Heather I do not know enough about this period of Scottish History or the history of Argyllshire to know what “sectors” of Scottish society were involved. I think that the Earl of Argyllshire was involved with the Covenanter, so I would expect that many of the families that did migrate in the 1600’s to Kintyre could have been covenanters. Mike Boyd From: Heather Grimwood Sent: Sunday, March 17, 2013 11:21 AM To: Mike Boyd Subject: Re: [AYR] Lowlander planted on Kintyre, Southern Argllshire Mike, i thought anyone with COVENANTING sympathies was newly in trouble 1684....maybe that was the trigger...heather --- On Sun, 17/3/13, Mike Boyd <[email protected]> wrote: From: Mike Boyd <[email protected]> Subject: [AYR] Lowlander planted on Kintyre, Southern Argllshire To: [email protected], [email protected] Date: Sunday, 17, March, 2013, 1:36 PM During my trip to Scotland in October 2012, I found a book in Fort William Library, which mentioned that General Leslie “cleared” Kintyre of its highlanders and that in 1647-8, the Marquis of Argyll, Archibald Campbell took steps to arrange a plantation in the half empty land with families from Ayrshire and Renfrewshire. There was further colonization of Southend in 1669. For some reason The Earl of Argyll in 1685 rebelled against James II of England which led to the Atholl raids. While it does not say so, I suspect these “settlers” were forced to flee Kintyre. So if any of your “families” have disappeared from Ayrshire in any of these dates, you may need to look at southern Argyllshire for your family before they may have moved to Ireland in about 1685. From 1646, some of these lands was taken up by big Lowland tacksmen or lessees, so the records might be under their names or the Earl of Argyll’s. I hope this will help some of you searching for your family. Mike Boyd Brisbane, Aust. ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to wlmailhtml:/mc/[email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message