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It’s an old thread but if you want to know where Bracklish is then please ask, it has been spelt different ways over the years and has a cemetery located at it, it is close to Brackley, possibly a mile, but is a good few miles from Brackla, maybe 5?

I have family buried at Brackish (breachlich, Bracklich etc), and I was born a mile away from there

Garry

Garry

Hello Tantan

The Petty Church is a very pretty, stone built church situated right alongside the A96, mid-way between Inverness, and Nairn.  Its not actually on the coast itself, but is near Castle Stewart  (an hotel) and privately owned Dalcross Castle.

During the past few years, Dame Helen Mirren and her American movie director husband were married at the Petty Church.

There is a graveyard attached to the Church.

Kilvarock Castle (Rose Clan) and Cawdor Castle (Campbell Clan) are nearby to.

Danchaslyn

Helen Mirren did not marry at Petty Church, she married at Ardersier Church, I attended the wedding, the church referred to as Petty Church in the context of this thread is not the church on the A96 at Tornagrain, that is a relatively modern church and Cemetery, the Church for Petty and the MacIntoshes is actually Behind Castle Stuart, many people do not know it is there, it stopped being used in the 50's. As well as the church there is the Family vault of the MacIntosh family, the roof of the vault recently collapsed and is under cover now with scaffold support, the cemetery has many old graves, I was born at Ardersier and my family are from Petty/Ardersier/Cory/Cawdor/Ardclach, and includes MacIntoshes, MacPhersons & Davidsons

Regards

Garry

Thought I'd throw my bit in here, I am connected to the Sir James MacKintosh mentioned earlier, but through marriage, my 5th Gr uncle Duncan MacPherson married Anne Brodie Campbell, Ann's mother was Margaret MacKintosh the sister of Sir James MacKintosh, Duncan's sister Mary MacPherson being my 5th Gr Grandmother, much can be found about the MacPhersons of Ardersier on the web if interested but I digress, my little stumble at the moment is my 5th Gr Grandmother on a slightly different line, Mary MacIntosh married James Davidson in Ardersier in 1776, trying to tie down this Mary MacIntosh? Any ideas?

Regarding Campbelltiwn/stuarton/Ardersier....have known about this all my life, it is this way due to half the village belonging to the estates of earls Campbell's of Cawdor (campbell town) and the other half to earls Moray esates (whom were Stuart's thus Stuarton), Ardersier was a large farm(carse of Ardersier and Mains of Ardersier)(my 6th Gr Grandfather James MacPherson of Ardersier worked for Cawdor as his Factor and lived at Mains of Ardersier) the name was changed from Campbelltown as mail mistakes were happening in the postal system with 2 villages named the same, thus although known locally and unofficially as Ardersier it was only changed officially in 60's or 70's.....why do I know this trivia?.....I was Born in Ardersier, and my parents still live there...any help I can go be please ask

Garry