Were the soldiers and their families living at Fort George in 1861 enumerated with the inhabitants of Ardersier? If so, is there an index to Ardersier? Many thanks for any help. Best wishes from North Florida, USA Anne

Subject: Robertsons of Struan( from clanline/desktop) On the following copy, could someone clarify the meanings of the following... GEORGE DUNCAN OF STRWAN: Major General; C.B., K.L.; ~ What would the C.B. and K.L. stand for? GEORGE DUNCAN OF STROWAN: (Styled Struan Robertson): J.P ~ J.P. would stand for?? I have an Hon. Duncan Robertson, Major General and Chief Justice of the Custos Rotal...... (can't read the last word - fairly long. Just wondering if he could be the same...) Any input greatly appreciated! Del.

HI Thelma, Those references I sent were from the REgister of Saisines, which record changes of ownership of property. The Inverness register can be found either at Inverness Archives or at Edinburgh National ARchives of Scotland. Good luck, Jane -----Original Message----- From: Macquarie Business Associates Pty Ltd <mbapl@hunterlink.net.au> To: SCT-INVERNESS-L@rootsweb.com <SCT-INVERNESS-L@rootsweb.com> Date: 13 May 2000 08:18 Subject: [SCT-INV-L] Macleans of Lochletter (Red Castle) Hi Jane, Thanks to you too for your wonderful information on Red Castle – where are the references from and will I find all these places on a map of Scotland? The Isle of Muck is one of the "Small Isles" – comprising Muck, Rhum, Eigg and Canna (I think – someone correct me if I’m wrong) – and is part of the inner Hebrides islands off the west coast of Scotland. Wow! I got to answer one for a change! Cheers Thelma ______________________________

In a message dated 13/05/00 7:33:01 PM Central Daylight Time, musicmjm@bellsouth.net writes: << Sometime ago I found a McEwan Site, and have since lost it. They supposedly lived in the Castle Suibhne on Skye. Does anyone have any clue about this? Jean Manning >> http://web2.airmail.net/samhradh/ <A HREF="http://web2.airmail.net/samhradh/">Radio Celtic Home Page</A> Just go to this home page, click on to the Scottish flag and you will be taken to hundreds of sites. Also try www.tartans.com clan finder area. Dave M.

In a message dated 13/05/00 8:29:06 PM Central Daylight Time, gwmckenz@svcn.mb.ca writes: << I am looking for information on the parents of John McKenzie Born 1775 Brahan, Rosshire died 1860 Glengarry County, Ontario, Canada and his wife Anne MacDonald (Struan) neice of Allan MacDonald VII of Kingsburgh Skye. Glen McKenzie Swan River, Manitoba Canada >> There are still several hundred descendants of the MacDonalds of GlenGarry in Maxville Ontario and they have a museum and one of the largest Highland Games in the world as well as a fine tartan shop and a Gaelic choir at one of the churches. If you were to address a letter to the Tartan shop, Maxville Ontario, C.O. the post master, I am sure they would get it and be able to give you some information. The lady that runs the shop and her husband are very nice people indeed. It is a small village between Ottawa and Montreal. Hope this helps Dave M.

In a message dated 13/05/00 8:52:41 PM Central Daylight Time, mmrbm@ameritech.net writes: << In looking at a clan map of Scotland, I noticed that the west coast of Skye is marked with MacLean of Harris. What does that mean? I haven't found the reference anywhere else. Marion Markham >> All MacLeans descend from Hector and his sons, MAC/McLain are of the House of Lochbuie, and MacLean etc., are of the House of Duart as your ancestors are. (Duart castle still sits on the Isle of Mull and is the seat of our clan chief. As for your map you will see MacLean of Harris and MacLeod of Harris etc. These are Cadets of the clan and it is a regional sub chief. People descended from this man and were named as from Harris. When they moved around they were titled for reference purposes as being from this particular chief, who answered to MacLean of Duart. You also have MacLean of Pennycross and several other sub clan divisions, but all are MacLean of Duart. DaveM. (MacLean) Yeah though I may be poor, Thank God I'm a MacLean. Motto = Virtue Mine Honour. The battle cry = Another for Hector, this came about as Highlanders, MacLeans, threw themselves in front of an enemy advance to protect our chief, Hector of the Battle Axe from harm. Each one yelled as he fell, "Another for Hector." We were lucky as our chiefs were honorable people and we were not cleared from our clan lands nor were we ever sold into servitued by our own. Also the MacLean Tartan and Kilt are amonst if not the oldest, tartans traced back to about the 11th century.

