I understand that the Moy from which my forebears came to Australia was a farm on the River Lochy about 10 km NW of Fort William or 2 km south of the point where the River Spean joins it. The literature suggests that Moy in Gaelic is A Mhoigh which means the plain and is famous as the place that Prince Charlie and his army rested on the third and fourth nights of their outward march from Glenfinnan (MacCulloch, DB 1971, Romantic Lochaber, Arisaig and Morar, 3rd edn, W&R Chambers, Edinburgh, p. 132). David At 04:00 PM 25/02/2003 -0700, you wrote: >SCT-ARGYLL-D Digest Volume 03 : Issue 35 >______________________________X-Message: #2 >Date: Tue, 25 Feb 2003 11:20:03 +1100 >From: "Heather Oldham" <moldham@bigpond.net.au> >To: SCT-ARGYLL-L@rootsweb.com >Message-ID: <008b01c2dc63$a5555060$0100000a@ADSL> >Subject: [ARGYLL] Which Moy? Donald CAMERON/Janet McKINNON >Content-Type: text/plain; > charset="iso-8859-1" > >Hi Everyone > >I have just come across two towns/villages by the name of "Moy" in the >1985 Bartholomew Road Atlas of Britain (in the Argyle area) > >First question - What does Moy mean? > >Second question - If my Cameron's came from Moy, Kilmallie which is more >likely - would it have been the Moy between Strone and Gairlochy, or from >Moy, between Craigbeg and Moy Lodge on Loch Moy along Glen Spean? > >Does this second Moy, along Glen Spean, belong to a different clan area? > >Thank for any help in this matter. > >Kind regards >Heather. >NSW.