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Messages - Johnnie Murchison

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Handwriting Deciphering & Recognition / Re: Birth Place in Leith
« on: Friday 20 October 17 13:37 BST (UK)  »
Leith, Scotland, which is on the opposite coast to Glasgow, adjoining Edinburgh.

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Inverness / Re: Anyone recognise this old graveyard?
« on: Monday 09 October 17 23:30 BST (UK)  »
I recall a similar description of a disused graveyard off the beaten track which was the last resting place of many of the 'navvies' engaged in the setting up of the smelter works in Lochaber. Many of the men had no financial resources and lived a rough lifestyle and fatalities were common. BBC archives may still have documentary short on the subject.

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Ross & Cromarty / Hangman Puzzle
« on: Monday 09 October 17 19:29 BST (UK)  »
Farquhar Murchison, tacksman and elder, Newtown,Redcastle Killearnan, ROC, murdered by his wife Elizabeth MacKenzie and accomplice Kenneth MacDonald alias Keil on Oct. 25th 1747.
Both were convicted and MacDonald was hanged at Inverness on 29th Oct.1749. Now widowed, Elizabeth MacKenzie was ordered to be transported but no record of this ever happening. The couple had 2 children, both called John, the latter baptised in March 1747 at Killearnen.
Trying to establish what happened to the child(ren) and who Elizabeth MacKenzie was. Can't trace burial record for Farquhar. Red castle Kirk newly built at same period.

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Inverness / Re: Lord MacDonald Estate Isle of Skye
« on: Tuesday 26 September 17 23:28 BST (UK)  »
East side refers to the parish of Stenscholl , later amalgamated with Kilmuir in Trotternish.

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