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by Canadian Livingstone
Wed Mar 27, 2024 12:54 am
Forum: Ancestral Search
Topic: Clans, Families and Kinship Structures in Scotland
Replies: 2
Views: 70

Re: Clans, Families and Kinship Structures in Scotland

HI Bruce, Looking forward to reading this. I quite enjoy reading any accounts of the early origins of the Scottish people. Thanks for sharing with the Forum. The popularity of DNA testing in recent years has also shed new light on the origins and connections of some ancient highland and lowland Scot...
by Canadian Livingstone
Sat Mar 23, 2024 10:07 pm
Forum: Ancestral Search
Topic: Maclea Livingstons/Livingstones in 19th Century Morvern Parish, Argyll
Replies: 7
Views: 159

Re: Maclea Livingstons/Livingstones in 19th Century Morvern Parish, Argyll

Hi Bruce, Well said Bruce or should I say well said William (Shakespeare). Dr. Livingstone was an extraordinary man but like most men he had a few flaws. His own family at one time or another felt he was neglecting them and putting his exploration priorities ahead of his duties as a father and I thi...
by Canadian Livingstone
Sat Mar 23, 2024 3:49 am
Forum: Ancestral Search
Topic: Maclea Livingstons/Livingstones in 19th Century Morvern Parish, Argyll
Replies: 7
Views: 159

Re: Maclea Livingstons/Livingstones in 19th Century Morvern Parish, Argyll

Hi Bruce, I am afraid this has been a years old family history dilemma for me whether my ancestor Miles Livingston family roots were in Lismore or a short distance nearby along the Morvern coast. These days I have long since concluded that Miles Livingston's is descended from same Maclea ancestral l...
by Canadian Livingstone
Sat Mar 23, 2024 1:49 am
Forum: Ancestral Search
Topic: Maclea Livingstons/Livingstones in 19th Century Morvern Parish, Argyll
Replies: 7
Views: 159

Re: Maclea Livingstons/Livingstones in 19th Century Morvern Parish, Argyll

Hi All, Morvern and neighbouring Mull were also greatly impacted by potato crop blight that hit Ireland in the 1840's resulting in a devastating famine, much illness and death for the people of Ireland. This was the heart felt response of a number of Morvern residents in the form a petition during t...
by Canadian Livingstone
Sat Mar 23, 2024 12:58 am
Forum: Ancestral Search
Topic: Maclea Livingstons/Livingstones in 19th Century Morvern Parish, Argyll
Replies: 7
Views: 159

Re: Maclea Livingstons/Livingstones in 19th Century Morvern Parish, Argyll

Hi Bruce, You would be quite right. Indeed there is a "Myles" Livingston who was baptized in 1775 on the Isle of Lismore there to a Livingston family Donald Livingston an Christian Campbell I think they were residing at Cloichlea or some such place on the Island of Lismore and it may well ...
by Canadian Livingstone
Fri Mar 22, 2024 8:08 pm
Forum: Ancestral Search
Topic: Maclea Livingstons/Livingstones in 19th Century Morvern Parish, Argyll
Replies: 7
Views: 159

Maclea Livingstons/Livingstones in 19th Century Morvern Parish, Argyll

Hi All, The gradual but steady and significant population decline of my great-great-great grandfather Livingston's Morvern Parish Maclea Livingston/Livingstone kin is quite self evident as seen in the 19th century Census Records I made a note of years ago and include below. Elsewhere in other parish...
by Canadian Livingstone
Thu Mar 21, 2024 2:32 am
Forum: Ancestral Search
Topic: The Lowland Livingstons
Replies: 1
Views: 86

Re: The Lowland Livingstons

Hi Bruce, I very much appreciate the effort and research that has obviously gone into your very detailed account of the Livingstons which you are kindly sharing with our Clan Forum. The 18th century published Maclea account is one which our Clan has found of great interest in the past as it it somew...
by Canadian Livingstone
Thu Mar 14, 2024 2:56 pm
Forum: Ancestral Search
Topic: John Livingston
Replies: 1
Views: 67

Re: John Livingston

Hi Bruce, I no longer have ancestry.com but there may well be some interesting family info available regarding John Livingston and of particular interest his mentioned Livingston father from Oban,Argllshire Scotland available there for those who do have access to ancestry.com. Most definitely would ...
by Canadian Livingstone
Thu Mar 14, 2024 2:41 pm
Forum: Ancestral Search
Topic: Livingston Quarriers of Laroch/ Ballachulish in 1841 Scottish Census
Replies: 0
Views: 44

Livingston Quarriers of Laroch/ Ballachulish in 1841 Scottish Census

Hi All, Here is a bit of an update on the interesting discussion years ago we had at our Clan Forum regarding Livingstons of Laroch/ Ballachulish who were employed in the Laroch Slate Mines in the Ballachulish area of Western Argyllshire in the first half of the 1800's. Since discussions here at the...
by Canadian Livingstone
Thu Mar 14, 2024 12:51 pm
Forum: Ancestral Search
Topic: An interesting look at the origins of the Clan
Replies: 5
Views: 367

Re: An interesting look at the origins of the Clan

Hi Bruce, Indeed the McColls are a old Western family group who are known to have served with the Stewart of Appin's Appin Regiment during the 1745 Jacobite Rebellion as did our own Clan members then referred to as Western Argyllshire Maclea's or Maconleas and subsequently Highland Livingstone's. Th...