Incidentally, Norman had a holding costing £6 per annum from the first Factor Robert Brown rent roll in 1806. In addition, he worked at the Uachdar drain. It is recorded that in 1808 his wife was a dairymaid at Nunton, the island's main house and farm, until a little earlier the home of the Clanranald chief but which by then was in the hands of Robert Brown and, from 1811, of his successor as Factor, Duncan Shaw. Norman remained in the rolls as a crofter and in the kelp lists until 1821 but then disappeared from the record. This would presumably not be when he emigrated if he had a daughter in Benbecula in 1826. In that case, he may have lost the lands and become a cottar as he would not then figure in the written records.
