Wee Drams

   Contents:  

Alistair MacDonald     Harold A Ralston    Mary Elizabeth Manis Miller   Ken Morrison Smith  

Frederick Pew     John McClaughry    Lindianne Sarno

Index

I replied:

Hello Alistair,

Sorry to have taken so long to get back to you. Thank you for your email. I'll be happy to post it in the next issue of the online Magazine in the hope that some of our readers can help you.

All the very best to you and yours,

Ian

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Hi Ian,
I would be interested in knowing where I might obtain a copy of A.I.B. Stewart's 1991 book, "List of Inhabitants upon the Duke of Argyle's Property in Kintyre in 1792".
I wonder if you or any of your web page visitors are aware of a source. I would be grateful to anyone that might help me locate this publication.
Regards,
Harold A Ralston, Racine, WI, USA
http://www.execpc.com/~haroldr/index.html

I went back to Harold:

Hello Harold,

Great to hear from you again, and I hope that this email finds you well. You have probably already checked out 'The Old Bookshop' in Campbeltown - address at www.KintyreMag.co.uk in the Adverts section - but if not........

I will, of course, post your request in the next online issue.

All the best for now,

Ian

Harold came back - what a nice guy:

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After a wee bit of digging, I replied:

Hello Mary,

And thank you for your interesting email. It's always good to hear from someone new to the Magazine. I'll post your email in the next online Mag in May, and let's hope that one of our readers can help you.

In the meantime, did you know that there was also a  Fort Augustus, Prince Edward Island, Canada? As you know, the Annabella sailed from Campbeltown and made landfall on PEI, so there is a definite Scottish connection there!

The Fort Augustus in Scotland was originally named after St Cummein, who built a church there. But only indirectly, and only while it was still called by its Gaelic name of Cille Chumein. The current name was an imposition, and accompanied the building of a fort, Fort Augustus, after the defeat of the 1715 Jacobite uprising. The fort, and so in turn the village, were named after one of King George II's sons. That son later became the Duke of Cumberland, the infamous "Butcher" Cumberland who was responsible for repressing the Highlands and destroying the ancient clan system after the final defeat of the '45 Jacobite uprising at Culloden. There is irony indeed that in the aftermath of Culloden he made his headquarters in the fort named after him thirty years previously.    

Some things we can be sure of, however, Aurilius Tudotus (or Marcus Aurilius) was one of the Roman Emperors. The name 'Aurilius', therefore, is not of Scot's origin, but of Roman. Either way - it's still a great name!

I do hope that you get replies from the Wee Drams entry in May. Let me know if you do.

All the best to you and yours, and always ca' canny!

Ian

We then had a wee bit of fun:

Hello again,

O' what a suspicious person you are :-]]. Ca' canny is just a bit of old Scots which means 'go carefully' or 'take care as you go along'.

All the best,

Ian

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In issue 21 Page 5 of your magazine a Dr WJ McCallien is quoted. I have on my wall a painting of Sailing Fishing Boats I believe on Loch Fyne. Could this be by the same man?

Regards
   Ken Morrison Smith
Tel 01667 - 451655
    Mobile 0771 4099644

Now. There's a question. All I could say to Ken was:

Hello Ken,

Thanks for your email. I'm always pleased to hear from new readers of the online Mag. Have a look at  http://www.ndirect.co.uk/~iforshaw/Mag47/wee.html  and you'll find an e-address for someone else who has a McCallien painting. You will also be able to read my reply to that query.

I'll post your enquiry in the next online edition of the Magazine and you may get further replies.

Until then, all the best for now,

Ian

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Hello Ian,

I am trying to track down some of my Scottish ancestry and wondered
whether you can help a little.

I understand that my great grandfather, Frederick Burt Campbell-Rogers who
was born in Campbeltown, Argyllshire on the 10th May 1860 at The Manor,
was packed off to India under a cloud!!  My information is that he died in
Rawalpindi, India on the 6th March 1915 and was buried in the Military
Cemetery in Rawalpindi.  I know a little bit more about his son, Frederick
Patrick Campbell-Rogers who was born in Calcutta in 1885, joined the
merchant navy and served in both World Wars partaking in the evacuation
from Dunkirk.

I would like to find out a little bit about him, and who his parents and
grandparents were, and would be most grateful if you can help in any way.

