Angus MacDonald and Margaret/Peggy MacDonald family, Stoneybridge, South Uist

[Rosinish]

Hi Ann Marie, I'm not sure how much this is going to help you ... all these darn MacDonalds!     

Thanks Mystic................unfortunately it doesn't   

I have been avoiding MacDonald's for years & I'm sure you know why     

They are probably related but records don't go back far enough sadly.

Not only do I have the Stoneybridge connection but I have the parents of my Angus died in Ardivachar, (Iochar/Iochdar).........the same area where Carnan is 

Anne Marie

[Rayjamgor]

Dont know if this helps but i have death a cert for Margaret Kennedy ms McDonald (widow of Samuel Kennedy) and parents Angus McDonald deceased and Margaret McDonald ms McDonald in 30/03/1869 Parish of Laggan , Crathy or Orathy it says also.

[Rosinish]

Hi Ray,

Worth keeping note of.......

Can you give the age of Margaret on death please?

Anne Marie

[Rosinish]

I know it's an old post but did you ever find this...

"v. ARCHIBALD OR ARCHY MACDONALD born on 13 Jan 1856 in Garryganichy, South Uist - died on 09 Jul 1919 in Stoneybridge, South Uist. He married ANN BOWIE (daughter of John Bowie and
Catherine MacEachen) on 6 Aug 1889 in Stoneybridge, South Uist (witnesses: John Bowie and Christina MacDonald). She was born on 29 Jan 1860 in South Uist. She died after 1919 (alive at time of husband's death)."

BOWIE ANN 69 - 1930 - 118/2 7 Howmore
MACDONALD ANN 69 - 1930 - 118/2 7 Howmore

Annie

[Skoosh]

Crathy is right for Laggan parish, the last of the crofters there left when the Spey dam was constructed and fields flooded. They were mostly Catholic & their chapel at St Michael's across the Spey was taken down and re-erected at Pluscardine.

https://www.archaeologyreportsonline.com/PDF/ARO2_Spey_Dam.pdf

Bests,
Skoosh.

[Forfarian]

Crathie, Parish of Laggan, on the first edition of the Ordnance Survey six-inch map.
https://maps.nls.uk/geo/explore/#zoom=16&lat=57.01516&lon=-4.33975&layers=5&b=1

Same area on modern map https://www.geograph.org.uk/gridref/NN5893 - the name survives but not the crofts shown on the old map.

[Skoosh]

The Spey dam was built in the 40's and the last of the Crathie folk, a Charlie Og MacPherson, left in the 50's.
 I'm told that before the war the crofts were mainly occupied by elderly brothers & sisters so the wee community died out. The chapel was built by MacNab of Sherrabeg, the tacksman, who was connected to MacDonnell of Keppoch.
 I fancy the Crathie folk would have been buried at the old kirkyard at Aberarder, adjacent to Aberarder Lodge on Loch Laggan. There is also a very old burial ground up the river Markie from Crathie called Riebalich? but that was for unbaptised weans, illegitimate folk & strangers. Not easy to find, a square left unplanted by conifers with some stone markers. Doubtful if that's on a map but the guys who planted the right bank of the Markie obviously knew it was there.

Skoosh.

[Rayjamgor]

 Margaret Kennedy was 86 when she died in Crathy. Parents Angus McDonald and Ann MacDonald, informant was Angus McPherson, grandson. I managed to get to Crathie at the Dam, theres a gable end of one house still standing.

[Skoosh]

interesting piece by a Graham Grant on the coffin road from Whitebridge, Loch Ness, over the bealach to Glen Markie & Crathie then to St Kenneth's burial ground, Aberarder, Loch Laggan,

https://southlochnessheritage.co.uk/coffin-road/

A few Crathie burials at Laggan Old parish kirkyard,

https://www.lagganheritage.com/lagganold.html

www.cushnieent.force9.co.uk/Moray%20Churches/logykenny.htm

Skoosh.