Ballachulish

[sheden]

Hi
 I live in Ballachulish so if I can be of  help to anyone just let me know.

[Merideth]

Hello Sheden, my 2xGreatGrandmother was Annie Mcpherson married at Kirl House, Ardgour in 1868, I know its a long shot but do you know if it still stands? cheers Merideth

[sheden]

Hi Merideth
 I have some friends that live in Ardgour and have sent them a message asking them to find out for you.
 Will let you know either way when I find out.

[sheden]

Hello Sheden, my 2xGreatGrandmother was Annie Mcpherson married at Kirl House, Ardgour in 1868, I know its a long shot but do you know if it still stands? cheers Merideth

Hi Merideth
Sorry we have been unable to get any information on Kirl House. We have asked about and if any information should come our way in the future I will contact you and let you know.
Sheena

[Merideth]

Hello Sheena, Thank you so much for trying to find that out for me. Cheers Merideth 

[ArtyAndy]

Hi

In this thread

http://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php/topic,325769.0.html

I ask for some help about some questions I have in relation to my family who were in Ballachulish around the turn of the 18th and 19th Century and would have been linked to the quarries there.

I am trying to find information on a John McDougall and a Rachael McColl who lived in the Appin area in the late 1700s and early 1800s.

The Book “Villages of Northern Argyll by Mary Withall” mentions a family Gravestone in the ground of the Keil Chapel in Duror. The stone is notable because of reference to their 8 deceased children. I am descended from their Daughter Isabella who would have been born around 1812.

Our information suggests that at some point they were based near Ballachulish and that John was a “Quarry Contractor”. I believe that Ballachulish was known for quarrying.

Our information is that Isabella in 1832 married a Master Joiner and Timber Contractor called John Carmichael who was from Lismore and thereabouts. They lived at a farm/mill named in family letters as “Dal ma - trait” but this might also be read as Dalnatrat.

If anyone has information about the McDougall, McColl or even Carmichael families in this area, or ANY information about these areas, including what documentation there may be about quarrying in Ballachulish and the people that worked there I would really appreciate you making contact.

Any help, advice or basic info you can point me to would be gratefully received.

[mgraemem]

Sheden,

I'm not sure how to ask this but I am inquiring about any additional information to what I currently know about my great great grandfather, Duncan MacKenzie who was born December 20, 1821 in Ballachulish Scotland? He left Scotland in 1843 on the Good Ship Perthshire, presumably from Glasgow, for Canada arriving in what was then Wellington Square but is now Burlington. From the information I have, his father, Hugh MacKenzie and his mother, Margaret MacKenzie came with them to Wellington Square where they both died soon after emigrating. Hugh and Margaret were married in Glasgow, Lanark Scotland on November 30, 1810. I don't know if Duncan's parents were from Ballachulish proper.

What I am hoping to find is some kind of physical records or evidence of their presence in Ballachulish, occupational information, other relatives, reasons for their decision to depart for the New World, the Gaelic Bible that Hugh possessed, local parish records, local stories, that sort of thing. My grandfather discovered the information I had when he was alive and made a trip to Scotland and Northern Ireland, where my great great grandmother was from.

I am descended from Hugh (and Margaret) MacKenzie like this:

Hugh MacKenzie - Duncan MacKenzie - Hugh Henry MacKenzie - John Hugh MacKenzie - John Rogers MacKenzie - myself, Martin G. MacKenzie. My family from Duncan after he emigrated from Scotland to my grandfather were Canadian until my grandfather moved to the United States.

Can you help?

Thanks,

Martin MacKenzie

P.S. I'm including an older photograph of Duncan and Isobella MacKenzie in their older years and two of their children.

[nenny4]

looking for info  on McKenzie Family.. father Malcolm. mother Catherine bell..children Archibald,Catherine.Mary and john.  and had grandson Callum 
  1891 census were living at 146 Ballachulish road..
  1901 census they were living at 166 east Laroch Malcolm's father was John McKenzie they all appear to be slater quarrymen. I am not directly related to Malcolm but I am to his wife Catherine thanks Nenny

[Martin Briscoe]

Hello Sheden, my 2xGreatGrandmother was Annie Mcpherson married at Kirl House, Ardgour in 1868, I know its a long shot but do you know if it still stands? cheers Merideth

Are you sure it is "Kirl"?  I don't speak Gaelic but the word does not seem right somehow.  I did a Google Books search and all the matches on "Kirl" are actually other words (Google Books uses OCR). "Kirk" or "Kiel" seem more likely possibilities.

Martin Briscoe