The Highland bagpipe : $b its history, literature, and music: with some account of the traditions, superstitions, and anecdotes relating to the instrument and its tunesManson, W. L. (William Laird)
History
The Highland bagpipe : $b its history, literature, and music: with some account of the traditions, superstitions, and anecdotes relating to the instrument and its tunes
Manson, W. L. (William Laird)
Bagpipe
1. Donald, D.S.P., a Captain in the Army.
2. Peter, D.S.P., a Captain in the Army, and considered one of the
strongest men of his day. Emigrated to Cape Coast Castle.
3. Malcolm, married in Ardrossan, with several sons.
4. Elizabeth, married a cooper of the name of Mac Kinnon, in Islay.
Had two daughters—(_a_) Mary Ann, married Malcolm Mac Leod,
Shipmaster, Lochmaddy, with issue; (_b_) Effie, married
Chisholm, Tacksman, of Gairnish, South Uist, with issue.
5. Janet, married a Ferguson, in America, with issue, an only
daughter, who resided in Greenock.
6. Flora, who married Mac Donald, Tacksman, of Pein-a-Daorir, South
Uist, factor for South Uist.
7. Marion, married, with issue.
8. Catherine, married with issue.
John, married secondly Ann Campbell, with issue:—
9. Duncan, married a Mac Queen, with issue—(_a_) John, who went to
New Zealand; (_b_) Donald, who married a Mac Leod, went to
America, and had a family.
10. Peter, married Ann Mac Donald from Trotternish, with issue, one
daughter. Married secondly Margaret Morrison, by whom he had
three daughters.
11. John, died unmarried, but left an illegitimate son named John, who
married a daughter of Neil Mac Sween, mason, Roag.
12. Euphemia, married Malcolm Nicholson, with issue—(_a_) Hector, died
without issue; (_b_) John, married with issue; (_c_) Murdo, who
married a daughter of James Wood; (_d_) John, married Janet,
daughter of John _Bàn_ Mac Leod, Lusta, with issue; (_e_)
Donald, married a Mac Nab, with issue; (_f_) Catherine,
unmarried; (_g_) Ann, married Murdo Mac Innes, Roag, without
issue; (_h_) Marion, married Norman Mac Askill, tenant,
Ullinish, with issue; (_i_) Effie, married Samuel Thorburn,
Holmisdale, with issue.
According to this genealogy, which however does not profess to be
complete, the line of hereditary Mac Crimmon pipers was very short
indeed, consisting of only _Iain Odhar_, Malcolm, John, and John
(_Dubh_). That this is not the complete line is undoubted, for we have
historical proof that there were other Mac Crimmons pipers to Mac Leod.
As a matter of fact, one of the family living in Alexandria,
Dumbartonshire, as late as 1898, writes as follows:—
“My uncle, Donald Mac Crimmon, was the last piper of the Mac Crimmons
that was in the Castle, and he died over fifty years ago. My father
also, Norman Mac Crimmon, was a pibroch player, and was taught by
Captain Mac Leod of Gesto, who is now dead fifty-four years. Both were
born at Lowerkill, Glendale. My great grandfather, Donald Donn, was
brother to Donald _Bàn_, who composed ‘Mac Crimmon’s Lament,’ and was
with the Mac Leod Highlanders near Moy Hall, the residence of Lady Mac
Intosh, reconnoitering Prince Charlie.”
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
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