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Rena, can't remember if I mentioned this book before to you, "Pigeon Holes of Memory!" the life of Dr John Mackenzie, brother to Gairloch. A thick hardback from Amazon and a bargain for about a tenner.
A great read which explains the double lives of the Mackenzie lairds with estates in Wester Ross but lived mostly in the east.
Bests,
Skoosh.
I've checked with the website and yes it is available in hardback for £10.00. but NOT actually available in any version.
Currently unavailable.
We don't know when or if this item will be back in stock. I've been lucky to find many websites that describe how murderous and whiley many of these landed clansmen were (as described by you) but as I doubt my line owned an estate, I'm claiming the one who believes everyone is equal (although some are more equal than others).
My father Donald Mck Crum b1910 described his father Andrew Stephenson Dalglish Crum (Glasgow 1863-1926 Hull) as a gentle man. His Midlothian born mother who signed herself: Agnes Sime Telford Darling Mason Crum, was won't to express her feelings with a physical action - such as pinning a fleeing son against the wall with a well aimed throw of bread dough that she happened to be kneading when perceived backchat occurred.
Aberdeen: Findlay-Shirras,McCarthy: MidLothian: Mason,Telford,Darling,Cruikshanks,Bennett,Sime, Bell: Lanarks:Crum, Brown, MacKenzie,Cameron, Glen, Millar; Ross: Urray:Mackenzie: Moray: Findlay; Marshall/Marischell: Perthshire: Brown Ferguson: Wales: McCarthy, Thomas: England: Almond, Askin, Dodson, Well(es). Harrison, Maw, McCarthy, Munford, Pye, Shearing, Smith, Smythe, Speight, Strike, Wallis/Wallace, Ward, Wells;Germany: Flamme,Ehlers, Bielstein, Germer, Mohlm, Reupke