BRIEF HISTORY OF STRATHAIRD - John Kubale -June 98
The parish of Strath, bounded by Kylerea, Kyleakin, Luib, and Loch Coruisk, which has been a clan home of the Mackinnons since at least 1354,includes the Strathaird estate and to the present day there are more Mackinnons living on the peninsula than any other name.
After the 1715 Jacobite rising the Mackinnon lands were forfeited by the 29th chief Iain Dubh. In 1723 the land was purchased for the family by Sir John Grant and after Iain Dubh was pardoned in 1727 the land was returned to his heir John, although Iain Dubh was still alive. John died in 1738 and
Iain was imprisoned for 12 months in a prison ship near Tilbury Fort for supporting and befriending Bonnie Prince Charlie in the 1745 Jacobite rebellion. After the passing of the Indemnety Act in 1750 Iain was released but sold the estate to the Macdonald trustees in 1753 for £280 to reduce debt and with the possibility of his still being tried for treason.
In 1786 Alexander Macalister purchased the Strathaird estate for £8400, in addition to land he owned in Glenbarr on the Kintyre peninsula. The estate covers 15000 acres bordered by the stream below Blaven and stretching from Elgol to the centre of Loch Coruisk.
During the course of the next 98 years of ownership the Macalister's added the second house at Strathaird House in 1826 and built the church in the valley in 1839,now used as a farm building, and also evicted 500 people during the time of the clearances in 1851.
In 1884 Alexander Macalister II(the grandson of the previous owner),who lived in France and also owned Torrisdale castle in Argyll, sold the Strathaird estate to an Englishman Mr Bower.
Prior to selling the estate this man had to set aside an Entail provision which had been drawn up by his grandfather determining the succession of the estate through male heirs (and failing that through the male line of female heirs).This required a descendant in Australia, Thomas Mewburn Macalister, renouncing his claim to the inheritance on the dubious grounds that he was illegitimate, his parents having married 6 weeks after his birth. Scottish Law legitimised a child by the parents later marriage so that had the son
been born in Scotland he could have refused to renounce the claim. Thomases great-grandson Max Milton Macalister, living in Melbourne Australia, is presently disputing the line of inheritance and titles himself Macalister of Strathaird!
An uncle of Thomas also migrated to Australia in 1817 and formed another farmed Estate of 20000 acres titled Strathaird 150 miles south of Sydney.
In 1888 the Skye estate was resold for £15,000 to Sir William MacKinnon of Balnakill in Kintyre.
Sir William Mackinnon had prospered whilst building up the British East India shipping line and the East Africa Company. He apparently had great plans for the Strathaird estate and had a new road made to Elgol in addition to building Kilmarie house and the large Steading by Strathaird House.
Unfortunately Sir William died in 1893 before moving into Kilmaree House and his plans never came to fruition.
The estate was then sold in 1897 to a Mr J Laurie Thomson (who had changed his name from MacEwan and whose grandson now owns the Isle of Muck). He also owned the Isle of Eigg and had a reputation as a recluse. He had previously been in Japan and brought back many artefacts and pictures some of which
remained in Kilmaree House until its sale in 1975.In 1914 the Thomson family sold the estate to the Johnson family who maintained the hill farming as well as the fishing for 54 years whilst also owning farms in the Scottish borders near Jedburgh.
In 1968 Walter Johnsons three sons Maurice, Mark and Stephen sold Strathaird House by auction to John Kubale, my father.
They also drew up a contract to sell the Steading together with a small amount of surrounding land. My father had considerable repairs carried out to the roof and floors of the steading and used it for storage of furniture, books and vehicles until after his death in 1984. Unfortunately he and his solicitor never pursued the Johnsons to complete the transfer of title, with the result that Ian Anderson took legal action to restore the Steading to his estate. Though this was disputed by my father, after his death my family
reluctantly ceased the dispute on legal and financial advice.
In 1973 the remainder of the estate was sold by the Johnsons to a London property speculator David Lewis for £720,000.The three Johnson brothers withheld four plots of land and the fishing and shooting rights, and still spend part of each year on the estate. Mr Lewis had virtually nothing to do with the estate before reselling it to Ian Anderson (of Jethro Tull fame) in 1978 for the reduced sum of £250,000 to the delight of anti-speculators.
Ian Anderson, when not touring with the Jethro Tull group, lives on a 500 acre farm in Buckinghamshire. However he has invested considerably by restoration of Kilmarie House and the hill farm activities of the estate. He has also created one of the largest salmon farming operations in Scotland, with six sites around Skye including the hatchery in the Strathaird estate.
In 1990 there was a planning application to restore the Steading to provide four flats and a fish-farming office and display, together with information on Mackinnon Clan history. There had been no activity until 1996 and the building seriously deteriorated. In August 1994 the estate was advertised for sale for £750,000 with exception of the salmon hatchery facilities which Ian Anderson will retain. In September Kilmarie House was separately advertised with 100 acres of woodlands surrounding it, for £295,000. Subsequently it was announced in December 1994 that the John Muir Trust had acquired the estate of 15,000 acres including the sheep and cattle stock. Kilmarie House has been purchased by the Mills family. In January 1996 Ian Anderson sold the Steading building to me and we obtained planning permission to set up a craft workshop and restaurant with two flats for the operators to live in, together with a separate room intended as a resource centre for Mackinnon and Strathaird history. In 1996 the building was made watertight and foundations and drains repaired prior to commencing building work. Between August and December 1997 I worked with a team of builders to prepare for opening for Easter 1998.
The 'Kirkicraft' craft shop opened in mid April and the 'Hayloft' restaurant in mid May 1998.
In September 1999 the 'Hayloft' restaurant closed after the tenant, Les MacLeod, became ill and moved to the east coast of Scotland. In March 2000 the tenant of the craft shop and an internet based narine accessories business decided to move to the south of England to be nearer to a fast developing market for one of his products. The Steading is currently advertised for sale or lease.
From: Max Milton Macalister Esq. Cadet of ''TARBERT,''Senior Male Heir of ''STRATHAIRD.''
Melbourne,Australia. Matriculated Arms,May 8th,1995,Volume 78,31st Page.
SOME HISTORY OF THE VARIOUS BRANCHES OF THE MACALISTER CLAN.
“Strathaird”,”Tarbert”,''GlenBarr”,''LOUP''
Though the primary purpose of this document is to draw attention to the deaths of Lieutenant Charles Augustus Macalister of Glenbarr and Cour, at Peking in 1911 and Colonel Norman Macalister of the unfinished and abandoned Clachaig House, he was GovernorGeneral of Penang's Prince of Wales' Island but unfortunately was lost at sea aboard The East India Company's ship "Ocean" in 1810, it makes sense to add some record of the clan's history and lineage . In 1770 it is recorded that one Gilbert McIlchallum (McCallum), from Bracklarach, Carradale, took out a 19-year lease of the farm of Crubastill, near the village of Muasdale, on the west coast of Kintyre. The lands of Crubastill extended to 4 merklands and he had the rental of one merkland for 19 years at 18 pounds (Scots), £10 7 shillings sterling, 1 boll bear (barley) and '?' boll meal annually. He was succeeded by his son Peter McCallum, who farmed there until 1829 on the Mid-Crubastill division until it changed hands, one Iver McGeachy becoming the new tenant. Crubasdale Lodge, or 'Rockfield' as it was originally named, was built either around that time, or slightly later, its construction funded by an uncle of one Thomas Butler Parry who, according to a list of British Guiana colonists, died in the Surinam town of Paramaribo on August 6, 1843, Parry perhaps a missionary of some sort, his wife being Mary McDonald, daughter of Killean and Kilchenzie parish's minister, the Rev. Donald McDonald, minister of the parish from minister from 1798 to 1851, who lived in the old manse on the shore at
Muasdale, the 1841 census recording also that the Parry's had a then year-old son, Thomas McDonald Parry, the young Thomas' uncle, thought to be one John M McDonald, made his guardian after his father's death and Thomas, according to the 1851 and 1861 census returns, reported to have been living with John McDonald's family in Walcot, Bath. Whatever the case, the house at Muasdale, then known as 'Rockfield', was sold to Matthew Charles Brodie Macalister, his wife Augusta Lees, in 1868 and a report in the February 1912 issue of 'The Celtic Monthly' (Vol. XX, No 2) tells us of the life and death of their son, Lieutenant Charles Augustus Macalister of Glenbarr and Cour, he a Justice of The Peace for Argyll and dying at Peking's British Legation on Sunday, December 31, 1911 'at an early age'. "Born in Edinburgh on July 10, 1883, his earliest years were passed in Crubasdale, at Muasdale, on the west coast of Kintyre and, whilst yet a child, moving to Glenbarr when his father succeeded to the estate and in that beautiful spot he grew to manhood, beloved by all who knew him. "On the 4th of June 1904, Charles Augustus Macalister was gazetted to The 1st Battalion Queen's Own Cameron Highlanders, a distinguished regiment of which his grand-uncle, Lieutenant-General J. F. G. Campbell C.B. had been Colonel. "Keenly interested in the profession he had chosen, the young Macalister determined to fit himself for it in every way he could and, while at Tedworth, he took a first class certificate in musketry at Hythe and was also appointed signalling officer to his regiment. "Anxious to see foreign service, he exchanged into the 2nd Battalion and, leaving home on November 5, 1908, he travelled overland, by Russia and Siberia and joined the regiment at Tientsin in China. "His battalion being ordered to India, he went with them and spent a few months at Bangalore but, with a preference for China and being desirous to qualify as a language officer, he was, by his own request, seconded for two years and returned to Peking to study Chinese and a year later passed his first examination with a degree of distinction, which gained him a reward of £100 from The War Office. "Being a keen sportsman, Macalister combined pleasure with work and, during his sojourn in China, besides shooting, he won many cups and other prizes with his racing ponies. "Shortly before his death, Lieutenant Macalister had been sent on a scouting expedition into Mongolia to get some information for the Government, which his knowledge of Chinese made him well qualified to do and, it is surmised, while there, that he must have contracted scarlet fever as, only a few days after his return to Peking, he was struck down by a violent attack and, on the last day of the old year, Death was laid upon him and thus ended what gave every promise of being a very bright career. "Although alone in a foreign land and far from home, he was surrounded by many friends and his laying to rest, with full military honours, was a touching and deeply impressive sight and all the foreign legations in Peking, as well as The British, were largely represented at his funeral. "His grave in The English Cemetery, which lies beyond the western wall of Peking, was a mass of lovely wreaths and every mark of respect, love and sorrow was shown for the gallant young soldier who had passed from their midst, never more to return, having laid down his life for his country as truly as if he had fallen on the field of battle.
"Cheerful, generous, warm-hearted, thoroughly unaffected, Lieutenant Macalister had indeed an attractive personality, his manly look and soldierly bearing drew the eye. "A dutiful and affectionate son and brother and a fast friend, with a character above what is ignoble and base, those who knew him most intimately recognised in him the stamp of a highsouled gentleman. "The promise of his life lent colour to the expectation that, had length of days been given him, he would have still more adorned the profession to which he was so entirely devoted. He loved his home and the people among whom he was brought up. "Troops of friends in this country and abroad will grieve that by his untimely death the King has lost a brave soldier and they themselves a loved associate. They will grieve that over his home is cast the shadow of a deep sorrow, that his head lies low in a foreign land". In Volume III of 'The Clan Donald' http://www.archive.org/details/clandonald03macd written jointly by the ministers of Killearnan and Kiltarlity, both Rev. A. MacDonalds, it published in 1904, Volume I published in 1896, we learn of the MacAlisters of Strathaird, Glenbarr and Torrisdale etc.. Importantly, a note has been included with the entry about Colonel Norman Macalister (of Clachaig), Governor of Prince of Wales' Isle, Penang, who died in August 1810 when his ship, the "Ocean", was lost at sea. On hearing the news of his loss at home, work was immediately stopped on the building of Clachaig House, only a single gable wall standing to mark its position in Clachaig Glen, behind Muasdale and the money set aside for the building of the house, £1,000, was given to the people of the parish of Killean, a plaque in the then newly built local church at A'Chleit recording this generosity. In the 1950's, the fund wisely administered over the years, money was given out to ensure that even the least well-off in the community were able to take advantage of the new supply of mains electricity to the parish and even today Norman Macalister's fund is still available if necessary to help the parish's residents in emergency. Thus (3) THE MACALISTERS OF STRATHAIRD, GLENBARR, TORRISDALE &c. Of the earlier connection of this family with the McAlisters of Loup not much is known, and for several generations only the bare links can be supplied in the shape of the heads of families. They trace their descent to John McAlister, 6th of the line, known in his day as John Dubh or Black John, father of Charles McAlister Stewart of Kintyre, before 1500, and they appear to have branched out first in the person of I. RANALD, son of John Dubh, who flourished early in the 16th century. He had two sons, Alexander and Donald, of whom II. ALEXANDER succeeded. The next of the line was III. RANALD, who was succeeded by IV. RANALD, who was succeeded by V. HUGH, who was succeeded by VI. HECTOR, who was succeeded by VII. JOHN MCALISTER, who flourished c. 1700, and with whom we come into the region of comparative genealogical definiteness and certainty. He, like his ancestor, was called John Dubh, and was styled of Ardnakill and Torrisdale Glen. He m. Flora MacNeill of Tirfergus in 3
Kintyre, both of them enjoying great longevity the former dying at 96 and the latter at 98 years of age so the family traditions relate. They had issue 1. Alexander, b. 1706; d. 30th October, 1779; m. Miss M'Millan of Cour, Kintyre, with issue. John, laird of Cour, m. Anna, daughter of Rev. Archibald M'Neill of Clachan; no issue; d. 1824. 2. Hector, of Lepincorach or Torrisdale Glen, m. Miss Simpson, daughter of Rev. Neil Simpson of Gigha, with issue. (A) John, lieutenant in the army; d. in East Indies. (B) Neil, d. at home, aged 15. 3. Ranald, who succeeded. There were three daughters 1. Margaret, who m. Charles Macquarrie, of the family of Ulva, with issue Isabella, who m. Capt. Charles McAlister, who was lost at sea in 1797, with issue. Margaret m. 2ndly Duncan M'Alister, merchant, Campbelltown, with issue (A) John McAlister, Laird of Ballinakill, who m. his cousin "Jackie," daughter of Angus McAlister, 19th of Loup, with issue (vide Loup genealogy). (B) Ranald, Lieut. Indian army, died in E. Indies, (C) Charles, d. without issue. (D) Alexander, d. without issue. (E) Mary, m. James McMurchy, shipmaster, Campbelltown, with issue. 2. Mary, m. Hector McNeill of Barliagh, Cantyre, with issue. 3. Catherine, d. unmarried. VIII. RANALD, who in consequence of the death of his two brothers without surviving issue carried on the representation of the family. . He spent much of his life in Skye, where he possessed the Farm of Skirrinish, and was factor on the Macdonald Estate of Troternish. He m. Anne, daughter of Alexander Macdonald of Kingsburgh, and widow of Lauchlan Mackinnon of Corrychatachan, with issue 1. Donald, who d. at Kingsburgh without issue. 2. Allan, who d. at Kingsburgh without issue. 3. James, who d. at Cour, Kintyre, without issue. 4. Janet, who d. in infancy. 5. Captain John, who d. in India, 12th May, 1784, without issue. 6. Alexander, of whom afterwards. 7. General Keith, who is designed Col. Keith M'Alister of Loup in 1812 ; d. without issue. 8. Colonel Matthew, of Bar and Rosehill, of whom hereafter. 4
9. Colonel Norman, Governor of Prince of Wales Island, Penang, was lost at sea on his way home to Scotland in the ship "Ocean" in August 1810. He left two daughters, said to have been illegitimate, viz. : (A) Frances Byng, m. her cousin, Angus M'Allister, laird of Ballinakill, with issue. (B) Flora, m. Keith M'Alister of Inistrynick. It seems that then Captain Norman Macalister had been posted to Malaysia and Penang's Prince of Wales' Island, at least, in the early 1800's for, in 1805, as Commander of The Artillery, he made an inventory of the useful timber of Penang, part of the company's exercise to identify potential naval timber and secure suitable woods for masts and spars to replace supplies from the lost American colonies. Sixteenth century Portuguese traders from Goa, India sailing to The Far East in search of spices and needing a place to replenish their water supplies referred to it as Pulo Pinaom. One of the very first Englishmen to reach Penang was the merchant-navigator Sir James Lancaster who in 1588 served under Sir Francis Drake as commander of the Edward Bonadventure against the nemesis of The Spanish Armada. On April 10, 1591, commanding the same ship, he set sail from Plymouth for The East Indies, reaching Penang in June 1592, remaining on the island until September of the same year and pillaging every vessel he encountered. In the 17th century, Penang's location at the northern entry to The Straits of Malacca provided a sheltered harbour for Chinese, Indian, Arabian and European ships during the monsoon months; this, in turn, inevitably made it fertile hunting ground for pirates. Lancaster returned to England in May 1594, but it wasn't till Francis Light that the Europeans became truly involved in the history, government and development of the island. Light had set sail for India in 1765. There he secured command of a trading ship and was sent by the company of Jourdain, Sulivan & Desouza, a Madras firm of merchants interested in trading with Acheh, Kedah and Southern Siam. He was posted to Kedah and learnt to read and write several languages while trading around the region, including Siamese and Malay. Eventually Light worked his way to an influential position with the Sultan Abdullah Mukarram Shah of Kedah by helping the Sultan recapture the fort of Kota Kuala Kedah which had been earlier seized in 1771 by the Bugis who supported forces in Kedah opposed to the Sultan. Light realised the commercial potential of having a permanent British trading outpost in the region and suggested to the Sultan that if he could have Kota Kuala Kedah as his base he might use the fort to protect the Sultan from future attacks along the Kedah river estuary. The Sultan agreed, Light's earlier retaking of the fort having convinced him of the efficacy of British might. Light informed Jourdain, Sulivan & Desouza of this opportunity and urged his employers to convince the British East India Company's Government in Bengal to accept the terms. At the same time he wrote to Warren Hastings, and argued that the island of Penang would be highly advantageous to commerce in the East. In 1772 Warren Hastings was appointed GovernorGeneral of Bengal and sent out two missions, one to Acheh and one to Kedah, neither of which were successful. Light decided to move to Salang near Phuket, which he made into his headquarters. For the next fourteen years he traded from there until he was approached by the British East India Company. War in the American colonies and with their allies, France and the Netherlands had 5
emphasised the increasing need for British naval presence and commercial settlement in the Straits of Malacca. Interest in Penang was revived. In 1785 Light wed the daughter of the Sultan of Kedah who settled on Light, as a country, the island of Penang as a wedding dowry. Light promptly informed the East India Company and an agreement was made between the two. Light had his ownership of the island transferred to the Company and was appointed its governor. In May 1786 Light was made a Captain in the Marines of the British East India Company and Superintendent of its intended new settlement. Light arrived at Kedah and presented his credentials to the Sultan. However instead of the broad undertaking of protection The British East India Company only promised to keep an armed vessel to guard Penang and the adjacent coast belonging to Kedah, and there was no sum fixed for compensation for loss of trade. The Sultan hesitated, but eventually signed with reluctance. On 11 August 1786, Captain Francis Light, raised the Union Jack, took formal possession of the island in the name of His Majesty, the King and renamed it Prince of Wales' Island (the name used until after 1867) in honour of the heir to the British throne whose birthday was the day after the founding of the island. Penang with a population all of less than a hundred native fishermen, was the first British possession in the Malay States and Southeast Asia, the location of the island at the opening of The Straits of Malacca attracted The British East India Company to use the island as a natural harbour and anchorage for their trading ships and as a naval base to counter growing French ambitions in the region, the settlement on the north-eastern tip of the island was named George Town after King George III of the United Kingdom. Unbeknownst to the Sultan, Light had acted without the approval of The East India Company when he promised military protection. When the Company failed to aid Kedah when it was attacked by Thai, the Sultan tried to retake the island in 1790. The attempt was unsuccessful, and the Sultan was forced to cede the island to the Company for an honorarium of 6,000 Spanish dollars per annum. This was later increased to 10,000 dollars, with Province Wellesley (Seberang Prai) being added to Penang in 1800. An annual honorarium of 18,800 'ringgit' continues to be paid by the Penang State Government to the Sultan of Kedah. The settlement was first built around the harbour with Fort Cornwallis forming the island's defence. Light became the first Superintendent of Prince of Wales Island. To expedite jungle clearing by labourers, Light fired silver coins from his ship cannons into the dense vegetation and the land was cleared in no time, Light declaring Prince of Wales Island a free port to attract trade away from the Dutch who were then the colonial ruler of The Dutch East Indies. This strategy drew many immigrant traders to Penang. Settlers were allowed to claim whatever land they could clear. By 1789, Penang had 5,000 residents and this doubled by the end of the following decade. The first Chinese settlers in Penang came from an existing community in Kedah, with their leader, called a Kapitan Cina, being Koh Lay Huan, a Baba. Light died of malaria on October 21, 1794 and was buried at the Protestant cemetery at the end of Northam Road (now Jalan Sultan Ahmad Shah). His son, William Light went on to found the city of Adelaide in Australia. The original governors of Penang were Superintendents appointed by the Governor-General in Calcutta, subject to the Bengal Government and were retained on a very small salary by The British East India Company. They were not members of the Indian Civil Service nor were they attached to any of the garrisons or military forces of the British East India Company. They 6
were civilian traders who spent part of their time on the governance and administration of the island and part on their own personal commercial activities. Superintendents mediated and arbitrated in local disputes but had no formal of local jurisdiction. Light had argued for the need for well-paid, full-time administrators with complete responsibility and full powers of jurisdiction backed up with sufficient resources to enforce that authority, but this did not come for another fourteen years Lieutenant-Colonel Arthur Wellesley (the future Duke of Wellington) arrived in Penang to coordinate the island's defences and, in 1800, Lieutenant-Governor Sir George Leith secured a strip of land across the channel from the island and named it Province Wellesley, after Richard Colley Wellesley, 1st Marquess Wellesley, Governor-General of India. Early in the 19th century, Penang was used as a staging post for the opium trade between India and China. The East India Company auctioned off licences to gambling dens, brothels and opium traders (this alone accounted for approximately 60% of colonial Penang's trade). In 1805, Penang's colonial status was elevated to that of a Residency and was also known as the Eastern Presidency under the direct control of the Governor-General of India - Stamford Raffles, subsequently to become known as the founder of Singapore, in 1819, also arrived in Penang in 1805 to begin work as the Deputy Secretary to the Governor of Penang, Philip Dundas from 1805 to 1810. This change in Penang's status was likely the catalyst for the founding of 'The Government Gazette' in 1806, the new Government consisted of three councillors in addition to the Governor and 11 other officers and 'The Gazette' subsequently dutifully recorded the arrival of new governors and appointment of new councillors and, during 1805 to 1807, we note Captain Norman Macalister named as Commandant and 'fourth' in the list of council members under the newly appointed governor, Philip Dundas, who had arrived at the newly-created Presidency of The British East India Company in September 1805. The status of Penang, comprising Prince of Wales' Island and Province Wellesley, was now such that it was on an equal footing with the three great Presidencies in India - Calcutta, Madras and Bombay. Dundas created a 'red-light district', so that he could control disease without having to discourage business but, just two years later Dundas died from ill health, a consequence of the territory's generally unsanitary conditions - He 'so seriously indisposed as to be incapable of attending his duty' that he was taken on board HMS "Belliqueux", a 64-gun 'third rate' ship of the line of The Royal Navy and, dying on April 8, 1807, was buried in Penang. Five days later, on April 13, 1807, Henry Shepherd Pearson took up his post as Acting Governor, Norman Macalister, now a Colonel, then appointed and sworn in as Governor on 17 October 1807. The official report of October 17, 1807 tells us that The Hon. Colonel Norman Macalister in conformity with the orders of the Hon. the Governor General in council, took the usual oaths and his seat as governor of this presidency, a salute of 19 guns being fired on the occasion and his predecessor, Henry Shepherd Pearson, also took the oaths and took his seat as second member of council, Pearson to be warehouse-keeper and paymaster and, interestingly we find that one Mr. John Macalister is then appointed to be assistant collector of customs and land revenues at Malacca, the relationship, if any, now unclear at this late point in time.
Of other 'potentially 'local', perhaps Kintyre native, appointments, the following year, 1808, saw one Lieutenant R. McDonald as ADC to the Governor and Captain John McInnis as Private Secretary to the Governor. During his term as governor, Macalister Road in Penang is named after him, Macalister completed the brick structure of the star-shaped Fort Cornwallis on the north-eastern coast of Penang with convict labour in 1810. The fort is named after the late 18th century Governor-General of Bengal, India, Charles Cornwallis, 1st Marquess Cornwallis and is the largest standing fort in Malaysia, Captain Sir Francis Light's original fort built with a nibong (Malay : palm trunk) stockade with no permanent structures, covering an area of 417.6 square feet (38.80 m2). In 1804, Indian convict labour had started to rebuild the fort with bricks and stones, during Colonel R.T. Farquhar's term as Governor of Penang, the fort, intended as a defense against the pirates, Kedah and the French because of The Napoleonic Wars, completed in Macalister's term as governor costing the equivalent of $80,000. The moat, 9 metres wide by 2 metres deep, which surrounded the fort, filled in in the 1920's due to a malaria outbreak in the area. The chapel at Fort Cornwallis, built in 1799 on the southwest bastion, is the earliest roofed structure surviving in Penang from the colonial era, the first recorded marriage there taking place that same year, when John Timmers married Martina Rozells, the widow of Francis Light. Even though the fort was originally built for the Royal Artillery troops and the military, its function, historically, was more administrative than defensive and, in its entire history, the fort had never engaged in any battle. Macalister was succeeded as Governor by Charles Andrew Bruce, on March 24, 1810, the official report stating that, "Late on Tuesday night, the ship "Bengal Anna", Captain Thomas Scott, anchored in the harbour from Calcutta, having on board the honourable C. A. Bruce as governor, the honourable Mrs. Bruce and (their) two children and at sunrise, on Wednesday, the "Bengal Anna" saluted the fort, which was returned. At seven o'clock, the honourable Mr. Bruce landed under the appropriate honours, and was received at the wharf by the honourable the governor and members of council, who accompanied him through a street, formed by the military, to the government house. At ten o'clock, the honourable Mr. Bruce took the usual oaths and his seat as governor, and Colonel Norman Macalister was sworn in as second, and W. E. Phillips Esq. third and last member of council, under the customary salutes". Macalister, taking leave, set sail for home on The East India Company's ship "Ocean" in August 1810, nothing more ever heard of the ship and Macalister assumed lost at sea. His successor's tenure as Penang's governor was short-lived, this report made out at Penang's Fort Cornwallis on December 28, 1810, just months after Macalister had sailed for home. "In consequence of the much lamented death of the honourable Charles Andrew Bruce, late governor of Prince of Wales's Island and its dependencies, and commander in chief of the fort and town, and in the absence of Colonel Norman Macalister, second member of council, and next in succession to the office of government, vacant by this event, PUBLIC notice is hereby given, and it is proclaimed, the powers of governor of Prince of Wales's, and the command of the fort and town, has necessarily developed pro-tempore on William Edward Phillips, esq. third member of council; and that the same Wm Edward Phillips, esq. has this day duly taken the prescribed oaths and seat accordingly. It is also hereby further proclaimed, that John 8
James Erskine, esq. has, in conformity to the provisional appointment of the honourable, the court of directors, been called in to the board, and has taken the prescribed oaths and his seat as a member of council. All persons in the civil, military and marine service, of the honourable East India Company, and all the other inhabitants of Prince of Wales's Island, and its dependencies, are therefore hereby required and directed to take due notice thereof, and to obey the said William Edward Phillips, esq. as governor and commander in chief accordingly pro-tempore. Published by command of the honourable the Governor in council. W. A. CLUBLEY, Act. Sec. to Govt.". World War II, on the other hand, unleashed unparalleled social upheaval on Penang. With news of the imminent attack of the Japanese, the European population was evacuated beforehand, leaving the rest of Penang's population to suffer under a brutal Japanese occupation, causing much disillusionment and injury to the British prestige and image of invincibility. The British withdrawal left the defenceless island in the hands of a State Committee which had to subdue a three-day civil unrest. Penang was captured by Japanese forces invading from the north through Thailand on 19 December 1941, one of the key stages of The Battle of Malaya, days after having neutralised American sea power at Pearl Harbor. Three and a half years of rule of terror ensued. Many of the local populace fled to the interior and plantations to escape from Japanese atrocities, of which many were reported and documented. During this occupation, Penang was governed by four successive Japanese governors, starting with Shotaro Katayama. It is a little known fact that Penang served as a German U-boat base in The Far East. "U-511", under the command of Kptlt. Fritz Schneewind, arrived in Penang, then under Japanese occupation in July 1943, followed by "U-178" in August 1943. This essentially started the Uboat campaign in the Indian Ocean and also provided the Germans with penetration into the Pacific for the first time, alongside their ally, Japan. Korvettenkapit�n Wilhelm Dommes became the first commander of the U-boat base, located in the former British seaplane base in Penang - Japanese forces in Penang finally surrendered to British forces on September 6, 1945. Returning now to the Macalisters 10. Charles, Lieut, in the E.I.C. service; d. without issue. 11. Catherine, m. Peter Nicolson of Ardmore, Waternish, Skye, with issue (A) John M'Alister. (B) Donald. Both died young. (c) Flora, Nicolson, m. Allan Macdonald, major of the 55th Regiment of Foot, afterwards of Waternish, son of Allan Macdonald of Belfinlay (vide Belfinlay genealogy under Clanranald). (D) Susannah MacAlister, m. Norman Macdonald of Scalpay with issue (vide Scalpay genealogy under Sleat) (E) Margaret, m. Dr Alexander Macdonald of Gillen in Sleat, Skye, with issue (vide MacEachen genealogy under Clanranald). IX. ALEXANDER MACALISTER, his oldest surviving son, succeeded Ranald of Skirmish in the representation of the family. He is said to have bought the property of Strathaird, in Skye, in or about 1789. He m. Miss Campbell of Ederline, with issue 9
1. Janet, who m. Dr Duncan McAlister of Tarbert, with issue (A) Alexander. (B) Matthew, (C) John. (D) Charles. (E) Lachlan. (F) Norman. (G) Archibald. (H) Catherine. Alexander McAlister of Strathaird m. 2ndly Miss Macleod of Greshornish, with issue 2 John, who m. Miss McCormick, with issue (A) Donald, who died young. (B) Norman, who died young. (C) Alexander, m. daughter of Admiral Fleming, Elphinston, with issue, several daughters but no son. 3. Isabella, who m. John Nicolson, Claggan, Skye, with issue. 4. Charles, a W.S., who d. without issne. 5. Donald, d. without issue. The offspring of Alexander McAlister having become extinct in the male line, THIS ENTRY IS WRONG,THE DAUGHTER OF ALEXANDER MACALISTER OF STRATHAIRD`S FIRST MARRIAGE TO MARY CAMPBELL ,JANNETTE ,BORN IN 1766,MARRIED HER COUSIN,DR.DUNCAN MACALISTER OF THE "TARBERT CASTLE " LINE OF MACALISTERS, ON THE 15/1/1793,AND THEY EVENTUALLY HAD 13 CHILDREN,9 SONS AND 4 DAUGHTERS.THE MALE LINE WAS THEN CARRIED ON THROUGH THE ELDEST SON BORN TO JANNETTE AND DUNCAN,THAT BEING ALEXANDER MACALISTER ,LATER DR.BORN 1790,AND CONTINUED ON DOWN THROUGH THE ELDEST SON OF EACH GENERATION UNTIL REACHING MAX MILTON MACALISTER ,BORN 2/12/1935.the succession devolved upon his brother X. Colonel MATTHEW MACALISTER of Bar and Rosehill, Glenbarr. He m. (1st) Miss Campbell of Saddell, with issue, a son and a daughter, who both died young. He m. (2ndly) Miss Brodie of Brodie, with issue XI. KEITH MACALISTER of Glenbarr and Cour (b. 1803), who succeeded him in the representation of the family. He m. (1st) Mary, only daughter of Robert Campbell of Skipness, whom he afterwards divorced. The issue of this marriage was 1. Agatha, who m. A. Stikemaii, with issue. 2. Caroline, m. H. Greer of Lurgen, with issue. 3. Ellenor Georgia. 4. Eliza Gordon, m. Charles Vendin, of Jersey, with issue. 5. Anne Argyll, d. unmarried. 6. Matthew Charles Brodie M'Alister of Glenbarr Abbey and Crubasdale; b. 1838. Keith McAlister m. (2ndly) Alexandrina Georgia Cunningham, 2nd daughter and co-heiress of William Miller of Bonkcastle and Monkredding, Ayrshire, with issue Norman Godfrey, 10
Commander K.N.; b. Feb. 3, 1861; m. July 21, 1896, Florence Stewart, daughter of Captain Duncan Stewart, R.N., of Knockrioch, Kintyre. He died in 1886, and was succeeded by his older son XII. Major MATTHEW CHARLES BRODIE MACALISTER of Glenbarr Abbey and Crubasdale. He m. 1869, Augusta Lees, 2nd daughter of Major Henry Lees, with issue Charles Augustus, b. 10th July, 1883. He m. (2ndly) 27th Nov., 1901, Edith Margaret, only daughter of George Dudgeon, Esq., Almond Hill, Linlithgowshire, and has issue a son, Ranald Macdonald Brodie, b. 22nd Feb., 1903, his son, Angus, succumbing to his long fight with cancer on April 4, 2007.
