James M IrvineCaptain James Irvine is the author of Trace Your Orkney Ancestors and several books on Orcadian History, and the administrator of the Clan Irwin Surname DNA Study. Before his retirement from the shipping industry in 2000 he was able to visit Sunnysid, the home of Washington Irving, and begin a tortuous search in archives in Aberdeen, Edinburgh, Kirkwall, London and New York for the documentation that established the author's genealogy in the 1850s and has refined it since. This book, the result of that research, is one of a trilogy of publications on the family surname: Dr Christopher Irvin and his 'Original of the Family of the Irvins', a biography of this 17th century polymath and a detailed analysis of his monograph on the origins of the surname, and The Irwin Surname - its Origins, Diaspora and Early Branches. The former is being published simultaneously with this book, the latter will be published in 2020. Read More Read Less