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Genealogical notes on the Livingstone family including a story from the Battle of Culloden, October 1892

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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

Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Note about a stone belonging to Angus Macinns [MacInnes], piper, 29 August 1883

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Identifier: Coll-97/CW120/94

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Note about a stone belonging to Angus Macinns [MacInnes], piper to James Stewart, esquire, of Fasnacloich [Earra Ghàidheal/Argyllshire] and his wife Ann Stewart. The note states that the piper was at Culloden.

Dates: 29 August 1883

Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Note about 'Am Muilear Beag', 1883

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Identifier: Coll-97/CW120/174

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Note probably collected from Donald MacColl, foxhunter, Glencreran, Earra Ghàidheal/Argyllshire, about 'Am Muilear Beag' that he must have been the miller of Innerfola [Earra Ghàidheal/Argyllshire] and at [the Battle of] Culloden and that 'Carmichaels [were] great cronies of Innernahyles [Stewarts] - his leine chneis' [leine-chneis or leine-chnois 'confidant']. Also notes that the word 'fonnag' means a small man.

Dates: 1883

Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Note about Cladh Churalain [St Cyril's Graveyard], a gravestone inscription and drawing, 29 August 1883

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Identifier: Coll-97/CW120/93

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Note about Cladh Churalain [St Cyril's Graveyard] that it is 250 feet above sea level and surrounded by a 'good oblong square dyke'. Also, inscription of the gravestone of Hugh MacColl, late of Caolas Na Con [Caolasnacon, Earra Ghàidheal/Argyllshire], who was a native of Glencreran [Earra Ghàidheal/Argyllshire] and was at the Battle of Culloden. The note is accompanied by a drawing of a heart and a gun and the date 1794.

Dates: 29 August 1883

Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Note about footprints in rock, 27 September 1883

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Identifier: Coll-97/CW120/156

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Note probably collected from Donald MacColl, foxhunter, Glencreran, Earra Ghàidheal/Argyllshire, about footprints in a rock left by the Lochaber women who stole cheese from Cuiralainn [Curalan/St Cyril]. This rock sheltered men after the Battle of Culloden.

Dates: 27 September 1883

Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Note about men who fought at Culloden, August 1883

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Identifier: Coll-97/CW120/132

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Note about men who fought at Culloden hiding in Dòmhnall nan Òrd's cave and that 20 of them who died were from Glencreran [Earra Ghàidheal/Argyllshire], and were very young: 'on whom fias[a]g [beard] did not mark'. The Glencreran men were commanded by Stewart of Airdsheile, who is noted as being 'a fine sword man'.

Dates: August 1883

Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Story about Captain Scott on Isle of Barra and Mingulay, 1867

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Identifier: Coll-97/CW114/72

Scope and Contents Story about Captain [Caroline] Scott probably collected from Roderick MacNeil, aged 88, crofter, Miùghlaigh/Mingulay. Described as 'notorious', the story states how Scott and his soldiers who carried themselves 'most ferociously' hanged a big, strong man named Iain mac Fhearchair ic Mhurachaidh ic Neill with out a trial or a judge. The story tells how the soldiers 'amused them[selves] by flaying the cattle of the people alive and allowing them to run mad about the island.' One man wisely...

Dates: 1867

Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Story about Donald Molach [Livingstone], October 1892

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Identifier: Coll-97/CW126f/70

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Story about Donald Molach [Livingstone], that he brought two horses back from the Battle of Culloden and gave one of them to 'James a Ghlinne - Stewart of Glenure', having fought under the banner of the Stewarts and taken up the flag [Gleann Iubhair/Glenure, Earra Ghàidheal/Argyllshire].

Dates: October 1892

Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Story entitled 'Legacy', August 1883

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Identifier: Coll-97/CW120/18

Scope and Contents Story about a legacy paid to Alexander Stewart and Mary Macdonald, parents of Duncan and James Stewart, who went to Jamaica after the Battle of Culloden, and the claim made on it by their sister Maighread [Margaret Stewart]. The story also notes family relationships including Maighread's marriage to Donald MacCombaich in Torosey [Torosay, Muile/Mull] and the marriage of Margaret Black to Donald Macintire [Macintyre], Achnanduin [Achadun, Lios Mòr/Lismore]. These Stewarts are noted as being...

Dates: August 1883

Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

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Genealogical notes on the Livingstone family including a story from the Battle of Culloden, October 1892

Note about a stone belonging to Angus Macinns [MacInnes], piper, 29 August 1883

Note about 'Am Muilear Beag', 1883

Note about Cladh Churalain [St Cyril's Graveyard], a gravestone inscription and drawing, 29 August 1883

Note about footprints in rock, 27 September 1883

Note about men who fought at Culloden, August 1883

Story about Captain Scott on Isle of Barra and Mingulay, 1867

Story about Donald Molach [Livingstone], October 1892

Story entitled 'Legacy', August 1883

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