The following understanding of the history of the MacAlister clan has been taken from the Wikipedia web page at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clan_MacAlister and it is followed by a list of links to other Wikipedia pages concerned with Clans with Chiefs, Armigerous Clans and other matters. Clan MacAlister is a Scottish Clan and a branch of Clan Donald. The clan is the earliest branch to have split off from Clan Donald, claiming descent from Alasdair M�r, son of Domhnall founder of Clan Donald. From Alasdair M�r the clans takes its surname MacAlister; this surname is an Anglicisation of the Gaelic Mac Alasdair meaning "son of Alasdair". In the 15th century the chief of the clan was seated in Kintyre, and the clan was centred there until the 18th century, when a chief sold the family estate in preference to a lowland estate. The current chief of the clan lives in England. Origins Clan MacAlister is a branch of Clan Donald, one of the largest Scottish clans. The eponymous ancestor of Clan Donald is Domhnall, son of Raghnall, son of Somhairle. Traditional Clan Donald genealogies, created in the later Middle Ages, give the clan a descent from various legendary Irish figures. Modern historians, however, distrust these traditional genealogies, and consider Somhairle, son of Gille Brighde to be earliest ancestor for whom there is secure historical evidence. Somhairle, himself, was a 12th century leader, styled "King of The Isles" and "King of Argyll". Confusion and The Clan's Founder Today, Clan MacAlister claims to descend from Alasdair M�r, son of Domhnall, founder of Clan Donald. There has, however, been confusion as to who really was the clan's founder. This is because within a generation there lived two prominent Alasdairs (an uncle and newphew). Both of these men left many sons, however, their immediate posterity are not clearly connected with definite area. The lack of charter evidence clouds the true history of the clan; 11
as does that fact that for about two hundred years, the descendants of both men did not form an organised clan of their own. Alasdair M�r first appears on record in 1253, when is recorded as witnessing a charter by his brother, Aonghas M�r a �le, to the Paisley Abbey. According to Angus and Archibald Macdonald, he must have been a prominent man, being the only recorded brother of the Aonghas M�r. A. and A. Macdonald state that he was recorded in The Irish Annals, in 1299, as being aa man noted for "hospitality and excellence". In that year he was slain in a conflict with Alasdair of Argyll and the MacDougalls. According to the traditional shanachies, Alasdair M�r had at least five sons: Domhnall, Gofraidh, Donnchadh, Eoin and Eachann. He was succeeded by Domhnall Younger Sons of Alasdair M�r Sometime in the early 14th century, descendants of Alasdair M�r seem to have settled in the county of Stirling. The first such descendant of whom there is any record is Gilbert, son of Domhnall, who received a charter for unspecified lands in the region, in the year 1330. This man appears to be same as the Gilbert de Insula who received a charter for the lands of Glorat in the parish of Campsie. Today, Gilbert de Insula is considered to be a grandson of Alasdair M�r. He is also considered to possibly be the ancestor the Alexanders of Menstrie, earls of Stirling from 1633. Little is known about the descendants of Gofraidh, second son of Alasdair M�r. According to the MS of 1450, he had a son, Somhairle, who had a son, Gilbert. A. and A. Macdonald could not find any other definite piece of information about the descendants of Gofraidh. According to A. and A. Macdonald, Donnchadh, third son of Alasdair M�r, possessed lands in the parish of Glenorchy. In about 1343, David II granted to Alexander MacNaughtane, all the lands which had belonged to the deceased Eoin, son of Donnchadh, son of Alasdair. A. and A. Macdonald were unable to find any other record of this branch of the clan. Nothing is known about Eoin, son of Alasdair M�r. According to the MS of 1450, Eachann, youngest son of Alasdair M�r, had two sons, Charles and Lachlann. Nothing definite is known of Eachann, yet the Sleat seanachie McVurich claimed that he had another son, Siothach an Dronan, who settled in Ireland and founded Clan Sheehy of Munster. This clan is recorded in 1552, as fighting in army of O'Neill, and described as gallowglass. The Irish Annals, however, describe them as belonging to the province of Leinster. McVurich also claimed that Clan Domhnuill Renna and MacWilliam of the province of Cannaught were also descended from Alasdair M�r. Successors of Alasdair M�r Domhnall, son of Alasdair M�r, swore fealty to Edward I of England in 1291. He was succeeded by his own son, Alasdair. Alasdair was also recorded as swearing fealty to the English king at the same time as his father. He was in turn succeeded by his son, Raghnall, who in 1366 crossed over into Ulster to fight in the wars between Donald and Neill O'Neill. A. and A. Macdonald considered the succession of the next three MacAlister chiefs to have been obscure. The two historians stated that Raghnall was succeeded by Alasdair who flourished about the year 1400. Alasdair was succeeded by Eoin Dubh from whom the modern chiefs derive their Gaelic designation Mac Iain Duibh. A. and A. Macdonald stated that this patronymic has caused confusion since the eldest son of Alasdair Og, the forfeited Hebridean magnate, was also named Eoin Dubh; and that his descendants were called Clann Eoin Duibh. 15th Century Eoin Dubh was succeeded by Charles. In 1481, James III granted a considerable amount of land in Kintyre to John, Lord of the Isles. Among these lands were those of "Lowb", or Loup. That year, Charles McAllister was appointed by the king, to the Stewarty of Kintyre, and received a considerable grant of lands in that area. The Stewartry of Kintyre was a life appointment, and 12
the lands consisted of 40 merklands. The lands were as follows: 4 merklands of Machquarrymore of Dunaverty, 2 merklands of the two Ramcollis, 2 merklands of Edyne, 1 merkland of Knockstippilmore, 1 merkland of Keranbeg, 2 merklands of Glennomudlach, 5 merks of Kildovy, 5 merklands of Polmulyn, 1 merkland of Salkanch, 3 merklands of Glennahervy, 2 merklands of Feachaig, 20 shillings lands of Corpany, the half merkland of Barfarnay, 2 merklands of Kilmichell, 4 merklands of de la Crag, to be held in fen farm. These lands were situated in North and South Kintyre. There is no mention of Loup and A. and A. Macdonald stated that the lands were probably already in his possession, and had likely been in his family's possession for quite some time. 16th century Charles was succeeded in the representation of the clan by his son, John. A. and A. Macdonald state that the only record of the existence of John is of his son's patronym Angus John Dowson of Loup. Angus is recorded among other Argyll chieftains whom protection was given by the Duke of Albany in 1515. The chieftains were described as "familiars and servitors" of Colin, Earl of Argyll. Angus John Dowson was succeeded by Alexander MacAlister. This chief was involved, among the Macleans and Clan Donald South, in the invasion of the Campbell territories of Rosneath, Lennox, and Craignish, in 1529. He was later denounced as a rebel for his failure to find security for his future good behaviour. In the 15th and 16th centuries, members of the clan obtained lands in the islands of Arran and Bute, which lie close to Kintyre. In 1506, Donald MacAlister received a grant of the lands of Longilwenach, and according to A. and A. Macdonald, his descendants beacme quite numerous in the said islands. Despite the fact the chiefs of Clan MacAlister never possessed lands in Buteshire, the connection of several of their clansmen to that area brought the chiefs trouble. A. and A. Macdonald state that during the remainder of the 16th century, the clan sought the protection under the more powerful Macdonalds of Dunyveg, and the powerful lords Argyll and Hamilton. Following the forfeiture of the lordship of the isles in 1493, the clan especially sheltered itself under the Macdonalds of Dunyveg. Between the years 1540 - 1572, the clan appears to have turned its attention to the turbulent north of Ireland. During this era men from the Hebrides often fought in Ulster on the side of Sorley Boy MacDonnell and according to A. and A. Macdonald, there is reason to believe that Clan MacAlister gave him some of his most strenuous support. A. and A. Macdonald stated that, sometime around the years 1571 - 1572, a body of Highlanders were defeated by Cheston who was captain of the English forces. One of those recorded as slain was one "Owen Mc Owen duffe Mc Alastrain, called the Lord of Loop". A. and A. Macdonald were of the opinion that this man was the son of Alexander MacAlister of Loup. The chief, John, was slain in 1572 and was succeeded in the chiefship by his son, Alexander. The following year, Alexander is recorded as receiving a charter from the Earl of Argyll; and around the same time was recorded as being ordered by an Act of Parliament to deliver hostages for his the security of his peaceable behaviour. In 1587, Alexander MacAlister of Loup was recorded in the General Band of 1587, in which Highland chiefs were held accountable by the Government for their tenants. In 1590, the clan rendered a bond of dependence and service to Lord John Hamilton; shortly afterwards a similar bond was given by the Tutor of Loup and clan members also Lord John Hamilton. A. and A. Macdonald state that Clan MacAlister was in no way dependent on the Hamiltons in Kintyre, yet those MacAlisters that settled in Arran and Bute had done so in the lands where the Hamiltons were lords. In 1591, Godfrey MacAlister of Loup received a charter from the Earl of Argyll. In 1598, a serious quarrel broke out between Godfrey MacAlister of Loup, who had just reached the age of majority, and his former tutor and guardian. It is unknown what the 13
reasons for the quarrel were, yet what is known is that MacAlister of Loup had the former tutor murdered. The sons of the murdered man then fled to Askomull House which was the Kintyre residence of Angus Macdonald of Dunyvaig. The historians A. and A. Macdonald stated that Macdonald of Dunyvaig was the tutor's sons' clan superior. MacAlister of Loup was however aided by Sir James Macdonald, younger of Dunyvaig and surrounded the house with several hundred armed men. 17th Century In 1603, Campbell of Auchinbreck and Archibald MacAlister, heir apparent of MacAlister of Tarbert, took part in an invasion of Bute. The force consisted of 1200 men and when it arrived on the island, first ravaged the property of a widow named Marion Stewart, and her lands of Wester Kames. The raiders then moved onto the land sof Ninian Stewart, Sheriff of Bute, committing similar atrocities. In consequence of the raid, the leaders were summoned to appear before the Council, yet failed to appear and were ordered to be denounced as rebels. In 1605, the Privy Council ordered Archibald MacAlister of Loups and John MacAlister, tutor of Loup to appear and produce evidence of their infeftments and rentals, under the pain of having their titles declared void. A. and A. Macdonald state that MacAlister of Loup was one of the few to attend and that he got titles from Argyll for his lands that year. In 1614, Alexander was supposed to have supported his feudal superior, Argyll, in the capture of Dunyveg Castle. However, when he arrived on the scene he sided with the leader of the insurgents, Angus Og Macdonald. Because of his support of the rebels he was also punished. At his trial he was found guilty of treason and hung. The years between 1614 and 1623 were uneventful for the leading family of the clan. In 1623, a bond of caution was signed on the behalf of Godfrey MacAlister of Tarbet, pledging that he would not molest the family and followers of Archibald Stewart of Castlemilk, John Shaw of Greenock, Ferlie of that Ilk, John Crawford of Kilbirnie, John Brenshaw of Bishoptown, and James Crawford of Flatterton. For sometime, Godfrey, who was son of the chief of MacAlister of Tarbet, raided the lands of the mentioned Lowland landowners. He is also recorded the same year as having to find caution for himself and Ronald Roy MacAlister for 3000 and 500 merks not to molest the following landowners and their families: Walter MacAulay of Ardincaple, Malcolm MacNaughtane of Stronseir, Robert Colhoun, fiar of Cumstrodone, and Dougal Campbell in Mamoir. A. and A. Macdonald made note of a serious quarrel between Godfrey MacAlister of Tarbet and Walter MacAulay of Ardincaple, chief of Clan MacAulay. Both Tarbert and Ardincaple claimed to be depute to the Admiral of the Western Seas; and the two Macdonald considered that Ardincaple had been ousted in favour of Tarbert. In 1623, a bond of caution was registered by Hector MacNeill of Kilmichell and John Lamont of Achagyll of 3,000 merks for Godrey MacAlister of Tarbert, and of 1,000 merks each for another four of his followers, not to molest Walter MacAulay of Ardincaple and his family. A. and A. Macdonald unsure of the outcome of this particular quarrel, stating: "As often happens regarding Highland quarrels and delinquencies, the records leave us enquiring wonderingly, and failing to answer the question, how this matter was settled, if it was settled at all". In 1631, Archibald MacAlister of Tarbet visited William Alexander, 1st Earl of Stirling and acknowledged him as his chief. This was despite the fact the MacAlisters of Loup are today considered the chiefs of the clan. In 1689, a French ship which had sailed from Ireland reached Kintyre and was taken by MacAlister of Loup and Angus Campbell of Kilberry. The two lairds put the ship under guard and wrote to Argyll, who was attending the Convention of the Estates, asking for instructions as to what to do with it. According to A. and A. Macdonald, there is evidence to suggest that members of Clan MacAlister, possibly under their chief, took part in the Battle of Killiecrankie. 18th Century to The Present 14
In the years spanning from 1689 and 1704 there is little to no record of the clan. However, in the year 1704, during the first parliament of Queen Anne, Alexander MacAlister of Loup and Archibald MacAlister of Tarbert are recorded as Commissioners of Supply for Argyll. By 1706, Tarbert had ceased to be a part of the family of the MacAlisters of Tarbert, as the estate into the possession of a Maclean. Alexander MacAlister of Loup was succeeded by his son, Godfrey, who was in turn succeeded by his son. During this period, the chiefly line of the clan severed all ties with Kintyre; the family mansion of Ardpatrick House was sold to Walter Campbell of Islay, after which Loup also passed out of the hands of the chiefly family. Charles, 12th of Loup married the daughter and heiress of William Somerville of Kennox in 1792. In consequence, he assumed the name and arms of Somerville along with his own and the seat of the family was since then located at in the Scottish Lowlands at Kennox, in Ayrshire. He died in 1847 and was succeeded by his son, Charles. Charles was succeeded by his son, Charles. Charles Somerville McAlester of Loup and Kennox died in 1903 and was succeeded by his son, Charles Godfrey Somerville McAlester of Loup and Kennox. Today the chiefly line of has also lost possession of their Kennox lands. The current chief of the clan is William St John Somerville McAlester of Loup and Kennox who lives in England. The current chief is a member of The Standing Council of Scottish Chiefs. Today there is a clan centre located at Glenbarr Abbey. Clan Profile Clan chief : The current chief of the clan is William St John Somerville McAlester of Loup and Kennox, Chief of the Name and Arms of MacAlister. The chief was recognised as such by the Lord Lyon King of Arms, in 1991. The Gaelic designation of the chiefs of Clan MacAlister is Mac Iain Duibh in reference to Eoin Dubh, from whom the MacAlisters of Loup claim to descend. Chiefly arms : The current chief's coat of arms is blazoned : Or, an eagle displayed gules armed sable surmounted on the breast of a galley of the first within a bordure of the third charged with three cross crosslets fitch�e argent. The supporters : (on a compartment entwined with an escrol bearing the second motto) dexter, a bear pierced in the back with an arrow all proper; sinister, an eagle proper. The motto : fortiter; and on the compartment : per mare per terras. The mottoes translate from Latin as "boldly" and "by sea and land". The crest : a dexter arm in armour erect, the hand holding a dagger in pale all proper. Clan member's crest badge : The crest badge suitable for members of the clan contains the chief's heraldic crest and motto. Motto: fortiter. Crest: a dexter arm in armour erect, the hand holding a dagger in pale all proper. Clan badge : According to Robert Bain, the plant badge of the clan is heath. Tartan : There are several tartans attributed to the surname MacAlister. Contemporary accounts of Flora Macdonald suggest that the MacAlisters wore the Macdonald tartan at that time. The tartan pictured right dates from the 19th century and was approved as a clan tartan by the chief in 1845. Another approved tartan is the 'MacAlister dress' tartan. It is a modern tartan that was approved by the clan chief in 2005. It is also the official tartan of the MacAlister Clan Society of North America. Branches of The Clan : The principal cadet of the MacAlisters of Loup were the MacAlisters of Tarbet. Several members from this branch were for a time, constables of Tarbert Castle on Loch Fyne. Another branch of the clan are the MacAlisters of Glenbarr, who trace their descent from Eoin Dubh. 15
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MARY JANE MC ALLISTER OR MC DONALD Pedigree
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INQUIRY RE CHANCERY.
I am sending you, as requested, a part of the family tree, which was sent to, and accepted, and proven to be so, to the Lord Lyon's court, to support my application for a grant of arms in 1993, but finally approved on the 8th may, 1995, in Folio 78, 31st Page.
In my e/m to Robert Smith, you will see some of the information leading up to the missing £18.000.00 pounds,which should lead you into the main ancestors at that time ,which are .......
Ranald Macalister of Skirrinish (v) Waternish, isle of Skye, born the day of the battle of Sheriffmuir 1715,died 1762.factor for MacDonald of Clanranald married Anne, eldest daughter of old Alexander MacDonald of Kingsburgh (old Kingsburgh).Flora MacDonald ,cousin to the Kingsburgh MacDonald's ,was bridesmaids at their wedding they had 14 children(I suspect this must have worn him out ,as he was only 47 when he died),the eldest male son born of that lot being, Alexander Macalister, 1744 to 1832.his brothers ,5 of them, served with great distinction with the east India company, and were written about in the book by lt.col. John Macinnes" the brave sons of Skye", these being general Keith Macalister ,1756-1820 of " Torrisdale castle", Kintyre.Col.Matthew Macalister ,1758-1829 of "Barr-Glen, Kintyre.(now Glennbarr, the present clan Macalister centre, and I am cousin to).Col.Norman Macalister, 1760-1810,of "Clackhaigh" Kintyre,governor of P.W.I (prince of Wales island ,now penang,1807-1810.another brother ,second eldest born to Alexander, was a Capt.John Macalister, who was killed in India in 1791,and who evidently left some £30.000.00 pounds to his brother Alexander which enabled him to then purchase 18,500 acres of the confiscated MacKinnon estate of "Strathaird" in 1789(and evidently, Strathaird was a barony granted to the MacKinnon's as far back as the 14th century---I believe---- called "Strathwordille", but as far as I know, and I have no record of my ancestor having also obtaining the barony)
Now we start to get to the nitty Gritty Alexander married Mary Campbell of Ederline ,and they had two children, a son Ranald, who evidently died. I believe of smallpox at a young age of approx 4 or 5---don`t hold me to an exact age ,as the records do not state an exact age ,only saying that he died young, which left Jannette, born 1766-1841, the sister, and daughter, being the sole surviving child of alexanders 1st marriage(I am descended from, and through Jannette, and her husband(a cousin, Dr. Duncan Macalister,1768-1854, of the "Tarbert castle" Macalisters, whose line were constables of the castle for nigh on 200 hundred years). Jannette and Dr. Duncan Macalister later had 13 children. Alexander then married a 2nd time to Janet Macleod of Greshornish, and bloody well had another 6 children ,3 sons, who Alexander outlived, and 3 daughters. Only one of these sons was married ,that being a John Macalister, and he had the nigger in the woodpile, a son also named Alexander ,1820-1898, which I will detail here for you ,and that is the reason that I, and my father ,and my grandfather ,and my great grandfather, have been on the bones of our arse ever since, and I am wasting my entire life running around searching, and living in the 17th century.
This incipit prick(excuse my anger) also married twice, the first time to admiral Flemmings daughter, but evidently was some kind of mongrel from bits and pieces of scraps of information I have come across, and that marriage disintegrated, whether it was because he was evidently a mongrel, or by the fact that he shot through ,and eloped to France with his cousin`s wife ,Mary Campbell, wife of Keith Macalister, of the Barr-Glen line of Macalisters this mongrel had ended up with general Keith Macalisters estate of "Torrisdale "which was left to the mongrels father John, and on Johns death ,this mongrel got that. he also got Ranald Macalister s property called "Tresland" up the top end of Skye at Skerrinish I believe(what that consisted of I have no record or idea) I think he also got some of "Barr-Glen" and Balinakille ,just up the road at Clacken, Kintyre. in other words ,this mongrel, who was only a grandson to old Alexander of "Strathaird", bloody well scored the lot ,as well as eventually intruding on my part ,"Strathaird". which I will come to .this evidently gave him the power, and the means, and the money, to shoot through to France where he bought a chateau called "Beau Manoire" at Fondettes, just out of Tours, and the money to send 3 solicitors out to Orbost here in Gippsland, Victoria, Australia, in 1883, to nail my g.gf., Thomas Mewburn Macalister, (1860???-1941), (the question marks are there because there are, or is no bloody documents or certificates, of the actual birth recording of Thomas Mewburn)to sign a document disentitling himself as the eldest male heir descended down from Jannette, and
Dr. Duncan Macalister on the so called grounds that he was a bastard ,born some 5 weeks prior to his father,
Dr. Alexander Macaliser,1828-1870 (another Alexander, which is a family name carried through, and my own father was also Alexander,1909-2003.)
During my application for a grant of arms went through Alastair Campbell of Airds, who at that time in the 1990`s was Unicorn Pursuant at Lord Lyon's court, and also secretary assistant to the Duke of Argyle. I first met Alaistair in 1990, when he was out here in Sydney attending a Scottish week festival run by "The Scottish Australian Heritage Council", of which I am a member's attended this function with my cousin, Angus Charles Macalister of "Glen-Barr", and his recently new American wife, who had been staying with me/us ,before going on up to Sydney. Alastair was later, shortly, to tell me, that my g.gf.,Thomas Mewburn Macalister ,was legitimate. When I said that I bloody well wanted "Strathaird" back, he nigh on fainted ,and then mumbled ,that under Scottish law, he was legitimate, but under Australian law my g.gf .was illegitimate. I later pointed out to Alaistair when I woke up, that in 1883 when my g.gf. signed away his lawful right ,there was no bloody Australian law, as we here in Australia were a colony of Great Britain, and did not obtain our independence until 1901 or so, and there was no official Australian law until about 1905 or so(in addition ,and also can supply you with precedents; if you already are not aware of the house of Lords case in 1910, concerning an exact similar situation with the MacDonald bt. Of MacDonald ,chief,. and Bosville, concerning the sons of two marriages the first son born evidently prior to his father legally marrying, and the next son of the children born after his father legally married).
As a result of this conversation with Alastair, in particular the statement he made that under Australian law my g.gf.was illegitimate I then made an application, at the cost of $1000 dollars ,to the Victorian supreme court, ON THE 16/6/1989,BEFORE MR.JUSTICE MARKS, for an order to legitimate my g.g.f's birth ,which was so granted .as there was no documental certificates or records of my g.g.f's actual exact birth date used the date that the solicitors that came out to Australia in 1883 ,that being the 25th August 1860,.where the bloody hell they got, and used that date, and information from, I'm stuffed if I know ,as I have searched high and low here in Victoria ,and New South Wales ---as Victoria did not become a state in its own right until 1850,and all records were then kept in Sydney, new south Wales. The judge's order said, quote," I find that Thomas Mewburn Macalister is and was, the lawful son of Dr. Alexander Macalister ,and Mary (Hillier) Macalister ,having been born on the 25th august ,1860",unquote.this was sent off to Alastair in Scotland to support my grant of arms.
This grandson of old Alexander's 2nd marriage ,evidently scored the bloody lot,presumedly in 1835. I'm not sure exactly what happened at "Strathaird "after old Alexander died in 1832,as this mongrel grandson was only 12 or so, and Jannette Macalister did not die until 1841,9 years later. She and Dr Duncan Macalister were given ???(I think),a farm on the bottom end of "Strathaird" a couple of kilometres out of Elgol, at Glasnakill for their marriage. Also Geoffrey, it was a deliberate move for Jannette to marry her cousin ,as her father, old Alexander ,had entailed "Strathaird" around 1820,and apart from a strict line of males succession of inheritance ,"Strathaird" was to always be owned by a Macalister, and I think this marriage between Dr. Duncan Macalister of "Tarbert", and Jannette of "Strathaird",a arranged to comply with this very purpose. They would have still been living on" Strathaird", Jannette until 1841 and her husband, until 1854(both are buried in a Macalister tomb at Drinan. The tomb is in a small Glen, about 1 km from Glasnakill, and, in those days, evidently overlooked Loch Slapping, but is now surrounded, and concealed by shrubs and trees.
An aside here at this point while I am dealing with the Macalister tomb, which incidentally, is badly in need of repair which I am anxious to do if I don`t drop dead first's have a strong suspicion; after reading some documents on the sinking of the "Comet "collision in 1825,that Charles Macalister ,w.s.,a son of old Alexander's 2nd marriage, and John Macalister, a son of Jannette and Dr. Duncan Macalister,.....what's that relationship? cousins, or nephews to each other?, were, or possibly are, buried in here as well ,as in the reports of the collision of the "Comet", and the aftermath of bodies being recovered evidently several days later, the report states that Macalister relatives came from Skye, picked up the bodies of the 2 men, and retuned them to the Macalister tomb in Skye. now I am not aware of another Macalister tomb, and I have no indication that there could be one near; or adjoining Strathaird house, so my theory is that the 2 boys are also buried here, but there is no above ground indication that they are..also have no idea where the hell old Alexander Macalister's buried as well.
Now, resuming the storey from where I detoured......I don`t know who was running "Strathaird" after old Alexander's death in 1832.the mongrel grandson would have been only 12, and I don`t know where he was living then his father was in Penang,but had died in 1824,he being only 4 years old at his father`s death. I think as a result of Col.Norman Macalister having been the governor from 1807 to 1810. Col. Norman was lost in the south China Sea returning to Scotland on leave to oversee the building of his incomplete house/castle at"Clackhaigh", Kintyre.as it still is to this day. I would have thought Jannette and Dr. Duncan would have been next in line to do so. some years ago,15 or so, possible 20, I contacted a MacDonald who was a solicitor in Edinburgh, I think from memory retired from the firm, and he told me that his grand father evidently was a trustee of "Strathaird", and had something to do with the other trustees of the estate in deciding that Jannette Macalister ,even though she was a female, was superior in genes??? Line, being the eldest child ,and only surviving child of old Alexander Macalister's 1st marriage. It would then be natural to assume that Jannette, and Dr. Duncan`s first born son, born 1790,......cannot find out exactly what date he died or where ,the nearest I can hazard a guess is 1865 or 1868,also called Alexander ,who attended the Edinburgh medical college from 1810 to 1815 ,under Professor T.C. Hope, would eventually be next senior male heir of the body to inherit "Strathaird"(he was my direct male heir of the body g.g.g.gf.) He evidently went to Demerara, British Guyana almost immediately (why there I haven`t a clue, and have no records, or documents to explain why)after finishing the medical college in 1815 ,where he married a Catherine Mewburn(maiden name DeBrugh and or DeBrynn) in 1818 in Georgetown. they had 11 children,8 born in Demerara ,and the last three in Glasgow in 1838,38,and 40,thus indicating that they must have left Demerara and returned to Scotland sometime in the late 1830`s.this may have tied in with the sugar cane reservation riots that took place in Demerara in the mid 1830`s ,or was it because of old Alexander of "Strathaird" dying in 1832, and this Alexander; was returning to Scotland in case he was to be the next male genes of the body according to the entailment document. Again I have no indication that this Alexander ---my g.g.g.gf ever did go back to "Strathaird". It appears as if he and his wife Catherine, and I don't know how many children, but you would think that the last 3 born in Glasgow in 1838, 39 & 40, would have accompanied their parents when they came to Sydney, Australia, sometime in the mid to late 1850`s, where this Dr. --(I refer to him as surgeon, to separate all the bloody alexanders and the generations that each of them belonged to)was practicing in Sydney in 1859,60,and 61,when he bloody well disappears off the face of the earth. I have spent years searching for him. I have accessed death dates in Scotland, Demerara, Sydney and Melbourne, all with a nil result.
He has just completely bloody well disappeared. I don`t know if he returned to Scotland sometime after 1861 not being on the medical register in Sydney after that date, or whether he returned to Demerara, British Guyana ,or what.
He just disappeared. His wife, Catherine Mewburn Macalister, came down to Bairnsdale in Gippsland,
Victoria, to be with her son .Dr. Alexander Macalister(1828-1870,a younger brother to Thomas Mewburn Macalister who was the first born in 1818. She eventually died here in Bairnsdale in 1872. No sign or word, or record or indication as to what the hell happened to her husband. I have a family tree here, 18ft long, covering every generation of Macalisters, and MacDonald's, (Macalister is/are the right hand Sept of the MacDonald's) going back to 1100, and he is the only bugger that I cannot find or detail. It has been a constant source of annoyance for most of my life, and sticks in me like a spear.
The next eldest son of the generation of this missing g.g.g.gf.of mine ,and his wife Catherine Mewburn, was called Thomas Mewburn Macalister ,born Demerara ,1818,died 1859, in Bruthen, near Bairnsdale, Gippsland ,Victoria, Australia. he had a property there called" Kilmorie". he evidently came to Australia in or around the 1838 period, probably from Glasgow, as he would have been aged 20/21 then. I believe he came out to Australia because his uncle ??? Lachlan Macalister,1797-1855,the 5th son born to Jannette and Dr. Duncan Macalister in their family of 13 children, and(Lachlan) a younger brother to Alexander who I call the surgeon,1790-1865???? (again I get mixed up with my ancestors relationship to one another) Lachlan was responsible for pioneering the Gippsland region of Victoria in 1839,40. He was the first of us Macalisters to come out here to Australia as an ensign in the 48th Regt,Ft, in 1817,and did extremely well I believe he has written back home to Scotland and asked for his brothers and nephews to come out to Australia, and help him with his land holdings which were becoming quite extensive. Thomas Mewburn Macalister ,and Matthew Macalister ....I won't confuse you with his(Matthews ) relationship to the before mentioned Macalisters ,but fair to say; he was a relative, were members of the Gippsland exploration party, financed by Capt. Lachlan Macalister, and containing Angus Macmillan in the party as well (the Macmillan's lived at Glen-Brittle, Isle Of Skye, on the other side of the Cuillan mountains that were on the border of the "Strathaird" estate ,and were friends of the family in Skye), then, sometime in the 1850`s,Dr. Alexander Macalister (my g.g.gf ,1828-1870 (a younger brother to Thomas Mewburn Macalister) after graduating from Edinburgh medical school (he is the one who I notified you about in the first place that was to receive the £18.000.00 pounds), and has taken me all this time to get to him; so that you will hopefully!!!!, have a bit of understanding? (I hope I haven`t totally confused you with all of this) of all the comings, and goings, and who was who ,etc. the doctor was the one who married a nurse in his practice in Bairnsdale, named Mary Hillier in 1860.they had 7 children, the first born was Thomas Mewburn, supposedly born 25 august 1860, dying in 1941,(my g.gf), the subject of the so called illegitimacy, and later, in 1883, coerced into signing the document of disentailment of any right to "Strathaird", as the mongrel grandson; Alexander, who had already sold every bloody thing he could lay his bludging hands on ,and, who had shot through to France with his cousin`s wife, was handicapped in disposing of "Strathaird", because of the wording, and line of succession, put down in the entailment that old Alexander of "Strathaird" had set down. (There's that same name repeated again. it has been a bloody minefield for me to work out, and separate, all the different alexanders, and the two Thomas Mewburns, as to what generation each belonged to, and the Mathews ).
I have already told you about the 3 solicitors coming out and getting my g/gf.to sign the document, and then hurrying back to Scotland whereupon the mongrel disposed of "Strathaird" in 1885, thus ending a period of ownership of Skye from 1789 to 1885,some 96 years.
Now, regarding the missing £18.000.00 pounds. evidently, the last Macalister living on the "Strathaird" estate ,and that was a Dr. Norman Macalister, a son of Jannette and Dr. Duncan, keep in mind that old Alexander died in 1832, Jannette died in 1841,Dr. Duncan died in 1854, and now, the last Macalister there, other than the mongrel grandson Macalister who evidently did not live on, or at "Strathaird, this Dr. Norman Macalister ,dies in 1868. I am assuming that as a result of that, the farm land of Jannette and Dr. Duncan Macalister at Glasnakill, was sold off ,and this is where the £18.000.00 pounds originated from, and was to go out to the next senior male heir ,and that was my g.g.gf, Dr. Alexander Macalister ion Australia, who had retired from his practice in Bairnsdale, and was living at his property called "Miebost", at Sarsfield, half way between Bairnsdale ,and Bruthen (not far from the property of his elder brother, Thomas Mewburn ,who died in 1859) and that was where he (the doctor) died suddenly in 1870. His eldest son, Thomas Mewburn, was only 8 or 9 years old, and was taken in, and looked after by another brother, also named Mathew Macalister and his wife, Sara Adrianna Jacoba Foster..... Another aside here.......it could be just possible that this Mathew may have got his hands on the £18.000.00 pounds, seeing as he was acting as young Thomas Mewburn`s guardian so to speak am also suspicious that it might have also been this Mathew who may have given the details of the
Dr. (Alexander's) marriage to Mary Hillier, and the birth date presumably of some 5 weeks prior to the marriage date, to the mongrel Alexander grandson, either in France, or in Scotland somewhere, or possibly London ,as Mathew and Sarah, his wife, were called to London in 1871, to give evidence in the famous trial at that time, re the claimant to the "Tichborne" fortune, one Arthur Orton, who was posing as the lost son and heir, Roger Tichborne. This Arthur Orton had worked as a stockman/butcher on Mathew and Sarah's property
"Boisdale" the largest property in Victoria at the time, in Gippsland, Victoria, Australia.
