Durness Parish Register - Part 2

[meanno]

Hugh MacCulloch of Callao, Peru, did have a niece, BUT... Hughina was the daughter of William Morrison and Marion "Merran" MacCulloch - she was born at Sangobeg and baptised in 12th February 1827.

There is no birth or baptism record for a child born to "Hugh Morrison" in the material period. He was married to Marion's sister Joanna but that marriage seems to have been childless. Perhaps Hughina stayed behind with her uncle and aunt in some form of informal "adoption"?

Sorry I have been giving incorrect info. Yes I agree Hughina was the daughter of William and Merran. For some reason earlier I couldn't find any Morrison baptisms and now I get quite a few. I'll blame Scot People it can't have been me!
Again checking Hugh McCulloch's will, signed in 1842, he gives Merran McCulloch's address as "also residing near Brockville, Upper Canada" so that ties in with Hughina living with her grandmother in Durness.

I can't remember why I assumed that Hughina was the daughter of Hugh and Joanna. I haven't transcribed the will and so haven't studied it thoroughly. Apologies.

Hugh and Joanna had four children - Jannet(1824-62), William(1822-1912), Joanna(1838-1919) and Hugh McCulloch(1842-1915)
See the headstone page here:
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/182030489/hugh-morrison

[wilros]

yes, sorry, i was wrong, hughina was william morrison and merran macculloch's daughter, still hugh macculoch's neice, and johanna's neice too, lol.

hughina morrison of sangobeg, daughter of william morrison and merran macculloch, married robert sutherland of saingomore on 1 november 1844.

and this is likely the robert sutherland who was informant on on his wife's grandmother barbara macculloch's death registration in durness.

is this the robert sutherland born to angus sutherland and barbara mckay of saingomore on 15 april 1819?

and is this robert sutherland in durness (i.e., a gentleman the same age as my 2nd ggf) the ancestor of robert sutherland the mid-20th century edinburgh dentist with the croft in durness where john lennon and his cousin stan parkes went on summer holiday?

what a fascinating story arc!

btw, djct59, the memorial inscription in ontario, canada for hugh morrison (1791-1878) and his wife joanna macculloch (1801-1862) also names two children - jannet mckay (1824-1862) and william morrison (1822-1912)

meanno - i have a fifth child for hugh morrison and joanna mcculloch, named jane morrison, born 1834, married alexander stewart on 21 december 1870 in elizabethtown, leeds county, ontario, canada. marriage registration says parents were hugh morrison and joanna mcculloch, though by then hugh was a widow.

[djct59]

Wilros;

Yes - Robert Sutherland (1819-1909), son of Angus Sutherland and Barbara MacKay married Hughina Morrison in 1884 and was the father of William George Sutherland (1862-1953).

William married Annabella MacLeod in 1904. Their youngest son was Robert Hugh Sutherland aka "Bertie Boer" of Sangomore (1914-77). His second wife was the widowed Elizabeth Jane Stanley/Parkes (1908-76), mother of Stanley and aunt of John Lennon.

My cousin remembers John's ill-fated return to Durness in 1969 when he crashed his car on a tight bend at Faolinn   

[wilros]

Wilros: This photo is slightly clearer. "Your" family stone is at the extreme right hand edge. The tall narrow Hood's of Wick stone in the next row and parallel to the church gable is my great-great-grandfather's.

djct59 - Thank you so much for posting the new photo of the memorial stones at Balnakeil. Initially I was baffled by what a "Hood's of Wick stone" was, but when I searched for the term, sure enough John Hood & Son Monumental Sculptors from Wick, Caithness was the first hit.

http://www.johnhood.co.uk/index.asp

So, to confirm, your 2x great grandparents are Richard Mackay and Angusina Sutherland, shown in the following link to Angi Lamb's 2005 photos.

https://public.fotki.com/rhemusaig/burial_grounds/durness_parish/durness_balnakeil/bk021.html

As I mentioned before, the table stone for Hugh Ross and Jean Manson, my 4x great grandparents, is surrounded by 5 stones, 4 of which are direct descendants of Hugh and Jean, and one of which is an unresolved mystery. Starting from the head of their stone at 12:00 and moving counter clockwise:

at 12 o'clock - A tall rectangular column in memory of Alex Morrison, his wife Janet MacLeod, and their kids. Janet is a granddaugter of Hugh Ross and Jean Manson, and a daughter of Angus MacLeod and Janet Ross.

