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Ruthven Inverness-shire Scotland

 Subject
Subject Source: Local sources

Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:

Sermons of John Ramsay ( -1746), minister of Cairnie [Cairney], Aberdeenshire

 Fonds
Identifier: MS RAM
Scope and Contents

Manuscript notebook of sermons preached at Cairnie [Cairney], Aberdeenshire.

The first sermon on Amos 3:8 begins neatly, but quickly descends into a messier hand. The next section is titled 'Cairnie, June 1727', with the former parish name 'Ruthven' scored out.

From the General Assembly Library

Dates: 1727

Story about Marsali Mhurich in Kingussie, August 1883

 Item
Identifier: Coll-97/CW120/59
Scope and Contents

Story probably collected from Christina Campbell née Macintyre, Lios Mòr/Lismore Earra, Ghàidheal/Argyllshire about Marsali Mhuirich in Kingussie [Ceann a' Ghiuthsaich, Siorramachd Inbhir Nis/Inverness-shire] that while carrying 'Para Mor' across the 'Ath Spey' [Abhainn Spey/Spè] she stumbled a little. He remarked that she had bad luck she retorted and 'tossed him into the flood'.

Dates: August 1883