As I have previously mentioned to you, my aunt, Alexandrina Annie Macalister, was always insistent that this missing money was in Chancery, as the doctor never received it prior to his sudden death in 1870.
DEAR LYNN,WELL HERE I AM AT LAST GETTING BACK TO YOU WITH SOME OF MY" STRATHAIRD" MACALISTER ANCESTORS HISTORY FOR YOUR FILES, AND UPDATED INFORMATION,IF YOUR NOT ALREADY AWARE OF THEM. I AM ATTACHING SOME OF EACH ONE ABOVE . ALL OF THESE MALES WITH A PLUS SIGN( +) ALONG SIDE OF THEIR NAME, ARE SENIOR MALE OF THE BLOOD LINE OF OLD ALEXANDER MACALISTER OF STRATHAIRD(1744-1832), WHO PURCHASED STRATHAIRD ESTATE IN 1789 ---THE YEAR OF THE FRENCH REVOLUTION,THROUGH HIS DAUGHTER JANNETTE MACALISTER,FROM OLD ALEXANDER`S(HER FATHER) FIRST MARRIAGE, AND HER HUSBAND ,DR.DUNCAN MACALISTER OF THE "TARBERT" LINE MACALISTERS, THROUGH WHICH I HAVE MY ARMS MATRICULATED .I AM AT THE END OF THIS DIRECT SENIOR MALE BLOOD LINE . A QUICK LINE OF SENIOR SUCCESSION IS HERE FOR YOUR CONVENIENCE.....1.RANALD MACALISTER OF SKERRINGISH,ISLE OF SKYE,1715-1762,G.G.G.G.G.G.GF. 2.ALEXANDER MACALISTER OF "STRATHAIRD",ISLE OF SKYE,1744-1832.G.G.G.G.G.GF. 3.THEN COMES JANNETTE MACALISTER ,1766-1841,G.G.G.G.GM.HIS SOLE SURVIVING CHILD OF HIS FIRST MARRIAGE TO MARRY CAMPBELL.SHE MARRIED HER COUSIN,DR.DUNCAN MACALISTER OF "TARBERT"CASTLE LINE OF MACALISTERS.....WHICH I BELIEVE WAS AN ARRANGED MARRIAGE,AS OLD ALEXANDER HAD ENTAILED "STRATHAIRD", AND IN THAT ENTAIL IT SAYS THAT "STRATHAIRD " HAD TO ALWAYS REMAIN IN A MACALISTER NAME. 4.HER FIRST MALE CHILD,DR.ALEXANDER ,1790-1865OR 68????G.G.G.GF......WHO I CALL SURGEON, TO SEPERATE HIM FROM ALL THE BLOODY ALEXANDERS FOLLOWING HIM.LACHLAN MACALISTER,1797-1855, WAS A YOUNGER BROTHER TO DR. OR SURGEON ALEXANDER ,AND WAS THE VERY FIRST MACALISTER TO COME TO AUSTRALIA IN 1817 AS AN ENSIGN IN THE 48TH REGT.FOOT,AND WHO LATER IN 1839/40 ,WAS RESPONSABLE FOR PIONEERING GIPPSLAND IN WHAT WAS TO BECOME THE STATE OF VICTORIA IN 1850.THE MACALISTER RIVER IN GIPPSLAND IS NAMED IN HIS HONOUR.LACHLANS ORIGINAL HOME PROPERTY WAS CALLED "CLIFTON" AT PICTON,ABOUT 50 MILES SOUTH EAST OF SYDNEY.HE LATER HAD A MUCH LARGER PROPERTY CALLED"STRATHAIRD", AFTER HIS GRANDFATHERS ESTATE BACK IN SKYE 5.THOMAS MEWBURN MACALISTER, 1818-1859.HE WAS LEADER, AND IN CHARGE OF THE EXPLORATION PARTIES WHICH ALSO CONTAINED MATTHEW MACALISTER ,(A NEPHEW) ON BEHALF OF HIS UNCLE ,LACHLAN MACALISTER. 6.UPON THOMAS`S DEATH ,HIS YOUNGER BROTHER ,DR .ALEXANDER MACALISTER, 1828-1870 ,G.G.GF.BECAME THE NEXT SENIOR MALE,AND CAME DIRECTLY OUT TO AUSTRALIA IN 1850/51,AFTER GRADUATING FROM EDINBURGH MEDICAL UNIVERSITY.HE PRACTISED IN SALE, AND BAIRNSDALE ,AND HAD A PROPERTY ABOUT 12 MILE OUT OF BAIRNSDALE CALLED "MIEBOST"(MY HOME) HIS SUDDEN ,AND UNTIMELY DEATH.... EVIDENTLY JUST BEFORE HE WAS INTENDING TO RETURN BACK TO "STRATHAIRD"IN SKYE,TO SEE WHAT THE BLOODY HELL WAS GOING ON WITH THE STATE THERE,WAS THE BEGINNING OF THE DISASTER THAT BEFELL MY LINE,AS HIS SON ,ALSO NAMED THOMAS MEWBURN MACALISTER ,1860?-1941,WAS ONLY 8/9 (NAMED AFTER HIS FATHER`S ELDER BROTHER) WHEN HIS FATHER DIED . 7.THOMAS MEWBURN MACALISTER ,1860?-1941.G.GF.AS I HAVE ALREADY SAID ,WAS ONLY 8 /9 WHEN HIS FATHER DIED ,AND DIDNT HAVE A CLUE AS TO WHAT WAS GOING ON ,WAS TAKEN IN BY MATHEW MACALISTER....A BROTHER TO THE DR....NOT THE MATTHEW THAT I HAVE MENTIONED BRIEFLY ABOVE.THAT MATTHEW ,WHO WAS IN THE GIPPSLAND EXPLORATION PARTIES ,HAD A PROPERTY,"KILMORIE", ABOUT 10 MILES FURTHER NORTH OF DR.ALEXANDER`S ,AND WAS UNFORTUNATELY DROWNED IN 1871,WHEN CROSSING THE FLOODED NICHOLSON RIVER WHEN RETUNING IN A DRAY BACK TO HIS "KILMORIE"PROPERTY.THIS MATTHEW WAS ALSO FOUNDATION MASTER AT THE BAIRNSDALE MASONIC LODGE AND IS THE REASON WHY I HAVE ALSO BECOME A MASON.MATTHEWS PORTRAIT HANGS IN THEIR BAIRNSDALE LODGE. ANOTHER SIDELINE HERE LYNN,WHICH I HOPE DOES NOT ADD TO ANY FURTHER CONFUSION TO YOU..... AROUND THIS TIME WITH WHAT WAS HAPPENING HERE IN GIPPSLAND ,AUSTRALIA,WITH 3 SUDDEN DEATHS IN THE SPACE OF 12 YEARS; .....AFTER THE DEATH OF OLD ALEXANDER OF "STRATHAIRD" IN 1832,THEN HIS DAUGHTER JANNETTE IN 1841,THEN HER HUSBAND ,DR,DUNCAN MACALISTER IN 1854(BORN 1768),THIS LEFT HARDLY ANY MACALISTERS AT "STRATHAIRD,EXCEPT FOR A DR.NORMAN MACALISTER ,A SON OF JANNETTE`S AND DR.DUNCAN,LIVING AT JANNETTES AND DUNCANS HOUSE AT GLASNAKILLE FARM JUST OUT OF ELGOL ON THE "STRATHAIRD" ESTATE,(AND NEAR WHERE THE MACALISTER TOMB IS SITUATED AT DRINAN; WHERE JANNETTE, AND DR.DUNCAN ARE BURRIED,(I HAVE BEEN THERE ON 3 OCCASSIONS) AND I STRONGLY SUSPECT ALSO ,THE TWO MACALISTER BOYS THAT WERE DROWNED IN THE SINKING OF THE "COMET"....JOHN ,A SON OF JANNETTE`S AND DR.DUNCAN,AND CHARLES MACALISTER ,W.S.(WRITTER TO THE SIGNET), A SON OF OLD ALEXANDER OF "STRATHAIRD`S SECOND MARRIAGE,WERE BOTH DROWNED IN THE SINKING COLLISION OF THE "COMET "STEAMSHIP IN OCTOBER ,1825. ) THIS GLASNAKILLE FARM AREA WAS GIVEN TO JANNETTE AND DR.DUNCAN AS A WEDDING PRESENT .THIS DR.NORMAN MACALISTER WAS THE LAST MACALISTER ON THE "STRATHAIRD" ESTATE ,AND DIED IN 1868 AT "STRATHAIRD "HOUSE.EVIDENTLY ,I BELIEVE THE GLASNAKILLE FARM AREA WAS SOLD OFF AND THE MONEY FROM THAT ,SOME £18.000.00 POUNDS ,WAS SUPPOSED TO BE SENT OUT TO AUSTRALIA TO DR.ALEXANDER MACALISTER OF "MIEBOST"SARSFIELD ,NEAR BAIRNSDALE.WHAT ADDED TO THIS MYSTERY WAS THE SUDDEN DEATH OF DR.ALEXANDER IN JULY 1870,AND AS FOR THE MONEY ,IT BLOODY DISAPPEARED ,HE DIDN`T GET IT ,NOR DID HIS SON ,THE YOUNG THOMAS MEWBURN MACALISTER.I STRONGLY SUSPECT THAT MATHEW MACALISTER,AND HIS THEN WIFE ,SARAH ADRIANNA JACOBA FOSTER , WHO TOOK THE YOUNG THOMAS MEWBURN IN AFTER HIS FATHER`S DEATH ,WAS IN AN EXCELLENT POSITION; ACTING AS GUARDIAN OF YOUNG THOMAS MEWBURN ,AGED 9.ALSO,AND MORE RELEVANT , MATHEW AND SARAH FOSTER MACALISTER WENT TO LONDON IN 1873/74,AS THEY WERE CALLED AS WITNESSES IN THE THEN FAMOUS "TICHBORNE TRIAL"(CIVIL TRIAL MAY1871 TO MARCH 1872,FOLLOWED BY THE CRIMINAL TRIAL APRIL 1873 TO FEBRUARY 1874)OF THAT TIME,AS ARTHUR ORTON ,ALAIS THOMAS CASTRO ,A FARM HAND THAT HAD WORKED ON THE" BOISDALE" PROPERTY ,WHICH LACHLAN MACALISTER ONCE OWNED IN THE LATE 1840S EARLY 1850S WHEN GIPPSLAND WAS FIRST PIONEERED ,BUT SOLD IT DUE TO SEVERAL YEARS OF SEVERE DROUGHT IN THE MID 1840S TO EARLY 1850S ,TO A CAPT. FOSTER ,WHO LATER, MATHEW MACALISTER MARRIED HER AFTER CAPT.FOSTER DIED.THIS ARTHUR ORTON OR THOMAS CASTRO,WAS INSISTING THAT HE WAS THE LONG LOST SON OF THE VERY RICH LONDON TICHBORNE FAMILY,AND WAS LAYING CLAIN TO THE INHEIRITANCE.WELL, I AM MAKEING A VERY EDUCATED GUESS THAT MATHEW MACALISTER WHILE IN LONDON FOR THIS TRIAL ,SPOKE TO AND WITH THIS ARSEHOLE GRANDSON ,ALEXANDER MACALISTER ,AND TOLD HIM FAMILY DETAILS OF DR.ALEXEXANDER AND YOUNG THOMAS MEWBURN ,WHICH THEN GAVE THIS ARSEHOLE THE OPPORTUNITY, AND CAUSE ,TO SEND SOLICITORS OUT TO ORBOST ,AUSTRALIA,AND NAIL MY G.GF,WITH BEING A BASTARD,AND THEREFORE, NOT ENTITLED TO THE INHEIRITANCE OF "STRATHAIRD" WHICH THIS ARSEHOLE WAS UNABLE TO DISPOSE OF BECAUSE OF THE YOUNG THOMAS MEWBURN MACALISTER .OTHERWISE ,I CANNOT SEE ANY OTHER WAY OF THIS GRANDSON ARSEHOLE OF FINDING OUT ALL THIS CLOSE, AND PERSONAL, AND PRIVATE FAMILY INFORMATION ,AND HAPPENINGS, HERE IN AUSTRALIA ,FAR,FAR,AWAY FROM "STRATHAIRD",AND THE ISLE OF SKYE. A FUNNY THING HAPPENEDTO CONTINUE THIS EVENT DUREING MY APPLICATION FOR MY GRANT OF ARMS IN 1990----I DIDNT GET IT UNTIL 1995 ,AS I MENTIONED BEFORE ,A LOT OF SHIFTY PUSSYFOOTING WAS GOING ON WITH THE MACALISTER CLAN CHIEFSHIP BETWEEN THIS WILLIAM ST,JOHN -SOMERVILLE McALESTER AND MY COUSIN ,ANGUS CHARLES MACALISTER OF "GLEN-BARR"THE LORD LYON COURT ,THROUGH THE SHIFTY ALISTAIR CAMPBELL . ,THEY WITH HELD MY APPLICATION ,WHILE THEY DELT WITH THE OTHER MATTER..ALISTAIR CAMPBELL HAD PREVIOUSLY TOLD ME THAT I OUTRANKED MY COUSIN IN THIS APPLICATION, AND DID I WANT TO OPPOSE IT.I TOLD ALISTAIR THAT I WASN`T GOING TO OPPOSE MY COUSIN AT THAT TIME ,AS THE CHIEF SHIP WASN`T ON MY AGENDA THEN ,AND I DIDN`T WANT TO CROSS SWORDS WITH MY COUSIN ,HAVEING ONLY JUST MADE FAMILY CONTACT WITH HIM AND THE" GLEN-BARR" MACALISTERS AFTER SOME 150 YEARS OF SEPERATION.ALISTAIR CAMPBELL ALSO BLURTED OUT THAT DID I ALSO KNOW THAT "STRATHAIRD " WAS THE BARONY OF "STRATHSWORDILLE".THIS WAS THE FIRST TIME EVER THAT I WAS MADE AWARE OF THAT.OLD ALEXANDER OF "STRATHAIRD" DID NOT APPLY FOR, OR EVIDENTLY WAS NOT INTERESTED IN THE BARONY WHEN HE PURCHASED THE ESTATE OF SOME 18,500 ACRES FOR £7.500 POUNDS STERLING,FROM MONEY OR LOOT LEFT TO HIM OF SOME £30.000 POUNDS ON THE DEATH OF HIS BROTHER,CAPT.JOHN MACALISTER IN INDIA WITH THE HONOURABLE EAST INDIA COMPANY. ALISTAIR CAMPBELL ALSO WENT ON TO SAY THAT MY G.GF THOMAS MEWBURN MACALISTER WAS NOT ILLEGITIMATE UNDER SCOTTISH LAW, WHICH WAS DERIVED FROM ENGLISH LAW ,WHICH IN TURN WAS DERIVED FROM ROMAN LAW THAT FAR BACK,THAT ACCORDING TO THOSE LAWS ,TWO PEOPLE WOULD HOLD HANDS(THIS WAS KNOWN AS A HAND HELD MARRIAGE) AND MAKE AN AFFIRMATION BEFORE THE LOCAL VILLAGE PEOPLE, AND SAY THAT THEY ARE LIVING TOGETHER ,AND THAT MENT THAT ALL CHILDREN THAT HAD BEEN BORN BEFORE THAT AFFIRMATION ,AND ALL CHILDREN BORN AFTER THAT AFFIRMATION ....WERE LEGITIMATE. I THEREUPON IMMEDIATELY TOLD ALISTAIR THAT I WANTED "STRATHAIRD" BACK.ALL I HEARD WAS A BIT OF A THUMP AT THE OTHER END OF THE INTERNATIONAL PHONE LINE ,AND A 20 SECOND PAUSE(I SUSPECT THAT HE BLOODY FAINTED )AS THE NEXT THING HE HURRIEDLY MUMBLED WAS THAT IT WAS AUSTRALIAN LAW THAT APPLIED TO YOUNG THOMAS MEWBURN MACALISTER (MY G/GF),AND UNDER AUSTRALIAN LAW HE WAS CONSIDERED TO BE ILLEGITAMITE.IT TOOK ME SOME WEEKS OF FURTHER INVESTIGATION OF LEGAL MATTERS TO FIND OUT THAT THERE WAS NO BLOODY AUSTRALIAN LAW AT THE SUPPOSED TIME OF THE BIRTH OF THOMAS MEWBURN MACALISTER IN 1860,AS AUSTRALIA WAS A COLONY OF BLOODY GREAT BRITAIN ,AND THEREFORE SUBJECT TO ENGLISH LAW ...IE.ROMAN LAW. NOW TO CONTINUE...... I`M STILL BLOODY TOTALLY CONFUSED HERE LYNN,AS WHILE ALL THIS WAS GOING ON AFTER THE DEATH OF OLD ALEXANDER OF "STRATHAIRD" THIS ARSEHOLE GRANDSON OF OLD ALEXANDER`S SECOND MARRIAGE VIA HIS SON JOHN,EVIDENTLY GOT HIS HEAD INTO "STRATHAIRD" AS ALL MY LINE OF MALE MACALISTERS WERE OUT HERE IN AUSTRALIA.ANY HOW ,IT SEEMS THAT THIS ARSEHOLE GRANDSON COULDN`T DISPOSE OF "STRATHAIRD"AS HE HAD ALREADY SOLD OFF EVERY BLOODY THING THE BLUDGING MONGREL COULD GET HIS HANDS ON. ..".BALINAKILLE","TORRISDALE","TREASLAND",AND OTHER PROPERTIES I CANNOT REMEMBER AT THIS STAGE WRITTING ALL OF THIS TO YOU ,AS I`M SO BLOODY UPSET AND ANGRY ,I HAVE TROUBLE RECOUNTING ALL OF THIS SAD, SAD, TALE.....AND HE WAS ALSO THE PRICK WHO GOT THE SHERIFF TO KICK THE CROFTERS OFF OF "STRATHAIRD" DUREING THE HIGHLAND CLEARANCES .....SO HE SENDS SOLICITORS OUT HERE TO ORBOST ,GIPPSLAND ,VICTORIA ,AUSTRALIA ,TO COERCE, AND THREATEN MY G.GF ,THOMAS MEWBURN MACALISTER,TO DISENTAIL HIS RIGHT OF SUCCESSION TO "STRATHAIRD" ON THE SO CALLED GROUNDS OF BEING ILLEGITIMATE IN 1883.WHEN I WAS YOUNG ,ABOUT 10 OR 11 0R 12 ,I USED TO ALWAYS GO TO MY AUNTIES FARM FOR MY SCHOOL HOLIDAYS AND XMAS HOLIDAYS,AS I LOVED FARM LIFE AND THE BUSH (ALEXANDRIA ANNIE MACALISTER(1883-1959) ---MRS JIM GARGAN,THE DAUGHTER OF THOMAS MEWBURN.SHE USED TO TELL ME THINGS WHICH I REALLY DIDNT COMPREHEND ,BUT STUCK IN MY MEMORY DUE TO,I SUSPECT , MY MACALISTER GENES ,BUT UNBEKNOWN TO ME AT THE TIME ,PLANTED THE SEEDS OF GENEOLOGY, AND MY LIFETIMES PURSUIT OF WHAT THE BLOODY HELL HAPPENED TO MY LINE, AND MY ANCESTORS.THAT IS WHY I HAVE MATRICULATED ARMS IN 1995,,THAT IS WHY I HAVE RECENTLY PUCHASED A LORDSHIP AT MORPATH ,NEAR NEWCASTLE ON TYNE,NEAR THE SCOTTISH /UK BORDER ,MAINLY BECAUSE IT IS NAMED "CLIFTON-COLDWELL", PART OF THE NAME OF LACHLAN MACALISTER`S PROPERTY "CLIFTON ," AT PICTON ,N.S.WALES.THAT IS WHY I AN NOW INVOLVED IN PURCHASEING THE BARONY THAT COVERED "STRATHAIRD" AND ONCE WAS THE BARONY BELONGING TO THE MACKINNONS CALLED "STRATHSWORDILLE",WHICH HAS TAKEN ME YEARS TO SUS OUT AND FIND ,AS NO BASTARD WOULD TELL ME ,EXCEPT ALASTAIR CAMPBELL OF AIRDS ,SLIPPED IT OUT IN 1990,WHO WAS LORD LYON PURSUIVANT AND MY REPRESENTER DUREING MY APPLICATION FOR MACALISTER OF "STRATHAIRD",AND EVENTUALLY PULLED A SHIFTY, AND SOMERSALTED ME,AND EVENTUALLY MATRICULATED ME THROUGH THE "TARBERT " LINE ...WHICH I AM ENTITLED TO ANYHOW ,BUT NOT THROUGH "STRATHAIRD",WHICH WAS MY ORIGINAL APPLICATION, AS THE BLOODY BRITISH MONACHY DOES NOT WANT THE MACALISTER NAME TO BE RESERECTED,BECAUSE OF THE FACT THAT WE SUPPORTED CULLODEN, AND IT WAS TO "STRATHAIRD" THAT THE ITALIAN" POOF",BONNIE PRINCE CHARLES EDWARD STEWART WAS TAKEN TO BY FLORA MACDONALD,AND HID IN A SECRET CAVE JUST OUT OF ELGOL ON THE "STRATHAIRD" ESTATE ,AND MADE GOOD HIS ESCAPE FROM SCOTLAND AND THE ENGLISH REDCOATS---WHO WAS BRIDESMAID AT RANALD MACALISTER, AND ANNE MACDONALD OF KINGSBURGH WEDDING.AS SOON AS I COMPLETE THIS PURCHASE OF THE BARONY ,I WILL BE MAKEING A FURTHER APPLICATION TO LORD LYON`S COURT ,AND THEY WILL BLOODY WELL HAVE TO RECOGNISE, AND ENDOSE ME, AND MY MACALISTER NAME ,AS SENIOR, AND BARON OF" STRATHAIRD",AND ADJUST MY PRESENT ARMS ACCORDINGLY.I TRIED TO GET THE BARONY OF" TARBERT" BEFORETHIS,AS I WAS HAVEING GREAT DIFFICULTY IN FINDING OUT WHO THE BLOODY HELL HAD THE "STRATHAIRD" BARONY,AND GUESS WHAT?,THE BLOODY CAMPBELL DUKE HAS IT LOCKED UP WITH ,AND AMONGST 18 OTHER BARONIES ,ALL UNDER THE ONE CAPUT,AND THE SO CALLED PEOPLE WHO ARE EXPERIENCED IN THESE THINGS ,TELL ME THAT THAT IS EXTREMELY UNUSUAL, ,AS EACH BARONY HAS A SEPERATE CAPUT.TYPICAL BLOODY SHIFTY CAMPBELLS. SO LYNN ,I THOUGHT I WOULD BORE THE PANTS OFF YOU WITH ALL OF THIS . ALSO ,WHILE I AM ON THIS TRACK ,AND HAVEING A WHINGE,I AM PERSONALLY NOT INTERESTED,NOR WILL I SHOW ALLEGENCE TO THE SO CALLED PRETEND MACALISTER CHIEF,WILLIAM SOMERVILLE McALESTER .HE IS NOT MY CHIEF.HE DIDN`T EVEN HAVE THE DECENCY,AND CLAN OBLIGATION OF ATTENDING THE 2009 INTERNATIONAL GATHERING OF THE CLANS IN EDINBURGH,NOR REPRESENTING THE CLAN AT THE SCOTTISH PARLIAMENT TALKFEST.I HAD TO BATTLE WITH LORD JAMIE SEMPHILL ,AND INSIST THAT, BECAUSE HE WAS TO LOUSEY, AND COULDN`T AFFORD TO ATTEND ,AND PROBABLY WASN`T INTERESTED ANYWAY,THEN I HAD A RIGHT TO DO SO,AND TO HAVE A MACALISTER PRESENCE THERE.THIS CHIEFLY APPOINTMENT WAS ANOTHER SHIFTY PULLED BY THE CAMPBELL INFLUENCE,AS I WAS IN SCOTLAND AT THE SAME TIME OF THIS TAKEING PLACE ,STAYING WITH MY COUSIN ANGUS CHARLES MACALISTER AT" GLEN-BARR ABBEY".ON ANOTHER TRACK I WILL MENTION TO YOU ,MY PERSONAL OBSERVATION OF YOUR AMERICAN CLAN MACALISTER SOCIETY IS THAT, IT IS NOT PROPERLY RECOGNISING OR PROMOTING ALL THE OTHER MACALISTER BRANCHES EQUALLY,AND IS BASED FAR TO MUCH ON THE" LOUP" LINE, WHOSE LINE OF DESCENT IS SOMEWHAT DOUBTFUL, AND HAS ILLEGITIMACEY THROUGH IT. NOW TO GET BACK TO WHERE I LEFT OFF........ WE,THE MALE LINE OF" STRATHAIRD", HAVE NOT DIED OUT. THE CLAN DONALD ENTRY IN THEIR HISTORY BOOK IS WRONG, 8.WILLIAM GARNET MACALISTER,1883-1958.GF 9.ALEXANDER FREDRICK MACALISTER,1909-2003.MY F. 10.MAX MILTON MACALISTER ,1935-20...??? ME. +DR.ALEXANDER MACALISTER WAS MY G.G.GF. + THOMAS MEWBURN MACALISTER WAS MY G.GF, HIS SON, WHO WAS ONLY GOING ON 9 WHEN HIS FATHER DIED SUDDENLY.I SAW HIM IN 1940,SHORTLY BEFORE HE DIED. (HE WAS THE ONE WHO WAS TRICKED,AND COERCED INTO SIGNING A DOCUMENT OF DISENTAILMENT IN 1883,WHEN SEVERAL SOLICITORS WERE SENT OUT TO ORBOST ,GIPPSLAND ,VICTORIA ,AUSTRALIA,BY THIS BLUDGING ARSEHOLE GRANDSON,WHO SOLD EVERY ESTATE HE COULD GET HIS HANDS ON ,PISSED OFF TO FRANCE WITH HIS COUSIN`S(KEITH MACALISTER OF GLENBARR) WIFE ---MARY CAMPBELL ,AND BOUGHT A CHATEAU CALLED "BEAU-MANOIRE",AT FONDETTES,JUST OUT OF TOURS,IN FRANCE,OUT OF ALL THE MONEY FROM HIS RELATIONS ESTATES, ---ALSO NAMED ALEXANDER MACALISTER (1820-1898),A SON OF JOHN MACALISTER,WHO WAS HIMSELF A SON OF OLD ALEXANDER MACALISTER`S SECOND MARRIAGE). THIS EFFECTIVELY DID HIMSELF AND THE REST OF US FOLLOWING ; OF HIS, AND OUR RIGHT TO INHEIRIT THE "STRATHAIRD " ESTATE, ON THE SO CALLED GROUNDS OF BEING BORN PRESUMEDLY ILLEGITIMATE IN 1860,ABOUT 5 WEEKS BEFORE HIS MOTHER AND FATHER ,DR.ALEXANDER MACALISTER AND MARY HILLIER ,A YOUNG NURSE WORKING IN HIS PRACTICE,WERE MARRIED,CAUSEING OUR DIRECT BLOOD LINE TO BE ON THE BONES OF OUR ARSE EVER SINCE.EVERY TIME I GO BACK TO "STRATHAIRD ,"I HAVE TO SUFFER THE INDIGNITY OF STANDING ON THE OUTSIDE OF MY ROOTS AS A BLOODY STRANGER ,LOOKING IN AT SOME OTHER BASTARD LIVING IN WHAT WAS MY ANCESTORS HOME . THE OTHER THOMAS MEWBURN MACALISTER ,THE FIRST SON BORN TO DR.ALEXANDER MACALISTER (1790-1865OR1868....DEATH DATE YET TO BE EXACTLY CONFIRMED....HE IS THE ONLY ONE RIGHT BACK TO THE 1400`S THAT I CANNOT FIND OUT EXACTLY WHEN HE DIED OR WHERE HE DIED.....AND WAS HIMSELF THE ELDEST, AND FIRST BORN SON OF JANNETTE, AND DR.DUNCAN MACALISTER.....THIS THOMAS MEWBURN MACALISTER DIED IN 1859 WAS THE SENIOR MALE BORN ,SO HIS NEXT SENIOR BROTHER; DR.ALEXANDER MACALISTER ALSO, BECAME THE SENIOR OF THE BLOOD LINE. LYNN,I TRUST YOU CAN FOLLOW ALL OF THIS ,AS IT CAN BECOME QUITE CONFUSEING ,IT WAS TO ME, AND TOOK ME BLOODY YEARS TO SEPERATE ALL THESE BLOODY ALEXANDERS ,AND PUT THEM INTO THEIR CORRECT TIME SPAN, AND ERA. CONTINUING.....COL. AND GOVERNOR NORMAN MACALISTER OF" CLACKHAIGH ",HIS UNCOMPLETED PROPERTY ADJOING "GLENBARR ABBEY",WAS A YOUNGER BROTHER TO OLD ALEXANDER OF "STRATHAIRD", AS TO WAS COL.MATTHEW MACALISTER OF "GLEN-BARR",AND GENERAL KEITH MACALISTER OF "TORRISDALE".ALL TO GETHER,7 MACALISTERS SERVED WITH THE HONOURABLE EAST INDIA COMPANY,5 OF THESE BEING BROTHERS.THIS IS NOTED IN THE BOOK, "THE BRAVE SONS OF SKYE",BY LIET .COL. JOHN MACINNES,PUB.1890. WELL LYNN,IVE BEEN AT THIS FOR HOURS ,SO I HAVE HAD ENOUGH ,AND I SUPPOSE YOU WILL BE SICK TO DEATH OF ALL OF THIS AS WELL. I`M ALSO ATTACHING A PHOTO OF ME IN MY FINEST,SO YOU CAN SEE WHO IS PESTERING YOU. PLEASE LET ME KNOW IF ALL OF THIS HAS COME THROUGH TO YOU ,BUT MORE IMPORTANTLY ,THAT YOU CAN UNDERSTAND, AND MAKE SOME HEAD AND TAIL OF IT. I HOPE AND TRUST THAT THIS INFORMATION IS OF SOME HELP TO YOU WITH YOUR RECORDS .GREAT WORK LYNN,KEEP IT UP. MY BEST REGARDS TO YOU ,MERRY BLOODY XMAS AND ALL OF THAT. MAX M.ESQ. ______________________________________________________________________ Chev. Max M Macalister ESQ. KOTJ. FAHSA.2ND DEGREE MASON, Senior of “Strathaird”, Cadet of “Tarbert” Pres. CLAN MACALISTER AUSTRALIA Unit 2 / 24A RATTRAY ROAD MONTMORENCY 3094 VICTORIA AUSTRALIA Phone: +613 9435 9914 Email: [email protected] Skype: maxmacalister Muasdale, the 1841 census recording also that the Parry's had a then year-old son, Thomas McDonald Parry, the young Thomas' uncle, thought to be one John M McDonald, made his guardian after his father's death and Thomas, according to the 1851 and 1861 census returns, reported to have been living with John McDonald's family in Walcot, Bath. Whatever the case, the house at Muasdale, then known as 'Rockfield', was sold to Matthew Charles Brodie Macalister, his wife Augusta Lees, in 1868 and a report in the February 1912 issue of 'The Celtic Monthly' (Vol. XX, No 2) tells us of the life and death of their son, Lieutenant Charles Augustus Macalister of Glenbarr and Cour, he a Justice of The Peace for Argyll and dying at Peking's British Legation on Sunday, December 31, 1911 'at an early age'. "Born in Edinburgh on July 10, 1883, his earliest years were passed in Crubasdale, at Muasdale, on the west coast of Kintyre and, whilst yet a child, moving to Glenbarr when his father succeeded to the estate and in that beautiful spot he grew to manhood, beloved by all who knew him. "On the 4th of June 1904, Charles Augustus Macalister was gazetted to The 1st Battalion Queen's Own Cameron Highlanders, a distinguished regiment of which his grand-uncle, Lieutenant-General J. F. G. Campbell C.B. had been Colonel. "Keenly interested in the profession he had chosen, the young Macalister determined to fit himself for it in every way he could and, while at Tedworth, he took a first class certificate in musketry at Hythe and was also appointed signalling officer to his regiment. "Anxious to see foreign service, he exchanged into the 2nd Battalion and, leaving home on November 5, 1908, he travelled overland, by Russia and Siberia and joined the regiment at Tientsin in China. "His battalion being ordered to India, he went with them and spent a few months at Bangalore but, with a preference for China and being desirous to qualify as a language officer, he was, by his own request, seconded for two years and returned to Peking to study Chinese and a year later passed his first examination with a degree of distinction, which gained him a reward of £100 from The War Office. "Being a keen sportsman, Macalister combined pleasure with work and, during his sojourn in China, besides shooting, he won many cups and other prizes with his racing ponies. "Shortly before his death, Lieutenant Macalister had been sent on a scouting expedition into Mongolia to get some information for the Government, which his knowledge of Chinese made him well qualified to do and, it is surmised, while there, that he must have contracted scarlet fever as, only a few days after his return to Peking, he was struck down by a violent attack and, on the last day of the old year, Death was laid upon him and thus ended what gave every promise of being a very bright career. "Although alone in a foreign land and far from home, he was surrounded by many friends and his laying to rest, with full military honours, was a touching and deeply impressive sight and all the foreign legations in Peking, as well as The British, were largely represented at his funeral. "His grave in The English Cemetery, which lies beyond the western wall of Peking, was a mass of lovely wreaths and every mark of respect, love and sorrow was shown for the gallant young soldier who had passed from their midst, never more to return, having laid down his life for his country as truly as if he had fallen on the field of battle. 2 "Cheerful, generous, warm-hearted, thoroughly unaffected, Lieutenant Macalister had indeed an attractive personality, his manly look and soldierly bearing drew the eye. "A dutiful and affectionate son and brother and a fast friend, with a character above what is ignoble and base, those who knew him most intimately recognised in him the stamp of a highsouled gentleman. "The promise of his life lent colour to the expectation that, had length of days been given him, he would have still more adorned the profession to which he was so entirely devoted. He loved his home and the people among whom he was brought up. "Troops of friends in this country and abroad will grieve that by his untimely death the King has lost a brave soldier and they themselves a loved associate. They will grieve that over his home is cast the shadow of a deep sorrow, that his head lies low in a foreign land". In Volume III of 'The Clan Donald' http://www.archive.org/details/clandonald03macd written jointly by the ministers of Killearnan and Kiltarlity, both Rev. A. MacDonalds, it published in 1904, Volume I published in 1896, we learn of the MacAlisters of Strathaird, Glenbarr and Torrisdale etc.. Importantly, a note has been included with the entry about Colonel Norman Macalister (of Clachaig), Governor of Prince of Wales' Isle, Penang, who died in August 1810 when his ship, the "Ocean", was lost at sea. On hearing the news of his loss at home, work was immediately stopped on the building of Clachaig House, only a single gable wall standing to mark its position in Clachaig Glen, behind Muasdale and the money set aside for the building of the house, £1,000, was given to the people of the parish of Killean, a plaque in the then newly built local church at A'Chleit recording this generosity. In the 1950's, the fund wisely administered over the years, money was given out to ensure that even the least well-off in the community were able to take advantage of the new supply of mains electricity to the parish and even today Norman Macalister's fund is still available if necessary to help the parish's residents in emergency. Thus (3) THE MACALISTERS OF STRATHAIRD, GLENBARR, TORRISDALE &c. Of the earlier connection of this family with the McAlisters of Loup not much is known, and for several generations only the bare links can be supplied in the shape of the heads of families. They trace their descent to John McAlister, 6th of the line, known in his day as John Dubh or Black John, father of Charles McAlister Stewart of Kintyre, before 1500, and they appear to have branched out first in the person of I. RANALD, son of John Dubh, who flourished early in the 16th century. He had two sons, Alexander and Donald, of whom II. ALEXANDER succeeded. The next of the line was III. RANALD, who was succeeded by IV. RANALD, who was succeeded by V. HUGH, who was succeeded by VI. HECTOR, who was succeeded by VII. JOHN MCALISTER, who flourished c. 1700, and with whom we come into the region of comparative genealogical definiteness and certainty. He, like his ancestor, was called John Dubh, and was styled of Ardnakill and Torrisdale Glen. He m. Flora MacNeill of Tirfergus in 3 Kintyre, both of them enjoying great longevity the former dying at 96 and the latter at 98 years of age so the family traditions relate. They had issue 1. Alexander, b. 1706; d. 30th October, 1779; m. Miss M'Millan of Cour, Kintyre, with issue. John, laird of Cour, m. Anna, daughter of Rev. Archibald M'Neill of Clachan; no issue; d. 1824. 