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Mudge wrote:

If you want them worked on, then I suggest, for best results, you post each one on seperate threads

Understood, just posting those two for interests sake, the top one in the thread is the one I hope to do some reproducing of for family.

All the best,

Donald.

Thanks all for the work done on this sketch, and the technical advice!

I hope to print out a nice copy before Dad's birthday in a few months, possibly on invite cards to a party then, and will definately appreciate any of the larger versions some of you note as having done. If I do not get around to messaging anyone my email address is easily available (cannot recall if "profiles" in this board include it), just Google "Coigach genealogy" and my webpage with email address usually comes up first.

Most family paintings we have are framed on walls, but I must dig out the originals of these sketches and others I have scanned (including charcoals of Dublin scenes Dad did around 1950), and see about better preserving them.

For fun here are a few more pages... (accckkk exceeded file posting length, I'll try sending them one at a time)

All the best,

Donald.

Hiya Linda,

I'd be interested to know if you trace Roderick's wife Ann, as I always have an eye out for "strays" from Coigach in Lochbroom Parish.

My guess is Ann was a second wife for Roderick, given her age noted as 36, and son James 29. Was she the Ann MacLeod noted in the IGI as marrying a Roderick MacKenzie 27 April, 1837 in Urquhart And Logie Wester Parish?

If Ann was second wife, it was not unusual for first daughter named for deceased first wife, suggesting Roderick's first wife may have been a Catherine.

Donald.

Hiya Alex and old Rowley,

O.R. wrote:

The entry for the prisoner named Beaton reads,

(prisoner) 141 Angus Beaton Transported 31-3-1747.

I have copies of the pages of "Prisoners of the '45" and "Muster Roll of Prince Charles Edward Stuart's Army, 1745-46" where they mention Cromarty's Regiment, Angus is found there with some more data, noted as miller to the Laird of Ardloch, 48 years of age, at "Little Laids", "Home or Origin" as Caithness.

My guess is Caithness was an error, though possbly he was born there. I have not located "Laids" or "Little Laids" but Mackenzie of Ardloch was then at Assynt Parish of SutherlandShire.

The Laird of Ardloch sat out the Rebellion, but his younger brother John was a prominant officer in Cromarty's Regiment, evaded capture at Dunrobin, aided French attempts to rescue Bonny Prince Charlie, including acting as pilot to the Privateer that eventually did get the Prince, though later captured with further adventures.

Old Rowley, I'd be interested in the source of the list you have; I have not been able to track down all the original sources of the two books I note above, and from description it looks likely your list is one of them. Please contact me off line and I'd be happy to trade the data from "Prisoners" and "Muster" on Cromarty's Regiment for the data you have. [email *]

All the best,

Donald.

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Hiya Jim,

I have a copy of "Prisoners of the '45, Cromarty's Regiment" a booklet in the records at the Ullapool Museum, extracted from a larger book, perhaps the one you found your data on Alexander in, it has 225 people listed, mostly from Cromarty's, and a few from Glengarry's whose residence looks to have been in Lochbroom Parish.

"Mickle" I take for "muckle", meaning big or large, "Strath" was a wide and long valley.

Though there are other big straths in Scotland my guess is your Alexander was from the one in Lochbroom, given Cromarty recruited a large part of his regiment in the area.

You wrote:

I believe Alexr. to be my ancestor. We also believe, according to family lore, that he was a marchent, a Jacobite, fought at Culloden Mor and was deported to the colonies on the ship Gildart, which left Liverpool 5 May 1747 to the colonies.

The Regiment fought in a number of battles in the Rebellion, then were ordered north to Sutherland and Caithness, with a side trip to Orkney, to recruit, and attempt to recover a ship load of gold from the French that had been captured by the Hanoverians there. They captured Dunrobin Castle in the last siege battle that has been fought on the mainland of Britain.

They were ordered south to Inverness where a major battle was expected, and set out the day before the Battle of Culloden... the officers tarried at the Castle, the privates, likely including your Alexander (and some of my relatives) were captured leaderless on the road, and while the Earl parlayed in the castle one of the Sutherlanders lied to the bodyguards below that the Earl had surrendered and unlocked the gates... If the Regiment had made it to Culloden the result of that battle might have been different.

The note I have on Alexander says he was noted as held at Inverness in June, 1746, then on the prison ship Alexander & James, then on the prison ship Liberty, then at the Prison of Medway. Also has a slightly different date for his "Transportation" than you have, 20 March, 1747.

Lochbroom was mostly MacLeods and MacKenzies, but there was always a healthy sprinkling of MacDonalds; Achadh a Donnell, later Dundonnell, was south-west of the big strath, and the mountainous area between Glen Achall and Strathcanaird north-west of the big strath is mostly Ben Donald, those place names indicating the great age of the family in the area.

Hope that is some help,

Donald.