The Real Neil McTaggart (Bio.) | The Man behind the Story Podcast 1099

Companion background for Neil McTaggart’s Crossing: the real family history, Kilbirnie mill housing, and Scottish emigration context behind the fictional story.

Right, Today we’re going to talk about Neil McTaggart.

Now, some of you know that I’ve been writing a story, and you’ve been reading it on my blog and hearing it on YouTube.

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Neil McTaggart’s Crossing (1): A Story of 1920s Scottish Emigration to Canada (Podcast 1093)

Part 1 of Neil McTaggart’s Crossing. Neil leaves Scotland for Canada and begins the crossing that changes his life. A historical fiction audio story about Scottish emigration, Canada, family, and belonging.

#kilbirnie cemetery #genealogy #ayrshire

I was in Kilbirnie cemetery yesterday taking pictures of family graves (the Glass family) During the session I caught a few pics of nearby stones. The names are: burns/miliken, merry/cameron, reid/sweeney, shearer/jackson, kerr, galt/kerr/conn, whyte/spencer, clark/mcphee, chapman/irving, stirling, mcalister/mclean, steele/findlay, mclaughlan/mccolm, hunter/gibb, davidson, bowie/clark, tait/young, biggart/hogg, biggart/fyfe, mcqueen/maxwell, jamieson/walker, thomson, martin, houston, mcneil/ jamieson, mcneil/davidson, steel/allison, paterson/richmond/coulter, greenan/mcveigh, Tinnie, Hood/mcmaster, Knox, evans, And Warnock.

if you want pictures, let me know

 

Joseph