Thomas Sinclair Clan Gunn History Supplement 16; of Corrish Clan Gunn Chief and various other Gunns...
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Again, a little of a grab bag of Gunn related material. In genealogical terms the most interesting is a further restatement of the Corrish Gunns link to the Gunn Chiefs. Otherwise some interesting people briefly float through the article...
KEY IDEAS / PLACES / PEOPLE / PHRASING (in order of the article)
· Sir Walter Scott ‘Lady of the Lake’ notes
· ‘Mr Gunn of Edinburgh has lately published a curious essay on the harp and harp music of the Highlands.’ ‘drawn up by the Highland Society’... 1734 ... Caledonian harp... was born in the Highlands... 28 years absent from Scotland...This is John Gunn (Gunni when he was trying to be Italian or German for musical reasons...)... teacher of the German flute... other music books... 1819...
· Mrs Ann Gunn published in 1803 a volume and ‘also the same year her two volume ‘Mother and Daughter’’.
· ‘Bibliotheca Brittanica’ has Alphonsus William Gunn author of ‘Sermons on various Subjects and Letters to an Undergraduate at the University’ published London 1807.... Memoir to it of Gunn by Isaac Sanders M.A.
· Genealogical collection at Crawford (Rect)ory, Fifeshire, of Alexander Sinclair, brother Sir George Thurso Castle M.P. ‘ John Gunn (of?) Kilnan contracted with Catherine, only daughter of Jean Sinclair, eldest daughter of Mr John of Bibster (?) “pedagogue to William the Master of Caithness”; the date ... 6th March 1611, her dowry 1000 merks... Catherine’s father was Francis Sinclair ...of Don... Whether Gunn is the John ‘heir apparent of Killearnan’ mentioned... 11 September 1652...’. (Nice question...)
· Gunn Dale House, entertained Alexander Sincliar of Olrig the night before the fatal duel with Innes of Sandside in 1710 ... James mMckay(?) asserted that he had seen papers which confirmed this...
· A.H. Gunn of Marionville, Edinburgh ‘prided himself on the fact that his father was a chief of the Sutherland Gunns, the Black Gunns...’ Did he mean the M’Hamishes... unless ge was one of the Corrishes ... brehonic right ...
· George Gunn in Corrish, next and only brother to Alexander, the M’Hamish, who died in 1762, had two sons Alexander and Donald. Alexander was in Corrish and had Thomas, Alexander, William and James. Donald had William (R)obert and Donald. This William was the ...ther of Alexander, eldest representative of the Corrishes, who lived in Thurso in 1868. Alexander’s brother Robert died at the Cape of Good Hope, his brother Doanld at Shebster, the latter’s (so)ns William, Aleaxander, and Magnus leaving for (A)merica in 1870. The Corrish was married to (A?)nne Gunn and their sons were William, Halkirk, and Adam, Houstry. Adam’s sons Alexander and Donald were alive in 1870. William Halkirk, had William, Newton, the principal line... That they are of the blood of the M’Hamishes (Chiefs) gives them some toitle to notice...
· Clan Gunn Journal January and April 1891... Rev. Henry Mayo Gunn, son of Rev. John Gunn of Wick... the father was for twenty-three years Congregational Minister at Chard Somersetshire, where his son was born 25th March 1817... (Henry) negan his ministry at Barnstaple Devonshire... joined his uncle Rev. Daniel Gunn at Christchurch Hampshire... Basingstoke... Alton...Warminnster from 1848... 1870 Park Crescent Chapel Clapham London... Sevenoaks Kent... hymnologist d. 21 May 1886.. married twice... Anne? Marie Price (Lymington 1845) and Isabella Wills of Bristol... son Mayo Gunn...
· George Murray Gunn d 1899 F.R.G.S. HM Customs... son of Wick Alexander Gunn clothier Berwick on Tweed ... George Murray Gunn wrote ‘Ports of the World’... examiner for King’s College London... Linguist...married, two sons, three daughters... aunt Mrs Macbeath of Louisburgh Wick...
· Letter by Captain Gunn 1746... Prince Charlie Stuart ... Dunrobin Castle...
· ‘Letters of Two Centuries’ by C. Fraser Mackintosh M.P. has information about the ‘fire of Sandside’ where the cornuard was burnt in 1615
· John Gunn Royal Navy list second lieutenant of the marines 1809
· William Gunn midshipman was killed in the naval fight at Lake Champlain 11 September 1814, gained by the United States his ship being ‘The Linnet’, the same name as the emigrant vessel...
· Margaret, second daughter of Captain John Sinclair Gunn J.P. farmer Dale married in 1848 Donald Gunn, laird of Latheron, who died in 1869, their young and only child dying in 1865... her mother was Anne Davidson , daughter of John in Buckies; the Norse Gunns thus in affinity but not of the same blood with the Thurso Davidsons, originally from Inverness and Celtic....
· Roll values of Latheron..
· Principal trustee was the nephew of the doomed proprietrix John Miller of Scrabster, from whom it was bought by James Gunn in 1896... In 1810 Osborne was the laird..
· The select works of Robert Bollock, Principal of Edinburgh were edited in two volumes by William W. Gunn in 1844-1849 as one of the publications of the Wodrow Society...
