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	Sutherland - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The name is used also to refer to an administrative county (1890 to 1975), a district of the Highland region (1975 to 1996), a committee area of the Highland unitary authority (1996 to present), a registration county, a lieutenancy area and the Sutherland constituency of the Parliament of the United Kingdom (1708 to 1918).
		Sutherland (Cataibh in Gaelic) is a traditional county which is now within the Highland local government area of Scotland.
		Sutherland has two main names in the county's indigenous Scottish Gaelic: Cataibh may be used for the whole county, but tended historically to apply to the south east, and Dùthaich MhicAoidh (MacKay Country) which was used for the north west, sometimes referred to as Reay Country in English.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Sutherland (621 words)

	Wilson County, Texas Current Post Office Information Page
		An election was finally held in November 1873 to determine the location of county government, and the new town of Floresville, near the geographic center of the county, was selected as the new county seat.
		The citizens of Sutherland Springs called for a new election in 1883, but Floresville once again won by a margin of 250.
		The county seat was returned to Sutherland Springs in March 1871 but moved back to Lodi in July 1871.
	tx4.us /cy/wilson.htm (621 words)

	Encyclopedia: Sutherland
		Sutherland ( Cataibh in Gaelic), or Sutherlandshire, is a traditional county in the north of Scotland, bordering on Caithness to the north and both Ross-shire and Cromartyshire to the south.
		In 1975 the county was abolished as a local government area and divided between the then new areas of Sutherland District and Caithness District, with the Strathnaver area of the county becoming a part of Caithness District (which included also the area of the traditional county of Caithness).
		Kinlochbervie is a harbour town in the North West of the Scottish county of Sutherland, in Highland region.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Sutherland (621 words)

	Sutherland - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Sutherland constituency of the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom represented essentially the traditional county from 1708 to 1918.
		Between 1890-1975 the county was administered by the administrative county of Sutherland.
		This article is about the Scottish traditional county of Sutherland.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Sutherland (462 words)

	Sutherland -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article
		This article is about the Scottish (Click link for more info and facts about traditional county) traditional county of Sutherland.
		In 1975 the county was abolished as a (The government of a local area) local government area and divided between the then new areas of Sutherland District and (Click link for more info and facts about Caithness District) Caithness District, with the Strathnaver area of the county
		Although it is on the northern coast of (An island comprising England and Scotland and Wales) Great Britain, the name Sutherland comes from the (Any of the Scandinavian people who raided the coasts of Europe from the 8th to the 11th centuries) Viking s' view of it as the "Sudrland", or Southland.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/S/Su/Sutherland.htm (462 words)

	Encyclopedia: Easter Ross
		Easter Ross is a loosely defined area in the east of the administrative county of Ross and Cromarty.
		Ross and Cromarty: administrative county (1889-1975) Ross and Cromarty: district council (1975-1996) Ross and Cromarty: lieutenancy area (1996-date) Ross and Cromarty was until 1975, an administrative county, and was originally formed in 1889 from the merger of Ross-shire and Cromarty.
		Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross may mean or refer to: Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross (UK Parliament constituency), the constituency of the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Easter-Ross (567 words)

	AllRefer.com - Sutherland, Nebraska (NE) (Lincoln County) - (town) - Facts and Information
		RR junction to E. Sutherland Reservoir to S (on Tri-County Supply Canal) and Sutherland State Recreation Area.
		AllRefer.com - Sutherland, Nebraska (NE) (Lincoln County) - (town) - Facts and Information
		Reservoir and power plant, part of Platte Valley power and irrigation project, are here; reservoir fed by water diverted through concrete conduit from Kingsley Dam.
	reference.allrefer.com /gazetteer/S/S17689-sutherland.html (186 words)

	Caithness -
		The Caithness constituency of the House of Commons of the Parliament of Great Britain (1708 to 1801) and the Parliament of the United Kingdom (1801 to 1918) represented essentially the county from 1708 to 1918.
		The royal burgh of Wick, which had served as the county's administrative centre, became the administrative centre for the district.
		Caithness was formerly a district within the Highland region (1975 to 1996); and a county with its own county council, from 1891 to 1975.
	www.southasiagrid.com /mediawiki/index.php/Caithness (1621 words)

