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From: Brendan Jones <>
Subject: Re: Rob roy
Date: Thu, 13 Nov 1997 14:17:10 GMT

At 17:55 12/11/97 +0000, you wrote:
>I have visited Rob Roy's gravesite at Balquidder - It has no name
>on the stone (only a modern marker identifies it has his).
>
>Jeff Johnstone
>

I too have visited Rob Roy's grave and either on the stone or on the
kerb (curb?) are the words " MacGregor Despite Ye".

Brendan Jones.

>> linda Merle wrote:
>> >
> Also in the case of Rob -- no great fondness for his
>> > legal surname. I'll try to find out where it was I read this
>> > for ya...
>> >
>> > Linda Merle
>>
To
>> kill a MacGregor was not punishable, and no minister was to baptize any
>> male child of a MacGregor. So, members of the clan, under pain of
>> death, adopted various names... Campbell, Dougall, Drummond, Graham,
>> Grant, Murray, Stewart, etc....
>>
>> Apparently Rob Roy was given his mothers surname. His LEGAL name may
>> have been Campbell, but he was still a MacGregor.
>>
>> Rebecca McGowan
>
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This thread:

• Re: Rob roy by "Fred Birkley" <>
  • Re: Rob roy by linda Merle <>
  • Re: Rob roy by "Jeffrey M. Johnstone" <>
  • Re: Rob roy by Rebecca McGowan <>

  • Re: Rob roy by Brendan Jones <>