2. Hector, of Lepincorach or Torrisdale Glen, m. Miss Simpson, daughter of Rev. Neil Simpson of Gigha, with issue. (A) John, lieutenant in the army; d. in East Indies. (B) Neil, d. at home, aged 15. 3. Ranald, who succeeded. There were three daughters 1. Margaret, who m. Charles Macquarrie, of the family of Ulva, with issue Isabella, who m. Capt. Charles McAlister, who was lost at sea in 1797, with issue. Margaret m. 2ndly Duncan M'Alister, merchant, Campbelltown, with issue (A) John McAlister, Laird of Ballinakill, who m. his cousin "Jackie," daughter of Angus McAlister, 19th of Loup, with issue (vide Loup genealogy). (B) Ranald, Lieut. Indian army, died in E. Indies, (C) Charles, d. without issue. (D) Alexander, d. without issue. (E) Mary, m. James McMurchy, shipmaster, Campbelltown, with issue. 2. Mary, m. Hector McNeill of Barliagh, Cantyre, with issue. 3. Catherine, d. unmarried. VIII. RANALD, who in consequence of the death of his two brothers without surviving issue carried on the representation of the family. . He spent much of his life in Skye, where he possessed the Farm of Skirrinish, and was factor on the Macdonald Estate of Troternish. He m. Anne, daughter of Alexander Macdonald of Kingsburgh, and widow of Lauchlan Mackinnon of Corrychatachan, with issue 1. Donald, who d. at Kingsburgh without issue. 2. Allan, who d. at Kingsburgh without issue. 3. James, who d. at Cour, Kintyre, without issue. 4. Janet, who d. in infancy. 5. Captain John, who d. in India, 12th May, 1784, without issue. 6. Alexander, of whom afterwards. 7. General Keith, who is designed Col. Keith M'Alister of Loup in 1812 ; d. without issue. 8. Colonel Matthew, of Bar and Rosehill, of whom hereafter. 4 9. Colonel Norman, Governor of Prince of Wales Island, Penang, was lost at sea on his way home to Scotland in the ship "Ocean" in August 1810. He left two daughters, said to have been illegitimate, viz. : (A) Frances Byng, m. her cousin, Angus M'Allister, laird of Ballinakill, with issue. (B) Flora, m. Keith M'Alister of Inistrynick. It seems that then Captain Norman Macalister had been posted to Malaysia and Penang's Prince of Wales' Island, at least, in the early 1800's for, in 1805, as Commander of The Artillery, he made an inventory of the useful timber of Penang, part of the company's exercise to identify potential naval timber and secure suitable woods for masts and spars to replace supplies from the lost American colonies. Sixteenth century Portuguese traders from Goa, India sailing to The Far East in search of spices and needing a place to replenish their water supplies referred to it as Pulo Pinaom. One of the very first Englishmen to reach Penang was the merchant-navigator Sir James Lancaster who in 1588 served under Sir Francis Drake as commander of the Edward Bonadventure against the nemesis of The Spanish Armada. On April 10, 1591, commanding the same ship, he set sail from Plymouth for The East Indies, reaching Penang in June 1592, remaining on the island until September of the same year and pillaging every vessel he encountered. In the 17th century, Penang's location at the northern entry to The Straits of Malacca provided a sheltered harbour for Chinese, Indian, Arabian and European ships during the monsoon months; this, in turn, inevitably made it fertile hunting ground for pirates. Lancaster returned to England in May 1594, but it wasn't till Francis Light that the Europeans became truly involved in the history, government and development of the island. Light had set sail for India in 1765. There he secured command of a trading ship and was sent by the company of Jourdain, Sulivan & Desouza, a Madras firm of merchants interested in trading with Acheh, Kedah and Southern Siam. He was posted to Kedah and learnt to read and write several languages while trading around the region, including Siamese and Malay. Eventually Light worked his way to an influential position with the Sultan Abdullah Mukarram Shah of Kedah by helping the Sultan recapture the fort of Kota Kuala Kedah which had been earlier seized in 1771 by the Bugis who supported forces in Kedah opposed to the Sultan. Light realised the commercial potential of having a permanent British trading outpost in the region and suggested to the Sultan that if he could have Kota Kuala Kedah as his base he might use the fort to protect the Sultan from future attacks along the Kedah river estuary. The Sultan agreed, Light's earlier retaking of the fort having convinced him of the efficacy of British might. Light informed Jourdain, Sulivan & Desouza of this opportunity and urged his employers to convince the British East India Company's Government in Bengal to accept the terms. At the same time he wrote to Warren Hastings, and argued that the island of Penang would be highly advantageous to commerce in the East. In 1772 Warren Hastings was appointed GovernorGeneral of Bengal and sent out two missions, one to Acheh and one to Kedah, neither of which were successful. Light decided to move to Salang near Phuket, which he made into his headquarters. For the next fourteen years he traded from there until he was approached by the British East India Company. War in the American colonies and with their allies, France and the Netherlands had 5 emphasised the increasing need for British naval presence and commercial settlement in the Straits of Malacca. Interest in Penang was revived. In 1785 Light wed the daughter of the Sultan of Kedah who settled on Light, as a country, the island of Penang as a wedding dowry. Light promptly informed the East India Company and an agreement was made between the two. Light had his ownership of the island transferred to the Company and was appointed its governor. In May 1786 Light was made a Captain in the Marines of the British East India Company and Superintendent of its intended new settlement. Light arrived at Kedah and presented his credentials to the Sultan. However instead of the broad undertaking of protection The British East India Company only promised to keep an armed vessel to guard Penang and the adjacent coast belonging to Kedah, and there was no sum fixed for compensation for loss of trade. The Sultan hesitated, but eventually signed with reluctance. On 11 August 1786, Captain Francis Light, raised the Union Jack, took formal possession of the island in the name of His Majesty, the King and renamed it Prince of Wales' Island (the name used until after 1867) in honour of the heir to the British throne whose birthday was the day after the founding of the island. Penang with a population all of less than a hundred native fishermen, was the first British possession in the Malay States and Southeast Asia, the location of the island at the opening of The Straits of Malacca attracted The British East India Company to use the island as a natural harbour and anchorage for their trading ships and as a naval base to counter growing French ambitions in the region, the settlement on the north-eastern tip of the island was named George Town after King George III of the United Kingdom. Unbeknownst to the Sultan, Light had acted without the approval of The East India Company when he promised military protection. When the Company failed to aid Kedah when it was attacked by Thai, the Sultan tried to retake the island in 1790. The attempt was unsuccessful, and the Sultan was forced to cede the island to the Company for an honorarium of 6,000 Spanish dollars per annum. This was later increased to 10,000 dollars, with Province Wellesley (Seberang Prai) being added to Penang in 1800. An annual honorarium of 18,800 'ringgit' continues to be paid by the Penang State Government to the Sultan of Kedah. The settlement was first built around the harbour with Fort Cornwallis forming the island's defence. Light became the first Superintendent of Prince of Wales Island. To expedite jungle clearing by labourers, Light fired silver coins from his ship cannons into the dense vegetation and the land was cleared in no time, Light declaring Prince of Wales Island a free port to attract trade away from the Dutch who were then the colonial ruler of The Dutch East Indies. This strategy drew many immigrant traders to Penang. Settlers were allowed to claim whatever land they could clear. By 1789, Penang had 5,000 residents and this doubled by the end of the following decade. The first Chinese settlers in Penang came from an existing community in Kedah, with their leader, called a Kapitan Cina, being Koh Lay Huan, a Baba. Light died of malaria on October 21, 1794 and was buried at the Protestant cemetery at the end of Northam Road (now Jalan Sultan Ahmad Shah). His son, William Light went on to found the city of Adelaide in Australia. The original governors of Penang were Superintendents appointed by the Governor-General in Calcutta, subject to the Bengal Government and were retained on a very small salary by The British East India Company. They were not members of the Indian Civil Service nor were they attached to any of the garrisons or military forces of the British East India Company. They 6 were civilian traders who spent part of their time on the governance and administration of the island and part on their own personal commercial activities. Superintendents mediated and arbitrated in local disputes but had no formal of local jurisdiction. Light had argued for the need for well-paid, full-time administrators with complete responsibility and full powers of jurisdiction backed up with sufficient resources to enforce that authority, but this did not come for another fourteen years Lieutenant-Colonel Arthur Wellesley (the future Duke of Wellington) arrived in Penang to coordinate the island's defences and, in 1800, Lieutenant-Governor Sir George Leith secured a strip of land across the channel from the island and named it Province Wellesley, after Richard Colley Wellesley, 1st Marquess Wellesley, Governor-General of India. Early in the 19th century, Penang was used as a staging post for the opium trade between India and China. The East India Company auctioned off licences to gambling dens, brothels and opium traders (this alone accounted for approximately 60% of colonial Penang's trade). In 1805, Penang's colonial status was elevated to that of a Residency and was also known as the Eastern Presidency under the direct control of the Governor-General of India - Stamford Raffles, subsequently to become known as the founder of Singapore, in 1819, also arrived in Penang in 1805 to begin work as the Deputy Secretary to the Governor of Penang, Philip Dundas from 1805 to 1810. This change in Penang's status was likely the catalyst for the founding of 'The Government Gazette' in 1806, the new Government consisted of three councillors in addition to the Governor and 11 other officers and 'The Gazette' subsequently dutifully recorded the arrival of new governors and appointment of new councillors and, during 1805 to 1807, we note Captain Norman Macalister named as Commandant and 'fourth' in the list of council members under the newly appointed governor, Philip Dundas, who had arrived at the newly-created Presidency of The British East India Company in September 1805. The status of Penang, comprising Prince of Wales' Island and Province Wellesley, was now such that it was on an equal footing with the three great Presidencies in India - Calcutta, Madras and Bombay. Dundas created a 'red-light district', so that he could control disease without having to discourage business but, just two years later Dundas died from ill health, a consequence of the territory's generally unsanitary conditions - He 'so seriously indisposed as to be incapable of attending his duty' that he was taken on board HMS "Belliqueux", a 64-gun 'third rate' ship of the line of The Royal Navy and, dying on April 8, 1807, was buried in Penang. Five days later, on April 13, 1807, Henry Shepherd Pearson took up his post as Acting Governor, Norman Macalister, now a Colonel, then appointed and sworn in as Governor on 17 October 1807. The official report of October 17, 1807 tells us that The Hon. Colonel Norman Macalister in conformity with the orders of the Hon. the Governor General in council, took the usual oaths and his seat as governor of this presidency, a salute of 19 guns being fired on the occasion and his predecessor, Henry Shepherd Pearson, also took the oaths and took his seat as second member of council, Pearson to be warehouse-keeper and paymaster and, interestingly we find that one Mr. John Macalister is then appointed to be assistant collector of customs and land revenues at Malacca, the relationship, if any, now unclear at this late point in time. Of other 'potentially 'local', perhaps Kintyre native, appointments, the following year, 1808, saw one Lieutenant R. McDonald as ADC to the Governor and Captain John McInnis as Private Secretary to the Governor. During his term as governor, Macalister Road in Penang is named after him, Macalister completed the brick structure of the star-shaped Fort Cornwallis on the north-eastern coast of Penang with convict labour in 1810. The fort is named after the late 18th century Governor-General of Bengal, India, Charles Cornwallis, 1st Marquess Cornwallis and is the largest standing fort in Malaysia, Captain Sir Francis Light's original fort built with a nibong (Malay : palm trunk) stockade with no permanent structures, covering an area of 417.6 square feet (38.80 m2). In 1804, Indian convict labour had started to rebuild the fort with bricks and stones, during Colonel R.T. Farquhar's term as Governor of Penang, the fort, intended as a defense against the pirates, Kedah and the French because of The Napoleonic Wars, completed in Macalister's term as governor costing the equivalent of $80,000. The moat, 9 metres wide by 2 metres deep, which surrounded the fort, filled in in the 1920's due to a malaria outbreak in the area. The chapel at Fort Cornwallis, built in 1799 on the southwest bastion, is the earliest roofed structure surviving in Penang from the colonial era, the first recorded marriage there taking place that same year, when John Timmers married Martina Rozells, the widow of Francis Light. Even though the fort was originally built for the Royal Artillery troops and the military, its function, historically, was more administrative than defensive and, in its entire history, the fort had never engaged in any battle. Macalister was succeeded as Governor by Charles Andrew Bruce, on March 24, 1810, the official report stating that, "Late on Tuesday night, the ship "Bengal Anna", Captain Thomas Scott, anchored in the harbour from Calcutta, having on board the honourable C. A. Bruce as governor, the honourable Mrs. Bruce and (their) two children and at sunrise, on Wednesday, the "Bengal Anna" saluted the fort, which was returned. At seven o'clock, the honourable Mr. Bruce landed under the appropriate honours, and was received at the wharf by the honourable the governor and members of council, who accompanied him through a street, formed by the military, to the government house. At ten o'clock, the honourable Mr. Bruce took the usual oaths and his seat as governor, and Colonel Norman Macalister was sworn in as second, and W. E. Phillips Esq. third and last member of council, under the customary salutes". Macalister, taking leave, set sail for home on The East India Company's ship "Ocean" in August 1810, nothing more ever heard of the ship and Macalister assumed lost at sea. His successor's tenure as Penang's governor was short-lived, this report made out at Penang's Fort Cornwallis on December 28, 1810, just months after Macalister had sailed for home. "In consequence of the much lamented death of the honourable Charles Andrew Bruce, late governor of Prince of Wales's Island and its dependencies, and commander in chief of the fort and town, and in the absence of Colonel Norman Macalister, second member of council, and next in succession to the office of government, vacant by this event, PUBLIC notice is hereby given, and it is proclaimed, the powers of governor of Prince of Wales's, and the command of the fort and town, has necessarily developed pro-tempore on William Edward Phillips, esq. third member of council; and that the same Wm Edward Phillips, esq. has this day duly taken the prescribed oaths and seat accordingly. It is also hereby further proclaimed, that John 8 James Erskine, esq. has, in conformity to the provisional appointment of the honourable, the court of directors, been called in to the board, and has taken the prescribed oaths and his seat as a member of council. All persons in the civil, military and marine service, of the honourable East India Company, and all the other inhabitants of Prince of Wales's Island, and its dependencies, are therefore hereby required and directed to take due notice thereof, and to obey the said William Edward Phillips, esq. as governor and commander in chief accordingly pro-tempore. Published by command of the honourable the Governor in council. W. A. CLUBLEY, Act. Sec. to Govt.". World War II, on the other hand, unleashed unparalleled social upheaval on Penang. With news of the imminent attack of the Japanese, the European population was evacuated beforehand, leaving the rest of Penang's population to suffer under a brutal Japanese occupation, causing much disillusionment and injury to the British prestige and image of invincibility. The British withdrawal left the defenceless island in the hands of a State Committee which had to subdue a three-day civil unrest. Penang was captured by Japanese forces invading from the north through Thailand on 19 December 1941, one of the key stages of The Battle of Malaya, days after having neutralised American sea power at Pearl Harbor. Three and a half years of rule of terror ensued. Many of the local populace fled to the interior and plantations to escape from Japanese atrocities, of which many were reported and documented. During this occupation, Penang was governed by four successive Japanese governors, starting with Shotaro Katayama. It is a little known fact that Penang served as a German U-boat base in The Far East. "U-511", under the command of Kptlt. Fritz Schneewind, arrived in Penang, then under Japanese occupation in July 1943, followed by "U-178" in August 1943. This essentially started the Uboat campaign in the Indian Ocean and also provided the Germans with penetration into the Pacific for the first time, alongside their ally, Japan. Korvettenkapit�n Wilhelm Dommes became the first commander of the U-boat base, located in the former British seaplane base in Penang - Japanese forces in Penang finally surrendered to British forces on September 6, 1945. Returning now to the Macalisters 10. Charles, Lieut, in the E.I.C. service; d. without issue. 11. Catherine, m. Peter Nicolson of Ardmore, Waternish, Skye, with issue (A) John M'Alister. (B) Donald. Both died young. (c) Flora, Nicolson, m. Allan Macdonald, major of the 55th Regiment of Foot, afterwards of Waternish, son of Allan Macdonald of Belfinlay (vide Belfinlay genealogy under Clanranald). (D) Susannah MacAlister, m. Norman Macdonald of Scalpay with issue (vide Scalpay genealogy under Sleat) (E) Margaret, m. Dr Alexander Macdonald of Gillen in Sleat, Skye, with issue (vide MacEachen genealogy under Clanranald). IX. ALEXANDER MACALISTER, his oldest surviving son, succeeded Ranald of Skirmish in the representation of the family. He is said to have bought the property of Strathaird, in Skye, in or about 1789. He m. Miss Campbell of Ederline, with issue 9 1. Janet, who m. Dr Duncan McAlister of Tarbert, with issue (A) Alexander. (B) Matthew, (C) John. (D) Charles. (E) Lachlan. (F) Norman. (G) Archibald. (H) Catherine. Alexander McAlister of Strathaird m. 2ndly Miss Macleod of Greshornish, with issue 2 John, who m. Miss McCormick, with issue (A) Donald, who died young. (B) Norman, who died young. (C) Alexander, m. daughter of Admiral Fleming, Elphinston, with issue, several daughters but no son. 3. Isabella, who m. John Nicolson, Claggan, Skye, with issue. 4. Charles, a W.S., who d. without issne. 5. Donald, d. without issue. The offspring of Alexander McAlister having become extinct in the male line, the succession devolved upon his brother X. Colonel MATTHEW MACALISTER of Bar and Rosehill, Glenbarr. He m. (1st) Miss Campbell of Saddell, with issue, a son and a daughter, who both died young. He m. (2ndly) Miss Brodie of Brodie, with issue XI. KEITH MACALISTER of Glenbarr and Cour (b. 1803), who succeeded him in the representation of the family. He m. (1st) Mary, only daughter of Robert Campbell of Skipness, whom he afterwards divorced. The issue of this marriage was 1. Agatha, who m. A. Stikemaii, with issue. 2. Caroline, m. H. Greer of Lurgen, with issue. 3. Ellenor Georgia. 4. Eliza Gordon, m. Charles Vendin, of Jersey, with issue. 5. Anne Argyll, d. unmarried. 6. Matthew Charles Brodie M'Alister of Glenbarr Abbey and Crubasdale; b. 1838. Keith McAlister m. (2ndly) Alexandrina Georgia Cunningham, 2nd daughter and co-heiress of William Miller of Bonkcastle and Monkredding, Ayrshire, with issue Norman Godfrey, 10 Commander K.N.; b. Feb. 3, 1861; m. July 21, 1896, Florence Stewart, daughter of Captain Duncan Stewart, R.N., of Knockrioch, Kintyre. He died in 1886, and was succeeded by his older son XII. Major MATTHEW CHARLES BRODIE MACALISTER of Glenbarr Abbey and Crubasdale. He m. 1869, Augusta Lees, 2nd daughter of Major Henry Lees, with issue Charles Augustus, b. 10th July, 1883. He m. (2ndly) 27th Nov., 1901, Edith Margaret, only daughter of George Dudgeon, Esq., Almond Hill, Linlithgowshire, and has issue a son, Ranald Macdonald Brodie, b. 22nd Feb., 1903, his son, Angus, succumbing to his long fight with cancer on April 4, 2007. The following understanding of the history of the MacAlister clan has been taken from the Wikipedia web page at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clan_MacAlister and it is followed by a list of links to other Wikipedia pages concerned with Clans with Chiefs, Armigerous Clans and other matters. Clan MacAlister is a Scottish Clan and a branch of Clan Donald. The clan is the earliest branch to have split off from Clan Donald, claiming descent from Alasdair M�r, son of Domhnall founder of Clan Donald. From Alasdair M�r the clans takes its surname MacAlister; this surname is an Anglicisation of the Gaelic Mac Alasdair meaning "son of Alasdair". In the 15th century the chief of the clan was seated in Kintyre, and the clan was centred there until the 18th century, when a chief sold the family estate in preference to a lowland estate. The current chief of the clan lives in England. Origins Clan MacAlister is a branch of Clan Donald, one of the largest Scottish clans. The eponymous ancestor of Clan Donald is Domhnall, son of Raghnall, son of Somhairle. Traditional Clan Donald genealogies, created in the later Middle Ages, give the clan a descent from various legendary Irish figures. Modern historians, however, distrust these traditional genealogies, and consider Somhairle, son of Gille Brighde to be earliest ancestor for whom there is secure historical evidence. Somhairle, himself, was a 12th century leader, styled "King of The Isles" and "King of Argyll". Confusion and The Clan's Founder Today, Clan MacAlister claims to descend from Alasdair M�r, son of Domhnall, founder of Clan Donald. There has, however, been confusion as to who really was the clan's founder. This is because within a generation there lived two prominent Alasdairs (an uncle and newphew). Both of these men left many sons, however, their immediate posterity are not clearly connected with definite area. The lack of charter evidence clouds the true history of the clan; 11 as does that fact that for about two hundred years, the descendants of both men did not form an organised clan of their own. Alasdair M�r first appears on record in 1253, when is recorded as witnessing a charter by his brother, Aonghas M�r a �le, to the Paisley Abbey. According to Angus and Archibald Macdonald, he must have been a prominent man, being the only recorded brother of the Aonghas M�r. A. and A. Macdonald state that he was recorded in The Irish Annals, in 1299, as being aa man noted for "hospitality and excellence". In that year he was slain in a conflict with Alasdair of Argyll and the MacDougalls. According to the traditional shanachies, Alasdair M�r had at least five sons: Domhnall, Gofraidh, Donnchadh, Eoin and Eachann. He was succeeded by Domhnall Younger Sons of Alasdair M�r Sometime in the early 14th century, descendants of Alasdair M�r seem to have settled in the county of Stirling. The first such descendant of whom there is any record is Gilbert, son of Domhnall, who received a charter for unspecified lands in the region, in the year 1330. This man appears to be same as the Gilbert de Insula who received a charter for the lands of Glorat in the parish of Campsie. Today, Gilbert de Insula is considered to be a grandson of Alasdair M�r. He is also considered to possibly be the ancestor the Alexanders of Menstrie, earls of Stirling from 1633. Little is known about the descendants of Gofraidh, second son of Alasdair M�r. According to the MS of 1450, he had a son, Somhairle, who had a son, Gilbert. A. and A. Macdonald could not find any other definite piece of information about the descendants of Gofraidh. According to A. and A. Macdonald, Donnchadh, third son of Alasdair M�r, possessed lands in the parish of Glenorchy. In about 1343, David II granted to Alexander MacNaughtane, all the lands which had belonged to the deceased Eoin, son of Donnchadh, son of Alasdair. A. and A. Macdonald were unable to find any other record of this branch of the clan. Nothing is known about Eoin, son of Alasdair M�r. According to the MS of 1450, Eachann, youngest son of Alasdair M�r, had two sons, Charles and Lachlann. Nothing definite is known of Eachann, yet the Sleat seanachie McVurich claimed that he had another son, Siothach an Dronan, who settled in Ireland and founded Clan Sheehy of Munster. This clan is recorded in 1552, as fighting in army of O'Neill, and described as gallowglass. The Irish Annals, however, describe them as belonging to the province of Leinster. McVurich also claimed that Clan Domhnuill Renna and MacWilliam of the province of Cannaught were also descended from Alasdair M�r. Successors of Alasdair M�r Domhnall, son of Alasdair M�r, swore fealty to Edward I of England in 1291. He was succeeded by his own son, Alasdair. Alasdair was also recorded as swearing fealty to the English king at the same time as his father. He was in turn succeeded by his son, Raghnall, who in 1366 crossed over into Ulster to fight in the wars between Donald and Neill O'Neill. A. and A. Macdonald considered the succession of the next three MacAlister chiefs to have been obscure. The two historians stated that Raghnall was succeeded by Alasdair who flourished about the year 1400. Alasdair was succeeded by Eoin Dubh from whom the modern chiefs derive their Gaelic designation Mac Iain Duibh. A. and A. Macdonald stated that this patronymic has caused confusion since the eldest son of Alasdair Og, the forfeited Hebridean magnate, was also named Eoin Dubh; and that his descendants were called Clann Eoin Duibh. 