KnapdalePeople

The Statistical Accounts for the west highland area are great reading. The writers are all local pastors, and as such as interested in the ...

If you have sent me any email during the past week... I haven't answered it because I cannot access my email account. I will be back a...

I have some good news about Inverneill Mausoleum (see Knapdale People Website , in the Monument Inscriptions section): it seems that the des...

When I was a child, I loved reading 'popular' histories, ones with lots of action and romance, but little or no historical nuance. O...

The author is Hilda T Skae who, it seems, made a career of writing popular histories of Britain. Thomas Nelson published it, but the year of...

On the front page of my " Knapdale People" website , I make the claim that Knapdale and environs was the place where the "Cel...

Catherine Czerkawska in her "God's Islanders" about the people of Gigha, mentions that "Graham" is a very old name o...

... although they are closer to pamphlets than to 'books.' The first is called "Mid Argyll: an Archaeological Guide", and ...

The trouble with the Campbells is that (a) there were a lot of them living in Knapdale back then; and (b) they were extremely frugal with fo...

One of my ancestors was a McNeill. Her son married a Galbraith in the 1830s, in Knapdale. MY Mary McNeill was born and raised in Killean Par...

Gigha is a small island (7 miles long) beside Kintyre. It is blessed with a fine climate, fertile land, an ancient and rich history, and flo...

I have started to add information on the Inverneill Estate of Knapdale in my website . Inverneill was one 2 very large Knapdale properties, ...

How much exactly did property cost, back in the 1790's? Well, the British National Archives has an online currency convertor now, and it...

I had thought I could use the very cool email address, heather(at)knapdalepeople.com, but it didn't work out.. too many glitches. So, ...

I have done some re-arranging of Knapdale People and added information on Castle Sween. Included is a listing from my data base on the peo...

History Scotland has another winner in the Jan/Feb edition: "Shipwrecks and Barra" by Michael Clark. It describes an 1866 report ...

I have started to subscribe to "History Scotland" (website address is www.historyscotland.com ) and received the Jan/Feb 2007 maga...

I am working on a data base of Knapdale's population. The names included are from the South and North Knapdale census for 1841, 1851 and...

The Knapdale People website is finally open! You can find it at http://www.knapdalepeople.com It has at this point, 2 batches of names: monu...

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