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From: "Janet" <>
Subject: Re: [Mull] Religion and Clans
Date: Fri, 25 Nov 2005 23:22:59 -0000
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We cannot know the truth and unless we are historians we will never get close to it. I totally agree with your sentiment here but I would suggest that we cannot alter history and we have to accept all of it. Why should we want to alter history when it is the fascination of our searching?

Where the ancestry that is the focus of this group is spread around the world, what justification is there for turning back the clock. That certainly wasn't my intention when I sought to inject interest into this list. From what I have seen there is historical interest here.

Janet
Traced:
Dun/Dunn, Angus
Sherret, Kincardineshire
Chester, Glasgow
Rowat, Campbell, Argyll

-- Original Message -----
From: "Jacqueline Archibald" <>


> We are getting many different comments and opinions on the horific problems that came about during the Battle of Culloden and the rivalary between different clanns. Many of us lost whole families on the Stewart side and many lost relations on the English side too. All of us will never agree on who should have been the legitimate ruler and I think most would agree that the Duke of Cumberland was excessive in his cruelity. Thank goodness we have all progressed since then and though it still is a contentious subject, we must work together to help our fellow genealogists and whether we be McLeans, McDonalds or Campbells, Catholic or Protestant hopefully we can work together in our genealogical research and not let our feelings ruin this wonderful list that we have for the Isle of Mull.


> Jacqueline in N.S.

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