Here the answer of the hotel owner why this area is named Loy for all interested Loy´s. Are there a Dennis&Kathy Loy, members of the list? Johann Loy Vienna / Austria >From: Gordon Haynes <glenloy.lodge@virgin.net> >Reply-To: glenloy.lodge@virgin.net >To: Johann Loy <johann_loy@hotmail.com> >Subject: Re: Loy >Date: Wed, 25 Oct 2000 10:06:01 +0000 > >Dear Johann > >Thanks for your message. Last September we had a visit from Dennis & >Kathy Loy of Wayne, New Jersey. They were just fascinated that there >should be a glen named after them!! > >OK what do we know? First up, we’re English and we only moved here 2 >years ago. But we’ve been reading up on local history. Loy means calf >(laoigh in Gaelic), which we understand refers to the fact that the >river is a smaller one than the Lochy, into which it flows. Sometimes it >is written laogh, without the i, and can also mean friend. There used to >be a small settlement in the glen, before the Highland clearances but >now there is just a scattering of houses and cottages (and a hotel!) at >the mouth of the glen and two houses 4 miles up the glen where the road >stops. There’s a ruined farmhouse at a bridging point 2 miles up the >glen. The oldest house in the glen, Erract, was built before the 1745 >Jacobite uprising. It was home to Ewen Cameron, laird of Erract and >leader of a branch of the Clan Cameron which can trace their descendency >back to the son of the thirteenth chief of the clan, by his second wife, >the first Cameron chief to be styled “of Lochiel”. Prince Charles Edward >Stuart marched past Erracht House shortly after raising his standard at >Glenfinnan. Unfortunately for you, we have found no evidence of the >surname Loy emanating from this part of Scotland. Chambers Twentieth >Century Dictionary has loy as ‘a long, narrow spade with footrest on one >side of the handle’. This sounds very like the implements used for >cutting peat. Perhaps peat-cutters took the name of their spades? > >Sorry that we can’t be of more help. > >Sincerely > >Gordon Haynes > >Johann Loy wrote: > > > > Dear hotel manager, > > > > May I ask you if you know any history why your area (glen, river and at >last > > your hotel) is named "Loy" ? Is "Loy" in Scotland very often ? > > > > Your homepage is very nice and the pictures of the area are lovely. > > > > Thank you in advance > > Sincerely > > > > Johann Loy > > Vienna / Austria > > > > >_________________________________________________________________________ > > Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at >http://www.hotmail.com. > > > > Share information about yourself, create your own public profile at > > http://profiles.msn.com. _________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com. Share information about yourself, create your own public profile at http://profiles.msn.com.