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Inverness / Re: isle of raasay 1850`s evacuation?
« on: Thursday 25 March 10 21:32 GMT (UK)  »
Raasay Heritage Trust holds many family tree records. I am sure your ancestor Roderick can be traced without too much trouble.

If you google them up you could enquire

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Inverness / Re: MacLeod from Raasay
« on: Thursday 25 March 10 21:27 GMT (UK)  »
Leac is a very steep-sided area and the story was that children were tethered there by their parents to prevent them going over the cliffs. It was one of the areas cleared in the early 1850s. There are very few signs left today but there is a big enclosure so I suppose the stones from the cleared houses were used to construct that just as they were at Hallaig where there is a massive sheep enclosure.

There were 6 tenants and 1 cottar in 1851 but they had all been cleared by 1854.

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