both. And to you Kenny, great site which does justice to that lovely part of the world so many of us owe our existence to. |
| 135 | Saturday 11/03/2001 11:36:38pm |
| Name: | BRIAN JAMES RORISON |
| E-Mail: | brianureds@hotmail.com |
| Homepage Title: | |
| Homepage URL: | |
| Referred By: | Friend |
| Location: | nottingham england |
| Comments: | very interesting site ,great
history also. elsewhere my sister fiona garton has left a message our father
war PEDEN MURRAY RORISON born march 1927 at lower farthing bank ,thornhill..his
grand father JAMES RORISON , lived and worked on the drumlandrigg estate,
later he lived at BACK O'HILL FARM OCHILTREE,where until recently our relative
ROBIN GRIERSON lived,we would love to hear from friends or relatives to
assist us with our family tree many thanks BRIAN RORISON |
| 136 | Monday 11/26/2001 6:15:29am
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| Name: | Leif Wanhaniemi |
| E-Mail: | leif.wanhaniemi@spray.se |
| Homepage Title: | |
| Homepage URL: | |
| Referred By: | Friend |
| Location: | Gothenburg, Sweden |
| Comments: | I was fortunate enough to live
in Sorn for a year. The village became my home, sort of the first place
I could call that, after spending my whole life travelling the world. Unfortunately,
sometime you have to leave home, but I hope to be able to return. I miss
the village itself, all the friendly people,(some of whom I now call my
best friends ), and Sorn Inn of course. Kenny, many thanks for putting up this site, gives me the chance to visit Sorn as often as I like, in a way. Stay well everybody. Leif |
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