William, Your Innes/Cameron ancestors all originated in the Tomnavoulin -Knockandhu area of Glenlivet and appear to have resided there in the late 18th and 19th c. I am not sure where you obtained the information re the SLUGGAN, however, my experience of reviewing RC & CoS OPR records for that particuular period, I am of the opinion that Sluggan has been transposed as Claggan. There are two crofts described as Easter Claggan & Wester Claggan which are located not too far from where other members of the Innes family resided. HTH George in Ottawa ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ >From: "William Innes" <w.innes@sympatico.ca> >Reply-To: MORAY-L@rootsweb.com >To: MORAY-L@rootsweb.com >Subject: [MORAY] Sluggan >Date: Wed, 27 Apr 2005 20:08:41 -0400 > >Hi everyone. Ever so often, in some of my ancestors birth and marriage >extracts, the name SLUGGAN keeps coming up. > >My ancestor, William Innes b: about 1778, did live there with his wife >Janet Cameron. Actually, their daughter Margaret, 2nd born , was born in >Sluggan. > >I believe this place, in the early 1800s was in Inveravon, ( Glenlivet ). >Does anyone know exactly where it is located? > >William in Montreal > > >==== MORAY Mailing List ==== >MORAY OPR's. The OPR's for the Moray area are now starting to be >transcribed and volunteers are needed. Would anyone interested in >transcribing the OPR's for our area please contact me via my usual email >address or visit the Moray Rootsweb pages and contact me via the mailing >list Admin. > >============================== >View and search Historical Newspapers. Read about your ancestors, find >marriage announcements and more. Learn more: >http://www.ancestry.com/s13969/rd.ashx >
> I am of the opinion that Sluggan has been transposed as Claggan. > George > in Ottawa Interesting that you think that, George, because the same thought has crossed my mind. I had a look in Matheson's "Place Names of Elginshire" but although he includes Duthil, he does not list Sluggan. He does consider that Slack may be derived from Gaelic 'slug', meaning a throat, or a narrow place or gorge. Gaelic 'clag' means a bell, or a crashing noise. However I cannot say whether this has anything to do with the place name Claggan - which also occurs in Lochaber. How one would get from 'slug' to 'clag' I am unsure. Anne