	The Chadwicks of Guelph and Toronto and their Cousins
		Katherine, married to John Gurney, of Earlham, County Norfolk, and was mother of Elizabeth Fry, the philanthropist also of Hannah, wife of Sir Thomas Powell Buxton, Baronet, and grandmother of Sir Thomas Fowell Buxton, lately Governor of South Australia, and of the Rt.
		Called to the Bar, Easter Term, 1864; was appointed Junior Judge of the County Court of County Wellington, January 10th, 1873; local Judge of the High Court of Justice, March 14th, 1882.
		John, an attorney in Dublin, died 30th December, 1855, married 1826, Mary Anne Briscoe and had issue, Charles, M.D., of Broadwater, County Down, and another son and three or four daughters.
	www.antonymaitland.com /emctext/emcprintd.htm (16253 words)

	Encyclopedia: Highland
		Sutherland (Scottish Gaelic, Cataibh), or Sutherlandshire, is a traditional county in the north of Scotland, bordering on Caithness to the north and both Ross-shire and Cromartyshire to the south.
		Sutherland may mean or refer to: Places or areas in Australia: Sutherland the suburb of Sydney, New South Wales Sutherland Shire, the local government area of Sydney, New South Wales A former town in Canada: Sutherland the town in Saskatchewan which was annexed by Saskatoon in 1956 A town in...
		Dornoch is a royal burgh and seaside resort in Sutherland on the east coast of the Scottish Highlands, and the north shore of the Dornoch Firth.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Highland (16253 words)

	Handbook of Texas Online: SUTHERLAND, JOHN, JR.
		A suit brought by Sutherland against George's heirs over their homestead arrangements left him richer by a league in Bexar County but embittered both parties, prompting Sutherland to sever all ties with the members of the family on the Texas coast and move inland.
		John Sutherland, Jr., physician, was born on May 11, 1792, near Danville, Pittsylvania County, Virginia, the son of John and Agnes Sutherland.
		Sutherland returned with a contingent of men only to see the funeral pyres; among the dead was George's son, William.
	www.tsha.utexas.edu /handbook/online/articles/view/SS/fsu7.html (591 words)

	John R. Sutherland, born 1832. "History of Berrien County" 1906.
		JOHN R. In the death of John R. Sutherland Berrien county lost one of her most prominent and useful citizens, for he was numbered among the honored pioneers who aided in laying the foundation for the present prosperity and progress of the county.
		Sutherland, who bore the maiden name of Mary A. Shippy, was born in Jefferson county, New York, February 24, 1834, a daughter of William Shippy, also a native of that state, and who died when his daughter was but seven years old.
		Sutherland settled in Pipestone township, his first home being a little log house and his first farm consisted of eighty acres, to which he subsequently added another eighty-acre tract, but afterward sold forty acres of his farm.
	www.marthachurchill.com /family/xsuth-jr.htm (504 words)

	Emigrants to the Carolinas from Scotland 1774
		WILLIAM MCKAY, aged Thirty, by Trade a Farmer, married, hath three children from Eight to two years Old, besides one dead since he left his own country, resided last at ______ in the Parish of Farr in the County of Strathnaver upon the Estate of the Countessof Sutherland.
		WILLIAM MONRO, Aged thirty four, Married, Emigrates with his Wife, a servant maid, and a servant Boy, by Trade a Shoemaker, resided last at Borgymore in the Parish of Tongue and County of Sutherland.
		That the People on the Estate of Sutherland were often supplied with meal from Caithness, but the Farmers there had of late stopt the sale of their Meal, because it rendered them a much greater Profit by Distilling.
	users.ev1.net /~siobhan1/emigsct2.html (2624 words)