15th Century Eoin Dubh was succeeded by Charles. In 1481, James III granted a considerable amount of land in Kintyre to John, Lord of the Isles. Among these lands were those of "Lowb", or Loup. That year, Charles McAllister was appointed by the king, to the Stewarty of Kintyre, and received a considerable grant of lands in that area. The Stewartry of Kintyre was a life appointment, and 12 the lands consisted of 40 merklands. The lands were as follows: 4 merklands of Machquarrymore of Dunaverty, 2 merklands of the two Ramcollis, 2 merklands of Edyne, 1 merkland of Knockstippilmore, 1 merkland of Keranbeg, 2 merklands of Glennomudlach, 5 merks of Kildovy, 5 merklands of Polmulyn, 1 merkland of Salkanch, 3 merklands of Glennahervy, 2 merklands of Feachaig, 20 shillings lands of Corpany, the half merkland of Barfarnay, 2 merklands of Kilmichell, 4 merklands of de la Crag, to be held in fen farm. These lands were situated in North and South Kintyre. There is no mention of Loup and A. and A. Macdonald stated that the lands were probably already in his possession, and had likely been in his family's possession for quite some time. 16th century Charles was succeeded in the representation of the clan by his son, John. A. and A. Macdonald state that the only record of the existence of John is of his son's patronym Angus John Dowson of Loup. Angus is recorded among other Argyll chieftains whom protection was given by the Duke of Albany in 1515. The chieftains were described as "familiars and servitors" of Colin, Earl of Argyll. Angus John Dowson was succeeded by Alexander MacAlister. This chief was involved, among the Macleans and Clan Donald South, in the invasion of the Campbell territories of Rosneath, Lennox, and Craignish, in 1529. He was later denounced as a rebel for his failure to find security for his future good behaviour. In the 15th and 16th centuries, members of the clan obtained lands in the islands of Arran and Bute, which lie close to Kintyre. In 1506, Donald MacAlister received a grant of the lands of Longilwenach, and according to A. and A. Macdonald, his descendants beacme quite numerous in the said islands. Despite the fact the chiefs of Clan MacAlister never possessed lands in Buteshire, the connection of several of their clansmen to that area brought the chiefs trouble. A. and A. Macdonald state that during the remainder of the 16th century, the clan sought the protection under the more powerful Macdonalds of Dunyveg, and the powerful lords Argyll and Hamilton. Following the forfeiture of the lordship of the isles in 1493, the clan especially sheltered itself under the Macdonalds of Dunyveg. Between the years 1540 - 1572, the clan appears to have turned its attention to the turbulent north of Ireland. During this era men from the Hebrides often fought in Ulster on the side of Sorley Boy MacDonnell and according to A. and A. Macdonald, there is reason to believe that Clan MacAlister gave him some of his most strenuous support. A. and A. Macdonald stated that, sometime around the years 1571 - 1572, a body of Highlanders were defeated by Cheston who was captain of the English forces. One of those recorded as slain was one "Owen Mc Owen duffe Mc Alastrain, called the Lord of Loop". A. and A. Macdonald were of the opinion that this man was the son of Alexander MacAlister of Loup. The chief, John, was slain in 1572 and was succeeded in the chiefship by his son, Alexander. The following year, Alexander is recorded as receiving a charter from the Earl of Argyll; and around the same time was recorded as being ordered by an Act of Parliament to deliver hostages for his the security of his peaceable behaviour. In 1587, Alexander MacAlister of Loup was recorded in the General Band of 1587, in which Highland chiefs were held accountable by the Government for their tenants. In 1590, the clan rendered a bond of dependence and service to Lord John Hamilton; shortly afterwards a similar bond was given by the Tutor of Loup and clan members also Lord John Hamilton. A. and A. Macdonald state that Clan MacAlister was in no way dependent on the Hamiltons in Kintyre, yet those MacAlisters that settled in Arran and Bute had done so in the lands where the Hamiltons were lords. In 1591, Godfrey MacAlister of Loup received a charter from the Earl of Argyll. In 1598, a serious quarrel broke out between Godfrey MacAlister of Loup, who had just reached the age of majority, and his former tutor and guardian. It is unknown what the 13 reasons for the quarrel were, yet what is known is that MacAlister of Loup had the former tutor murdered. The sons of the murdered man then fled to Askomull House which was the Kintyre residence of Angus Macdonald of Dunyvaig. The historians A. and A. Macdonald stated that Macdonald of Dunyvaig was the tutor's sons' clan superior. MacAlister of Loup was however aided by Sir James Macdonald, younger of Dunyvaig and surrounded the house with several hundred armed men. 17th Century In 1603, Campbell of Auchinbreck and Archibald MacAlister, heir apparent of MacAlister of Tarbert, took part in an invasion of Bute. The force consisted of 1200 men and when it arrived on the island, first ravaged the property of a widow named Marion Stewart, and her lands of Wester Kames. The raiders then moved onto the land sof Ninian Stewart, Sheriff of Bute, committing similar atrocities. In consequence of the raid, the leaders were summoned to appear before the Council, yet failed to appear and were ordered to be denounced as rebels. In 1605, the Privy Council ordered Archibald MacAlister of Loups and John MacAlister, tutor of Loup to appear and produce evidence of their infeftments and rentals, under the pain of having their titles declared void. A. and A. Macdonald state that MacAlister of Loup was one of the few to attend and that he got titles from Argyll for his lands that year. In 1614, Alexander was supposed to have supported his feudal superior, Argyll, in the capture of Dunyveg Castle. However, when he arrived on the scene he sided with the leader of the insurgents, Angus Og Macdonald. Because of his support of the rebels he was also punished. At his trial he was found guilty of treason and hung. The years between 1614 and 1623 were uneventful for the leading family of the clan. In 1623, a bond of caution was signed on the behalf of Godfrey MacAlister of Tarbet, pledging that he would not molest the family and followers of Archibald Stewart of Castlemilk, John Shaw of Greenock, Ferlie of that Ilk, John Crawford of Kilbirnie, John Brenshaw of Bishoptown, and James Crawford of Flatterton. For sometime, Godfrey, who was son of the chief of MacAlister of Tarbet, raided the lands of the mentioned Lowland landowners. He is also recorded the same year as having to find caution for himself and Ronald Roy MacAlister for 3000 and 500 merks not to molest the following landowners and their families: Walter MacAulay of Ardincaple, Malcolm MacNaughtane of Stronseir, Robert Colhoun, fiar of Cumstrodone, and Dougal Campbell in Mamoir. A. and A. Macdonald made note of a serious quarrel between Godfrey MacAlister of Tarbet and Walter MacAulay of Ardincaple, chief of Clan MacAulay. Both Tarbert and Ardincaple claimed to be depute to the Admiral of the Western Seas; and the two Macdonald considered that Ardincaple had been ousted in favour of Tarbert. In 1623, a bond of caution was registered by Hector MacNeill of Kilmichell and John Lamont of Achagyll of 3,000 merks for Godrey MacAlister of Tarbert, and of 1,000 merks each for another four of his followers, not to molest Walter MacAulay of Ardincaple and his family. A. and A. Macdonald unsure of the outcome of this particular quarrel, stating: "As often happens regarding Highland quarrels and delinquencies, the records leave us enquiring wonderingly, and failing to answer the question, how this matter was settled, if it was settled at all". In 1631, Archibald MacAlister of Tarbet visited William Alexander, 1st Earl of Stirling and acknowledged him as his chief. This was despite the fact the MacAlisters of Loup are today considered the chiefs of the clan. In 1689, a French ship which had sailed from Ireland reached Kintyre and was taken by MacAlister of Loup and Angus Campbell of Kilberry. The two lairds put the ship under guard and wrote to Argyll, who was attending the Convention of the Estates, asking for instructions as to what to do with it. According to A. and A. Macdonald, there is evidence to suggest that members of Clan MacAlister, possibly under their chief, took part in the Battle of Killiecrankie. 18th Century to The Present 14 In the years spanning from 1689 and 1704 there is little to no record of the clan. However, in the year 1704, during the first parliament of Queen Anne, Alexander MacAlister of Loup and Archibald MacAlister of Tarbert are recorded as Commissioners of Supply for Argyll. By 1706, Tarbert had ceased to be a part of the family of the MacAlisters of Tarbert, as the estate into the possession of a Maclean. Alexander MacAlister of Loup was succeeded by his son, Godfrey, who was in turn succeeded by his son. During this period, the chiefly line of the clan severed all ties with Kintyre; the family mansion of Ardpatrick House was sold to Walter Campbell of Islay, after which Loup also passed out of the hands of the chiefly family. Charles, 12th of Loup married the daughter and heiress of William Somerville of Kennox in 1792. In consequence, he assumed the name and arms of Somerville along with his own and the seat of the family was since then located at in the Scottish Lowlands at Kennox, in Ayrshire. He died in 1847 and was succeeded by his son, Charles. Charles was succeeded by his son, Charles. Charles Somerville McAlester of Loup and Kennox died in 1903 and was succeeded by his son, Charles Godfrey Somerville McAlester of Loup and Kennox. Today the chiefly line of has also lost possession of their Kennox lands. The current chief of the clan is William St John Somerville McAlester of Loup and Kennox who lives in England. The current chief is a member of The Standing Council of Scottish Chiefs. Today there is a clan centre located at Glenbarr Abbey. Clan Profile Clan chief : The current chief of the clan is William St John Somerville McAlester of Loup and Kennox, Chief of the Name and Arms of MacAlister. The chief was recognised as such by the Lord Lyon King of Arms, in 1991. The Gaelic designation of the chiefs of Clan MacAlister is Mac Iain Duibh in reference to Eoin Dubh, from whom the MacAlisters of Loup claim to descend. Chiefly arms : The current chief's coat of arms is blazoned : Or, an eagle displayed gules armed sable surmounted on the breast of a galley of the first within a bordure of the third charged with three cross crosslets fitch�e argent. The supporters : (on a compartment entwined with an escrol bearing the second motto) dexter, a bear pierced in the back with an arrow all proper; sinister, an eagle proper. The motto : fortiter; and on the compartment : per mare per terras. The mottoes translate from Latin as "boldly" and "by sea and land". The crest : a dexter arm in armour erect, the hand holding a dagger in pale all proper. Clan member's crest badge : The crest badge suitable for members of the clan contains the chief's heraldic crest and motto. Motto: fortiter. Crest: a dexter arm in armour erect, the hand holding a dagger in pale all proper. Clan badge : According to Robert Bain, the plant badge of the clan is heath. Tartan : There are several tartans attributed to the surname MacAlister. Contemporary accounts of Flora Macdonald suggest that the MacAlisters wore the Macdonald tartan at that time. The tartan pictured right dates from the 19th century and was approved as a clan tartan by the chief in 1845. Another approved tartan is the 'MacAlister dress' tartan. It is a modern tartan that was approved by the clan chief in 2005. It is also the official tartan of the MacAlister Clan Society of North America. Branches of The Clan : The principal cadet of the MacAlisters of Loup were the MacAlisters of Tarbet. Several members from this branch were for a time, constables of Tarbert Castle on Loch Fyne. Another branch of the clan are the MacAlisters of Glenbarr, who trace their descent from Eoin Dubh. 15 Dear Max Thank you for all your emails. I just wish the winter was a quite time – I seem to be just as busy, if not more so, than in the visitor season, as it is the only time I can get to work on certain important tasks. This year it is particularly noticeable because of the cuts in our staff. I have now had some time to digest all the information packed into your emails. . I realise how frustrating it must be to have people base their assumptions about your family on a misreading of the various sources, which have only added to the legal shenanigans of the mid 19th century. However there is little we can do about existing published works such as Clan Donald Vol 3 as they are in the public domain. Nevertheless, we do keep information about your family in a version of Clan Donald Vol 3 that we regularly correct and update as new information comes to light. At the moment there are no plans to publish this corrected version but if we do your family’s proper details will be there. It is probably no consolation but there are errors or omissions in the genealogies of many of the Clan Donald cadet families listed in Vol 3, especially those that have emigrated to North America, Australia or New Zealand. In the meantime, anyone enquiring about the MacAlisters of Strathaird will be provided with the updated version. We also have reference to your family in our database of Skye families, taken from information in the censuses and records of birth, marriage and death. This is really all we can do in your case. Although it is flattering that you think Clan Donald Skye is in a position so to do we cannot unilaterally declare a particular lineage is this, or not that, as it is up to the Lord Lyon who has the ultimate the authority for ancestry lines in Scotland. You also ask if there is anything else you can research or do. I am afraid I cannot suggest anything. You have had Alastair Campbell presenting your case to the Lyon Court, and you have had searches made at the National Archives of Scotland. It is possible that there are documents other than the Service of Heirs that might be relevant. However, as I have said to you before, Scottish law, especially that relating to land tenure and inheritance is very definitely not one of my areas of expertise so I am not the best person to ask. Perhaps you should check this out with the staff at the NAS. DEAR MAGGIE , GREETINGS AGAIN. SORRY TO BE WORRYING YOU AGAIN ,BUT I HAVE SOMETHING FURTHER TO ADD TO WHAT I SENT YOU THE OTHER DAY WHICH I THINK IS RELEVANT TO WHAT HAS HAPPENED AT STRATHAIRD. BACK IN JULY LAST YEAR, I CONTACTED THE NATIONAL RECORDS OF SCOTLAND IN EDINBURGH ,(REF.NO.57938)AN ALISON LINDSAY ,WHO IS HEAD OF THE HISTORICAL SEARCH ROOM THERE, REGARDING IF .....THIS ALEXANDER MACALISTER (THE GRANDSON WHO HAS CLAIMED TO BE THE NEXT SENIOR HEIR OF STRATHAIRD AFTER OLD ALEXANDER MACALISTER DIED ON THE 6TH OF APRIL IN 1832,TO SEARCH THE RECORDS OF RETOURS AND INDEXES FOR SERVICE OF HEIRS FROM 1839 THROUGH TO 1849,SOME 20 ODD YEARS ,AND SHE REPLIED THAT THERE WAS NO LISTING OF AN ALEXANDER MACALISTER AS FAR AS STRATHAIRD WAS CONCERNED. NOW, I AM UNDER THE IMPRESSION; SO I HAVE BEEN PREVIOUSLY TOLD ,THAT IT IS REQUIRED SCOTTISH LAW TO DO SO WHEN A PERSON IS CLAIMING AN ESTATE AND THE RIGHT TO BE THE NEXT HEIR. EVIDENTLY THIS WAS NOT DONE,AS THERE IS NO RECORD OF IT. WHERE DOES THAT LEAVE MY LINE AND EVENTUALLY ME? IS THIS OF SOME IMPORTANCE ,TOGETHER WITH EVERYTHING ELSE I HAVE SENT YOU? YOURS SINCERELY, ______________________________________________________________________ Chev. Max M Macalister ESQ. KOTJ. FAHSA. Senior of “Strathaird”, Cadet of “Tarbert” Pres. CLAN MACALISTER AUSTRALIA Unit 2 / 24A RATTRAY ROAD MONTMORENCY 3094 VICTORIA AUSTRALIA Phone: +613 9435 9914 Email: [email protected] Skype: maxmacalister Dear Max Thank you for all your emails. I just wish the winter was a quite time – I seem to be just as busy, if not more so, than in the visitor season, as it is the only time I can get to work on certain important tasks. This year it is particularly noticeable because of the cuts in our staff. I have now had some time to digest all the information packed into your emails. . I realise how frustrating it must be to have people base their assumptions about your family on a misreading of the various sources, which have only added to the legal shenanigans of the mid 19th century. However there is little we can do about existing published works such as Clan Donald Vol 3 as they are in the public domain. Nevertheless, we do keep information about your family in a version of Clan Donald Vol 3 that we regularly correct and update as new information comes to light. At the moment there are no plans to publish this corrected version but if we do your family’s proper details will be there. It is probably no consolation but there are errors or omissions in the genealogies of many of the Clan Donald cadet families listed in Vol 3, especially those that have emigrated to North America, Australia or New Zealand. In the meantime, anyone enquiring about the MacAlisters of Strathaird will be provided with the updated version. We also have reference to your family in our database of Skye families, taken from information in the censuses and records of birth, marriage and death. This is really all we can do in your case. Although it is flattering that you think Clan Donald Skye is in a position so to do we cannot unilaterally declare a particular lineage is this, or not that, as it is up to the Lord Lyon who has the ultimate the authority for ancestry lines in Scotland. You also ask if there is anything else you can research or do. I am afraid I cannot suggest anything. You have had Alastair Campbell presenting your case to the Lyon Court, and you have had searches made at the National Archives of Scotland. It is possible that there are documents other than the Service of Heirs that might be relevant. However, as I have said to you before, Scottish law, especially that relating to land tenure and inheritance is very definitely not one of my areas of expertise so I am not the best person to ask. Perhaps you should check this out with the staff at the NAS. DEAR MAGGIE , GREETINGS AGAIN. SORRY TO BE WORRYING YOU AGAIN ,BUT I HAVE SOMETHING FURTHER TO ADD TO WHAT I SENT YOU THE OTHER DAY WHICH I THINK IS RELEVANT TO WHAT HAS HAPPENED AT STRATHAIRD. BACK IN JULY LAST YEAR, I CONTACTED THE NATIONAL RECORDS OF SCOTLAND IN EDINBURGH ,(REF.NO.57938)AN ALISON LINDSAY ,WHO IS HEAD OF THE HISTORICAL SEARCH ROOM THERE, REGARDING IF .....THIS ALEXANDER MACALISTER (THE GRANDSON WHO HAS CLAIMED TO BE THE NEXT SENIOR HEIR OF STRATHAIRD AFTER OLD ALEXANDER MACALISTER DIED ON THE 6TH OF APRIL IN 1832,TO SEARCH THE RECORDS OF RETOURS AND INDEXES FOR SERVICE OF HEIRS FROM 1839 THROUGH TO 1849,SOME 20 ODD YEARS ,AND SHE REPLIED THAT THERE WAS NO LISTING OF AN ALEXANDER MACALISTER AS FAR AS STRATHAIRD WAS CONCERNED. NOW, I AM UNDER THE IMPRESSION; SO I HAVE BEEN PREVIOUSLY TOLD ,THAT IT IS REQUIRED SCOTTISH LAW TO DO SO WHEN A PERSON IS CLAIMING AN ESTATE AND THE RIGHT TO BE THE NEXT HEIR. EVIDENTLY THIS WAS NOT DONE,AS THERE IS NO RECORD OF IT. WHERE DOES THAT LEAVE MY LINE AND EVENTUALLY ME? IS THIS OF SOME IMPORTANCE ,TOGETHER WITH EVERYTHING ELSE I HAVE SENT YOU? YOURS SINCERELY, ______________________________________________________________________ Chev. Max M Macalister ESQ. KOTJ. FAHSA. Senior of “Strathaird”, Cadet of “Tarbert” Pres. CLAN MACALISTER AUSTRALIA Unit 2 / 24A RATTRAY ROAD MONTMORENCY 3094 VICTORIA AUSTRALIA Phone: +613 9435 9914 Email: [email protected] Skype: maxmacalister DEAR ALASDAIR, THANK YOU FOR YOUR PROMPT REPLY AND DETAILS. I HAVE ATTACHED 2 E/MAILS THAT PROMPTED ME TO GO AHEAD AND DO THIS DNA WHICH I AGREE IS ESSENTIAL. I DON`T KNOW IF I AM CROSSING PURPOSES HERE AT THE MOMENT ,BUT I HAVE GONE AHEAD AND ORDERED A DNA TEST FROM THIS CROWD IN HOUSTON ,TEXAS ,AND I AM WAITING FOR THE KIT TO ARRIVE. (REFER TO ABOVE TWO ATTACMENTS. I HAVE ALSO INCLUDED ONE OF ME,IN MY FINEST ,AS WE SAY HERE IN AUSTRALIA,I LOOK LIKE A POX DOCTORS CLERK. ) DOES THIS CROSS PURPOSES WITH YOUR TEST? WHEN I RECEIVE THE RESULTS FROM THEM ,I CAN FORWARD THAT ONTO YOU ,AND TAKE IT FROM THERE AS TO YOUR SUGGESTIONS TO WHAT I DO NEXT. I AM PRESENTLY THINKING THAT I SHOULD HAVE THE 37 MARKER THAT YOU HAVE INDICATED ,BUT AM OPEN TO YOUR ADVICE AND EXPERIENCE . AS I HAVE INDICATED TO YOU ,I THINK IT NECESSARY AND VERY IMPORTANT THAT I HAVE THIS DNA KNOWLEDGE FOR ME AND MY ANCESTORS,AND THAT IT IS OFFICIALLY RECORDED FOR THE FUTURE. I TAKE IT THEN THAT YOU ARE A REAL MACDONALD,GOOD ON YA. WHICH BRANCH? ALSO ,YOU WOULD KNOW THAT MY MOB ,THE MACALISTERS ,ARE THE RIGHT HAND SEPT OF YOUR MOB. RANALD MACALISTER OF SKIRINISH(1715-1762) WAS FACTOR FOR CLANRANALD. FLORA MACDONALD WAS BRIDESMAID AT RANALD AND ANNE MACDONALD OF KINGSBURGH MARRIAGE IN 1742. I ASSUME YOU KNOW MAGGIE MACDONALD(ARCHIVES SECTION ) AT THE CLAN DONALD CENTRE AT ARDVASSER ACCORDING TO YOUR CLAN DONALD HISTORY ,MY LINE OF "STRATHAIRD" MACALISTERS HAVE SUPPOSEDLY DIED OUT.....BULLSHIT.AS I HAVE INDICATED TO MAGGIE ,WHERE THE HELL HAVE I COME FROM ---FELL OUT OF AN ELPHANTS ARSE? I HAVE SENT QUITE A BIT OF MY "STRATHAIRD "ANCESTRY TO HER ,AND SHE ----I THINK ----AGREES WITH ME THAT THERE MAY BE MISTAKES IN WHAT THEY PRESENTLY HAVE. I`M NOT SURE ALASTAIR, BUT I HAVE THIS DEEP SUSPICION AS A MACALISTER THAT MY MOB IS BEING CONTINUALLY PUNISHED FOR AIDING BONNIE PRINCE CHARLES -----FIRSTLY BECAUSE MY LINE HAS BEEN BLOODY ERASED FROM THE CLAN DONALD HISTORY ,SUPPOSEDLY DIED OUT,AND SECONDLY, BECAUSE RANALD SUPPLIED HIM WITH HIS BEST TREWS ,AS HE WAS DISGUISED AS A SHELIA---A CROOK LOOKING ONE AT THAT ----AS AN IRISH MAID SERVANT ----WHEN HE ARRIVED AT OLD KINGSBURGHS HOUSE ,AND THEN LATER ,FLORA GUIEDED HIM DOWN TO "STRATHAIRD"FROM WHICH HE EVENTUALLY MADE HIS ESCAPE, WHICH THE MACKINNONS STILL HELD THEN IN 1746,AS IT WASN`T UNTIL 1786 THAT ALEXANDER MACALISTER(1744-1832)PURCHASED THE ESTATE. FURTHERMORE,WHEN I APPLIED FOR MY ARMS IN 1990 AS SENIOR MALE MACALISTER OF "STRATHAIRD",I HAVE A SNEAKING SUSPICION,AND GETTING MORE AND MORE PARANOID BECAUSE OF A SERIES OF THINGS , THAT "THEY",---WHOEVER "THEY "ARE,......SHIT THEMSELVES,(PLEASE EXCUSE THE AUSTRALIAN EXPRESSION)---I.E. ...THE LORD LYON ,THE SECRET AND INNER SANCTUM AUTHORITIES,AND THE BLOODY CAMPBELLS,AS" THEY" THOUGHT THAT"THEY "HAD GOT RID OF US" STRATHAIRD " MACALISTERS FOR EVER. INSTEAD OF ME BEING MATRICULATED AS "MACALISTER OF STRATHAIRD","THEY ,SOMERSALTED ME,DID NOT RECOGNISE "STRATHAIRD",AND MATRICULATED ME AS A "CADET OF TARBERT CASTLE MACALISTERS",WHICH I AM ALSO RELATED TO THROUGH MARRIAGE.NOT ONLY THAT ,BUT "THEY", BLOODY STALLED ,AND PISSED AROUND ,AND DELAYED THE WHOLE ISSUE FOR 5 YEARS,AS I DIDN`T GET MY ARMS UNTO MAY 8TH ,1995. SO ,CALL ME PARANOD OR WHAT,BUT THE MORE I LOOK INTO THINGS ,AND THE MORE I LEARN,THE MORE PARANOID I AM GETTING. SO ALASTAIR ,THIS IS ANOTHER IMPORTANT REASON THAT I MUST OBTAIN MY DNA,AS I HAVE AN IMPENDING ARGUEMENT TO PUT BEFORE THE LORD LYON ....AGAIN,AND I ASSUME THAT A DNA TEST RESULT WILL BE ,AND SHOULD BE, OF SOME HELP. SORRY TO BUG YOU WITH SOME OF THIS BALONEY. UNTIL I HEAR FROM YOU , YOURS SINCERELY, MAX M.ESQ. PER MARE PER TERRAS. ______________________________________________________________________ Chev. Max M Macalister ESQ. KOTJ. FAHSA. Senior of “Strathaird”, Cadet of “Tarbert” Pres. CLAN MACALISTER AUSTRALIA Unit 2 / 24A RATTRAY ROAD MONTMORENCY 3094 VICTORIA AUSTRALIA Phone: +613 9435 9914 Email: [email protected] Skype: maxmacalister From: Alasdair Macdonald [mailto:[email protected]] Dear Max, Very good to hear from you. From your message I take it you have not yet tested. I regularly send out kits to Australia so if you desire to participate please do get in touch. I'd suggest either the 37 or 67 marker Y-DNA test for your Macalister lineage. The extra markers at 67 give increased data when comparing close matches and helps with estimating the time frame to a shared common ancestor. The test can be upgraded from 37 to 67 at any time, but costs slightly more than buying it in the first instance. The kit can be joined to the Scottish, Clan Donald and Macalister DNA projects all of which are hosted at Family Tree DNA. http://www.familytreedna.com/public/Scottishdna/default.aspx http://dna-project.clan-donald-usa.org/ http://www.familytreedna.com/public/McAlister/ I have attached a pdf which explains a little more about testing and ordering. I am happy to answer any further questions you have on the best test for the goals you wish to explore. Attached is a short pdf document with some more information. As Scottish representative for Family Tree DNA kits can be ordered from my website here http://www.yourscottishancestry.com/section.php/17/1/dna_test_kits/d7a0b01cb89c29ca95060233846f33b5 Every good wish (from a very snowy Edinburgh), Alasdair Macdonald -----Original Message----- Kind regards, Alasdair ********************* Alasdair Macdonald Scottish DNA Project administrator University of Strathclyde, Glasgow http://www.familytreedna.com/public/Scottishdna/default.aspx http://scottishdna.blogspot.com ________________________________________ From: Max Macalister [[email protected]] Sent: 14 March 2013 16:17 To: scottishdna Subject: SCOTTISH DNA. I AM INTERESTED IN JOINING YOUR SCOTTISH DNA PROJECT. MY NAME IS MAX MILTON MACALISTER ,AND I LIVE IN MELBOURNE ,AUSTRALIA. MY ANCESTRAL ROOTS ARE FROM THE ISLE OF SKYE,WHERE MY DIRECT MALE ANCESTORS HAD "STRATHAIRD" ESTATE WHICH HE PURCHASED IN 1789. I WILL LIST EACH OF MY DIRECT MALE ANCESTORS....SENIOR MALE OF EACH GENERATION. 1.RANALD MACALISTER BORN SKIRINISH ISLE OF SKYE 1715 DIED 1762.MY G.G.G.G.G.G.GF. 2.ALEXANDER MACALISTER ESQ.BORN 1744,DIED 1832.MY G.G.G.G.G.GF.BORN SKIRINISH 3 JANNETTE MACALISTER (HIS ELDEST DAUGHTER)BORN1766,DIED 1841.MY G.G.G.G.GM. BORN SLEAT,ISLE OF SKYE SHE MARRIED HER COUSIN ,DR.DUNCAN MACALISTER OF THE "TARBERT CASTLE "MACALISTERS,BORN 1768DIED 1854 4.SURGEON ALEXANDER MACALISTER ,BORN 1790DIED 1865 OR 68----TO BE CONFIRMED.MY G.G.G.GF.BORN GLASNAKILLE ,NEAR ELGOL,ISLE OF SKYE. 5.DR.ALEXANDER MACALISTER ,BORN 1828,DIED 1870.MY G.G.GF BORN DEMERARA,BRITISH GUYANA. 6.THOMAS MEWBURN MACALISTER,BORN1860,DIED 1941.BORN BAIRNSDALE ,GIPPSLAND ,VICTORIA ,AUSTRALIA.MY G.GF 7.WILLIAM GARNET MACALISTER ,BORN 1882,DIED 1958.BORN BAIRNSDALE ,GIPPSLAND ,VICTORIA ,AUSTRALIA.MY G.GF. 8.ALEXANDER FREDRICK MACALISTER ,BORN 1909,DIED 2003.BORN STRATFORD,GIPPSLAND ,VICTORIA ,AUSTRALIA.MY F. 9.ME.MAX MILTON MACALISTER ,BORN 1935,MELBOURNE,VICTORIA ,AUSTRALIA. I CAN GO BACK EVEN FURTHER IF YOU REQUIRE ,BY ANOTHER 10 OR SO ANCESTORS ,LEADING BACK TO SOMERLED. WE MACALISTERS ARE A SEPT OF CLAN DONALD. YOURS SINCERELY, MAX M.ESQ. ______________________________________________________________________ [cid:[email protected]] Chev. Max M Macalister ESQ. KOTJ. FAHSA. Senior of “Strathaird”, Cadet of “Tarbert” Lord of "Clifton-Coldwell" Pres. CLAN MACALISTER AUSTRALIA Unit 2 / 24A RATTRAY ROAD MONTMORENCY 3094 VICTORIA AUSTRALIA Phone: +613 9435 9914 Email: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> Skype: maxmacalister Thank you for ordering the Y-DNA12, International Shipping tests. Your kit number is 281587 and your password is 2640DD. DEAR KATE .THANK YOU FOR YOUR REPLY. I HAVE SENT AN E/M TO THE SITE YOU LISTED . 'REGARDS, MAX M.ESQ. ______________________________________________________________________ Chev. Max M Macalister ESQ. KOTJ. FAHSA. Senior of “Strathaird”, Cadet of “Tarbert” Pres. CLAN MACALISTER AUSTRALIA Unit 2 / 24A RATTRAY ROAD MONTMORENCY 3094 VICTORIA AUSTRALIA Phone: +613 9435 9914 Email: [email protected] Skype: maxmacalister From: Kate Croft [mailto:[email protected]] Hello Max, Thank you for reaching out. As the media contact, I am not the best person to answer your question and would direct you to Family Tree DNA’s customer support. You can call (713) 868-1438 or email [email protected] with your question . You may also find helpful information here: http://www.familytreedna.com/faq/ Thank you, Kate From: Max Macalister [mailto:[email protected]] WOULD YOU PLEASE FORWARD ME DETAILS AS TO HOW I CAN HAVE A DNA TEST DONE. YOURS SINCERELY, MAX M.ESQ. ______________________________________________________________________ Chev. Max M Macalister ESQ. KOTJ. FAHSA. Senior of “Strathaird”, Cadet of “Tarbert” Pres. CLAN MACALISTER AUSTRALIA Unit 2 / 24A RATTRAY ROAD MONTMORENCY 3094 VICTORIA AUSTRALIA Phone: +613 9435 9914 Email: [email protected] Skype: maxmacalister DEAR MAGGIE, I THANK YOU PROFUSELY FOR GETTING BACK TO ME AND PUTTING UP WITH ME. ITS FUNNY,BUT WAY BACK IN 1991, WHEN I FIRST VISITED YOU AT THE CENTRE, I HAD AN IMMEDIATE CLOSE FEELING OF CLOSENESS WITH YOU THEN ,AND IT HAS ALWAYS STAYED WITH ME,EVEN THOUGH WE ARE SEPERATED BY DISTANCE.IT CAME OVER ME AGAIN IN 2009,AND MADE ME REALISE EVEN MORE SO WHEN I FINALLY CAUGHT UP WITH YOU FOR A BRIEF FEW MINUTES AT THE EDINBURGH GATHERING. I TOTALLY UNDERSTAND WHAT YOU ARE SAYING HERE IN YOUR E/MAIL .BUT ,ALTHOUGH THERE IS A GREAT DEAL MORE TO DO,MY HEART JUMPED WITH JOY RE YOUR COMMENTS ABOUT EVENTUALLY THERE WILL BE CORRECTIONS .THATS A GREAT RELIEF,AT LEAST PART OF THE FIGHT WILL BE ACCOMPLISHED . MAGGIE ,THATS A BLOODY GREAT,GREAT RELIEF FOR ME ON BEHALF OF MY ANCESTORS ,WHO ARE NOT HERE TO CARRY THE BATTLE ,BUT I AM...... AT THE END OF THE CHAIN. I AM VERY ,VERY PLEASED THAT THE CORRECTIONS WILL EVENTUALLY COME ABOUT,EVEN THOUGH I MAY NOT SEE IT IN THE TIME I HAVE LEFT .I CANNOT ASK FOR MORE. I THINK I MENTIONED TO YOU THAT I AM PRESENTLY NEGOTIATING TO BUY THE "STRATHSWORDILLE BARONY".IT HAS TAKEN ME SEVERAL YEARS TO TRACK IT DOWN AS TO WHO BLOODY HAD IT ,STARTING FROM WHEN ALASTAIR CAMPBELL ----I THINK BY A SLIP OF THE TONGUE---AS WHY WOULD A BLOODY CAMPBELL DO US ---MACDONALDS /MACALISTERS A FAVOUR---ALERTED ME TO THE FACT THAT STRATHAIRD WAS A BARONY----WAY BACK IN 1988 WHEN I FIRST MET UP WITH HIM IN SYDNEY DURING SCOTTISH WEEK ACTIVITIES.THIS WAS THE BEGINNING OF MY APPLICATION FOR A GRANT OF ARMS .(IT TOOK 5 BLOODY YEARS).AS IT TURNED OUT ,THE CAMPBELL INFLUENCE BLOODY SOMERSALTED MY APPLICATION TO BE "MACALISTER OF STRATHAIRD",BECAUSE OF THE SO CALLED GENEOLOGY RECORDS STATING THAT THE MALE LINE OF STRATHAIRD DIED OUT,WHICH IS NOT 100% ACCURATE ,AS IT SHOULD HAVE STATED THAT THE MALE GENES OF STRATHAIRD WERE CARRIED ON DOWN THROUGH JANNETTE MACALISTER ,THE ELDEST, AND ONLY CHILD LEFT OF OLD ALEXANDER MACALISTER FIRST MARRIAGE TO MARY CAMPBELL(ANOTHER BLOODY CAMPBELL)ON THE 1ST OCTOBER 1764,AND THEN, BY THE MALE CHILDREN OF HER MARRIAGE---WHICH WAS PRECISELY, AND DELIBERATELY ARRANGED;( ACCORDING TO THE DOCUMENT OF ENTAILMENT SET DOWN BY OLD ALEXANDER MACALISTER IN 1805) TO FOREVER KEEP THE MACALISTER NAME ASSOCIATED WITH" STRATHAIRD", AND SKYE,TO HER COUSIN ,DR. DUNCAN GRANT MACALISTER OF "TARBERT", ON 15/1/1793,AND THEN DOWN THROUGH THE MALE ISSUE OF THAT MARRIAGE. NOT ONLY WAS THAT A HANDICAPP TO MY APPLICATION TO RECOGNISE "STRATHAIRD",BUT TO ADD INSULT TO INJURY,A BLOODY CHECKERED RED AND WHITE BORDER WAS PUT AROUND THE SHIELD ,SUPPOSEDLY DENOTING ILLEGITIMACEY ( WHICH IS THE OTHER MAIN BATTLE I HAVE TO CONTEND WITH,AND WHICH COST US ---MY LINE ---THE INHEIRITANCE OF "STRATHAIRD" IN 1883 ,WHEN THIS ARSEHOLE GRANDSON(ALSO NAMED ALEXANDER ,1820-1898) SENT SOLICITORS OUT FROM SCOTLAND AND ENTICED, AND COERCED MY G.GF. INTO SIGNING A DOCUMENT OF DISENTAILMENT TO HIS RIGHT TO "STRATHAIRD", ON THE SO CALLED DUBIOUS GROUNDS THAT HE WAS BORN A BASTARD. SO ,ALTHOUGH I DIDN`T GET RECOGNISED AS BEING OF "STRATHAIRD" (BECAUSE WE DON`T EXIST),I AT LEAST WAS RECOGNISED AS BEING OF "TARBERT" MACALISTERS AS A RESULT OF THE MARRIAGE ,AND IN ANY CASE ,"TARBERT" MACALISTERS HAVE A LONGER HISTORY THEN US "STRATHAIRD" MACALISTERS.BUT TAKE MY WORD FOR IT MAGGIE,THE BLOODY FIGHT ISN`T OVER YET ,WHEN I SORT MYSELF OUT AND GET A BIT MORE MONEY BEHIND ME AGAIN ,I WILL BE TACKLEING THE LORD LYON ABOUT THE "STRATHAIRD" RECOGNITION,AND NOW THAT I LOOK LIKE GETTING THE BARONY ,THAT WILL BE ANOTHER ISSUE TO GRANT TO MY PRESENT ARMS.SO MAGGIE,I STILL HAVE A FAIR BIT TO DO. THIS WILL BREAK ME FINANCIALY,BUT STUFF IT,ITS ALL OR NOTHING ,AND MY ONLY CONSULATION WILL BE THAT THE MACALISTER NAME WILL REMAIN IN THE RECORDS FOR EVER .MY REASONING FOR PURSUEING THIS IS BECAUSE OF WHAT MY ANCESTORS DID WAY BEFORE ME ,AND THE HONOUR AND HISTORY OF SKYE,AND AT PRESENT, AS FAR AS PRESENT RECORDS STATE ,"STRATHAIRD" LINE OF MACALISTERS DON`T EXIST. BULLSHIT TO THAT.(EXCUSE ME MAGGIE) ONCE AGAIN I THANK YOU FOR YOUR CONSIDERATION ,AND IF THERE IS ANYTHING THAT CLAN DONALD CAN DO FOR ME WHEN I TACKLE THE LORD LYON ,PLEASE KEEP ME IN MIND. IN THE MEANTIME ,I TRUST ALL IS WELL WITH YOU. STAY WELL AND HEALTHY UNTIL I CAN CATCH UP WITH YOU AGAIN ---SOON I HOPE. WITH MY THOUGHTS AND BEST WISHES AS EVER , YOURS SINCERELY,AND PERSONALLY, MAX M.ESQ. ______________________________________________________________________ Chev. Max M Macalister ESQ. KOTJ. FAHSA. Senior of “Strathaird”, Cadet of “Tarbert” Pres. CLAN MACALISTER AUSTRALIA Unit 2 / 24A RATTRAY ROAD MONTMORENCY 3094 VICTORIA AUSTRALIA Phone: +613 9435 9914 Email: [email protected] Skype: maxmacalister From: Maggie Macdonald [mailto:[email protected]] Dear Max Thank you for all your emails. I just wish the winter was a quite time – I seem to be just as busy, if not more so, than in the visitor season, as it is the only time I can get to work on certain important tasks. This year it is particularly noticeable because of the cuts in our staff. I have now had some time to digest all the information packed into your emails. . I realise how frustrating it must be to have people base their assumptions about your family on a misreading of the various sources, which have only added to the legal shenanigans of the mid 19th century. However there is little we can do about existing published works such as Clan Donald Vol 3 as they are in the public domain. Nevertheless, we do keep information about your family in a version of Clan Donald Vol 3 that we regularly correct and update as new information comes to light. At the moment there are no plans to publish this corrected version but if we do your family’s proper details will be there. It is probably no consolation but there are errors or omissions in the genealogies of many of the Clan Donald cadet families listed in Vol 3, especially those that have emigrated to North America, Australia or New Zealand. In the meantime, anyone enquiring about the MacAlisters of Strathaird will be provided with the updated version. We also have reference to your family in our database of Skye families, taken from information in the censuses and records of birth, marriage and death. This is really all we can do in your case. Although it is flattering that you think Clan Donald Skye is in a position so to do we cannot unilaterally declare a particular lineage is this, or not that, as it is up to the Lord Lyon who has the ultimate the authority for ancestry lines in Scotland. You also ask if there is anything else you can research or do. I am afraid I cannot suggest anything. You have had Alastair Campbell presenting your case to the Lyon Court, and you have had searches made at the National Archives of Scotland. It is possible that there are documents other than the Service of Heirs that might be relevant. However, as I have said to you before, Scottish law, especially that relating to land tenure and inheritance is very definitely not one of my areas of expertise so I am not the best person to ask. Perhaps you should check this out with the staff at the NAS. On 15/02/2013 12:52, Max Macalister wrote: DEAR MAGGIE , GREETINGS AGAIN. SORRY TO BE WORRYING YOU AGAIN ,BUT I HAVE SOMETHING FURTHER TO ADD TO WHAT I SENT YOU THE OTHER DAY WHICH I THINK IS RELEVANT TO WHAT HAS HAPPENED AT STRATHAIRD. BACK IN JULY LAST YEAR, I CONTACTED THE NATIONAL RECORDS OF SCOTLAND IN EDINBURGH ,(REF.NO.57938)AN ALISON LINDSAY ,WHO IS HEAD OF THE HISTORICAL SEARCH ROOM THERE, REGARDING IF .....THIS ALEXANDER MACALISTER (THE GRANDSON WHO HAS CLAIMED TO BE THE NEXT SENIOR HEIR OF STRATHAIRD AFTER OLD ALEXANDER MACALISTER DIED ON THE 6TH OF APRIL IN 1832,TO SEARCH THE RECORDS OF RETOURS AND INDEXES FOR SERVICE OF HEIRS FROM 1839 THROUGH TO 1849,SOME 20 ODD YEARS ,AND SHE REPLIED THAT THERE WAS NO LISTING OF AN ALEXANDER MACALISTER AS FAR AS STRATHAIRD WAS CONCERNED. NOW, I AM UNDER THE IMPRESSION; SO I HAVE BEEN PREVIOUSLY TOLD ,THAT IT IS REQUIRED SCOTTISH LAW TO DO SO WHEN A PERSON IS CLAIMING AN ESTATE AND THE RIGHT TO BE THE NEXT HEIR. EVIDENTLY THIS WAS NOT DONE,AS THERE IS NO RECORD OF IT. WHERE DOES THAT LEAVE MY LINE AND EVENTUALLY ME? IS THIS OF SOME IMPORTANCE ,TOGETHER WITH EVERYTHING ELSE I HAVE SENT YOU? YOURS SINCERELY, ______________________________________________________________________ Chev. Max M Macalister ESQ. KOTJ. FAHSA. Senior of “Strathaird”, Cadet of “Tarbert” Pres. CLAN MACALISTER AUSTRALIA Unit 2 / 24A RATTRAY ROAD MONTMORENCY 3094 VICTORIA AUSTRALIA Phone: +613 9435 9914 Email: [email protected] Skype: maxmacalister LYNN ,BUGGER ME ,I THOUGHT YOU HAD DIED AND GONE TO HEAVEN. ITS GREAT TO HEAR FROM YOU . I WILL BE VERY INTERESTED IN WHAT YOU SAY IN YOUR NEXT E/M. LET ME KNOW IF YOU HAVE ANY FURTHER QUESTIONS. IN THE MEANTIME,I`M SENDING YOU ANOTHER HEAP OF STUFF THAT YOU MIGHT FIND INTERESTING. 1.I`M ATTACHING A PHOTO OF ME IN MY FINEST ,YOU MIGHT FALL IN LOVE WITH ME AS A RESULT.HOPE YOUR GOT PLENTY OF MONEY THOUGH ,AS I DESPERATELY NEED IT. PLEASE SEND ME A NICE ONE OF YOU TO PIN UP ON MY COMPUTER,A FULL LENTH SHOT. 5.STANDING STONE.THE MACALISTER STANDING STONE,NUMBER 12,DUE EAST, I HAD ERECTED(ANOTHER COUPLE OF THOUSAND BUCKS DOWN THE PLUG HOLE,NO WONDER I`M ON THE BONES OF MY ARSE.) IN MAY , 1993, AT THE "AUSTRALIAN RING OF STANDING STONES" AT GLEN-INNES,NORTHERN NSW,DUREING THE MAY CELTIC FESTIVAL 2.MY GRANT OF ARMS FROM LORD LYON`S COURT,MAY 1995. 3.CLAN MARCH.ME IN MY KNIGHT TEMPLARS ROBE WITH PERSONAL BANNER MARCHING WITH CLAN MACALISTER DURING THE 2009 YEAR OF THE SCOTTISH HOMECOMING, UP THE GOLDERN MILE INTO EDINBURGH CASTLE. 4.WALLPAPER.A SHOT OF STRATHAIRD HOUSE AND THE STEADINGS.(I HAVE THIS AS MY WALLPAPER ON MY COMPUTER.) 6.THIS LAST ONE MIGHT BE INTERESTINGTO YOU IF YOU CAN OPEN IT ON THE" TBPRR LINK" ,THE FIRST ONE ON THE LIST .I CANT PRINT THE BLOODY THING OUT AT PRESENT ,IT GIVES A RUN DOWN OF PURCHASERS OF STRATHAIRD ESTATE OVER THE YEARS UP TO IAN BLOODY ANDERSON SELLING IT TO THE JOHN MUIR TRUST.SUBMITTED BY JOHN KUBALE, WHO USED TO OWN, AND RUN STRATHAIRD HOUSE AS A B& B,AND WITH WHOM I HAVE PREVIOUSLY STAYED WITH.I NOW CONTACT GARTH DUNCAN IN THE STEADINGS.HE HAS A WEBSITE CALLED DUNCAN HOUSE.HAVE A LOOK HE MAKES EXQUISTE JEWELLERY,SWORDS ,DIRKS ,ETC. 7.UNTITLED.I`M ALSO ATTACHING A BLOODY GREAT LONG E/M WHINGE I HAVE JUST RECENTLY,(A COUPLE OF DAYS AGO) SENT OFF TO MAGGIE MACDONALD,THE CLAN ARCHIVEST, AT THE CLAN DONALD CENTRE, AT ARDVASSER ON SKYE.YOU MIGHT BE INTERESTED IN WHAT I HAVE TO WHINGE ABOUT IN THAT. 8.SASINE SEARCH.ALSO ATTACHING AN E/M TO A RESEARCHER,KIRSTY WILKINSON, IN EDINBURGH.SHE IS GOING TO LOOK UP THE RECORDS FOR SASINES AND RETOURS DEALING WITH "STRATHAIRD".I WANT TO FIND OUT IF I CAN, HOW THIS ARSEHOLE GRANDSON OF OLD ALEXANDER ESQ.OF STRATHIRD `S SECOND MARRIAGE ,DID MY LINE OF ANCESTORS OUT OF THE ESTATE WHEN OLD ALEXANDER DIED IN 1832.MY LINE OF ANCESTORS SHOULD HAVE CONTINUED THROUGH JANNETTE MACALISTER (1766-1841),WHO MARRIED HER COUSIN ,DR.DUNCAN MACALISTER(1768-1854) OF THE "TARBERT"LINE OF MACALISTERS ,AND WHICH MY ARMS ARE THROUGH,JANNETTE BEING THE SOLE SURVIVING CHILD OF HER FATHER --OLD ALEXANDER`S FIRST MARRIAGE,AND THROUGH HER ,EVEN THOUGHSHE WAS A FEMALE,THEN HER MALE CHILDREN---THATS WHERE I COME IN .AS I HAVE SAID TO MAGGIE MACDONALD ,I HAVEN`T FALLEN OUT OF AN ELEPHANTS BUM,AND ALSO ,THE BLOODY STRATHAIRD LINE OF MACALISTERS IS NOT EXTINCT,SO BLOODY WELL CORRECT THE ENTRY IN THE OFFICIAL CLAN DONALD HISTORY. SO LYNN,HERES ANOTHER GREAT WHOPPING LOT FOR YOU TO PLOW THROUGH . HOPE I`M NOT BEING A PAIN IN THE ARSE WITH ALL OF THIS LYNN ,BUT THIS SO CALLED" EXTINCT " THING IS A FAR IMPORTANT MATTER THAT I CANNOT LET STAY UN CORRECTED .IT WILL GO ON FOR CENTURIES IF I DON`T DO SOMETHING ABOUT IF .MAYBE CLAN MAC .AMERICA MIGHT JOIN IN WITH ME TO HAVE THIS SITUATION CORRECTED????? I COULD BADLY DO WITH SOME SUPPORT. ALSO ,IT HAS BEEN A LIFETIMES SPEAR IN MY HEART, CONSTANTLY ,ALWAYS, AND I WILL PROBABLY DIE WITH IT ,REGARDING HOW MY LINE WERE DOWN OUT OF OUR RIGHTFUL ROOTS AT "STRATHAIRD".MY G.G.GF. MY G.GF, MY GF, MY F, AND ME(5 GENERATIONS) HAVE BEEN ON THE BONES OU OUR ARSE EVER SINCE. STRATHIRD IS STILL THERE,I HAVE BEEN BACK 3 TIMES .IT CRYS OUT TO ME ,AND I`M STUFFED IF I CAN DO ANYTHING ABOUT IT ,AS I NEVER HAVE ENOUGH MONEY TO PISS THE INVADERS OFF OUT OF IT. MY ANCESTORS ARE BURIED THERE. OUR HISTORY IS THERE,AND IT IS BREAKING MY HEART.I HAVE SACRIFICED MARRIAGES ,AND 2 LOTS OF CHILDREN ,AND I AM ALWAYS PAYING THE PRICE. ON MY LAST TRIP BACK TO STRATHAIRD IN 2009, BEFORE GOING DOWN TO EDINBURGH FOR THE CLAN MARCH, AND 3 DAY EVENT ,AND THE EXCELLENT CLAN DINNER AT THE HYATT, I WAS STANDING IN THE DRIVEWAY OF STRATHAIRD VIDEOING ,WHEN THIS FAT, POMPOUS ,BLOTCHED FACED ,POOF,CAME RACEING DOWN FROM STRATHAIRD HOUSE ON THE OTHER SIDE OF THE TWO GREAT IRON GATES .....YOUR A TRESPASSER ! GET OFF MY PROPERTY! HOW DARE YOU VIDEO IN MY DRIVEWAY! I WANT YOU TO IMMEDIATELY DELETE THAT ! AND I GOT THE ARSE OUT OF MY ANCESTORS HOME ,MY ROOTS .WHAT A JOKE. IF YOU HAVE EVER SEEN THE OLD MOVIE WITH ERROL FLNN CALLED, "THE MASTER OF BALLANTRYE",YOU WILL HAVE SOME IDEA OF HOW I FELT, HOW I FEEL ......THE "F`N" MONGREL. SORRY LYNN. OK. ENOUGH FROM ME ,I`M CRYING IN MY BEARD ,AND YOU DON`T CARE ANYHOW.AS THEY SAY HERE IN AUSTRALIA....RIGHT WHACK!.....THANKS A LOT. TAKE CARE .HOPE ALL IS WELL WITH YOUR LOT THERE.AT LEAST I HAVEN`T DROPPED DEAD YET ,SO WHAT AM I WHINGING ABOUT? I`LL LOOK ANXIOUSLY FORWARD TO YOUR NEXT E/M. DON`T FORGET ME . WITH MY BEST HIGHLAND, AND FAIR DINKUM REGARDS , MAX M. ESQ. PS.DID I TELL YOU I AM PRESENTLY NEGOTIATING TO PURCHASE THE BARONY THAT COVERS "STRATHAIRD"?IF ALL GOES WELL I SHOULD HAVE IT BY NOVEMBER THIS YEAR.AT LEAST THATS A START ,AND NO BASTARD WILL DO US OUT OF THAT EVER. I ALSO PURCHASED THE LORD SHIP OF "CLIFTON-COLDWELL " LATE LAST YEAR,SO I`M A BLOODY LORD NOW WITH NOT A ZACK IN MY KICK ,HA! HA! UP THE LOT OF YOU SNOBS. NOT YOU LYNN,ALL THE OTHER MONGRELS I HAVE TO DEAL WITH .I SHOULD WRITE A BOOK ENTITLED, "BASTARDS I HAVE MET " CHEERS FOR NOW FROM OZ. OH ,AND BEFORE I FORGET ,I MEANT TO ASK YOU TO ASK,AND REMIND CLAN MAC OFFICIALS THERE,THAT AS FAR AS I KNOW FROM MY LAST VISIT TO GLENBARR IN 2009,MY COUSIN ANGUS`S(DIED IN 2007) GRAVE IS A HEAP OF UPTURNED MUD,WITH PILES OF CATTLE POOP ON IT ,FAIR DINKUM,ITS A BLOODY DISGRACE.I DON`T THINK JEANNE(SHES SHACKED UP WITH THE GARDNER, BILL) IS GOING TO DO ANYTHING ABOUT IT,AND SEEING THAT ANGUS HAS LEFT" GLENBARR" TO THE CLAN,I EXPECT THAT THE CLAN AT LEAST HAVE A PROPER, AND FITTING GRAVE MARKER FOR HIM. WOULD YOU PLEASE LET ME KNOW. THATS A JOB I HAVE LINED UP FOR THE MACALISTER TOMB AT DRINAN ON STRATHAIRD IT IS IN A PRETTY BAD WAY.JANNETTE AND DUNCAN ARE BURIED THERE,AND I THINK,I`M FAIRLY SURE , THE 2 MACALISTER SONS WHO WERE DROWNED IN THE SINKING OF THE "COMET" COLLISION IN 1825 ARE IN THERE AS WELL.AS FOR OLD ALEXANDER OF STRATHAIRD,I`M BUGGERED IF I KNOW WHERE HE IS .I HAVE SPENT YEARS TRYING TO FIND OUT ,BUT WITH NO REAL SUCCESS AS YET.FOR ALL I KNOW ,HE COULD BE IN THERE AS WELL.IF I EVER DO GET MY ARSE BACK INTO STRATHAIRD SOMEHOW ,IT IS AN UNFINISHED JOB I HAVE TO EXPLORE. AT LAST ,SO LONG, AND , CHEERS. XX A COUPLE FOR YOU. From: Lynn McAlister [mailto:[email protected]] Hello again, Max! GREETINGS TO YOU AGAIN MAGGIE. SEEING AS YOU ARE HAVEING A QUIET TIME AT THE BEGINNING OF THIS NEW YEAR,HERE I AM ABOUT TO BOTHER YOU AGAIN.U AFTER A LONG, LONG, TIME OF PUTTING UP WITH THE MISTAKES OF MY DECENDANCY FROM MY SO CALLED NON EXISTANT "STRATHAIRD MACALISTERS",I AM NOW APPEALING TO YOU TO HAVE THE CLAN DONALD RECORDS CORRECTED,AND SET STRAIGHT,ONCE AND FOR ALL, WITH REGARD TO THE MALE DECENDANCY OF MY "STRATHAIRD MACALISTER" LINE. I AM SICK AND TIRED OF READING IN VARIOUS HISTORIES(MOST ESPECIALLY THE CLAN DONALD) DEALING WITH THE MACALISTERS DESCENDED FROM SOMERLED ,THAT THE STRATHAIRD "MALE " LINE OF MACALISTERS DIED OUT ,AND WERE CONSEQUENTLY TAKEN OVER BY THE "GLENBARR" LINE,AFTER THE DEATH OF ALEXANDER OF "STRATHAIRD" IN APRIL 1832.