Again, a little of a grab bag of Gunn related material. In genealogical terms the most interesting is a further restatement of the Corrish Gunns link to the Gunn Chiefs. Otherwise some interesting people briefly float through the article...
KEY IDEAS / PLACES / PEOPLE / PHRASING (in order of the article)
· Sir Walter Scott ‘Lady of the Lake’ notes
· ‘Mr Gunn of Edinburgh has lately published a curious essay on the harp and harp music of the Highlands.’ ‘drawn up by the Highland Society’... 1734 ... Caledonian harp... was born in the Highlands... 28 years absent from Scotland...This is John Gunn (Gunni when he was trying to be Italian or German for musical reasons...)... teacher of the German flute... other music books... 1819...
· Mrs Ann Gunn published in 1803 a volume and ‘also the same year her two volume ‘Mother and Daughter’’.
· ‘Bibliotheca Brittanica’ has Alphonsus William Gunn author of ‘Sermons on various Subjects and Letters to an Undergraduate at the University’ published London 1807.... Memoir to it of Gunn by Isaac Sanders M.A.
· Genealogical collection at Crawford (Rect)ory, Fifeshire, of Alexander Sinclair, brother Sir George Thurso Castle M.P. ‘ John Gunn (of?) Kilnan contracted with Catherine, only daughter of Jean Sinclair, eldest daughter of Mr John of Bibster (?) “pedagogue to William the Master of Caithness”; the date ... 6th March 1611, her dowry 1000 merks... Catherine’s father was Francis Sinclair ...of Don... Whether Gunn is the John ‘heir apparent of Killearnan’ mentioned... 11 September 1652...’. (Nice question...)
· Gunn Dale House, entertained Alexander Sincliar of Olrig the night before the fatal duel with Innes of Sandside in 1710 ... James mMckay(?) asserted that he had seen papers which confirmed this...
· A.H. Gunn of Marionville, Edinburgh ‘prided himself on the fact that his father was a chief of the Sutherland Gunns, the Black Gunns...’ Did he mean the M’Hamishes... unless ge was one of the Corrishes ... brehonic right ...
· George Gunn in Corrish, next and only brother to Alexander, the M’Hamish, who died in 1762, had two sons Alexander and Donald. Alexander was in Corrish and had Thomas, Alexander, William and James. Donald had William (R)obert and Donald. This William was the ...ther of Alexander, eldest representative of the Corrishes, who lived in Thurso in 1868. Alexander’s brother Robert died at the Cape of Good Hope, his brother Doanld at Shebster, the latter’s (so)ns William, Aleaxander, and Magnus leaving for (A)merica in 1870. The Corrish was married to (A?)nne Gunn and their sons were William, Halkirk, and Adam, Houstry. Adam’s sons Alexander and Donald were alive in 1870. William Halkirk, had William, Newton, the principal line... That they are of the blood of the M’Hamishes (Chiefs) gives them some toitle to notice...
· Clan Gunn Journal January and April 1891... Rev. Henry Mayo Gunn, son of Rev. John Gunn of Wick... the father was for twenty-three years Congregational Minister at Chard Somersetshire, where his son was born 25th March 1817... (Henry) negan his ministry at Barnstaple Devonshire... joined his uncle Rev. Daniel Gunn at Christchurch Hampshire... Basingstoke... Alton...Warminnster from 1848... 1870 Park Crescent Chapel Clapham London... Sevenoaks Kent... hymnologist d. 21 May 1886.. married twice... Anne? Marie Price (Lymington 1845) and Isabella Wills of Bristol... son Mayo Gunn...
· George Murray Gunn d 1899 F.R.G.S. HM Customs... son of Wick Alexander Gunn clothier Berwick on Tweed ... George Murray Gunn wrote ‘Ports of the World’... examiner for King’s College London... Linguist...married, two sons, three daughters... aunt Mrs Macbeath of Louisburgh Wick...
· Letter by Captain Gunn 1746... Prince Charlie Stuart ... Dunrobin Castle...
· ‘Letters of Two Centuries’ by C. Fraser Mackintosh M.P. has information about the ‘fire of Sandside’ where the cornuard was burnt in 1615
· John Gunn Royal Navy list second lieutenant of the marines 1809
· William Gunn midshipman was killed in the naval fight at Lake Champlain 11 September 1814, gained by the United States his ship being ‘The Linnet’, the same name as the emigrant vessel...
· Margaret, second daughter of Captain John Sinclair Gunn J.P. farmer Dale married in 1848 Donald Gunn, laird of Latheron, who died in 1869, their young and only child dying in 1865... her mother was Anne Davidson , daughter of John in Buckies; the Norse Gunns thus in affinity but not of the same blood with the Thurso Davidsons, originally from Inverness and Celtic....
· Roll values of Latheron..
· Principal trustee was the nephew of the doomed proprietrix John Miller of Scrabster, from whom it was bought by James Gunn in 1896... In 1810 Osborne was the laird..
· The select works of Robert Bollock, Principal of Edinburgh were edited in two volumes by William W. Gunn in 1844-1849 as one of the publications of the Wodrow Society...