Hi Monica,
Thanks for your reply. Just found the 51 census in Boleskine and Abertaff: Archibald 61, Ann 60, Angus 28 so that fits with the burial chart, but no Coll, but of course he could have been living elsewhere.
However, I see you have Gillies & Knoydart on your interest list. After about 10 years of searching for my husband's grandfather's birth certificate, I think I have at last found his birth in Knoydart plus 4 siblings. His name was McDonell and he was born in Lochhournhead, his father coming from the Kilmonivaig area.
His mother, Ann McDonald, seems to have lived most of her short life in Knoydart, though the 71 census says she was born at Glenquoich: other info says Glenelg which is a very large area!! I have found a sister Catherine and brother Angus so far. Their mother is Mary Gillies (with a first marriage to Donald Mcdougall) and her parents are William Gillies and Cathrine McDonald. Don't know where they were from yet.
Ann Mcdonald's father was Samuel Mcdonald (c 1806 - 1878) and his parents were Archibald McDonald and Anne Gillies, hence my interest in the information in the Cille Choirill Brae Lochaber book.
But wondered if there was any connection with your Gilles interests in Knoydart?