Looking for info on William BEAN born in Inverness-Shire 1635. he md) Margaret? possible last name for her is HATTON but not sure of it. William latee went to VA where he died 18 Nov 1697 in Cherry Point,Northumberland Co VA. Any help would be wonderful, Michelle

In a message dated 14/05/00 4:13:57 AM Central Daylight Time, jane@providence2000.freeserve.co.uk writes: << HI Thelma, Those references I sent were from the REgister of Saisines, which record changes of ownership of property. The Inverness register can be found either at Inverness Archives or at Edinburgh National ARchives of Scotland. Good luck, Jane >> It may be interesting to some that Red castle was used to house the Italian POWs in W.W.II. They were used as farm help in the area for the duration of the war. Each farmer had one, two or three, etc., assigned and they had to go to the castle to get them. It seems many friendships were made and it seems that the two assigned to my Granda kept in touch with them long after the war was over. My Granny also had 2 Canadian soldiers billeted with her and they stayed in touch with her until her death. One was a Mr. Young from Ottawa Canada. At that time my Granny and Granda lived out near the Castle in Arpafeely. (sp) By our local pronunciation I had always thought of it as Reid Castle, as my Granda pronounced red as reed, as in the lovely reed apple. DaveM.

I am looking for information on the parents of John McKenzie Born 1775 Brahan, Rosshire died 1860 Glengarry County, Ontario, Canada and his wife Anne MacDonald (Struan) neice of Allan MacDonald VII of Kingsburgh Skye. Glen McKenzie Swan River, Manitoba Canada

In looking at a clan map of Scotland, I noticed that the west coast of Skye is marked with MacLean of Harris. What does that mean? I haven't found the reference anywhere else. Marion Markham

Sometime ago I found a McEwan Site, and have since lost it. They supposedly lived in the Castle Suibhne on Skye. Does anyone have any clue about this? Jean Manning

Hi William Cattanach & Isabella Gordon had the following 2 sons John & Malcolm. John Cattanach b/c1768 Kinguisse Parish Newtonmore d: Feb. 16th 1856 son David present Malcolm Cattanach b/c1776 Kinguisse Parish Newtonmore d: Dec. 13, 1858 gson Thos. McPherson Here is my Query both John and Malcolm's death certificate indicate John as Widower no wife name. Malcolm Cattanach Slater as married. Both are bured in churchyard of Kingussie. I was wondering if possible that the wifes graves or names would be near or on the cemetery stone and if anyone ever went to the graveyard? Would it be possible for them to look. If the cemetery look was possible by anyone I would really appreciate it. Patricia -- Patricia Ann Cattanach Knapp <Pat.knapp@sympatico.ca> Mississauga, ON Canada [also Foy, Singer and Johnston] http://www.familytreemaker.com/users/k/n/a/Patricia-A-Knapp/

Can SKS please tell me in which parish(es) Fort William is situated? Jim Jim and Bev Payne jr_bjpayne@xtra.co.nz New Zealand

--part1_c1.3231d38.264efc0b_boundary Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit In a message dated 5/13/00 11:24:11 AM Pacific Daylight Time, GailmLynch writes: << I can confirm that it is well worth contacting a regiment directly or to a curator of any regimental museum. they are very helpful and keep detailed information. Gail >> --part1_c1.3231d38.264efc0b_boundary Content-Type: message/rfc822 Content-Disposition: inline Return-path: <GailmLynch@aol.com> From: GailmLynch@aol.com Full-name: GailmLynch Message-ID: <15.3c006d9.264ef7cb@aol.com> Date: Sat, 13 May 2000 14:24:11 EDT Subject: Re: [SCT-INV-L] Macleans of Lochletter (43rd Regiment) To: mbapl@hunterlink.net.au MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: AOL 5.0 for Windows sub 106 I can confirm that it is well worth contacting a regiment directly or to a curator of any regimental museum. they are very helpful and keep detailed information. Gail --part1_c1.3231d38.264efc0b_boundary--

I will mail xeroxes of the photos - its no problem - I'm not advanced enough, nor is my computer, to send photos that way. Just Let me have your address. I realised I forgot the book title. Even if you are not travelling it is so readable and interesting: It is by a British author and I bought the book in America. "Scotland's Highlands and Islands" by Richenda Miers - a Cadogan Guides book. Keep us in touch with your research! Gail Lynch

As many of you know I have been doing a bit research into this topic, (Scottish Slavery) and I thought you may have an interest in this reply I got from the MacLean List. There were two situations for the Highland Scots and Irish, indentured servants and outright slaves. The Indenture servants were much as describe by previous e-mails and the treatment of the servant was depended on the person the servant was indentured to. It was still for a fixed period and the person was free after his or her indenturment. But slavery was also employed. A number of the chiefs, the very people appointed to protect the highlanders and their lands betrayed them. These chiefs knew that many of the Cleared Highlanders that they forced to emigrate to America were being sold into slavery in the southern United States. When it was found out that some of the new spiritual representatives were accepting substantial sums of money from Southern US slave-owners the lay members of the church, the Press and the people of Scotland generally were abhorred that they should even contemplate taking money from slave- owners and they were regaled with cries of "Send back the money." After due deliberation The Free Church of Scotland's official response was, "Neither Jesus Christ nor His holy apostles regarded slaveholding as a sin" - and kept the money. In 1803 the Rev. James Hall commented, "The state of our Negroes is paradise compared to that of the poorest Highlanders" Ironic words considering that many of these poor Highlanders would soon become slaves themselves working beside the enchained Negro slaves. This practice of sending defeated people into slavery was started by Cromwell in Ireland. More than 100,000 Irishmen were sent to the West Indies as slaves. In the 1980's the tiny Caribbean Island of St Kitts erected a monument to the 25,000 Irish slaves that Cromwell people had sent to work in the sugar fields. Many died of disease and overwork. If an Irish slave was caught trying to escape, they branded his forehead with the letters FT (Fugitive Traitor). Other common punishment meted out by the English land owners including whipping or hanging them by their hands and setting them on fire. The records state that some 150 Irish slaves practicing Catholicism were shipped to an uninhabitable island and left to starve. The one difference between these white slaves and the black slaves was that slavery for the white person ended with him when he died. Or if he escaped he could disappear in the general populations since he looked like all the other white people.

