The Craigs burial ground in Corpach Fort William is where?

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Ann In the UK
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Post by Ann In the UK » Thu Aug 06, 2009 1:13 pm

Well, I don't know about the rest, but you'll be falling over Cameron's up there. I was at the Clan Cameron gathering last weekend at Achnacarry because they're intertwined with some of my MacMillans of Locharkaig.

I'll take a scan through my pics see if I can see any of your names lurking anywhere :D
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houseworkfairy
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Post by houseworkfairy » Fri Aug 07, 2009 3:40 pm

Thanks a lot - the other name I forgot to mention which is intertwined with the Camerons is INNES as I think Ann Cameron who married William Miller was an Innes descendant.

The Millers were incomers I think possibly from Forres around the 1810s or so. James, William's son, became the Inspector of Poor for Kilmallie so is fairly well documented. He started out a bootmaker and did a stint in Glasgow (where his father in law Norman McLeod was a prison warder) returning to Fort William to live in Gordon Place off Gordon Square until he died in the 1890s. His sons mainly became tax inspectors so I'm glad it's my husband's family not mine!

Two of William Miller's sons became bakers in Fort William - John who died in 1851 and Allan whose son Alexander Cameron Miller was a doctor in Fort William.

Grateful for anything you may turn up.

Regards
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Ann In the UK
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Post by Ann In the UK » Sat Aug 08, 2009 12:24 am

:cry: Well, I've just had a look though my photo's and I'm sorry to say there were none that looked promising. Most of my Cameron pictures tended to be related to my MacMillans or other familiar names from my research and I had no Innes or Millers whatsoever.

But looking at the pictures did remind me of some other things you need to take with you when you go - a small set of gardening tools and a small wire brush! The lichen and moss on some of those gravestones makes them nigh on impossible to read. And some of them are lying down (either purposely, or have fallen over the years) and are either completely buried, or not far off it. So your (and my) ancestors could be right under your feet, but you'd never know it!

Sorry I couldn't be of more help.

Regards,
Ann
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houseworkfairy
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thanks for looking

Post by houseworkfairy » Sat Aug 08, 2009 8:30 pm

I really appreciate you looking for me anyway

jacqui
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