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| Name |
Daughter Maclaren |
| Birth |
Abt 1414 |
Ardveich, Perth, Scotland  |
| Gender |
Female |
| Death |
Lorn, Argyll, Scotland |
| Person ID |
I124415 |
My Genealogy |
| Last Modified |
17 Nov 2020 |
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The Tale of Leper John and the Campbell
Acquisition of Lorn
From "Alba: Celtic Scotland in the Middle Ages" by Edward J. Cowan(Editor), R. Andrew McDonald (Editor). Publisher: Tuckwell Press; (April2001) ISBN: 1 86232 151 5
STEVE BOARDMAN
In 1865, m Port Appin on the eastern shore of Loch Linnhe two old men metto share tales of days bypass one was John Dewar from Rosneath, a manemployed by the eighth duke of Argyll and his agent J. F. Campbell as acollector of traditional histories from the inhabitants of the Highlandsand Islands.' The other was Gillespie MacCombie, an eighty three year oldwidower and a native of Appin who had lived much of his long life as afarmer on the land of the lairds of Airds.(2). MacCombie's stories wellduly recorded in Dewar's massive collection of traditional lore as "Atale of Gillespie MacCombie in Port Appin, and of those from whom he isdescended, according to his own telling of it'."(3). Overall, it was astrange yarn that MacCombie unfolded for his guest. It began with thedeath of an unnamed lord of Lorn at the hands of the MacDougalls ofDunollie, who thereafter 'brought caterans with them and went to dwell mCastle Stalker and they sought sustenance ... by plundering thecountry'.(4) Relief was at hand, however, in the shape of DougallStewart, an illegitimate son of the slain lord of Lorn, who 'was stayingat Balquhidder among his mother's relations' and who determined torecover the lands between Loch Creran and Loch Linnhe up to Glenduror(the Ceathramh Fearna, as MacCombie described it)'. Recruiting men fromDumbarton, Loch Lomondside and most especially, MacLarens from Perthshirewith the promise that they and their descendants should have farms solong as Dugald Stewart or his offspring should have lordship', Dougall
took possession of the Ceathramh Fearna, and ... gave farms to theMacLaurins'.5
Within fifteen years of MacCombie and Dewar's meeting a more elaborateand detailed version of the tale of Dougall Stewart found its wayR
1 J Dewar, The Dewar Manuscripts, ed J. Mackechine (Glasgow 1964) i, 11,30-1.
2 Ibid., 258-9
3 Ibid., 255.
4 Ibid
5 Ibid.
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