Dear Paul, I have a little information concerning McIntoshes of Borlum that I am sending to you, references taken from the Inverness parish register early 18th century. I can't answer the question where John 'Mohr' was born, hope some of interest. Jane -----Original Message----- From: Paul Basu <paul.basu@ucl.ac.uk> To: SCT-INVERNESS-L@rootsweb.com <SCT-INVERNESS-L@rootsweb.com> Date: 12 May 2000 10:23 Subject: [SCT-INV-L] Mackintosh of Borlum >Dear all, > >I was wondering whether anyone on the list had a particular interest in >the Mackintoshes of Borlum. I am trying to locate information relating >to William Dearg, the famous Brigadier who was involved in the 1715 >uprising and held the Raitts Estate near Kingussie, and also William's >brother Lachlan (of Knocknagael; b. 1665), who became Bailie of Badenoch >after his father. Indeed, I am trying to locate the birth place of >Lachlan's eldest son, John Mhor Mackintosh (b. March 1700, m. in Dores >in March 1725). Perhaps Knocknagael... but I wondered whether his >father would have had a residence in the Kingussie area along with his >office of bailie. John Mhor was a recruiting officer in Inverness-shire >for the Darien settlement in Georgia. > >Can anyone recommend any leads? > >Best wishes, > >Paul. > >==================================== >HIGHLAND HOMECOMINGS PROJECT >http://www.scotweb.org/homecomings >homecomings@scotweb.org > >Highland Folk Museum >Duke Street >Kingussie >Inverness-shire >PH21 1JG >Scotland > >Tel: (local) 01540 662435 (international) 00 441 540 662 435 >Fax: (local) 01540 661631 (international) 00 441 540 661 631 > >______________________________

In a message dated 12/05/00 12:09:20 PM Central Daylight Time, jane@providence2000.freeserve.co.uk writes: << I have no dates for these photos and wondered whether the decor would help if anybody had similar decors, and a date, and I could identify the people more easily.. MacMahon had a Grecian style pedestal, without the statue, and a bucolic backdrop of trees and a lake. The women are wearing hats, quite awful, they look like frilly shower caps, and elegant pale trailing robes. The older woman prob in her early thirties has keys on a chain around her neck, and the younger one, her niece I think, has a clasp of flowers above the breast. The women appear nicely mischievous or daring in my opinion. D Whyte has a young woman sitting at a small round table, another behind her turning over the pages of a book on the table. Dark Victorian dresses and lockets around their necks.. J. Collier has a man sitting on a chair with tassles, a round table with a plant, a curtain backdrop, a small foot-chair. George Robson has a large chair or small sofa, and the hoops of the dress of the woman sitting there seems to cover it all; one side has the curving back of a chaise-longue. D. Whyte in Inverness has an elaborate forged iron table I think with wooden top and a woman sitting at a chair with book on table. Has anybody got similar decors and is able to date these photos? Many thanks, Jane perhaps if you put them on a web page we could identify some of the areas by what is around them. The first picture, the hats, sound like maids or waitresses if they have on peenies/aprons. DaveM.

Hi there, Received some other wonderful information from Elizabeth B on the 43rd Regiment and researching military history and careers generally which may be of use to others. Elizabeth writes: You mention that John was a captain in the 43rd Regiment. I do not know whether you have any information about his army career, or the 43rd Regiment, but they became the Monmouthshire Light Infantry, and the 1st Battalion (they were always those that went overseas) became The Oxfordshire Light Infantry. As far as I am able to ascertain, they became The Royal Green Jackets, and they have a museum, which it might be worth your while writing to: The Curator, The Royal Green Jacket Museum, Penninsular Barracks, Romsey Road, Winchester, Hampshire, England. ALL British Army records are held at Kew just outside London. They have a website www.pro.gov.uk unfortunately they will not do research for people, but will supply you with a list of researchers who use Kew. Obviously these people are not employed by Kew, but leave their names with them. I have a friend who has been researching at Kew for his Grant family, also Glen Urquhart, and he found wonderful army records, with fantastic detail showing the complete service record of his ancestor. Cheers Thelma

Hi Jane, Thanks to you too for your wonderful information on Red Castle – where are the references from and will I find all these places on a map of Scotland? The Isle of Muck is one of the "Small Isles" – comprising Muck, Rhum, Eigg and Canna (I think – someone correct me if I’m wrong) – and is part of the inner Hebrides islands off the west coast of Scotland. Wow! I got to answer one for a change! Cheers Thelma