MCDOUGALL TENANTS ON MCDOUGALL ESTATES
From a list of 1833
John in Dunollybeg croft
Alexander in Saulnacroish croft
Dugald in Miln croft
James in Miln croft
John in Collogin
Dugald in Kilbride little croft
Dugald in Kilbride public
Duncan in Moleigh
Donald in Moleigh
Neil in Dalintart
Duncan at Port Kerrara ferry
John in Ballimore croft
John in Slaterach
Archibald in Slaterach
Allan at Barnabuck ferry
Allan in Barnabuck public
Hugh in Ardmore croft
Widow McDougall in Gylen croft
Angus in Ardchork
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MacDougalls in the 1804 list of men aged 18-45 liable to serve in the militia
For anyone looking for ancestors this is perhaps the earliest place to find ordinary people – most early references are concerned with landowners and lawbreakers, or the military, but the militia was composed of poor people for the most part, since richer men could pay for a substitute, and most did.
Note that there are four columns
name, type of work, dwelling-place (usually a farm name, since most cottages were attached to a farm, or on a farmer’s land) and, sometimes, the reason for exemption.
This could be certain types of employment e.g. minister, teacher, sailor, ferryman, apprentice, physical deformities, poor men with three or more children, those who had already been balloted or those who had been volunteers in the volunteer regiments before 1797.
John
Tenant’s son
Pennyfuir
Donald
Tenant
Dalnacabeg
Exempted
Dugald
Shoemaker
Barranchattin
Volunteer
Ronald
Piper
Moleigh
Volunteer
Duncan
Labourer
Oban
Ronald
Tenant
Lerags
Coll
Weaver
Glenshelich
John
Tenant
Soroba
Angus
Workman
Ardentrive
Allan
Tenant
Ardmore
Dugald
Shopkeeper
Oban
Apprentice
Coll
Labourer
Oban
Shortsighted
Alexander
Smith
Oban
Unfit
Duncan
Shoemaker
Oban
Apprentice
Allan
Tailor
Oban
Apprentice
Duncan
Weaver
Dunach
Balloted
Dugald
Weaver
Kilbride
Three children
John
Tenant
Slatrach
Unfit
John
Labourer
Slatrach
Hugh
Tailor
John
Tenant
Gaelin
Unfit
Donald
Weaver
Deponed
John
Tenant
Balloted
Hugh
Shoemaker
Lame leg
John
Shoemaker
Oban
Volunteer
Hugh
Tailor
Oban
Volunteer
Alexander
Smith
Oban
Dugald
Shoemaker
Oban
Volunteer
Alexander
Carpenter
Oban
Volunteer
Alexander
Labourer
Lerags
John
Labourer
Galunachbeg
Allan
Tenant’s son
John
Tenant
Gaolin
Alexander
Shoemaker
Balimore
Volunteer
Donald
Servant
Ardentrive
Allan
Tenant’s son
Slatrach
Duncan
Tenant’s son
Ardmore
Duncan
Carpenter
Ardmore
The above are from the parish of Kilmore & Kilbride
John
Slate quarrier
Easdale
Volunteer
Alexander
Slate
quarrier
Easdale
Volunteer
Samuel
Tenant
Camuslarich
Alexander
Tenant
Cainbane
Duncan
Quarrier
Easdale
Exempted
John
Esquire
Ardencaple
Balloted
The above are from the parish of Kilbrandon
Alexander
Crofter
Ardnamore
Hugh
Weaver
Firsa
John
Tenant
Leckmore
Dugald
Tenant
Leckbui
Allan
Tenant
Kilchattan
Dougall
Labourer
Kilchattan
John
Weaver
Kilchattan
Duncan
Quarrier
Kilchattan
Allan
Quarrier
Kilchattan
Hugh
Tailor
Achfolla
Duncan
Labourer
Shuna
Dougall
Labourer
Shuna
Colin
Labourer
Shuna
Coll
Labourer
Leckmore
Unfit for service
Donald
Weaver
Kilchattan
Lame foot
John
Slate quarrier
Kilchattan
Unfit for service
Alexander
Sailor
Mill
Bay
Seaman
Thomas
Sailor
Mill Bay
Seaman
Alexander
Tenant
Shuna
Exempted
Angus
Crofter
Shuna
Balloted
Allan
Tailor
Shuna
Unfit for service
Archibald
Tenant
Leckbui
Volunteer
Coll
Lieutenant
Ardlarach
Donald
Miller
Mill Bay
The above are from the parish of Kilchattan
Donald
Shepherd
Castles
The above is from the parish of Glenorchy
John
Labourer
Lagganmangd
Donald
Workman
Braglenmoir
Donald
Lagganmangd
Balloted
Alexander
Shepherd
Braglenmoir
The above are from the parish of Kilninver
Donald
Labourer
Kilchrenan
Allan
Tenant
Fernach
Archibald
Labourer
Inverinabeg
Alexander
Cottar
Inverinanbeg
Exempted
The above are from the parish of Kilchrenan
Donald
Labourer
Duninerain
Alexander
Tailor
Duninerain
John, younger
Kielmunlochavich
The above are from the parish of Dalavich
Alexander
Labourer
Auchencarran
Archibald
Auchnacransaul
Hugh
Herd
Hayfield
Allan
Labourer
Hayfield
The above are from the parish of Inishail
Duncan
Shepherd
Letters
The above is from the parish of Ardchattan
Patrick
Servant
Upper Kaine
The above is from the parish of Kilmelford
Alexander
Crofter
Inverco
John
Slate
quarrier
Kentallen?
Deponed
Allan
Slate
quarrier
The above are from the parish of Lismore
SOME FAMOUS MACDOUGALLS
Mary MacDougall
You probably will not know her as a
MacDougall, since she is usually referred to as Mary MacDonald
-- MacDonald was her married name.
She is remembered as the writer of the
Christmas hymn, “Child in the manger”, and its tune Bunessan, which was altered
somewhat by Lachlan MacBean, a journalist from Fife who provided the English
translation. ( Nowadays it has been altered by someone in England to make the
song “Morning has broken”, which to my mind is no hymn and should not be used
for such a lovely Gaelic tune.)
Mary
was born in the parish of Kilfinichen and Kilviceon around 1789 in the district
of Brolas, probably as Mary MacLucas.
But MacLucases often took the surname MacDougall, and in the church
records Mary is sometimes known by the one name, sometimes the other.
She married Neil MacDonald in 1813, had ten
children, and died at Ardtun in 1872.
She was also a keen member of the Baptist congregation in Bunessan.
A brother Duncan who always used the surname
MacDougall settled in Tiree in 1824 as a Gaelic school teacher and later became
the first pastor of the Tiree Baptist church.
He also wrote Gaelic hymns.
There is a monument to Mary in the district where she had
lived.
The following is the original of her hymn:
‘Se leanabh an
aigh an leanabh bh’aig Mairi,
Rugadh ‘s an
stabull, Righ nan dul;
Thainig do’n
fhasach, dh’fhulang ‘n ar in-aite,
Son aid an
aireamh, bhitheas dha dluth!”
The Child of Glory
The Child of Mary,
Born in the Stable
The King of
all,
Who came to the wilderness
And in our stead suffered;
Happy they are counted
Who to Him are
near.
