Genealogy of The Clan Gregor - 33 - Descendants of Coll in Balquhidder |
return to 31 - Family of Rob Roy | Coll b.~1698 died 1735 m. Dec 1721, Margaret MacGregor, Coileitir, Glen Falloch [7] | |
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GD50/184/84/5 paper has the following: Gregor a descendant of Coll the son of Rob Roy who lived about the braes of Balquhidder had a son Donald.
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It has been pointed out that although the Scotlandspeople website for baptisms in Balquhidder records an unmaned son of Coll and Kate baptised on 23/5/1735, an image of the actual record 331/10/63 clearly has
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Richard Sturt has kindly advised me that John the son of Coll married a MacAlpin, as shown by Burke LG 2nd Edn. Supp,. This shows that the son John was a Captain in the 60th Rifles and that he married a daughter of John MacAlpine of Edinburgh. I can’t find any marriage entry for that but it should be easy enough to track John’s military career in 60th Rifles. Hodson has General James being born 1759/60, so perhaps John married his MacAlpine in about 1758 or so, therefore born around the 1732 that you have for him..
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Old Parish record of Balquhidder Births 331 [8] MacPharrie might have been the same Duncan Drummond or MacGregor in Strathyre who had been involved with Rob Roy's sons in the kidnapping in December 1750 of Jean Key as a wife for Robin Oig, for which Robin was hanged in 1754. James Mor excaped from prison into exile in France, where he died, while Duncan was acquitted. His involvement could be the reason for Walter Scott mistakenly claiming that Rob Roy had a son named Duncan. He was probably the same Duncan who was married to Kate, a daughter of Coll and granddaughter of Rob Roy some time after the '45.
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Probable family of Duncan McGregor (Drummond) and Kate (Kathrin) McGregor in Balquhidder |