	San Jacinto Museum of History—Biographies
		John S. Menefee in 1838, by the Board of Land Commissioners for Jackson County for one-third of a league of land, it is stated that he came to Texas in 1830.
		Quoting from "early Jackson County History" by John S. Menefee in the Jackson County Clarion, Texana, Texas, May 20, 1880; "Those who came by land were Thomas and William Menefee and families, George Sutherland and family, William J.E. Heard and family and mother and Thomas J. Reed and wife.
		In 1830 the families of William and John came to Texas with their families of the Heards, Southerlands and others from the vicinity of Tuscumbia and Decatur.
	www.sanjacinto-museum.org /Herzstein_Library/Veteran_Biographies/Browse_Biographies/biographies?action=bio&id=3395 (819 words)

	Handbook of Texas Online: MENEFEE, JOHN SUTHERLAND
		John Sutherland Menefee, merchant, soldier, and public official, was born in Anderson County, Tennessee, on June 24, 1813, the son of Lucy (Sutherland) and Thomas Menefee.
		Menefee was elected captain of a militia squad and participated in the battle of Sandy Creek against local Indians in the summer of 1832.
		In 1824 the family moved to Morgan County, Alabama, and again in 1830 to Jackson County, Texas.
	www.tsha.utexas.edu /handbook/online/articles/view/MM/fme18.html (431 words)

	SUTHERLANDSHIRE - LoveToKnow Article on SUTHERLANDSHIRE
		After the conquest of the district by the Scottish kings, Sutherland was conferred on Hugh Freskin (a descendant of Freskin of Moravia or Moray), whose son William was created earl of Sutherland in 1228 by Alexander II.
		The county returns a member to parliament, and Dornoch, the county town., belongs to the Wick group of parliamentary burghs.
		The county is under school-board jurisdiction; some of the schools earn the grant for higher education, and the residue grant is expended in bursaries.
	52.1911encyclopedia.org /S/SU/SUTHERLANDSHIRE.htm (431 words)

	Duke of Sutherland - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The subsidiary titles of the Duke of Sutherland are: Marquess of Stafford (created 1786), Earl Gower (1746), Earl of Ellesmere (1846), Viscount Trentham, of Trentham in the County of Stafford (1746), Viscount Brackley, of Brackley in the County of Northampton (1846), and Baron Gower, of Sittenham in the County of York (1703).
		The title united with the ancient title of Earl of Sutherland after the first Duke and his wife, the holder of the Earldom, died, and the titles were inherited by the second Duke.
		The title Duke of Sutherland, derived from Sutherland in Scotland, was created for George Granville Leveson-Gower, 2nd Marquess of Stafford, in 1833.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Duke_of_Sutherland (263 words)

	Less school trust lands = more park land
		Sutherland objected when in the past year, the county asked for a three year extension of the current management plan.
		We need to find out what situation is and call it to the attention of the public in a big way." She is meeting with Commissioner of Public Lands Doug Sutherland Thursday, June 20 when they both participate in the removal of a fishing net near Stuart Island.
		Sutherland said DNR had gotten the county's attention.
	www.sanjuanislander.com /state/dnr/lands.shtml (263 words)

	Garvin County, Wynnewood Confederate Veterans, James Thomas Sutherland
		James Sutherland can be found in White County, Arkansas in 1862 and moved to the Wynnewood area in 1904
		Garvin County, Wynnewood Confederate Veterans, James Thomas Sutherland
		He was married to Lou A in White County, Arkansas in 1862.
	www.rootsweb.com /~okgarvin/bios/sutherlandjamesthomas.html (87 words)

	Robert Vance Tree
		Robert [elder] obviously purchased other land in Washington Township, Guernsey County, Ohio, for his wife Elizabeth sold to her son John acreage in the southeast quarter of Section 18, Township 4, Range 1 on 14 October 1816.
		Robert, a meat cutter, who also went by the name of Frank, died on 23 July 1952 in Guernsey Co., OH, at age 77, and was buried in Greenwood Cemetery, Byesville, Jackson Township, Guernsey County, Ohio.
		Robert Franklin VANCE, born 6 May 1875 in Guernsey County, Ohio; married Clara Leota NICHOLSON.
	home.att.net /~beckfoot/rvance.htm (87 words)

