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Sutherland / Re: Donald of Clashneach & Mary Mackay
« on: Yesterday at 22:17 »
Different Cathrine Morrison. This one (1832-1922) married Robert MacDonald and farmed at Sangobeg. The croft share is still in family hands but the croft is uninhabitable.

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Sutherland / Re: Donald of Clashneach & Mary Mackay
« on: Yesterday at 22:00 »
Alexander Falconer Clarke (1802-77) and Marion MacBeth Manson had a son (probably Assistant Surgeon John Clarke) who got my Great-great-grandmother Cathrine Morrison pregnant out of wedlock in 1857

David Morrison (later David Clarke) died in a fishing accident in the Pentland Firth in June 1891. He is commemorated on his mother and stepfather's gravestone as their son, and sits for eternity as a silent rebuke twelve feet from the Clarke Gravestone

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Sutherland / Re: Durness Parish Register - Part 2
« on: Monday 18 March 24 09:00 GMT (UK)  »
There was a James MacKay, listed as "merchant in Glasgow" who married Mary Gunn in Arnaboll on 6th May 1815.

While Arnaboll is now almost inaccessible, the path from Eriboll to Arnaboll still exists and could be driven by car into the 1990s, although you would need a quad bike now.

"Your" James would be 32, so he might have retained some connection to his place of origin and married someone known to his family.

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Sutherland / Re: Durness Parish Register - Part 2
« on: Saturday 16 March 24 21:33 GMT (UK)  »
It appears so often in Hew Morison as "Shinnins" that I am dubious... ???

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Sutherland / Re: Durness Parish Register - Part 2
« on: Saturday 16 March 24 17:21 GMT (UK)  »
Balmhulich is the high ground next to Durine in the centre of the modern village. as you drive in from the south and turn towards Balnakeil it's the houses on the left, so a good ten miles by road from the croft at Creag na Faolinn at the southern tip of Erriboll. Mind you, by foot over the Bealach it's only about six miles, although the terrain is not easy.

Still haven't located Shinnins.

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England / Re: Henry Robinson - Bookseller in Edinburgh
« on: Thursday 14 March 24 20:58 GMT (UK)  »
Mr Robinson was perhaps the last man to be prosecuted for blasphemy in Scotland. The prosecution was unsuccessful - https://www.scottishindexes.com/jcdetail.aspx?jcid=1843513&pid=184351301
   

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Sutherland / Re: Durness Parish Register - Part 2
« on: Monday 11 March 24 10:36 GMT (UK)  »
Fiveraliver: Like Wilros I am not 100% convinced, but on balance I think that the Hugh and Isobel MacKay in Shinnins and the Hugh and Isobel in Faolinn are the same people. While I haven't been able to locate Shinnins on any local map (I think it was on the bank of Loch Eriboll but am happy to be corrected). the house at Faolinn can be seen on the 1874 O.S. map.

There is no other marriage listed with the same two names, and if my guess is correct they have only moved a short distance.

As has been pointed out, Reverend Thomson's recording of patronymics was never a model of consistency. Hugh is either "son of John son of Donald" or "son of John son of John son of Donald"- on balance I would favour the latter, which fits the 1776 and 1792 entries. 

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Sutherland / Re: Macleods of Achunahanait and various spellings there after
« on: Tuesday 27 February 24 22:44 GMT (UK)  »
Many made their living as crofter/fishermen, taking to the Pentland Firth when the demands of the croft allowed. Within the parish there were smiths, millers, cobblers, weavers (My g-g-g-grandfather wove the burial cloths for those not interred in a coffin) and latterly cattleman from Skye and shepherds from Northumberland as sheep took over the harsher straths where it was difficult to grow enough to survive AND pay rent.

There were no roads. Supplies came in and left by boat, so that was how your ancestors would reach Thurso. The people werere hardy; if you survived infancy you could expect to live to eighty.

As I understand it, the land and climate of Nova Scotia and PEI, while harsh for many, differed little in the skills requred to farm it from the lands they left   

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Sutherland / Re: Macleods of Achunahanait and various spellings there after
« on: Monday 26 February 24 22:44 GMT (UK)  »
I don't think the 1780 map is terribly reliable (it has no houses at all in Durine or Sangomore which is demonstrably wrong) - as far as I know from the 1876 O.S. Maps Achunahanait is a few hundred metres east of where it's shown, but it was close to the road and south of the present village.

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