Showing posts with label Glendessary. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Glendessary. Show all posts

Thursday, April 9, 2020

Donald Cameron, Tenant Of Kinlochiel


Donald Cameron, tenant of Kinlochiel, was then adduced, aged seventy-five, and showed minute knowledge of Glenkingie and its sheilings from 1775 downwards.


Source
Glen Kingie, Highland, Scotland

He also spoke of the festivities consequent on the restoration of the Lochiel Estates, in 1785, in these terms — There was great rejoicing in the country, and plenty of bonfires and drinking. Perhaps the most interesting part falling under Cameron's examination occurred when Lochiel's Agent put the following question : —

Whether it consists with the knowledge of the witness that, from the year 1775 down to 1820, the tenants of the farms on the north side of Loch Arkaig, and of Shanvall and Glackfearn in Glendessary, had the quiet and peaceable possession of their respective farms and sheilings, as above enumerated, and as parts and portions of the estate of Lochiel, and without any molestation whatever, either during the time that the estate was under the management of His Majesty's Commissioners or
since. [Source]

Monday, June 6, 2016

Married To One Of The Twelve Daughters


The Celtic magazine, Volume 6:

Sir Alexander MacDonald, Fourteenth Baron and Seventh Baronet of Sleat....

Being married to one of the twelve daughters of Sir Ewen Cameron of Lochiel, he would be in a position to secure great influence in his own favour and that of the family for the other eleven were married respectively to Alexander Drummond, of Bathaldies; Allan Maclean, of Ardgour; Grant of Glenmoriston; Allan Cameron of Glendessary; Macpherson of Cluny; Archibald Cameron of Dungallan; Peter Campbell of Barcaldine; John Campbell of Achallader; Robert Barclay of Urie; Macgregor of Bochady; and Macdonald of Morar, while her eldest brother, Sir John Cameron, was married to a daughter of Sir Duncan Campbell of Lochnell.


Sunday, September 28, 2014

Jenny Cameron Of Glendessary


A brief account of the life and family of miss Jenny Cameron (by A. Arbuthnot, published in 1746):

Jenny, a descendant of the ancient house of Lochiel, "was the reputed mistress of the Pretender's eldest son." Or was she? Probably not.



Friday, October 19, 2012

Captain Donald Cameron Killed In Action


From the blog, Malabar Days, is found the story of Helen Somerville Fearson who was married at age 15 to Captain Donald Cameron.  The Camerons were sent to India where [Major] Cameron (1754 - 1797) was killed in action.  Her second husband was Thomas Hervey Baber; there's a film featuring Mr. and Mrs. Baber (described in detail in the Malabar Days blog post).

This letter [1790] mentions Captain Donald Cameron.  An earlier letter [24 August 1788] stated that the author "...formed an acquaintance about these Days with Captain Donald Cameron (Glendessary) belonging to the Bombay Establishment...".


Tuesday, November 1, 2011

Sir Ewen Cameron of Fassiefern

From  The Celtic Monthly:

In the rising of 1745, the Camerons and Macdonalds were ever in front with Prince Charles. It is matter of common report that their houses and papers were then burned by express order of the Duke of Cumberland. In the case of Glengarry this is certain, but the evidence given by Sir Ewen Cameron, of Fassfern, at Fort-William, upon the 14th day of May, 1825, shows the astonishing fact that before the house of Achnacarry had been burnt by the Duke, the Lochiel papers then at Achnacarry, with some exceptions, were burnt by Donald Cameron, of Lochiel's own tenants.
From these depositions it would appear that Sir Ewen Cameron was born in 1740, and that his father, John Cameron, died in 1785. From other papers—that after Donald Cameron of Lochiel's death in France shortly after Culloden, the sole means of subsistence of the Lochiel family in Lochaber consisted of a Wadset of Glendessary, originally in the person of John Macphee, tenant there granted to him as far back as 1690, and acquired by friends for behoof of John Cameron, eldest son of the attainted Lochiel. Fort-William, 14th May, 1825.