	GENUKI: Sutherland
		"SUTHERLAND, maritime county [map shows location] in the extreme N. of Scotland; is bounded W. and N. by the Atlantic Ocean, E. by Caithness and the Moray Firth, and S. by the Dornoch Firth and Ross and Cromarty; greatest length, NW.
		Highland Council Archive includes official records of Sutherland, and other material from the county.
		The account was reprinted in facsimile form in 1979 by EP Publishing Limited of Wakefield, England, and volume 18 deals with Sutherland.
	www.genuki.org.uk /big/sct/SUT (87 words)

	Lincoln County
		Of the 17 multiple-span concrete arch bridges built under the state aid program in the 1910s and 1920s, all but the Sutherland Bridge have been destroyed or substantially altered, leaving this structure as the sole intact example of this important construction trend.
		The Sutherland State Aid Bridge is historically significant as a regionally important crossing of the North Platte River along the state's heavily settled Platte River corridor.
		Citizens in Birdwood Precinct where the bridge lay voted a bond issue in April, and the county for its part secured assistance from the state aid bridge fund.
	www.fhwa.dot.gov /nediv/bridges/lincoln.htm (291 words)

	Elihu J. Sutherland
		Elihu Jasper Sutherland was born December 22, 1885, five years after his native Dickenson County became Virginia's youngest or "Baby County." He was named for the oldest brothers of his father and mother, Jasper Sutherland and Elihu Counts.
		Jasper Sutherland, a big dinner on the ground, a patriotic address by William B. Sutherland, and finally a close baseball game in which the civilian team (one of whom was his brother Lee) beat out the soldiers by 5 to 4 score.
		His father, William B. Sutherland, was a minister of the Primitive Baptist Church for fifty years, and was moderator of the Washington District Primitive Baptist Association 1897-1914 and 1934-1943.
	rootsweb.com /~vahsswv/historicalsketches/1970-no5/sutherlandej.html (6220 words)

	Scottish Highlands Explorer: Caithness & Sutherland Map
		Caithness then invaded the county of Sutherland, set fire to the town of Dornoch and carried off the 15 year old son and heir of the poisoned couple.
		Dornoch, the county town gets its name from the Gaelic for horse's hoof, after William, Thane of Sutherland, killed an opponent in battle nearby with the leg of a slain horse, after losing his sword...
		Above Golspie, the imposing statue of the Duke of Sutherland, who cleared the land of people in order to graze sheep, has become the subject of national debate with many believing he should not be honoured in this way.
	www.cali.co.uk /HIGHEXP/Caithsut.htm (337 words)

	Duke of Sutherland - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The subsidiary titles of the Duke of Sutherland are: Marquess of Stafford (created 1786), Earl Gower (1746), Earl of Ellesmere (1846), Viscount Trentham, of Trentham in the County of Stafford (1746), Viscount Brackley, of Brackley in the County of Northampton (1846), and Baron Gower, of Sittenham in the County of York (1703).
		The title united with the ancient title of Earl of Sutherland after the first Duke and his wife, the holder of the Earldom, died, and the titles were inherited by the second Duke.
		The title Duke of Sutherland, derived from Sutherland in Scotland, was created for George Granville Leveson-Gower, 2nd Marquess of Stafford, in 1833.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Duke_of_Sutherland (263 words)

	history.jsp
		This reinforces the claim that Sutherland clan territory extended beyond the geographical borders of the county of Sutherland.
		The first Earl of Sutherland's great-grandfather, Freskin, who was of Flemish origin, possessed much of Sudrland in the 12th Century, as well as lands at Duffus, in the present county of Moray (and elsewhere).
		The county of Sutherland is one of the two most northernmost counties in mainland Britain, Caithness being the other.
	www.clansutherland.org.uk /public/history.jsp (2466 words)

	GENUKI: Sutherland
		"SUTHERLAND, maritime county [map shows location] in the extreme N. of Scotland; is bounded W. and N. by the Atlantic Ocean, E. by Caithness and the Moray Firth, and S. by the Dornoch Firth and Ross and Cromarty; greatest length, NW.
		Highland Council Archive includes official records of Sutherland, and other material from the county.
		The account was reprinted in facsimile form in 1979 by EP Publishing Limited of Wakefield, England, and volume 18 deals with Sutherland.
	www.genuki.org.uk:8080 /big/sct/SUT (512 words)

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