2 o'clock - an aging standing stone placed by Quartermaster John Ross in honor of his father Hugh Ross.

6 o'clock - at the foot of their stone a strickingly beautiful monument entirely in Gaelic to Alexander Mackay and Hughina MacLeod. Hughina is a sister of Janet MacLeod, a daughter of Angus MacLeod and Janet Ross, and a granddaughter of Hugh Ross and Jean Manson.

7:30 o'clock - the mystery stone, no longer level.

9 o'clock - Angus MacLeod and his wife Janet Ross are parents of Janet and Hughina MacLeod, and Janet is a daughter of Hugh Ross and Jean Manson.

[djct59]

No - I was refering to stone DU-C055. Families tended to be interred close by. My great-grandfather has a horizontal stone next to the upright one.

As far as I know the local authority has no plans to lift fallenstones or clean the faded ones. Weathering has made some harder to read even in the last ten years, so some real conservation work is becoming urgent, if it could be funded.

[wilros]

djct59 - so your 2x great grandparents were Charles Campbell and Ann Mackay? In Angi's index Charles was the youngest child of Donald Campbell ("macarlishicicalister") and Margaret Campbell, and Donald was born in 1765 as the oldest son of Charles Macalister Campbell and Catherine Campbell. Is this the correct lineage?

[djct59]

Yes it is. Donald's wife was Margaret nin Aiodh Campbell, daughter of a"Grange Campbell" - an  incomer from the south. He was a Fencible soldier who spent some years in Ireland, hence the eight year gap between his first and second child.

[wilros]

I was on the hill at the south-western end of the loch and was looking north-east. If you look closely you will see the Manse close to the top and centre. Behind that is indeed the "Crafty Village", on the site of the old township of Ballinloch.

djct59

Returning to my quest to understand place names.

Was the Manse considered part of Ballinloch or were they merely nearby each other and thought of as two separate locations?

Also, back to this chain of entries in the Parish Register of Durness:

1 - Peter Brown, alias Dunn from Peterhead, tenent in Grudie, and his wife Ann Mackay, alias nin Neil, Peter, 20 February 1787.

2 - Peter Dunn, alias Brown, tenant in Achairn and his wife Ann Mackay, alias nin Neilmacemish, Margaret, 6 April 1789.

3 - 1794 - Donald Ross a Single young man in Achuchoran and Ann Dunn in Auchuchairn were married 31st Decem'r

Grudie, Achairn, Achuchoran, and Auchuchairn - alternate names for one location? alternate names for more than one location? or unique names for four separate locations?

The narrative detail I'm trying to resolve is the location of the Dunn family. Patrick and Janet were married in Keoldale and were residents of Keoldale at the baptism of their first four children. Then in 1782 the fifth child is presented for baptism by the Dunns as tenants in Grudie, so a move from Keoldale to Grudie is clear.

Above Peter is baptised in 1787 when his father is a tenant in Grudie but his younger sister Margaret is baptised in 1789 when their father is a tenant in Achairn. Did they move from Grudie to Achairn?

Then Ann their oldest child is married in 1794 when the family is presumably residing at Auchuchairn. Did they move from Achairn to Auchuchairn?

Thanks very much,

[wr]

[wilros]

This photo at the geograph project:

https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/4126731

Has this caption: "Loch Borralie - The view is towards the island in the loch. The white building in the distance is the former Cape Wrath Hotel."

Is this true? Can you see the former Cape Wrath Lodge when looking south across Loch Borralie?