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Re: South Laggan Church
« Reply #9 on: Saturday 26 July 14 09:04 BST (UK) »
Laggan Locks are of course a long way from Laggan. I think the parish you're after would be Kilmonivaig or possibly Kilmallie.

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Re: South Laggan Church
« Reply #10 on: Saturday 26 July 14 10:52 BST (UK) »
Thank you, yes, I now realise the confusion with the names being the same, but here in the land down under, I had a o/s map off the internet showing Loch Lochy with North Laggan and South Laggan marked as locations beside it. The parish would be Kilmonivaig as this was the one given on the McKinnon baptisms, when I know the family were living at Laggan Locks in the 1850's.
Many thanks for all your help once again.
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Re: South Laggan Church
« Reply #11 on: Saturday 26 July 14 14:49 BST (UK) »
AMH, the Duke of Gordon paid the passage of many of his Laggan tenants to Australia. Laggan place-names in the district they settled.

The penal laws against the Episcopalians in Scotland were only relaxed in 1792.

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Re: South Laggan Church
« Reply #12 on: Thursday 14 August 14 14:33 BST (UK) »
The little chapel at South Laggan (known as Baile Alister in some census returns and named after Alexander MacDonell) still stands close to the A82. As far as I am aware there are no gravestones around it. The nearest burial ground would be at Kilfinnan at the end of Loch Lochy - very old but not many old headstones. A lot of the crofters of  Balmaglaster, Laggan and Glengarry buried there.  Parish of Kilmonivaig / Glengarry.


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Re: South Laggan Church
« Reply #13 on: Friday 15 August 14 04:05 BST (UK) »
Dear Abrach1,
Many thanks for your help. I might have to seek burial records for Kilfinnan Burial Ground. I visited there recently. So many unmarked graves. Such a beautiful spot.
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Re: South Laggan Church
« Reply #14 on: Friday 15 August 14 11:05 BST (UK) »
Anent unmarked graves, apart from considerations of cost, in many Highland districts the local stone was volcanic or metamorphic in origin and, unlike sandstone, quite unsuitable for cutting. The folk themself knew who was buried where and wooden crosses never lasted.

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Re: South Laggan Church
« Reply #15 on: Friday 15 August 14 11:05 BST (UK) »
Good luck with that one!!! If you ever come across burial records for Kilfinnan please let me know. There will be a lot of my Kennedy and MacDonell ancestors buried there but I have never found any records for Kilfinnan.
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Re: South Laggan Church
« Reply #16 on: Friday 15 August 14 11:11 BST (UK) »
I have just had another thought.
You say you are researching MacKinnons. I seem to remember there was a teacher in Invergarry school (pre 1960's?) who was a Miss MacKinnon - her colleage Miss Margaret Ralph lodged with my grandmother. Could she have been part of your family?
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Re: South Laggan Church
« Reply #17 on: Friday 15 August 14 11:21 BST (UK) »
The picturesque Cille Choirille church might be too far out but worth a wee look.

http://www.highland-glens.co.uk/local-information

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