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Feannagan - old rig-and-furrow cultivation at Kinlochmorar.
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The DOVE:
8th June 1801: FORT WILLIAM to PICTOU, NOVA SCOTIA with 219 passengers
among whom
EWEN CAMERON: Former residence: KINLOCHMORAR
Children:
DONALD
JAMES
RODERICK
ELIZABETH-14 YEARS
MARY-4 YEARS
MARGARET-3 YEARS
CHRISTIAN-1 YEAR
A widower, presumably - other family heads on this emigrant ship are listed with their wives. Did Mrs Cameron die from complications, or exhaustion, during the birth of her seventh (at least) child? Was it the final blow for a man toiling to wrest a living for his family from this thin sour soil? And make him, by no means a young man, take them on an unimaginable journey to a new continent? What immense strength of character Ewen Cameron must have had, both to live on this land, and then to leave it.
Speculation, of course. This croft may not even have been Ewen's, as there are a few other ruins, down by the lodge (also a ruin) and further on by the loch-side, but whoever it was who laboured here did so heroically - every scrap of usable land between bog and rock has been worked, something which could not have been done without enormous physical effort.
We who for pleasure and recreation walk these hills and glens ought to bow our heads and pay homage to these people. edit
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streapadair - 15/Feb/08
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