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Hiya Allan

A few quick notes;

Alexander Macgregor   married  Margaret Macdonald
(b1781 Camach LB)                  (b1784 Lochbroom)

I assume the place as "Carnach", not my part of the Parish, but there were MacDonalds there, my guess is your Margaret was one of those.

Hector Macdonald   married    Annabella Macdonald
(b1792 Lochbroom)                (b1801 Lochbroom)

There was a Hector Macdonald above 30 years of age, a Fisher at Morefield in 1826, and Tenant at Fiubeg in 1827.

Murdoch Macleod    1st  married    Elizabeth Dawson           1 dau out of Wedlock Betsey Dawson
(b 1826 Lochbroom)                  (b1819 Lochbroom)            (1853 Lochbroom)

Dawson was not a North-west Scotland surname, however.... Benjamin Dawson was a Mason at Ullapool in 1798, John Dawson a Fisher at Ullapool in 1826, noted as a Mason in 1827, most likely a son of the 1798 Benjamin, mason.

All the best,

Donald.

Hiya Allan (a good old Stewart forename!)

I see your Stewarts at Ullapool in the 1841 census, try http://www.freecen.org.uk  Roderick there as a Weaver.

Gadget is right that Achiltibuie was possible source for your Stewarts, though I think they were more concentrated in Badenscallie in the early 19th century. Three of the twelve people in the 1798 Militia List at Badenscallie were Stewarts, seven of the fourteen at Achiltibuie were Stewarts, but I think they were then new migrants from Badenscallie, as none of the subtenants at Achiltibuie in 1767 were Stewarts (family heads named in a petition then).

The Stewarts are said to have come to Coigach as refugees following Culloden, see my notes at http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~coigach/nbadsc.htm#stewart

A family of emigrants aboard the Sir Allan McNab to van Dieman's Land in 1853 were Stewarts from Isle Martin, possibly not directly connected to your bunch, see http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~coigach/mcnab.htm#528

I am tied in knots with the 1798 Lochbroom Militia List, trying to do a surname and forename breakdown, never getting the same count twice, argggg, but will take a boo at what Stewart data I have... if you find a newspaper article on the 1897 tragedy I'd love to have a copy of that for my Coigach website, where I have already a jolly little collection of drowned crofters! My website is at http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~coigach

All the best from Niagara,

Donald.


p.e.s. in 1798 there were nine wagons in the Parish of Lochbroom, none of those in Coigach. There were 89 boats and 366 horses.

Hello all,

Alexander MacKenzie, born 10 November, 1843 at Three Rivers (Trois Rivieres), Quebec, to  Alexander MacKenzie and Mary Traversy. His father died 1850, and Alexander reportedly was from 1850 to 1861 with Catherine MacKenzie at Dingwall. He then enlisted in the Hudson's Bay Company and was sent to what is today western Canada.

I have not found Alex at Dingwall in the 1851 or 1861 census, it might have been a mistake to state he was from there, rather that might just be the place he enrolled in the H.B.C

Anyone see young Alex elsewhere in Scotland?

All the best,

Donald.

Hello all,

Just came across some old family photos, one of Dad about 1948 I remember in much better shape, I think it is a survivor of a basement flood some years ago.

Scene is the Wicklow Mountains south of Dublin, Dad at that time a 17 or 18 year old art student at Dublin, living and working in the dungeons of the Kildare Street Club, one of the last outposts of the British Empire where it was not unusual to find old Colonels dead in their chairs several days, still clutching the Times of London.

Dad and other young characters would hitch hike south on their days off into the Wicklows, army surplus gear was then plentiful, the sack on his back ex paratrooper, and the tents of barrage baloon fabric.

Don't know if much can be done to save the photo now, but I have seen some miracles from this group! I'll also attach one a few years later, from when Dad brought Mom home to meet the family, gives a clearer view of his face (note that great legs still run in the family!)

All the best from Niagara,

Donald.

Hiya Daryl et al,

sorry to be a bit slow replying, hectic week off-line,...

Looks like you now have three sons of a John MK at Lochbroom (mothers names are not in the Lochbroom O.P.R. that period), their birth order, and approx birth years, from that it might be possible to pick out your bunch.

Placing the family at Ullapool in family records or even records does not neccesarly mean that is where they specifically lived; it was the largest community and people living in the smaller surrounding places of only a few households would later tell people they were from "Ullapool". Similar today as "Gadget" can probably attest people living in small communities on the Coigach peninsula say they are from "Achiltibuie".

That said, your John, son of John MacKenzie (Fisher) and Janet Stewart, was probably not born in Ullapool as 1780 predates founding of the village, and Stewarts were thin on the ground at Ullapool.

My guess is your bunch were from Isle Martin or more likely 1780 period at Badenscallie in Coigach. At the bottom of the Badenscallie file on my website I include the following.

All the best,

Donald.


Coigach Stewarts

In February 1999 John MacLeod (CONTACT INFO) who has ancestors at Badenscallie, emailed me the following information, it is reinforced by a letter from Jean Stewart of Inverness to Gwen Smith (CONTACT INFO) of Tasmania in 1984. Jean said three sons from Appin had to flee west to the region which is now Ullapool. I think the Stewart refugees are also mentionned in the book "Peoples and Settlement in North-West Ross" edited by John R. Baldwin in 1994 (SOURCE INFO).

John MacLeod wrote;

Various families came into the area following the '45, including the Stewarts, a party of whom (women included!) escaped from the battlefield of Culloden and fled north through the hills until they reached the Oykel valley at Tutim. There one of the women is buried in the graveyard above the road. The party turned West and eventually settled in Coigach. Originally from the Appin area, all the Stewarts in Coigach are descended from those settlers.