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I believe the Stouts in Orkney hailed from the Fair Isle do you have any "kenin" of your branch comming from there Fred. I have heard that the isle was unable to sustain its population at one time and a lot of people had to leave, mind you most places were to a lesser degree the same in days gone by. I understand a lot of people from Fair Isle found there way to stronsay and the Stronsay Stouts are indeed directly of Fair Isle extraction. Would I be correct in saying also the Williamsons??.
Please keep me right on this matter it is only my intent to open up the debate.

Yet another o' Harry Berry's works, great stuff.

The 1851 census for Stronsay shows Williamsons, Irvines, Leslies,Eunsons and Stouts who had been born in Fair Isle, and probably moved there in the 1830s for work in the fishing industry.I would seem that the ancestors of Benjamin Stout had been in Orkney much earlier.

I'm told 3 Stouts came from Fair Isle. 1 went to Westray 1 to Longhope and the other to the mainland. My family come from the Longhope one. (so I'm told) Fred will know better.(skeletons in cupboards come to mind)

John,I don't know if the Brims Stouts were originally from the Fair Isle, but there is a good chance that this could be the case. As you say, a lot of the Fair Isle folk were forced to leave on several occasions and most of those that didn't emigrate, went to Westray or Stronsay.
Jimmy, that copy as far as I know was not done by Harry Berry. One of my Stout relatives, who lives in England, decided that he should have the original, so he took it home and replaced it with the above copy. I admit that the copy is probably better than the original, but in my opinion the original should be where it had hung since 1901, in the Brims lifeboat house.

Hi John if you want info on Stouts try bayanne.info/Shetland my gggggf Thomas Stout 1700 seems to link with your family generation
my father was John Stout baker Stronsay GF JOHN GGF PETER GGGF GEORGE GGGGF MAGNUS GGGGGF THOMAS
HOPE TO HEAR FROM YOU SOON ERLEND STOUT

There's a good wee book john "Eight acres and a boat" which gives a good account of the Fair Isle families, the Eunsons, Irvines, Leslies, Stouts, Williamsons and Wilsons etc, it makes very interesting reading

Looks like Harry's signature bottom right?

Yes, Jimmy and David, you are correct. It was Harry Berry who copied the photo.

Hi - does anybody have a copy of 'Eight acres and a boat' to sell? I am researching my Paternal Grandmothers family (STOUTS) and have read Fair Isle Ghosts and would love to read more about the families on Fair Isle

Hi I too am looking for 8 Acres and a Boat. Author Jerry Eunson 2007. To add to the research into my Father William Stout's family history
Many thanks for reading. Sue

Benjamin Stout was my Great-great Grandfather.

Greetings all, from Albany on the south coast of Western Australia. I am very interested to learn more about the Stout family from Orkney -- Master Mariner, Captain James Stout* (1850 --) being a paternal Great Great Grandfather of mine. He was the son of Andrew Stout and Ann (nee Muir). A century before my birth he was married to Maria Louisa FELLOWS, daughter of Corn Chandler, Henry Fellows. Captain James Stout and his wife Maria Louisa (who accompanied him on all voyages, raising two daughters on board) lived in Shanghai, China, where i understand he had land on the Bund; Captain Stout is also supposed to have been the owner of a Clipper Ship (the name of which i do not know).
I arrived (after a childhood in Africa) in Albany in the 1990s. The coastal city boasts a couple of lovely natural harbours, and on more than one occasion in 1879 (July and i think March) Capt Stout arrived in Albany, Master of the Barque "Thomas Brown" transporting cargo to and from Albany (King George's Sound) with his wife and children on board.
Captain Stout's surviving daughter, Hannah Fellows Stout was married on 28/02/1896, in Shanghai, to Yanktzee Pilot, John Michael HARLOE -- my father's Grandfather.
We understand too that James Stout was awarded China's highest honour, The Order of The Golden Dragon for some act of humanity -- we think possibly for saving a boatload of seafarers from imminent peril..
I have a copy of Capt. James Stout's MASTERS Certificate, issued on 02/04/1868, Privy Council of Trade. Captain Stout's marriage to Maria Louisa FELLOWS took place in 1868 at Whitechappel. I understand James Stout's paternal Grandfather was George Stout.
I have no further details, or photos, relating to Master Mariner James Stout, and do not know his fate. I have a couple of aarticles from the "North China Herald" newspaper (Shanghai)in the 1890s, involving Capt. James Stout (one is regarding a shipping incident).

I would love to know more about the Stout's from Orkney; i have attempted to purchase that very commended book "Eight Acres and a Boat" this year, 2022, but thus far it has not reached me. Many thanks for your' time, feel free to contact me. Sincerely,Ruth Harloe.