Those other dark, bonnetless lads
In the interests of thorough documentation, I must include a different version of the "gille maol dhu" legend that I came across today....
Transcriptions - Balgalkin
The following is a transcription of images from the Camerons of Ferintosh album labeled "Murdock Cameron at Balgalkin" and "Balgalkin,...
Camerons in Virginia
This is part 2 of a two part post. If you have not done so, read Jacobites and the Ferintosh Distillery first. At least one of the...
Jacobites and the Ferintosh Distillery
The Ferintosh Camerons, the Jacobite Rising, and Ferintosh Distillery
Donald Cameron of the Black Isle
Geography and Family Tree of the Camerons of Ferintosh.
The dark, bonnetless lad
An examination of Donald Cameron's rank and nickname, and his home at Tor Castle.
Donald Cameron, the "gille maol dhu", c. 1598
Our family history begins with a romantic tale, recorded in the “Historical and Traditional Sketches of Highland Families and of the Highlan
The history that never was
My first family tree was passed down to me, as I imagine most people receive the history of their ancestry. It was composed in the 1980s by