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From: "Lyndall" <>
Subject: Re: Ben Bhraggie Monument
Date: Fri, 20 Jul 2001 20:57:05 +1000
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Hello Jim,
I suggest that you see if you can find a copy of "History of
the Highland Clearances" by Alexander MacKenzie. First published by A. & W.
Mackenzie, Inverness. Now published by Mercat Press, Edinburgh.

ISBN 0901824 968

I have someone named SUTHERLAND in my tree too. I also appear to have
ancestors who were factors for the Duke of Sutherland in the 18th century,
later generations becoming large scale farmers ie - those who wear some of
the blame for the Clearances), but I go along with your cousin!

Lyndall
Canberra, Oz.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Jim Gibson" <>


Hi Listers,

I have a list of the 170 Golspie subscribers to the Duke of
Sutherland's monument erected in 1834 on Ben Bhraggie. Maybe someone would
like a name checked out.

I visited this monument about 20 years ago and read on the plaque that it
was erected by the grateful tenants of the duke. This surprised me
somewhat, knowing what dastardly deeds were carried out in his and his
wife's name during the Sutherland Clearances. A cousin, who lived in
Golspie, told me the tenants had no option but contribute and that "they
should knock the bloody thing over."!! This cousin's father-in-law living
in Golspie whose name was SUTHERLAND and who was the secretary of the Clan
Sutherland Society told me that the stories about the duke during the time
of the Clearances were greatly exaggerated. Who to believe? Jim Gibson

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