(MY G.G.G.G.G.GF) THIS IS NOT CORRECT ,AND I AM HEREBY OFFICIALLY REQUESTING THAT THE RECORDS BE CORRECTED. IT SHOULD READ, AND BE NOTED FOR ALL TO READ ,THAT THE "STRATHAIRD" LINE OF MACALISTERS WAS...... CONTINUED THROUGH THE FEMALE DAUGHTER ,JANNETTE MACALISTER ,(MY G.G.G.G.GM)BORN 1766,BEING THE SOLE SURVIVING CHILD OF HER FATHER`S FIRST MARRIAGE TO MARY CAMPBELL OF EDERLINE,IN OR AROUND 1764. IT FOLLOWS OF COURSE THAT 10 MALES WERE BORN BEFORE THE DEATH OF OLD ALEXANDER MACALISTER ESQ.OF "STRATHAIRD" AS A RESULT OF THE FOLLOWING ........... AS HISTORY NOTES CORRECTLY,SHE MARRIED( DELIBERATELY ARRANGED ) HER COUSIN ,DR. DUNCAN GRANT MACALISTER OF THE "TARBERT CASTLE "LINE OF MACALISTERS,ON THE 15/1/1793,FOR TWO VERY OBVIOUS,AND DELIBERATE REASONS,FIRSTLY, FOR THE MALE LINE TO CONTINUE WHEN THEY HAD CHILDREN,AND SECONDLY,BECAUSE OF THE STRICT WORDING IN THE ENTAILMENT OF STRATHAIRD ESTATE BY HER FATHER. OLD ALEXANDER ,HER FATHER , SET ASIDE A FARM SECTION OF THE STRATHAIRD ESTATE AT GLASNAKILLE AS A WEDDING PRESENT FOR THEM BOTH ,AND TO CARRY ON THE MACALISTER NAME FOR THE ESTATE WHICH IS WRITTEN IN THE DOCUMENT OF ENTAILMENT DELIBERATELY SET DOWN BY HIM.IN THE 1820`S. DUNCAN AND JANNETTE HAD 13 CHILDREN,10 MALES AND 3 FEMALES.THE FIRST MALE CHILD BORN WAS ALEXANDER, BORN 1790,(MY G.G.G.GF.)EVIDENTLY PRIOR TO THEM GETTING MARRIED(TUT,TUT,SUCH GOINGS ON)HE BECAME A DOCTOR (BUT I REFER TO HIM AS SURGEON ALEXANDER MACALISTER IN MY GENELOGICAL RESEARCHING,BECAUSE OF THE NAME ALEXANDER BEING CARRIED ON IN THE VARIOUS GENERATIONS ,AND IT BECAME CONFUSING TO TRY AND SEPERATE WHICH ALEXANDER BELONGED TO WHAT GENERATION) HE FINISHED HIS MEDICAL TRAINING UNDER PROF.T.C. HOPE.AT GLASGOW MEDICAL UNIVERSITY IN 1815,AND EVIDENTLY WENT STAIGHT TO; OR SHORTLY AFTERWARDS,TO DEMERARA,BRITISH GUYANA,WHERE HE MARRIED A CATHERINE MEWBURN IN GEORGETOWN IN 1815,THE DAUGHTER OF THOMAS MEWBURN ,EVIDENTLY A CHURCH MINISTER THERE IN THE NATIONAL ASSEMBLY,AND RESIDED AT "GARNET LODGE"HER MOTHER`S MAIDEN NAME WAS DEBRUGH,AND I BELIEVE; HER FAMILY HAD SUGAR PLANTATIONS THERE. THIS SURGEON ALEXANDER AND CATHERINE HAD 11 CHILDREN,6 MALES AND 5 FEMALES.THE FIRST MALE CHILD BORN WAS THOMAS MEWBURN MACALISTER IN 1818.HE WAS TO LATER DIE IN BRUTHEN,GIPPSLAND ,VICTORIA,AUSTRALIA IN 1859,HAVEING COME OUT TO AUSTRALIA FROM GLASGOW SOMETIME IN OR AROUND 1837,AS A RESULT OF A REQUEST FROM LACHLAN MACALISTER,1797-1855 (A NEPHEW,A YOUNGER BROTHER TO SURGEON ALEXANDER MACALISTER) A SIDE DETAIL HERE......THIS LACHLAN MACALISTER (THE 5TH SON BORN TO JANNETTE AND DUNCAN)WAS THE FIRST MACALISTER FROM STRATHAIRD, AND SKYE, TO COME TO AUSTRALIA IN 1817, AS A YOUNG ENSIGN( A COMMISSION PURCHASED BY HIS FAMILY),IN THE 48TH REGT.FT.ALSO TO COME OUT WAS COLIN MACALISTER,A YOUNGER BROTHER OF LACHLAN`S ,AND A FRIEND OF THE MACALISTERS BACK IN SKYE ,ANGUS MACMILLAN FROM GLENBRITTLE,WHOSE FAMILY LIVED OVER THE WESTERN BOUNDARY SIDE OF THE CUILLANS WHICH BORDERED THE STRATHAIRD ESTATE, AND MATTHEW MACALISTER ,A COUSIN. LACHLAN WAS LATER GRANTED SOMETIME IN THE EARLY 1820`S, 2000 ACRES OF LAND AT PICTON ,SOUTH OF SYDNEY,WHEN HE DECIDED TO REMAIN IN THE NEW COLONY AFTER HIS UNIT HAD FINISHED ITS TOUR OF DUTY ,AND RECALLED BACK TO LONDON,AND INDIA.LACHLAN WAS DOING VERY WELL HERE IN AUSTRALIA,AND AS A RESULT OF EXTENDING HIS LAND HOLDINGS ,HE WROTE BACK HOME FOR ASSISTANCE TO MANAGE HIS PROPERTIES . IN 1839,LACHLAN SENT HIS MACALISTER RELATIONS SOUTH TO EXPLORE THE SOUTHERN MOST AREA OF WHAT WAS THEN NEW SOUTH WALES ,BUT LATER , IN 1850 ,BECAME THE STATE OF VICTORIA.AS A RESULT OF SEVERAL EXPLORATION PARTIES SENT BY LACHLAN OVER THE NEXT 2 YEARS MANNED BY HIS MACALISTER BROTHERS AND NEPHEWS,THE AREA WE HERE IN AUSTRALIA KNOW AS "GIPPSLAND" WAS PIONEERED ,AND DISCOVERED. THE MACALISTER RIVER WHICH FLOWS THROUGH LICOLA AND INTO THE GLENMAGGIE LAKE IS NAMED AFTER HIM. MEANWHILE ,ANOTHER MACALISTER,ALSO NAMED ALEXANDER (1828-1870)(AND I WILL REFER YOU TO HIM A BIT FURTHER ON IN THIS HISTORY OF MY ANCESTORS,AS HE WAS THE CATALYST FOR US BEING DONE OUT OF THE INHEIRITANCE OF STRATHAIRD) ALSO BECAME A DOCTOR,GRADUATING FROM EDINBURGH MEDICAL UNIVERSITY IN 1851,AND COMING STRAIGHT OUT TO AUSTRALIA TO BECOME THE FIRST DOCTOR IN GIPPSLAND ,PRACTICING IN SALE ,AND LATER IN BAIRNSDALE.HE WAS THE SECOND ELDEST SON OF SURGEON ALEXANDER MACALISTER,(AND WAS MY G.G.GF)AND AFTER THE DEATH OF HIS ELDER BROTHER;THOMAS MEWBURN MACALISTER IN 1859, DR.ALEXANDER BECAME THE ELDEST MALE HEIR OF THE BODY OF OLD ALEXANDER MACALISTER ESQ. OF STRATHAIRD WHO HAD DIED IN 1832.DR.ALEXANDER MARRIED A MARY HILLIER A YOUNG NURSE ,IN BAIRNSDALE ,ON THE 7TH AUGUST ,1860.NOW NOTE THIS,AS THIS IS THE IMPORTANT BIT OF THIS WHOLE AFFAIR....THEY HAD 7 CHILDREN ,THE FIRST BORN,AND ELDEST MALE SON WAS THOMAS MEWBURN MACALISTER ,MY G.GF.PRESUMEDLY BORN ON THE 27TH JUNE,1860....I SAY PRESUMEDLY BECAUSE...... THERE IS NO OFFICIAL RECORD OF THIS BIRTH HERE IN VICTORIA, OR NEW SOUTH WALES ,AS RECORDS WERE KEPTED IN NSW.PRIOR TO VICTORIA BECOMING A STATE IN 1850,OR IN AUSTRALIA FOR THAT MATTER,SO IT IS A BLOODY GIANT MYSTERY HOW IN 1883 ,WHEN 3 SOLICITORS WERE EVIDENTLY SENT OUT FROM SCOTLAND, BY THIS WEAK, INCIPENT,BLUDGING, MONGREL, GRANDSON ALEXANDER; OF THE SECOND MARRIAGE OF OLD ALEXANDER OF STRATHAIRD,TO GET HIM TO DISMISS HIMSELF BY DISENTAILING HIS RIGHT TO THE STRATHAIRD ESTATE, ON THE GROUNDS THAT HE WAS BORN ON THIS DATE....27TH JUNE ,1860.....(WHERE DID THEY GET, OR PLUCK THAT FROM)... THAT HE WAS THEREFORE A BASTARD, BORN SOME 5 WEEKS PRIOR TO HIS MOTHER AND FATHER MARRYING,AND UNDER SCOTTISH LAW, HE WAS DISQUALIFIED FROM ANY RIGHTS, OR INHEIRITANCE. NOW HERES A FURTHER MATTER,WHEN I WAS GOING FOR MY APPLICATION FOR A GRANT OF ARMS IN 1990,ALASTAIR CAMPBELL OF AIRDS WAS PURSUIANT AT THE COURT OF THE LORD LYON,AND MY REPRESENTER .HE TOLD ME THAT MY G.GF.THOMAS MEWBURN MACALISTER ,WAS A LEGITIMATE PERSON UNDER SCOTTISH LAW,WHICH WAS DESCENDED FROM ROMAN LAW ,WHERE,TWO PEOPLE WHO MADE AN AFFIRMATION IN FRONT OF THE VILLAGE PEOPLE WHILE HOLDING HANDS,THEN ALL CHILDREN BORN BEFORE THAT AFFIRMATION ,AND ALL CHILDREN BORN AFTERWARDS ,WERE LEGITIMATE. HE WENT ON TO SAY THAT, SEEING THAT MY G.GF .WAS BORN HERE IN AUSTRALIA,THEN HE WAS SUBJECT TO AUSTRALIAN LAW ,AND UNDER AUSTRALIAN LAW HE WAS ILLEGITIMATE. WELL MAGGIE,SURPRISE,SURPRISE,THERE WAS NO BLOODY AUSTRALIAN LAW IN THE 1860S ,AS AUSTRALIA WAS A COLONT OF GREAT BRITAIN ,AND THEREFORE WAS SUBJECT TO BRITISH LAW WHICH WAS SCOTTISH LAW ,WHICH WAS ROMAN LAW.AUSTRALIA DID NOT HAVE ITS OWN LAWS. AND CONSTITUTION UNTIL 1901. IN THE MEANTIME ,AND AS A RESULT OF WHAT ALASTAIR CAMPBELL HAD SAID ,I WENT TO THE SUPREME COURT HERE IN MELBOURNE,AND HAD AN APPLICATION BEFORE THE COURT TO LEGITIMISE MY G.GF UNDER AUSTRALIAN LAW,AND THIS ORDER WAS GRANTED ,THE MAIN CLAUSE STATEING ......I FIND THAT THOMAS MEWBURN MACALISTER WAS AND IS A (PAST TENSE AND PRESENT)LEGITIMATE PERSON, ACCORDING TO AUSTRALIAN LAW. I SENT A COPY OF THIS SUPREME COURT ORDER TO ALASTAIR CAMPBELL ALONG WITH ALL THE RELEVANT BIRTH, AND DEATH, AND MARRIGE CERTIFICATES, OF MY ANCESTORS,REQUIRED TO SUPPORT MY APPLICATION. NOTHING HAS EVIDENTLY BEEN DONE OR CORRECTED .I HAVE A BLOODY CHEQUERED BORDER AROUND MY ARMS,SUPPOSEDLY HIGHLIGHTING ILLIGITMACEY,AND ON TOP OF THAT,WHEN I ASKED IN MY APPLICATION TO BE RECOGNISED AS MACALISTER OF "STRATHAIRD" I HAVE BEEN FURTHER SOMERSALTED OR FOBBED OFF WITH BEING GRANTED AS "CADET OF TARBERT"PRESUMEDLY I AM POSITIVE THAT THE LORD LYONS COURT DOES NOT RECOGNISE ANY MALES EXISTING FROM THE STRATHAIRD LINE. I STRONGLY INSIST THAT THIS BE CORRECTED ,AND I CALL UPON MY CHIEFLY BROTHER CLAN DONALD TO SUPPORT ME IN THIS,JUST AS US MACALISTERS HAVE FOR CENTURIES ,STOOD TO THE RIGHT OF CLAN DONALD IN ALL THEIR BATTLES. SO HELP ME GOD. I AM A KNIGHT TEMPLAR HERE IN AUSTRALIA, AND ALSO IN SCOTLAND, AND I STAND AND FALL BY THEIR MOTTO OF OVER A THOUSAND YEARS....."VERITAS NOS LIBERABIT"......THE TRUTH WILL SET YOU FREE. NOW TO REFER YOU BACK TO THE ABOVE RED HIGHLIGHTED SECTION. WITH MOST OF THE MALE SONS OF JANNETTE AND DUNCAN MACALISTER OUT HERE IN AUSTRALIA,AND JANNETTE DIEING IN 1841 ,---9 YEARS AFTER HER FATHER ,AND DR.DUNCAN MACALISTER ,JANNETTE`S HUSBAND, DIEING IN 1854( BOTH BURIED IN THE MACALISTER TOMB AT DRINAN.... BETWEEN STRATHAIRD HOUSE AND GLASNAKILLE,THERE WAS NO DIRECT MALE MACALISTER LIVEING ON THE STRATHAIRD ESTATE EXCEPT ANOTHER SON OF JANNETTE AND DUNCANS ,THAT BEING,DR.NORMAN MACDONALD MACALISTER ,1801-1868,WHO WAS STILL ON THE FARM AT GLASNAKILLE . NOW THE SAGA GETS MORE COMPLICATED.....OLD ALEXANDER OF STRATHAIRD MARRIED A SECOND TIME ,ON THE 21ST SEPT.1780,TO JANET MACLEOD OF GRESHORNISH.EVIDENTLY ,MARY CAMPBELL,OLD ALEXANDER`S FIRST WIFE ,DIED IN A FIRE, PRESUMEDLY SOMETIME AROUND THE MID 1770S.THIS WAS TOLD TO ME BY ANGUS CHARLES MACALISTER (MY COUSIN) OF" GLEN-BARR",WHEN I STAYED AT GLENBARR ABBEY FOR 3 MONTHS IN 1994.AS A RESUT OF THIS 2ND MARRIAGE THERE WERE 6 CHILDREN BORN,3 SONS AND 3 DAUGHTERS.OLD ALEXANDER OUTLIVED ALL OF HIS SONS.ONLY ONE SON ,JOHN WAS MARRIED,AND HE HAD A SON ALSO NAMED ALEXANDER 1820-1898.(HE WOULD HAVE BEEN 11 WHEN OLD ALEXANDER DIED IN 1832) THIS GRANDSON OF OLD ALEXANDER SOMEHOW GOT CONTROL OF STRATHAIRD,ABOUT WHEN EXACTLY I DO NOT KNOW,POSSIBLY ABOUT THE MID 1850S,I WOULD HAZARD A GUESS AND SAY NOT LONG AFTER DR.DUNCAN MACALISTER ,JANNETTES HUSBAND,DIED IN 1854,AS IT WAS THIS MONGREL WHO WAS RESPONSABLE FOR THE STRATHAIRD CLEARANCES IN 1854.THIS WEAK, INCIPENT BLUDGER HAD PREVIOUSLY BEEN DIVORCED FROM HIS WIFE---THE DAUGHTER OF ADMIRAL FLEMING,WHICH IS RECORDED THAT SHE SUFFERED CRUELITY,AND WHETHER IT WAS ALSO BECAUSE THIS MONGREL HAD ELOPED WITH HIS COUSINS,(KEITH MACALISTER OF GLENBARR) WIFE, MARY CAMPELL,AND SHOT THROUGH TO FRANCE ,AND BOUGHT A CHATEAU NAMED "BEAU MANOIRE",AT FONDETTES,A SHORT DISTANCE FROM TOURS,IN FRANCE,EVIDENTLY OUT OF ALL THE MONEY THIS MONGREL GOT FOR NOTHING FROM ESTATES LEFT TO HIM ,NAMELY GENERAL KEITH MACALISTER`S ESTATE OF "TORRISDALE",(A YOUNGER BROTHER TO OLD ALEXANDER OF STRATHAIRD,NOT MARRIED)THE"LOUP" ESTATE ALSO FROM GENERAL KEITH, WHICH HE PURCHASED ABOUT 1810 OR 1812, WHEN THE" LOUP" BRANCH WENT BANKRUPT,ALSO "TRESLANE "AT VATERNISH,NEAR THE MACLEODS DUNVEGAN,AND SOME PROPERTY NEAR OR OF" GLENBARR",KINTYRE,AND OTHER PROPERTIES AS THERE WERE NO MACALISTER MALES LEFT(FROM JANNETTE AND DR.DUNCANS MARRIAGE AT STRATHAIR,AS THEY WERE OUT HERE IN AUSTRALIA)AND AFTER THE DEATH OF DR.NORMAN MACDONALD MACALISTER IN 1868,THIS MONGREL GRANDSON OF THE SECOND MARRIAGE OF OLD ALEXANDER ,WAS TRYING TO DISPOSE OF STRATHAIRD ,AS HE DID NOT HAVE THE HIGHLAND BACKBONE OR TRUE STRATHAIRD GENES TO CARRY ON, OR PRESERVE STRATHAIRD,ALL HE WANTED WAS MORE MONEY, AND LESS RESPONSABILITY,BUT HE EVIDENTLY COULD NOT DO SO BECAUSE OF THE STRICT LINE OF SUCCESSION OF STRATHAIRD SET DOWN IN THE DOCUMENT OF ENTAILMENT ,WHICH MEANT AT THIS POINT OF TIME ,THAT MY G.GF.ALSO NAMED THOMAS MEWBURN MACALISTER (1860?-1941),THE ELDEST SON OF DR.ALEXANDER MACALISTER (1828-1870)WAS IN THE WAY, AND PREVENTED HIM FROM DOING SO. NOW TO REGRESS A LITTLE TO FURTHER ADD TO ALL OF THIS ,IN 1871,A DRAMATIC AND FAMOUS TRIAL COMMENCED IN LONDON,"THE TICHBORNE AFFAIR",AND ENDED IN 1874,WHERE ONE ,A THOMAS CASTRO, WAS CLAIMING TO BE THE LOST ROGER TICHBORNE, HEIR TO RATHER LARGE ESTATES IN LONDON.THIS THOMAS CASTRO ,ALIAS ARTHUR ORTON,HAD WORKED ON ONE OF LACHLAN MACALISTERS PROPERTIES CALLED "BOISDALE"IN GIPPSLAND DUREING THE EARLY 1870S.LACHLAN HAD DISPOSED OF" BOISDALE" IN THE 1850S DUE TO SEVERE DROUGHT CONDITIONS ,AND WAS PURCHASED BY A CAPTAIN FOSTER.WHEN THE CAPTAIN DIED ,HIS WIDOW LATER REMARRIED MATHEW MACALISTER ,A YOUNGER BROTHER TO MY .G.GF.THOMAS MEWBURN MACALISTER.THEPOINT I AM TELLING YOU THIS IS THAT BOTH MATTHEW AND HIS WIFE WERE CALLED TO LONDON TO GIVE EVIDENCE DUREING THIS FAMOUS TRIAL,AND I STRONGLY SUSPECT THAT THIS MATTHEW ,BEING JEALOUS OF HIS BROTHER THOMAS MEWBURN ,WHICH WAS FAMILY KNOWLEDGE HERE ,HAS EVIDENTLY DISCLOSED INFORMATION TO THIS MONGREL ,WEAK ,INSIPENT,MONEY GRABBING ,BLUDGING , GRANDSON ALEXANDER, OTHERWISE, THERE IS NO OTHER POSSIBLE WAY THAT THIS MONGREL COULD KNOW WHAT MY ANCESTORS WERE DOING OUT HERE IN AUSTRALIA. ACCORDING TO MY FAMILY RELATIONS HERE ,THESE SOLICITORS CORNERED A YOUNG, IGNORANT, AND UNREPRESENTED, THOMAS MEWBURN MACALISTER IN A HOTEL IN ORBOST ,PLIED HIM WITH DRINK ,AND AS I HAVE BEEN TOLD ,HE WAS PARTIALLY DRUNK,BUT THIS IS HERESAY NOW IN THIS DAY AND AGE,AND CANNOT BE SUBSTANCIATED.THEY TOTALLY CONFUSED HIM WITH LEGAL JARGON .HE DID NOT HAVE THE SLIGHTEST CLUE AS TO ENGLISH LAW ,SCOTTISH LAW ,AND ENTAILED DOCUMENTS,OR HIS RIGHTS AS A LEGITIMATE PERSON . THOMAS MEWBURNS FATHER, THE DOCTOR ,DIED SUDDENLY, AND UNEXPECTANTLY IN 1870,WHEN HE WAS ONLY 9 OR 10 YEARS OLD.HE WAS TAKEN IN BY THIS MATHEW MACALISTER, AND HIS WIFE, AND I ASSUME ACTED AS HIS GUARDIAN. EVIDENTLY, FROM WHAT I WAS TOLD BY A GRANDDAUGHTER OF DR.ALEXANDER MACALISTER BACK IN 1968,THE DOCTOR WAS INTENDING TO RETURN BACK TO SCOTLAND TO SORT OUT WHAT THE HECK WAS GOING ON BACK AT STRATHAIRD,BUT UNFORTUNATELY,HE DIED SUDDENLY BEFORE HE COULD DO SO.THERE WAS A NEWSPAPER ARTICLE IN "THE GIPPSLAND TIMES" IN 1868 WHICH STATED ,AND I QUOTE....DOCTOR ALEXANDER HAS RETIRED TO HIS PROPERY AT" MIEBOST",AND IS NO LONGER PRACTICING MEDICINE,DUE TO COMING INTO A FORTUNE OF SOME £18.000.00 POUNDS ,THE RESULT OF PROPERTY BEING SOLD BACK IN SCOTLAND ON THE ISLE OF SKYE. THE DOCTOR ,MY G.G.GF,NEVER RECEIVED THIS MONEY,NOR DID HIS SON ,THOMAS MEWBURN,MY G.GF.IT JUST SOMEHOW MAGICLY DISAPPEARED,GONE,VANISHED.AS A RESULT OF ALL OF THIS ,MY FAMILY HERE HAVE BEEN ON THE BONES OF OUR ARSE EVER SINCE NOW FOR 4 GENERATIONS.NOT ONLY HAS THIS MONEY DISAPPEARED ,BUT WE WERE ALSO DONE OUT OF OUR FAMILY ROOTS,AND HISTORY, AT STRATHAIRD. I DO HOPE, AND APPEAL TO YOU MAGGIE, THAT CLAN DONALD CAN, OR WILL LOOK INTO THIS INJUSTICE, AND MISTAKE, AND CORRECT THE INFORMATION CONTAINED IN YOUR CLAN HISTORY RELATING TO US MACALISTERS OF STRATHAIRD.I WOULD ALSO GREATLY APPRECIATE ANY ADVICE YOU MAY OFFER ME AS TO WHAT I MAY HAVE TO DO FURTHER.PLEASE HELP IF YOU CAN. P.S.....I AM ATTACHING AN E/MAIL REPLY THAT HAS JUST COME IN WHILE I HAVE BEEN TYPEING THIS SAD TALE TO YOU REGARDING MY QUEST TO OBTAIN THE SASSINE RECORDS OF STRATHAIRD SINCE 1786 UP TO 1884,THE PERIOD OF OUR MACALISTER OWNERSHIP, IN THE HOPE THAT YOU MAY KNOW OF AN APPROPRIATE RESEARCHER TO OBTAIN THIS INFORMATION FOR ME. I TRUST YOU FIND THIS SAGA AN INTERESTING READ ..I AWAIT YOUR THOUGHTS, AND REPLY, WITH A GREAT DEAL OF ANTICIPATION. MY REGARDS TO YOU AS USUAL , YOURS SINCERELY AND IN CLAN SHIP. MAX M.ESQ. ______________________________________________________________________ Chev. Max M Macalister ESQ. KOTJ. FAHSA. 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AND WHILE I AM ON THE SUBJECT ,THE SO CALLED HISTORICAL RECORDS ARE WRONG,WRONG, WRONG, AS TO THE "STRATHAIRD" MALE LINE OF MACALISTERS HAVEING SO CALLED DIED OUT,BECAUSE IF THAT IS THE CASE,THEN WHAT THE HELL AM I? AN IMMACULATE CONSEPTUM. I AM THE SENIOR MALE HEIR OF HIS BODY IN THIS DAY AND AGE. I MATRICULATED ARMS THROUGH THE LORD LYON`S COURT ON THE 8TH MAY,1995 ,VIZ.VOLUME 78,PAGE 31. I AM DESCENDED FROM AND THROUGH THE ONLY CHILD SURVIVING---A DAUGHTER,NAMED JANNETTE,BORN 1766,FROM HIS FIRST MARRIAGE,WHO IN 1793,MARRIED HER COUSIN,DR.DUNCAN MACALISTER OF THE "TARBERT CASTLE" LINE OF MACALISTERS,(WHO WAS BORN IN 1768), AND FURTHER , IN ACCORDANCE TO THE WORDING OF THE DOCUMENT OF ENTAILMENT. --- OF OLD ALEXANDER MACALISTER,THAT "STRATHAIRD"HAD TO REMAIN AND BE OWNED BY A MACALISTER. JANNETTE AND DR.DUNCAN WERE GIVEN AN AREA OF LAND,A FARM ,AT GLASNAKILLE; ON THE BOTTOM END OF THE" STRATHAIRD" ESTATE/PENINSULAR,AS A WEDDING PRESENT,AND IT IS ABOUT THIS FARM/LAND THAT I AM CONTACTING YOU HERE AND NOW . "STRATHAIRD" WAS ORIGINALLY A MACKINNON HOLDING ,AND A BARONY ,WHICH BYE THE WAY,I AM IN THE PROCESS OF PURCHASEING,BUT HAD BEEN CONFISCATED BY THE BRITISH CROWN AFTER CULLODEN IN 1746.IT WAS FROM "STRATHAIRD" THAT BONNIE PRINCE CHARLES EDWARD STEWART MADE HIS EVENTUAL ESCAPE FROM THE BRITISH RED COATS AFTER BEING TAKEN THERE BY FLORA MACDONALD ,WHO WAS BRIDESMAID AT RANALD MACALISTER`S WEDDING TO (HE WAS THE FATHER OF OLD ALEXANDER ESQ.OF "STRATHAIRD),AND ANNE MACDONALD ,TH ELDEST DAUGHTER OF OLD KINGSBURGH,ALEXANDER MACDONALD OF KINGSBURGH. OLD ALEXANDER MACALISTER ESQ. ENTAILED THE ESTATE SOMETIME IN THE 1820s,AND AS YOU ARE NO DOUBT AWARE ,THIS MEANT THAT THERE WAS A STRICT SENIOR MALE HEIR OF THE BODY AS TO INHEIRITANCE OF THE ESTATE.ALSO ,ACCORDING TO THE DOCUMENT OF ENTAIL,THE PROPERTY HAD TO BE OWNED AND REMAIN IN THE NAME OF A MACALISTER. WITHOUT BOREING YOU TO DEATH FURTHER,MY MALE LINE WERE DOWN OUT OF THE INHEIRITANCE OF "STRATHAIRD" IN 1883,BY A GRANDSON,(ALSO NAMED ALEXANDER ;BORN 1820), OF OLD ALEXANDER`s ESQ.SECOND MARRIAGE,WHEN, THIS GRANDSON ,WHO, EXCUSE MY EXPRESSION FOR THE WANT OF A BETTER WORD ,WAS A BLUDGEING MONGREL,AND HAD BUGGERED OFF(ELOPED) TO FRANCE WITH HIS COUSINS WIFE, (KEITH MACALISTER OF THE"GLENBARR",KINTYRE BRANCH OF MACALISTERS, AND BOUGHT A CHATEAU THERE OUT OF ALL THE MACALISTER PROPERTIES THIS USELESS MONGREL HAD PROMPLY SOLD OFF. EVIDENTLY ,HE HAD TROUBLE IN DISPOSING OF "STRATHAIRD" BECAUSE OF THE DOCUMENT OF ENTAILMENT ,AND THE STRICT LINE OF SUCCESSION, IN SELLING THE "STRATHAIRD ESTATE,SOME 18,500 ACRES,AND IN 1883 ,HE SENT OUT TO ORBOST ,VICTORIA ,AUSTRALIA, SOME SOLICITORS TO TRACK DOWN THE EXISTING MALE HEIR OF THE BODY AT THAT TIME---MY G.GF,THOMAS MEWBURN MACALISTER ,PRESUMEDLY BORN IN 1860,AND COERCED/TRICKED /HOODWINKED / LEGALLY BULLSHITTED TO HIM IN SCOTTISH LEGAL JARGON THAT HE, MY G.GF., DID NOT HAVE A CLUE ABOUT,INTO DISENTAILING HIMSELF FROM ANY RIGHT TO "STRATHAIRD", ON THE GROUNDS THAT HE WAS A BASTARD,AND THEREFORE, ACCORDING TO BRITISH /SCOTTISH LAW OF ENTAILMENT,HAD NO LAWFUL CLAIM TO RIGHT OF INHEIRITANCE. WHEN I WENT FOR MY APPLICATION OF ARMS IN 1990,ALASTAIR CAMPBELL OF "AIRDS", WHO WAS UNICORN PURSUINT AT THE LORD LYON`S COURT AT THE TIME WAS MY REPRESENTER,AND ALASTAIR TOLD ME THAT MY G.GF WAS LEGITIMATE,ACCORDING TO SCOTTISH LAW, AND THE OLD ROMAN LAW OF HAND HELD MARRIAGE, OR AFFIRMATION BEFORE THE VILLAGE,WHERE ALL CHILDREN BORN BEFORE THIS AFFIRMATION AND ALL CHILDREN THEREAFTER ,WERE LEGITIMATE. MY G.GF`S MOTHER AND FATHER HAD MARRIED SOME 5 WEEKS AFTER MY G.GF`S SO CALLED BIRTH ----AND THIS IS ALSO A VERY CONTENTIOUS MATTER , THERE IS NO OFFICIAL RECORDED BIRTH DATE OF MY G.GF HERE IN VICTORIA ,OR IN NEW SOUTH WALES .I HAVE MADE EXTENSIVE SEARCHES OVER THE YEARS WITH A NIL RESULT,AND I`M BLOODY SURE THAT THERE WOULD BE NO OFFICIAL RECORD OF MY G.GF SO CALLED BIRTH DATE IN SCOTLAND. ALSO SIR,WHEN I POINTED OUT TO ALAISTAIR THEN THAT MY G.GF WAS A LEGITIMATE PERSON AND NOT A BASTARD AND SO CALLED ILLIGITIMATE ,ALAISTAIR CHOKED A BIT AND AFTER A PAUSE SAID THAT---- "SEEING AS MY G.GF WAS BORN IN BAIRNSDALE ,GIPPSLAND ,VICTORIA ,AUSTRALIA,THEN AUSTRALIAN LAW PREVAILED ,AND UNDER AUSTRALIAN LAW ,HE WAS A BASTARD. SIR,WITH DUE RESPECT,AND AS ALL GOOD SCHOOLBOYS SHOULD KNOW......THERE WAS NO BLOODY AUSTRALIAN LAW HERE IN THE 1860`S,AS WE WERE A COLONY OF THE UNITED KINGDOM ,AND DID NOT HAVE OUR OWN IDENTIFICATION UNTIL 1901,AND AS FAR AS AUSTRALIAN LAW GOES ,WITHOUT ME BEING AN EXPERT ON THE MATTER ,I BELIEVE WE DID NOT HAVE OUR OWN LAWS HERE(WE WERE STILL SUBJECT TO ENGLISH LAW) UNTIL QUITE A FEW YEARS AFTER FEDERATION IN 1901.SO,FROM WHAT I UNDERSTAND ,MY G.GF.WAS A LEGITIMATE PERSON,AND THE SIGNING OF THIS DOCUMENT OF DISENTAILMENT IS NON AND VOID AND DOES NOT HOLD WEIGHT ON THE SOLE GROUNDS OF HIM BEING ILLEGITIMATE . THIS IS NOT WHAT I AM CONTACTING YOU ABOUT AT THE MOMENT ,WHEN IF EVER I HAVE MORE AVAILABLE MONEY ,I INTEND TO PERSUE THIS MATTER THROUGH YOUR COURTS,SO HELP ME GOD. IT IS SOME OF THE BACKGROUND HISTORY THAT I HOPE CAN BE OF ASSISTANCE IN THE INQUIREY LEADING UP TO WHAT I AM LISTING BELOW HERE NOW. INCIDENTLY,OLD ALEXANDER WAS THE ELDEST MALE CHILD OF A FAMILY OF 14 BORN TO RANALD MACALISTER OF SHERRINISH AND ANNE MACDONANALD.7 OF HIS YOUNGER BROTHERS SERVED WITH GREAT DISTINCTION,TYPICAL HIGHLAND ISLE OF SKYE COURAGE AND DUTY, WITH THE HONOURABLE EAST INDIA COMPANY ,THESE BEING COLONEL MATTHEW MACALISTER OF "GLENBARR,WOUNDED 9 TIMES AT THE BATTLE OF SERINGAPATAN IN THE 1780S,IMPRISONED IN 9 LBS CHAINS FOR NIGH ON 4 YEARS IN THE CAVES ,AND WAS ONE OF ONLY 31 WHO SURVIVED THIS IMPRISONMENT UNTIL RESCUED BY HIS BROTHER IN 1784, WHEN SERINGAPATAN WAS RECAPTURED ,BY GENERAL KEITH MACALISTER OF THE CRACK 4TH MADRAS CAVALRY,DESIGNATED OF "LOUP" AND HIS ESTATE OF "TORRISDALE".ANOTHER BROTHER WAS COLONEL NORMAN MACALISTER OF "CLACKHAIGH",GOVERNOR OF P.W.I.(PRINCE OF WALES ISLAND)NOW PENANG,IN 1807 TO 1810,WHEN HE WAS LOST IN THE SOUTH CHINA SEAS RETURNING TO SCOTLAND. AS A RESULT OF OLD ALEXANDER ESQ.DIEING IN 1832,AND HIS DAUGHTER JANNETTE DIEING IN 1841,AND HER HUSBAND DR. DUNCAN MACALISTER DIEING IN 1854,(BOTH BURIED IN THE MACALISTER TOMB AT DRINAN,ON THE "STRATHAIRD ESTATE),TO GETHER WITH TWO OTHER MACALISTERS THAT WERE DROWNED IN THE SINKING COLLISION OF THE "COMET" IN OCTOBER 1825,THERE WAS ONLY ONE OTHER MACALISTER OF JANNETTE AND DUNCANS FAMILY REMAINING ON THE STRATHAIRD ESTATE ON THE FARM AT GLASNAKILLE, THIS WAS A DR.NORMAN MACALISTER, WHO DIED IN 1868 AT "STRATHAIRD" HOUSE NEAR TORRIN. MY SENIOR MALE LINE OF MACALISTERS FROM JANNETTE AND DUNCAN....ELDEST MALE CHILD BEING SURGEON ALEXANDER MACALISTER 1790- 1865/8....(TO BE CONFIRMED),MY G.G.G.GF,AND HIS SECOND ELDEST MALE CHILD ,DR.ALEXANDER MACALISTER 1828-1870,MY G.G.GF.(THE ELDEST MALE SON HAD DIED IN 1859),AND THE FATHER OF THOMAS MEWBURN MACALISTER BEFORE MENTIONED ,MY G.GF., WERE ALL OUT HERE IN GIPPSLAND ,VICTORIA ,AUSTRALIA,WHICH BY THE WAY ,HAD PREVIOUSLY BEEN PIONEERED BY CAPTAIN LACHLAN MACALISTER IN 1839,HE BEING THE FIRST MACALISTER TO COME OUT TO AUSTRALIA IN 1817 FROM SKYE, AS A 19 YEAR OLD ENSIGN IN THE 48TH REGT.FOOT,AND A YOUNGER BROTHER TO SURGEON ALEXANDER MACALISTER ,WHO HAD COMPLETED HIS MEDICAL DEGREE AT GLASGOW MEDICAL UNIVERSITY IN 1815,AND ALMOST IMMEDIATELY THEREAFTER WENT TO DEMERARA,BRITISH GIUANNA,BEFORE RETURNING TO GLASGOW IN THE MID 1830S ,HAVEING 3 MORE CHILDREN BORN THERE,AND THEN COMING OUT TO AUSTRALIA SOMETIME IN THE MID TO LATE 1840S. ............ NOW I AM GETTING TO THE POINT OF MY INQUIRY TO YOU SIR,AS A RESULT OF THIS DR.NORMAN MACALISTER DIEING IN 1868,AND TOGETHER WITH THIS BLUDGEING,MONGREL USELESS , GRANDSON ALEXANDER TRYING TO GET HOLD OF THE REST OF THE "STRATHAIRD "ESTATE ,THE GLASNAKILLE FARM AND LANDS WERE SOLD ...AS TO THE EXACT DATE I DO NOT KNOW ,I WOULD HAZARD A GUESS AND SAY IT WOULD BE AROUND THE TIME OF JUST BEFORE 1868, AS I HAVE PAPER REPORTS HERE FROM "THE GIPPSLAND TIMES NEWSPAPER IN 1868",VICTORIA ,AUSTRALIA, THAT QUOTES....."DR.ALEXANDER MACALISTER OF" MIEBOST",HAS RETIRED FROM HIS MEDICAL PRACTICE IN BAIRNSDALE,HAVEING COME INTO THE PRINCELY SUM OF £18,000.00 POUNDS,AS A RESULT OF FAMILY LAND BEING SOLD BACK IN THE ISLE OF SKYE ,SCOTLAND. NOW,HERES THE THING......MY G.G.GF DR.ALEXANDER MACALISTER ,NEVER EVER RECEIVED THIS SUM OF MONEY.HE BLOODYWELL UPPED AND DIED SUDDENLY IN JUNE 1870,AND HIS SON, MY G.GF.,WAS ONLY JUST OVER 9 YEARS OF AGE,AND HE NEVER EVER RECEIVED THIS MONEY EITHER .AS A RESULT OF ALL OF THIS ,I, AND MY FATHER ,AND MY GRANDFATHER ,HAVE BEEN ON THE BONES OF OUR ARSE EVER SINCE. MY AUNT,WHO WAS THE ELDEST CHILD BORN TO THOMAS MEWBURN MACALISTER IN 1882,AND WHO I USED TO VISIT ON HER FARM DUREING ALL OF MY SCHOOL HOLIDAYS AND XMAS BREAK IN THE MID TO LATE 1940S,AND WHO BY THE WAY HAD THE MALE GENES OF HER BROTHERS AND SISTERS AND ANCESTORS,ALWAYS INSISTED, AND TOLD ME ----"MAX,ONE DAY WHEN YOU ARE OLDER ,LOOK FOR THIS MONEY IN CHANCERY. UNBEKNOWN TO ME AT THE TIME OF MY EARLY SCHOOL YEARS ,SHE PLANTED THE HIGHLAND SCOTTISH SEED OF MY ANCESTORS WITHIN ME,AND AS A RESULT OF THAT ,I HAVE SINCE MATRICULATED MY SCOTTISH ARMS ,I HAVE BECOME A SCOTTISH KNIGHT TEMPLAR,I BELONG TO THE MASONIC LODGE HERE IN MELBOURNE AND IN EDINBURGH,I AM A MEMBER OF THE HERALDRY SOCIETY OF AUSTRALASIA,AND I RUN CLAN MACALISTER HERE IN MELBOURNE,AUSTRALIA.I HAVE MADE 3 TRIPS BACK TO "STRATHAIRD" SINCE,IN 1991,1994,AND 2009,EACH TIME WITH NO BLOODY MONEY IN MY HIP POCKET TO RECLAIM MY, AND MY ANCESTORS ROOTS,THE LAST TRIP TO EDINBURGH FOR THE 3 DAY EVENT DUREING THE YEAR OF THE SCOTTISH HOMECOMING. SO SIR,AFTER THIS LONG BOREING TALE,WHICH I HOPE YOU FIND SOMEWHAT INTERESTING,HERE I AM, REQUESTING YOUR ASSISTANCE,AND GUIDEANCE, IN TRYING TO FIND ,AND HOW DO I GO ABOUT TRYING TO GET TO THE BOTTOM OF THIS MISSING 1868 £18.000.00 POUNDS .........IS THERE MONEY HELD IN CHANCERY,AS A RESULT OF FARM LAND AT GLASNAKILLE ON THE "STRATHAIRD" ESTATE BEING SOLD IN AND AROUND THE 1867/8 PERIOD,AND PRESUMEDLY SENT TO DR.ALEXANDER MACALISTER IN BAIRNSDALE,GIPPSLAND ,AUSTRALIA????? I REMAIN, YOUR OBEDIENT SERVANT, MAX M. ESQ. ______________________________________________________________________ Chev. Max M Macalister ESQ. KOTJ. FAHSA. Senior of “Strathaird”, Cadet of “Tarbert” Pres. CLAN MACALISTER AUSTRALIA Unit 2 / 24A RATTRAY ROAD MONTMORENCY 3094 VICTORIA AUSTRALIA Phone: +613 9435 9914 Email: [email protected] Skype: maxmacalister This e-mail (and any files or other attachments transmitted with it) is intended solely for the attention of the addressee(s). 