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One of the family tales that reached us as kids was that we had an ancestor "hung for stealing sheep from the English". Does anyone on the forum know of any such accounts for McLeas or Livingstones in Argyll? Would they be in court records? My impression is that it was the redcoats who were responsible, and that my ancestors had no love of the English.

In "Livingstone the Liberator" p26 it says "that he could never discover that there was a dishonest man amongst our forefathers". However, he mat be referring to the story of the Black Sheep - http://www.clanlivingstone.com/Black-Sheep.htm

Hello Keith, Can't speak for your Livingstone ancestor or mine, but some of our kin could have been stealing cattle and sheep. Don't know about the English. Possibly stealing livestock from English soldiers who had stolen the livestock from Argyll clans involved in the 1745 uprising resulted in a hanging.