Yours sincerely,

Frederick Pew
 

I was pleased to reply:

Hello Frederick,

Good to hear from you. I'm pleased that you found the online Magazine and sent me an email. Although the Mag is not a genealogical forum as such, I'm always happy to help where I can so, to that end, I'll post your enquiry in the next online Mag which should be up in May.

I hope that you get some replies. Until then, look after yourself and yours.

All the best,

Ian

And that good gentleman replied:

Hello to you Ian,

Your assistance is very much appreciated.  Once I am armed with a few more
facts I plan to visit Campbeltown and catch up on some of my past.

Take care and thank you once again for your help.

Sincerely,

Fred

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   My ancestors McClaughry departed Co. Longford Ireland in 1765 for the US. A 1929 manuscript in Ireland says that about 1688 William Lyttle "came over from Scotland [Dumfriesshire] in company with the MacClaughrys (from Argyleshire)."
   However I have never been able to get a hit on our name, in whatever spelling,  in Argyleshire. Has anyone else seen it? (Or the Anglicized version, Kingstone).
  Interestingly, the McClaughrys landed in Salem NY in 1765 and in 1784 two of the emigrant's four sons removed westward to Kortright NY. Many of their families are buried there in the cemetery of the Gilchrist Presbyterian Church. Is it possible that they moved to Kortright at the invitation of their Argyle cousins the Gilchrists?
   I would be pleased to hear from anybody with some light to shed on this!
 John McClaughry   Kirby VT USA  john@ethanallen.org

I thanked John:

Hello John,

And thank you for your interesting email. It's always a pleasure to hear from a new reader of the online Mag. Thank you, also, for your enquiry.

Although the Mag is not a genealogical publication, I'm always happy to reproduce enquires on the Wee Drams page. I'll post yours in the next online edition which should be up for May. I hope that you receive a reply, or two.

Until the next time, regards to you and yours, and ca' canny.

Ian

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Subj: West Highland Mercenaries in Ireland, Part 2
Date: Fri, 26 Apr 2002  2:19:09 AM Eastern Daylight Time
Reply-to: Lindianne Sarno  lindiannes@aol.com

Dear Folks,

Is part two of Andrew McKerral's article available?  I am writing an historic
novel in which one of the characters, born in Scotland, dies in battle in
Ireland.  

Thank you,

Lindianne Sarno

Lindianne had emailed me at the olf KintyreMag address, so it was a wee while before I got back:

Subj: West Highland Mercenaries in Ireland, Part 2
Date: 8/04/2002
To: lindiannes@aol.com

Hello Lindianne,

Lovely to hear from you. I assume from the fact that you emailed me on the old KintyreMag address that you did a search and dipped into a back issue of the Magazine. 'West Highland Mercenaries in Ireland - Part 1' was in Issue 15 of March 1998. Had you to go to the back-issues pages and moved on to the next issue - Issue 16 of April 1998 - you would have found  'West Highland Mercenaries in Ireland - Part 2'.

Navigate to  http://www.ndirect.co.uk/~iforshaw/Mag16/page10.html  and you'll find what you're looking for.

Good luck with the novel, and remember to send me some extracts when you publish so that the Mag readers can enjoy your work and, who knows, place orders.

All the best for now,

Ian

Lindianne came back with:

Dear Ian,

Thank you kindly for your reply regarding the second part of Andrew McKerral's article on Highland mercenaries.  Through that article I cam to conclusion that the Highland character in my book may have been a red shank but could not have been a galloglass.

McKerral writes:  A full account of the Redshanks, and of the tortuous politics and crisscross diplomacy of that time has been given in a work by a modern Irish author.

Do you know the name of the book to which he refers?   The name of the author?

I am very grateful for your help!   When they are ready I will be glad to send you chapters for posting so that your readers can get a preview of The Greensleeves Gift.

Sincerely,

Lindianne Sarno

And I replied:

Subj: Re: West Highland Mercenaries in Ireland, Part 2
Date: 01/05/2002
To: Lindiannes

Hey Lindianne,

It was a pleasure to help. Unfortunately, I don't know the author of the book to which McKerral refers, but I'll post your query in the next Magazine and perhaps one of our readers will help.

All the best for now,

Ian

Can anyone help?

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Page  2:    A History of the Gilchrists...............continued

Page  3:    George Thomas Beatson, KCB, KBE, MD, DL

Page  4:    Bruce's Stone at Ugadale

Page  6:   Horn Spoon & Amber Beads  /  Rights of Way

Page 7:    By Hill and Shore - Part 2 - Angus Martin