The Prince in Raasay. facebook.com/79168041426001…

Below Portree harbour in the Isle of Skye (May 2022). The partly submerged rock to the right is Sgeir Mhòr. From this spot Prince Charles Edward Stuart left Skye for the Isle of Raasay on the 1/7/1746 after parting with Flora MacDonald at McNabb’s Inn.

The Prince at Kingsburgh House on the Isle of Skye 29th June 1746. m.facebook.com/story.php?stor…

After my recent trip to the Skye looking into the story of the Prince at Kingsburgh House on the 29/6/1746, here’s to Flora, Neil, Lady Margaret, old Kingsburgh and his wife, & the men and women of Clanranald who got the Prince here to this point in his unforgettable journey. 🍷

The exploits of Colonel Donald Murchison. m.facebook.com/story.php?stor…

Have a great Christmas everybody.

John Ogilvy’s house of Wester Lethnot in Glen Clova rediscovered. He was a Captain in the Angus Regiment in the Jacobite Rising of 1745.

This is the site of West Dod which was the home of crofter David Scott on the N side of Lownie Hill near Forfar. Scott was a Jacobite soldier in Ogilvy’s Reg in 1745.

What a thrill it was recently to reestablish for the first time in living memory the still standing house of Rochelhill near Glamis in Angus with its resident in 1745, the Jacobite Captain John Ogilvie. He survived the battles of the ‘45 dying a free man around 1774.

William Horn was a private soldier in Lord Ogilvy’s Angus Reg in 1745. He was a worker at Holemill in Denoon Glen in the Sidlaw Hills. Horn survived the Rising but was taken prisoner & transported. The remains of the 18thC mill still stands today. Reconnecting the man & the place

In the foreground is the site of Loanend of Lour, 3ml SW of Forfar. In 1745 three weavers, John & David Lunan & John Hutchen lived here. The men were listed in the muster roll of the Ogilvy’s Angus Regt. They survived the Jacobite Rising but their homes have long disappeared.

The view past the 1500 yr old Keillor Pictish Stone W of Newtyle village on the north slopes of the Sidlaws in Angus to the site of the house at Chapel of Keillor of Jacobite recruit Joseph Ferguson (red arrow). He without doubt sat by the ancient stone before & after the Rising.

Henry Hunter (28), was attached to the Arbroath Company as part of Lord Ogilvy’s Regiment in 1745. He lived at Newton of Arbirlot Farm just west of Arbroath in eastern Angus. The farm still exists today. He is described after the Rising as being in hiding.

George Milne, farmer at Balcathie listed in Ogilvy’s 2nd Battalion (Arbroath Company) in 1745. Also listed from here is ploughman David Scott. Milne went into hiding after the Rising, Scott was taken prisoner in 1746 & released in 1747. Balcathie Farm stil stands.

Just south of Forfar in this field is the site of the settlement of Muir of Meathie which disappeared in the first half of the 19thC. Two men from here, William Stark, a weaver, and William Ogilvy, a servant, were with the Angus Regt at the Battle of Culloden. Both survived.

The Sidlaws, the hills of home looking especially grand tonight.

The story of John Ogilvy of Inshewan in the ‘45 and the Inshewan Jacobite Amen glass. facebook.com/share/p/75TwvR…

The story of Patrick Duguid of Auchenhove, a Captain in Lord Lewis Gordon’s Regiment in the ‘45. Also mentioned is the occupation and destruction of his house by government troops after Culloden. facebook.com/share/p/1EptMm…