The Gunn Papers; 'The Northern Chronicle' 8.3.1911
This article provides a couple of fascinating snippets, some well known.
1. Highland Drovers
‘Mackeamish bought cattle on an extensive scale’ and then there is an account of droving ... ‘pagan rites .... all the towns they went through ... costs (Mackeamish pennypinching the accounts when the drovers got back) ... no cattle were stolen...’ Interesting account of the life of the common folk and insight into Mackeamish’s character...
2 Old Time tacks
‘Mackeamish Baddenloch... Wester Helmsdale and Clyne ... his father-in-law John Mackay of Kirtomie was sub-let Baddenloch ... 8000 merks ... costs ... John Mackay and Elizabeth Sinclair his spouse to Alexxander Sutherland of Kinminity ... John Polson... Lieutenant William Gunn of Cuningham’s Regiment ... Badicalavan ... conditions for sub-tenants ... 1730s... three servants of Alexander Gunn of Wester Helmsdale ... The above Donald Gunn was near of kin to Mackeamish ... Mackays... as late as 1735 John Mackay had never paid a penny ...
3 Courting in borrowed plumes
‘Mackay ...asking money and cloaths to go court his wife Jean Mackay’ 5 April 1732
1. Highland Drovers
‘Mackeamish bought cattle on an extensive scale’ and then there is an account of droving ... ‘pagan rites .... all the towns they went through ... costs (Mackeamish pennypinching the accounts when the drovers got back) ... no cattle were stolen...’ Interesting account of the life of the common folk and insight into Mackeamish’s character...
2 Old Time tacks
‘Mackeamish Baddenloch... Wester Helmsdale and Clyne ... his father-in-law John Mackay of Kirtomie was sub-let Baddenloch ... 8000 merks ... costs ... John Mackay and Elizabeth Sinclair his spouse to Alexxander Sutherland of Kinminity ... John Polson... Lieutenant William Gunn of Cuningham’s Regiment ... Badicalavan ... conditions for sub-tenants ... 1730s... three servants of Alexander Gunn of Wester Helmsdale ... The above Donald Gunn was near of kin to Mackeamish ... Mackays... as late as 1735 John Mackay had never paid a penny ...
3 Courting in borrowed plumes
‘Mackay ...asking money and cloaths to go court his wife Jean Mackay’ 5 April 1732