Livingston (Appin)
Family
Found in 6 Collections and/or Records:
Field notebook belonging to Alexander Carmichael, c1872-1893
Series
Identifier: Coll-97/CW126f
Scope and Contents
Field notebook belonging to Alexander Carmichael. The marjority of the notebook relates to material collected in Earra Ghàidheal/Argyllshire but there are a number of loose leaves at the end which contain an account of a journey from Uibhist/Uist through An t-Eilean Sgitheanach/Isle of Skye, during which time his wife, Mary is in Edinburgh and is pregnant. There are eight blank folios at the end of the notebook. Much of the material in this notebook was collected from Duncan...
Dates:
c1872-1893
Genealogical notes and stories about the Livingstone family, 4 October 1892
Item
Identifier: Coll-97/CW126f/40
Scope and Contents
Genealogical notes and stories about the Livingstone family including their connections with Kerrera, Ulva and Blantyre [Cearrara, and Ulbha, Earra Ghàidheal/Argyllshire and Lanarkshire] and David Livingstone the explorer. There is a story about a Livingstone at Achnacree killing a deer for the King with an arrow and subsequently losing possession of Dail an eas [Achadh na Crithe and Dail an Eas/Dalness, Earra Ghàidheal/Argyllshire]. Also includes a story about 'The baron who bro[ugh]t body...
Dates:
4 October 1892
Genealogical notes on the Livingstone family including a story from the Battle of Culloden, October 1892
Item
Identifier: Coll-97/CW126f/68
Scope and Contents
Genealogical notes on the Livingstone family including a story from the Battle of Culloden Earra Ghàidheal/Argyllshire. The notes include that Donald Livingstone, fought at the Battle of Culloden aged eighteen, where nine of his men were shot carrying the Prince's flag. He took the flag and 'swathed [it] round his body. He was shot down and was thought to be dead but he got up with nine bullet wounds - flesh wounds which were seen in his body when he died aged 79 or 80 years old'. There are...
Dates:
October 1892
Note about John Livingstone's father, 27 September 1883
Item
Identifier: Coll-97/CW120/191
Scope and Contents
Note about John Livingstone's father, collected from John Livingstone 'Muillear Mòr', Portnacroish, Appin [Port na Crois, An Apainn, Earra Ghàidheal/Argyllshire] aged 73, which states that his father moved to Inverfolla in 1800 when John's grandfather was thirty one years old and his father was thirteen years old.
Dates:
27 September 1883
Note about the Livingstone family and some of their possessions, 27 September 1883
Item
Identifier: Coll-97/CW120/184
Scope and Contents
Note about the Livingstone family and some of their possessions collected from John Livingstone 'Muillear Mòr', Portnacroish, Appin [Port na Crois, An Apainn, Earra Ghàidheal/Argyllshire] aged 73 years, including mention of a connection with Dr [David] Livingstone, that the family is from Achnacrithe [Achadh na Crithe/Achnacree], Benderloch [Meudarloch], Morven [A' Mhòrbhairne] and Ulbha [Ulva]. He mentions a salt cellar, a tumbler in a house in Druimnamoine [Druim na Mòine/Druim-na-moina]...
Dates:
27 September 1883
Story about the murder of an Appin man by Macleans of Duart, 5 October 1892
Item
Identifier: Coll-97/CW126f/45
Scope and Contents
Story about the murder of an Appin man by Macleans of Duart collected at Bachuill, Lios Mòr/Lismore, Earra Ghàidheal/Argyllshire. The story tells how the Appin men beat the Macleans of Duart at a games in Muile/Mull after which they fought each other and one of the Appin men was killed and the Macleans 'hung up the body against the castle and defied the world to touch it.' The Baron of Bachuil heard what happened and went to Duart Castle with his two red-haired daughters and 'rend[ered] all...
Dates:
5 October 1892
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- Achnacree Argyllshire Scotland 2
- Family History 2
- Inverness-shire Scotland 2
- Names 2
- Ulva Argyllshire Scotland 2
- Voyages and Travel 2
- Airds Argyllshire Scotland 1
- Ardslignish Ardnamurchan (parish) Argyllshire Scotland 1
- Balindore Argyllshire Scotland 1
- Benderloch Argyllshire Scotland 1
- Blantyre Lanarkshire Scotland 1
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- Culloden, Battle of | Scotland | 1746 1
- Dalness Royal Forest Argyllshire Scotland 1
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- Druim-na-moina Argyllshire Scotland 1
- Duart Mull Argyllshire Scotland 1
- Duntanachan Ardchattan and Muckairn (parish) Argyllshire Scotland 1
- Edinburgh -- Scotland 1
- Etymology 1
- Fort William Kilmallie and Kilmonivaig (parish) Inverness-shire Scotland 1
- Funeral Rites and Ceremonies 1
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- Hunting 1
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