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I HAVE JUST RECENTLY PRINTED OUT THE LIST OF BARONIES THAT ARE SHOWN ON THE LORD LYONS SITE,AND ALSO NOTES ON VARIOUS PROCEEDURES REGARDING SAME.AS YOU MAY REMEMBER ,MY ANCESTOR ,ALEXANDER MACALISTER ESQ(1744-1832) OF "STRATHAIRD",ISLE OF SKYE,PURCHASED THE ESTATE IN 1789.I AM MOST INTERESTED IN OBTAINING THE BARONY OF "STRATHWORDILLE" COVERING THIS ESTATE. I NOTICE IN THE NOTES ON BARONIES FROM THE LORD LYONS SITE THAT......WHEN A SCOTTISH LANDHOLDER DIED,AN HEIR COULD NOT SUCCEEDTO THE LANDS, UNTIL HIS CLAIN HAD BEEN FORMALLY RECOGNISED,AND HE HAD BEEN SERVED AS NEAREST LAWFUL HEIRTHERE MUST BE A BRIEVEOF INQUESTSENT FROM CHANCERY TO THE SHERIFF OF THE COUNTY IN WHICH THE LANDS ARE SITUATED.THE FINDINDS OF THIS INQUEST ARE THEN SENT BACK TO CHANCERY AND RECORDED IN THE RECORD OF RETOURS. COULD YOU PLEASE SEARCH THE RETOURS RECORDS ON MY BEHALF TO SEE IF THERE IS A RECORD OF THIS BEING DONE, AND THE GRANDSON(1820-1898,ALSO NAMED ALEXANDER MACALISTER ,A SON OF JOHN MACALISTER ,WHO WAS A SON OF OLD ALEXANDER OF STRATHAIRDS 2ND MARRIAGE) DID IN FACT APPLY FOR THIS, AND BE FORMALLY RECOGNISED AS THE HEIR OF NEXT SUCCESSION TO STRATHAIRD ESTATE AND THE LANDS ,SOME 18,500 ACRES ON THE ISLE OF SKYE. SEEING AS OLD ALEXANDER DIED IN 1832,I WOULD HAZARD A GUESS THAT THIS APPLICATION /OR GRANT/OR PERMISSION/ OR RECOGNISATION SHOULD HAVE BEEN APPLIED FOR BY THIS GRANDSON SOMETIME AFTER THAT OF DEATH,MID 1832 ,AND SAY UP TO 1840. IT WAS IN 1883 THAT 3 SOLICITORS WERE SENT OUT FROM SCOTLAND BY THIS GRANDSON ALEXANDER,TO COERCE AND ENTICE,MY G.GF THOMAS MEWBURN MACALISTER HERE IN ORBOST ,GIPPSLAND,AUSTRALIA,TO DISENTAIL HIMSELF FROM THE ENTAILMENT OF STRATHAIRD ESTATE ,AS BEING THE RIGHTFULL NEXT SENIOR MALE HEIR IN SUCCESSION OUTRANKING THIS GRANDSON OF OLD ALEXANDERS 2ND MARRIAGE ,AS THIS GRANDSON COULD NOT DEAL WITH THE ESTATE(WHICH HE PROMPTLY SOLD OFF IN 1884/5) UNTIL THIS WAS OBTAINED. I WOULD BE EXTREMELY GRATEFUL FOR YOUR ASSISTANCE AND ANY FURTHER ADVICE AS TO WHAT I SHOULD LOOK FOR,ETC. OF COURSE,IT GOES WITHOUT SAYING ,THAT I AM PREPARED TO PAY FOR WHATEVER EXPENSES ARE INCURRED, AND THE DOCUMENTATION IF ANY. I AWAIT IN ANTICIPATION FOR YOUR REPLY. TRUSTING THAT YOU ARE WELL AND GOOD, I REMAIN ,YOURS SINCERELY, MAX M.ESQ. ______________________________________________________________________ Chev. Max M Macalister ESQ. KOTJ. FAHSA. Senior of “Strathaird”, Cadet of “Tarbert” Pres. CLAN MACALISTER AUSTRALIA Unit 2 / 24A RATTRAY ROAD MONTMORENCY 3094 VICTORIA AUSTRALIA Phone: +613 9435 9914 Fax: +613 9432 2550 Email: [email protected] Skype: maxmacalister ALISON,YOUR WONDERFUL AS FAR AS I AM CONCERNED ,SO DON`T BE SORRY. ALSO ,WHILE I AM ON IT, I DON`T WANT YOU TO THINK THAT I WANT YOU DOING ALL OF THIS FOR NOTHING,SO IF THERE IS A CHARGE FOR YOUR GREAT ASSISTANCE ,THEN LET ME KNOW. ALISON,WHAT I AM ON ABOUT IS THAT MY DIRECT ANCESTOR ALEXANDER MACALISTER ESQ ,1744-1832,BOUGHT STRATHAIRD ESTATE(18,500 ACRES) ON THE ISLE OF SKYE IN 1789,THE YEAR OF THE FRENCH REVOLUTION . HE LATER ENTAILED THE ESTATE (WHICH I HAVE ALREADY OBTAIND A COPY OF SOME YEARS AGO)IN A VERY STRICT LINE OF MALE SUCCESSION AFTER HIS DEATH,AND FAILING ANY MALES ,THEN DOWN THROUGH YOU FEMALES.OLD ALEXANDER MARRIED TWICE,AND I AM DESCENDED FROM HIS SURVIVING DAUGHTER AND ONLY CHILD LEFT OF TWO ,OF HIS FIRST MARRIAGE.HE LATER MARRIED A SECOND TIME AND HAD 3 SONS AND 3 DAUGHTERS ,AND OUTLIVED ALL OF HIS SONS OF THIS SECOND MARRIAGE .TWO OF THESE SONS WERE NEVER MARRIED---ONE OF THESE WAS THE CHARLES MACALISTER YOU HAVE TOLD ME OF HERE IN YOUR E/MAIL.CHARLES WAS A W.S., AND WAS BLOODY WELL DROWNED IN THE SINKING OF THE "COMET" IN 1825, ALONG WITH HIS NEPHEW OR COUSIN,JOHN MACALISTER,WHO WAS DESCENDED FROM THIS DAUGHTER OF OLD ALEXANDERS FIRST MARRIAGE AND WHO I AM EVENTUALLY DESCENDED FROM ---I ALWAYS GET THEM MIXED UP AS TO WHETHER THEY ARE COUSINS OR NEPHEWS TO EACH OTHER.THE 3RD SON OF THIS SECOND MARRIAGE OF OLD ALEXANDER ,WAS ALSO NAMED JOHN MACALISTER,AND HE WAS THE ONLY SON OUT OF THE 3 SONS OF THIS SECOND MARRIAGE OF OLD ALEXANDER THAT GOT MARRIED ---MORES THE PITY ,AS IT HAS LEFT MY MALE LINE AND ME ON THE BONES OF MY ARSE EVER SINCE.THIS 3RD SON JOHN HAD A SON ALSO CALLED ALEXANDER,AND IT IS THIS ---EXCUSE THE EXPRESSION ALISON ---ARSEHOLE,THIS GRANDSON ,WHO BLOODY ENDED UP INHEIRITING "TORRISDALE ESTATE" DOWN AT CARRADALE ON THE BOTTOM OF THE KINTYRE PENINSULAR,OWNED BY A YOUNGER BROTHER OF OLD ALEXANDER ,GENERAL KEITH MACALISTER OF "LOUP",AS WELL AS" TRESLANE" UP THE TOP END OF SKYE NEAR (V)WATERNISH,IN THE MACLEOD TERRITORY NEAR DUNVAGEN---THIS PROPERTY BELONGING TO OLD ALEXANDER`S FATHER,RANALD MACALISTER (1715-1762),AND" BARR-GLEN",NOW CALLED" GLEN BARR ABBEY" (THE PRESENT CLAN MACALISTER CENTRE) WHICH BELONGED TO ANOTHER YOUNGER BROTHER TO OLD ALEXANDER, COLONEL MATTHEW MACALISTER . I AM A FIRST COUSIN TO THIS GLENBARR MACALISTER LINE. THIS MONGREL GRANDSON ...ALEXANDER (1820 TO 1898) COULDN`T GET HIS HANDS ON "STRATHAIRD" AS IT WAS ENTAILED AS I HAVE TOLD YOU,BUT IN 1883 ,THIS MONGREL SENT 3 SOLICITORS OUT TO AUSTRALIA...AS MY MALE LINE OF THE FAMILY DESCENDED DOWN FROM JANNETTE MACALISTER ,THE DAUGHTER OF OLD ALEXANDER`S FIRST MARRIAGE AND ONLY SURVIVING CHILD LEFT OUT OF HER AND A BROTHER,RANALD,WHO DIED YOUNG,HAD COME OUT TO AUSTRALIA IN 1817. THIS MONGREL GRANDSON,WHO INCIDENTLY BUGGERED OFF TO FRANCE WITH HIS COUSIN`S WIFE, KEITH MACALISTER OF GLEN BARR(NOT THE GENERAL KEITH MACALISTER OF" TORRISDALE", AND" LOUP" ,AS HE WASN`T MARRIED).THIS MONGREL ALEXANDER SOLD OFF ALL THE ESTATES ,BUT HE COULDN`T SELL "STRATHAIRD" BECAUSE OF THE ENTAILMENT,SO BUGGER ME ,HE SENDS THESE SOLICITORS OUT TO ORBOST HERE IN GIPPSLAND, VICTORIA(INCIDENTLY WHICH WAS PIONEERED, AND EXPLORED BY LACHLAN MACALISTER ,A SON OF JANNETTE MACALISTER ,WHO AS I TOLD YOU WAS THE ONLY SURVIVING CHILD OF OLD ALEXANDER MACALISTER OF "STRATHAIRDS"FIRST MARRIAGE. THESE SOLICITORS SORT OUT, AND COERCED, AND HOODWINKED MY GREAT GRANDFATHER ,THOMAS MEWBURN MACALISTER (1860 TO 1941)AFTER GETTING HIM PISSED IN THE LOCAL BUSH HOTEL ACCORDING TO MY OLD AUNT,WHO WAS THE ELDEST CHILD OF THOMAS MEWBURN MACALISTER,INTO DISENTAILING HIMSELF ,ON THE SO CALLED GROUNDS THAT HE WAS ILLEGITIMATE,HAVEING BEEN BORN 6 WEEKS PRIOR TO HIS FATER,DR.ALEXANDER MACALISTER AND MOTHER BEING MARRIED. AS SOON AS THESE ARSEHOLE SOLICITORS GOT HIS SIGNATURE ,THEY BUGGERED OFF BACK TO SCOTLAND ,AND SHORTLY AFTER THIS GRANDSON MONGREL SOLD "STRATHAIRD "AS WELL. AN ASIDE TO THIS SO CALLED ILLEGITIMATCY,WHEN I APPLIED FOR MY GRANT OF ARMS IN 1990,EVENTUALLY GETTING THEM IN 1995,ALASTAIR CAMPBELL OF AIRDS,WAS LORD LYON PURSUIVANT,AND MY REPRESENTER BEFORE THE LYON COURT,TOLD ME THAT UNDER SCOTTISH LAW ,MY GREAT GRANDFATHER WASN`T ILLEGITIMATE ,AS UNDER SCOTTISH LAW OF HAND HELD MARRIAGES --WHICH INCIDENTLY WAS ROMAN LAW,AN AFFIRMATION WAS MADE BEFORE THE VILLAGE HOLDING HANDS AND THAT ,ALL CHILDREN BORN BEFORE THIS ANNOUNCEMENT OF INTENDING TO BECOME MARRIED ,AND ALL CHILDREN BORN AFTER THIS AFFIRMATION ,WERE BLOODY LEGAL AND LEGITIMISED. SO ALISON ,YOU CAN SEE WHY I AM SO UPSET ,AND I AM TRYING TO FIND OUT AS MUCH DETAIL AS I CAN .THAT IS WHY I DONT THINK THIS MONGREL GRANDSON HAD THE RIGHT TO CLAIM TO BE THE NEXT, AND NEAREST SENIOR MALE HEIR,AND THAT HE MUST HAVE GOT, OR APPLIED FOR A BRIEVE AS SUCH, AND ACCORDINGLY RECORDED IN THE RETOURS. ALISON ,I GREATLY APPRECIATE YOUR HELP, AND TIME IN MY REQUESTS TO YOU ,AND, AS I SAID ,I DON`T MIND PAYING FOR YOUR TIME IF THAT BECOMES NECESSARY. SO,WHERE DO I, OR WE GO FROM HERE? DOES THAT MEAN, SEEING AS YOU HAVE NOT BEEN ABLE TO LOCATE PROOF OF SUCH A RECORD BEING APPLIED FOR, AND REGISTERED IN RETOURS ,THAT THIS MONGREL DID NOT DO SO ,OR HAVE THIS PERMISSION?IF THAT IS SO ,WHAT CAN I DO ABOUT IT ? WHAT DO YOU SUGGEST FROM HERE?ARE THERE OTHER RECORDS TO LOOK FOR ? I LOOK FORWARD TO YOUR RESPONSE IN TIME WHEN YOU HAVE SOME SPARE TIME TO BOTHER ABOUT MY PROBLEMS,AND ALSO WHATEVER SUGGESTIONS I SHOULD DO FROM HERE. IN CONCLUSION TO THIS E/MAIL ,SEEING AS YOU HAVEN`T BEEN ABLE SO FAR TO ESTABLISH IF THIS MONGREL ALEXANDER DID GET THIS PERMISSION TO BE RECOGNISED AS THE NEAREST MALE HEIR,AND THERE SEEMS TO BE NO LISTING RECORDED IN THE RETOURS,THAT THIS IS DEFINATE PROOF THAT HE DID NOT DO SO. I WILL AWAIT ANXIOUSLY FOR YOUR NEXT REPLY WHEN YOU HAVE THE TIME . I THANK YOU AGAIN ALISON ,AND I HOPE THAT MY NEXT TRIP BACK TO SCOTLAND THAT I CAN MEET UP WITH YOU AND THANK YOU PERSONALLY AND PROPERLY. P.S.IN THE MEAN TIME ,I HAVE JUST PURCHASED THE LORDSHIP OF "CLITON /COLDWELL" WHICH IS NEAR NEWCASTLE.I AM HOPEING TO BE ABLE TO FIND OUT WHO PRESENTLY HAS OR HOLDS THE BARONY OF "STRATHWORDILLE" WHICH COVERS "STRATHAIRD",AND IF SO,WILL THEY SELL THAT TO ME.ONE WAY OR THE OTHER ,I AM DETERMINED TO GET BACK SOMETHING OF MY ANCESTORS ROOTS.IT CONSTANTLY HAUNTS ME . MY BEST REGARDS TO YOU, I TRUST YOU KEEP WELL. YOURS MOST SINCERELY, MAX M. MACALISTER ESQ.KOTJ.FAHSA. ______________________________________________________________________ Chev. Max M Macalister ESQ. KOTJ. FAHSA. Senior of “Strathaird”, Cadet of “Tarbert” Pres. CLAN MACALISTER AUSTRALIA Unit 2 / 24A RATTRAY ROAD MONTMORENCY 3094 VICTORIA AUSTRALIA Phone: +613 9435 9914 Fax: +613 9432 2550 Email: [email protected] Skype: maxmacalister From: Enquiries [mailto:[email protected]] Dear Mr Macalister, Thank you for your email of 31 May 2012. I am afraid I have not been able to locate a retour for Strathaird c1832. I have looked in the indexes to Services of Heirs, 1830-1849. The only entry for an Alexander or John Macalister (I am afraid I could not work out from your email which was sought) was: Alexander MacAlister - Loup and Torrisdale, to his Uncle Charles MacAlister, W.S., who died 21st October 1825 - Heir Special, in Corriechierachan, Salachan in Lochaber, etc - Invernessshire - dated 20 July 1835. Unfortunately neither the name nor date of death of the deceased match with the information you gave. I have checked under all spellings of Macalister. These indexes also have a Supplement, listing 'the names of persons served to, by heirs not bearing the same name'. I have not checked this, since your information indicates a Macalister was inheriting from a Macalister. There is also a smaller 'Index of Retours of General Service', dated before 1847 but recorded after 1859. I have searched this unsuccessfully for the name Macalister in any spelling. I am sorry to have to return such a disappointing response. Yours sincerely, Alison Lindsay Head of Historical Search Section National Records of Scotland, General Register House, Princes Street, Edinburgh, EH1 3YY 0131 535 1333 (switchboard 0131 535 1314) Preserving the past; recording the present; informing the future KIRSTY,THANK YOU FOR YOUR PROMPT REPLY,APPRECIATED ,AND IT SHOWS ME YOUR ON THE BALL AND EVIDENTLY DO NOT PISS ABOUT......HOPE YOU CAN HANDLE THE AUSTRALIAN STRAIGHT TALK. I PICKED YOU OUT OF THE LIST FIRST AS I LIKED YOUR NAME ,AND I THOUGHT I WOULD GET A GOOD DEAL BECAUSE OF THAT. NOW,ALL BULLSHIT ASIDE,YOU SAY YOUR RATE IS £22GBP,IS THAT ALL UP PLUS THE OTHER CHARGES ,POSTAGE ,PHOTO COPYING ,ETC? WHICH IS UNDERSTANDABLE,OR IS THE £22GBP RATE PER HOUR? AND IF THAT IS SO ,THEN HOW MANY HOURS WILL THAT INVOLVE? I REALISE YOU CANNOT ESTIMATE THAT AT THE MOMENT UNTIL YOU GET INTO IT ,BUT AS I SAID IN THE BEGINNING ,I DON`T WANT TO RUN UP A BLOODY GREAT BILL.I JUST WISH THE CHRIST OUR $ RATE HERE COINCIDED WITH YOUR RATE THERE,EVERYTHING IS SO MUCH DEARER IN YOUR COUNTRY COMPARED TO US HERE. THANK CHRIST WE ARE AT THE BOTTOM OF THE WORLD, AND USED TO BE SOMEWHAT ISOLATED ,BUT NOT ANY MORE ,AS WE WERE IN GODS COUNTRY HERE, AND EVERYTHING USED TO BE GREAT,BUT NOW WE ARE GETTING BLOODY GREAT BOAT LOADS OF BLACK MOSLEN SHIT COMING ILLEGALLY EVERY BLOODY DAY,200 TO 300 OF THE MONGRELS EVERY DAY,BUT I DON`T WANT TO SHOCK YOU WITH MY THOUGHTS ......I`M A KNIGHT TEMPLAR, AND THEY ARE MY SWORN ENEMIES REGARDLESS. LAST YEAR I CLIMBED THE MOUNTAIN AT DURNSTEIN ON THE RHINE RIVER WHERE RICHARD 111 WAS (AND SWORE MY ALLEGIANCE)IMPRISONED, AND HELD FOR RANSOM WHEN RETURNING FROM THE CRUSADES.HE WAS A TEMPLAR ALSO. AT THIS POINT ,GO AHEAD AND HAVE A LOOK AT THE ABRIGEMENTS(I THANK YOU FOR THAT SUGGESTION)AND I MIGHT BE ABLE TO SOUGHT THE WHEAT FROM THE CHAFF WITH THOSE,AND IF I PROCEED FURTHER ,I CAN THEN LET YOU KNOW WHICH ONES TO OBTAIN. I HAVE A PAYPAL A/C IF THAT IS SUITABLE FOR YOU ,OR WHEN YOU BITE ME FOR THE DOUGH I CAN POST YOU A CHEQUE,WHATEVER IS SUITABLE FOR YOU. NOW TO GIVE YOU A BIT OF BACKGROUND TO MY ANCESTORS....SO YOU WILL HAVE SOME IDEA OF WHATS GOING ON. MY G.G.G.G.G.GF.,OLD ALEXANDER MACALISTER ESQ. BORN 1744 ,BLOODY SNUFFED IT IN 1832.HE PURCHASED THE FORFEITED ESTATE(WHICH BELONGED TO THE MACKINNONS) OF STRATHAIRD ,ISLE OF SKYE IN 1789---THE YEAR OF THE FRENCH REVOLUTION ---SEE, YOU SHOULD HAVE SAT NEXT TO ME AT SCHOOL ,SO I SUPPOSE WE START THERE AT THAT POINT. OLD ALEXANDER ENTILED THE ESTATE SOMETIME IN THE1820`S ---I HAVE THAT DOCUMENT SOMEWHERE WHICH I OBTAINED SOME YEARS AGO ...ALSO AT A BLOODY GREAT EXPENSE,NO WONDER I`M ON THE BONES OF MY ARSE. HE FIRST MARRIED IN THE 1760`S, AND HAD 2 CHILDREN ,A BOY RANALD, WHO DIED YOUNG ,I DONT KNOW EXACTLY WHAT THAT MEANS BECAUSE THAT IS ALL THE RECORDS SAY ,SO I SUPPOSE SOMEWHERE BETWEEN 2 TO 5; AS A ROUGH GUESS, AND A GIRL, JANNETTE ,BORN 1766,DIED 1841.I AM DESCENDED THROUGH HER. NOW OLD ALEXANDER MUST HAVE BEEN FEELING HIS OATES,AS HE MARRIED A SECOND TIME. (JUST LIKE ME ,BUT IT IS ALL IN THE MIND AT PRESENT; MORES THE PITY.GEEZ,IF I HAD OF KNOWN THIS WHEN I WAS A LOUT TEENAGER ,I WOULD HAVE BEEN THE BEST STUD OF ALL TIME TO MAKE UP FOR NOW) HOPE YOU DON`T MIND . THIS. HE HAD 3 SONS AND 3 DAUGHTERS FROM THIS SECOND MARRIAGE.OLD ALEXANDER BLOODY OUTLIVED ALL OF HIS SONS FROM THIS SECOND MARRIAGE,AND ON TOP OF THAT ,ONLY ONE OF THESE SONS HAD MARRIED. NOW, AS YOU PROBABLY KNOW,AN ENTAILMENT IS A STRICT PROCEEDURE DOCUMENT OF AN ESTATE OF HOW THE INHEIRITANCE IS TO CONTINUE( HAVE A LOOK AT DOWNTOWN ABBEY TV SAGA)AND IF YOU HAVE EVER SEEN" BLEAK HOUSE"----I`M THE POOR BASTARD LIKE THE YOUNG FELLOW WAS IN THAT. STRATHAIRD HAD TO BE RETAINED IN THE MACALISTER NAME ,AND ALSO WAS TO DESCEND FROM AND TO THE ELDEST SON OF EACH GENERATION ,ETC,ETC,ETC,AND IF NO SONS ,THEN THROUGH THE ELDEST DAUGHTER ,ETC,ETC,ETC, WELL, TO CUT A LONG SAD STOREY SHORT,THIS MONGREL,ARSEHOLE WAK INSIPENT ,BLUDGING ,MONEY GRABBING GRANDSON ---ALSO NAMED ALEXANDER ,BORN 1820,DIED 1898,HAS DONE US---MY LINE ---OUT OF THE ESTATE.NOT ONLY DID HE SELL OFF ALL THE OTHER ESTATES THAT HE ENDED UP WITH THE MONGREL,BUT HE PISSED OFF TO FRANCE WITH HIS COUSIN`S WIFE ---KEITH MACALISTER OF THE "GLENBARR" BRANCH OF MACALISTERS (THERE MY COUSINS),AND BOUGHT HIMSELF A CHATEAU AT FONDETTEDS,A COUPLE OF KLMS OUT OF TOURS ,IN FRANCE. I TRAVELLED DOWN FROM PARIS TO SEE IT IN 2009 BEFORE ,GOING ONTO EDINBURGH FOR THE YEAR OF THE SCOTTISH HOMECOMMING 3 DAY EVENT .THERE WAS NOTHING LEFT OF THE CHATEAU,THE GERMANS HAD BOMBED THE SHITTER OUT OF IT IN THE 1940S .PITY THE MONGREL WASN`T IN IT THEN. ............................................ KIRSTY ,I HAVE BEEN TOLD WHEN I HAVE MADE INQUIRIES TO THE" RETOURS" SECTION OF NAS. THAT THIS ALEXANDER MACALISTER ---THE ARSEHOLE GRANDSON, HAS NOT AND DID NOT ,LODGE A CLAIM OF RIGHT, OR IDENTIFICATION ,OR WHATEVER YOU WERE SUPPOSED TO DO ,WHEN THERE HAS BEEN A DEATH ,AND SOMEBODY ELSE IS CLAIMING THE INHEIRITANCE OF AN ESTATE.THE RETOURS SECTION HAVE TOLD ME THAT THEY HAVE NO LISTING OF AN ALEXANDER MACALISTER TO DO SO.NOW,AGAIN I AM UNDER THE IMPRESSION THAT ONE IS REQUIRED TO DO SO UNDER SCOTTISH LAW.EVIDENTLY THIS WASN`T DONE.IS THAT OF SOME IMPORTANCE.?????.............................................................................................. THIS MONGREL,EVIDENTLY COULDN`T DISPOSE OF STRATHAIRD,BECAUSE OF THE WORDING IN THE DOCUMENT OF ENTAILMENT, AND LINE OF SUCCESSION----HE HAD ALREADY BLOODY SOLD EVERYTHING ELSE THE BLUDGING MONGREL COULD GET HIS HANDS ON,AND SO HE HAS SENT SOLICITORS OUT TO ORBOST ,GIPPSLAND ,VICTORIA ,AUSTRALIA IN 1883,(AS MY MALE LINE OF ANCESTORS WERE OUT HERE IN AUSTRALIA FROM 1850 BY THEN)AND COERCED MY G.GF.THOMAS MEWBURN MACALISTER (1860?1941) TO DISENTAIL HIMSELF AS TO ANY RIGHTS TO "STRATHAIRD", ON THE DUBIOUS GROUNDS OF BEING BORN A BASTARD(THATS WHY I HAVE PUT A RED ? MARK NEXT TO HIS SUPPOSED BIRTH DATE,PRESUMEDLY BORN 5 WEEKS PRIOR TO HIS FATHER (DR.ALEXANDER MACALISTER ,1828-1870,AND HIS MOTHER BEING MARRIED IN THE 1860`S.ANOTHER INTERESTING THING ABOUT THAT,THERE IS NO BLOODY RECORDED BIRTH DATE WITH THE AUTHORITIES HERE IN AUSTRALIA,THAT IS IN VICTORIA ,AND NEW SOUTH WALES . AT THIS POINT I WILL ALSO ATTACH...ABOVE.... A LONG E/M I HAVE JUST SENT OFF TO MAGGIE MACDONALD ,THE ARCHIVIST AT THE CLAN DONALD CENTRE,SO THAT YOU CAN HAVE A LOOK AT MY OTHER BLOODY GRIEVANCE TIED UP IN AMONGST ALL OF THIS BLOODY BALLS UP) I HAVE ADDED A COUPLE OF OTHER E/M ENQUIRIES ALSO ,I DONT KNOW IF THEY ARE OF SOME HELP TO YOU SO THAT YOU HAVE AN IDEA OF WHAT IS GOING ON AND WHAT I`M ON ABOUT. SO,NOW TO GET TO THE MATTER AT HAND,I DONT KNOW HOW MANY SASINES THERE ARE DEALING WITH STRATHAIRD FROM SAY 1789 UP TO 1950 .THATS 1950 ,NOT 1850.I WANT TO KNOW WHAT BLOODY WENT ON AS FAR AS THE STATE BEING SOLD OVER AND OVER SEVERAL TIMES .I THINK A SO CALLED MR.BOWER ,SOMETIME SHORTLY IN 1884 OR SO ,AN ENGLISHMAN THEN GOT THE ESTATE AS SOON AS THIS MONGREL GRANDSON GOT THE DISENTAILMENT SIGNATURE OF MY G.G.GF ON THE RETURN OF HIS SOLICITORS FROM AUSTRALIA.THEN THE NEXT PERSON TO GET STRATHAIRD WAS SIR WILLIAM MACKINNONIN 1888 FOR £15.000.00.HE SNUFFED IT A SHORT TIME LATER ,AND IN 1897 ,A MR.J LAURIE THOMPSON GOT HOLD OF IT.THEN THE NEXT I BELIEVE WAS THE JOHNSONFAMILY IN 1914.EVIDENTLY IN 1968,THE JOHNSON FAMILY SOLD OFF "STRATHAIRD HOUSE",I THINK WITH 6 ACRES OF GROUNDS ,TO A JOHN KUBALE,WHO I MET, AND STAYED WITH FOR A WEEK ,WHEN STRATHAIRD HOUSE WAS BEING RUN AS A B & B IN 1991,AND IN 1994. WHICH IS WHAT I "F" WELL WANT TO GET BACK AT THIS STAGE . I`LL WORRY ABOUT THE REST OF THE ESTATE IF THAT IS AT ALL POSSIBLE AFTER ALL THIS TIME, AND BALLS UP ,LATER ON ....THATS IF I DON`T DROP DEAD FIRST,AS I`M 77 SUNSET STRIP NOW ,AND I`LL BE LUCKY TO HAVE ANOTHER 10 YEARS OR SO ,ALTHOUGH I EXPECT TO LAST INTO MY 90`S, AS MOST OF MY MALE ANCESTORS HAVE DONE SO ---MY FATHER WAS 941/2. THEN EVIDENTLY THEY ,THE JOHNSON FAMILY SOLD MOST OF THE STATE TO PROPERTY DEVELOPER NAMED DAVID LEWIS FOR 750.000.00 POUNDS ----JESUS-----WHO PROMPLLY WENT ARSEUP BROKE---THANK CHRIST AS IT HAS SO FAR TURNED OUT.HE THEN EVIDENTLY WAS RATTED BY THE ONE LEGGEDPRICK IAN ANDERSON OF THE JETHRO TULL SHIT BAND IN 1978 ---NO ONE KNOWS HIM HERE IN AUSTRALIA,WHICH HE GOT THE ESTATE FOR 250.000.00 POUNDS .NOW TO GET TO THE PRESENT DAY AND AGE ,ANDERSON HAS NOT LONG AGO ,IN1994, SOLD 15.000 ACRES OF STRATHAIRD TO THE JOHN MUIR TRUST,FOR HOW MUCH I`M NOT SURE ,BUT SOME SAY FOR 750.000.00 POUNDS. ALSO, JOHN KUBALE SOLD STRATHAIRD HOUSE, AND THE PARCEL OF LAND IT SITS ON IN 1994 TO AS WELL, TO A FAT, POMPOUS, BLOTCHED FACED, POOF, NAMED RICHARD FRASER DARLING ,WHO INCIDENTLY ,ARSEHOLED ME OUT OF THE PLACE WHEN I WAS LAST THERE IN 2009 BEFORE GOING DOWN TO EDINBURGH FOR THE 3 DAY EVENT OF THE SCOTTISH HOMECOMMING.HE SAID I WAS A TRESPASSER . SO THERE YOU ARE KIRSTY,THATS AS MUCH AS I PRESENTLY KNOW.I HOPE THAT GIVESYOU SOME STARTING POINT OUT OF ALL OF THIS ,AND MAKES THINGS A BIT EASIER. SO ITS NOW UP TO YOU TO SEE WHAT YOU COME UP WITH . OH ,A LITTLE ASIDE ,IF YOUR NOT MARRIED ,AND HAVE PLENTY OF DOUGH ,THEN HOW ABOUT GETTING MARRIEDI ,AS I NEED A KICK IN THE ARSE TO CONTINUE THIS BLOODY BATTLE.?ALSO ,I WILL NEED ABOUT 10 KIDS ,CAN YOU HANDLE THAT ...HA. HA . I DON`T KNOW IF IVE GOT ANY BULLETS LEFT ANYHOW. PLEASE TELL ME IF I`M OFFENDING YOU WITH MY AUSTRALIAN CARRYING ON ,IF SO TELL ME TO CEASE AND DESIST. WELL THATS IT FOR NOW UNTIL I HEAR BACK FROM YOU.LET ME KNOW IF THERE IS ANYTHING ELSE YOU NEED TO KNOW.. P.S.I`M PRESENTLY NEGOTIATING TO PURCHASE THE BARONY THAT COVERS STRATHAIRD WHICH ONCE WAS THE MACKINNONS IN 14TH CENTURY,SO YOU MIGHT BE CALLING ME BARON SOON ,AND YOU COULD BE A BARONESS, ...WHACKO. THANK CHRIST THIS IS FINISHED SO THAT I CAN HAVE SOME LUNCH ,ITS BLOODY 3.05 PM HERE ON ANOTHER HOT DAY IN MELBOURNE. PPS.IVE ATTACHED A PHOTO OF ME SO YOU CAN SEE WHO YOUR DEALING WITH .DON`T I LOOK GRAND,THE ANTS PANTS,NO LOOKING UP ME KILT. ______________________________________________________________________ Chev. Max M Macalister ESQ. KOTJ. FAHSA. Senior of “Strathaird”, Cadet of “Tarbert” Pres. CLAN MACALISTER AUSTRALIA Unit 2 / 24A RATTRAY ROAD MONTMORENCY 3094 VICTORIA AUSTRALIA Phone: +613 9435 9914 Email: [email protected] Skype: maxmacalister From: My Ain Folk: Kirsty F. Wilkinson [mailto:[email protected]] Dear Max, Thanks for your email. My rate for research is £22 GBP (approx. $33 Australian Dollars) - this is the minimum rate set by the Association of Scottish Genealogists & Researchers in Archives (ASGRA). Copying charges are in addition to my hourly fee and the National Records of Scotland (who hold the Registers of Sasines) charge £0.50 per page for copies. If there are a large number of sasines concerning the Estate of Strathaird then the copying charges might be quite large. There would also be postage costs to send the copies to Australia (only paper copies are available from the National Records of Scotland). I normally agree a certain number of hours with clients before beginning any research. There are name and place indexes to the Registers of Sasines from 1781 so the search should be reasonably straightforward. There are also abridgements to each entry in the Registers of Sasines for this period. These are a one-paragraph summary of each transaction. If you wanted to keep costs down, in the first instance I could copy the abridgements only and you could then decide if you want full copies of each sasine. If you have any questions or would like to discuss your research further please do not hesitate to contact me. Best regards, Kirsty Kirsty F. Wilkinson, PgDip (Genealogical Studies) Genealogist & Researcher in Archives My Ain Folk Professional Scottish Family History Research email: [email protected] website: www.myainfolk.com Facebook: www.facebook.com/MyAinFolk mail: 4/8 Piershill Square East Edinburgh EH8 7BD United Kingdom On 13 Feb 2013, at 10:00, [email protected] wrote: Name: MAX MACALISTER ESQ Mr. Max Macalister 11 February 2013 NAS6/B3/1.3/1{02} {62765} Dear Mr. Macalister, Thank you for your enquiry which we received on 7 February 2013 concerning Sasine records relating to Strathaird Estate, Parish of Strath. I am afraid that we are unable to undertake the research required to answer your query, as we do not have the resources to carry out remote research. If you were to visit the Historical Search Room in person and be issued with a Reader’s Ticket, or employ someone to come in on your behalf, then it would certainly be possible to undertake research to determine Sasines applicable to this estate. All Sasines are electronically indexed by the names of parties involved from the year 1780 onwards, and these can be searched in blocks of ten years, up to the present. A ‘hit’ on this index will provide you with the covering volume and folio number for the written individual deeds as they were recorded in the register, if you wished to consult the full record. All Sasine records have now been digitised, meaning that all can be accessed swiftly from a computer in the Historical Search Room. Until further notice however, users must come to the Historical Search Room directly to access these records. You can find out further information through our online guide: http://www.nas.gov.uk/guides/sasines.asp Yours sincerely, Garth Stewart | Search Room Archivist National Records of Scotland | General Register House | Edinburgh EH1 3YY Preserving the past | Recording the present | Informing the future GREETINGS TO YOU AGAIN MAGGIE. SEEING AS YOU ARE HAVEING A QUIET TIME AT THE BEGINNING OF THIS NEW YEAR,HERE I AM ABOUT TO BOTHER YOU AGAIN.U AFTER A LONG, LONG, TIME OF PUTTING UP WITH THE MISTAKES OF MY DECENDANCY FROM MY SO CALLED NON EXISTANT "STRATHAIRD MACALISTERS",I AM NOW APPEALING TO YOU TO HAVE THE CLAN DONALD RECORDS CORRECTED,AND SET STRAIGHT,ONCE AND FOR ALL, WITH REGARD TO THE MALE DECENDANCY OF MY "STRATHAIRD MACALISTER" LINE. I AM SICK AND TIRED OF READING IN VARIOUS HISTORIES(MOST ESPECIALLY THE CLAN DONALD) DEALING WITH THE MACALISTERS DESCENDED FROM SOMERLED ,THAT THE STRATHAIRD "MALE " LINE OF MACALISTERS DIED OUT ,AND WERE CONSEQUENTLY TAKEN OVER BY THE "GLENBARR" LINE,AFTER THE DEATH OF ALEXANDER OF "STRATHAIRD" IN APRIL 1832.(MY G.G.G.G.G.GF) THIS IS NOT CORRECT ,AND I AM HEREBY OFFICIALLY REQUESTING THAT THE RECORDS BE CORRECTED. IT SHOULD READ, AND BE NOTED FOR ALL TO READ ,THAT THE "STRATHAIRD" LINE OF MACALISTERS WAS...... CONTINUED THROUGH THE FEMALE DAUGHTER ,JANNETTE MACALISTER ,(MY G.G.G.G.GM)BORN 1766,BEING THE SOLE SURVIVING CHILD OF HER FATHER`S FIRST MARRIAGE TO MARY CAMPBELL OF EDERLINE,IN OR AROUND 1764. IT FOLLOWS OF COURSE THAT 10 MALES WERE BORN BEFORE THE DEATH OF OLD ALEXANDER MACALISTER ESQ.OF "STRATHAIRD" AS A RESULT OF THE FOLLOWING ........... AS HISTORY NOTES CORRECTLY,SHE MARRIED( DELIBERATELY ARRANGED ) HER COUSIN ,DR. DUNCAN GRANT MACALISTER OF THE "TARBERT CASTLE "LINE OF MACALISTERS,ON THE 15/1/1793,FOR TWO VERY OBVIOUS,AND DELIBERATE REASONS,FIRSTLY, FOR THE MALE LINE TO CONTINUE WHEN THEY HAD CHILDREN,AND SECONDLY,BECAUSE OF THE STRICT WORDING IN THE ENTAILMENT OF STRATHAIRD ESTATE BY HER FATHER. OLD ALEXANDER ,HER FATHER , SET ASIDE A FARM SECTION OF THE STRATHAIRD ESTATE AT GLASNAKILLE AS A WEDDING PRESENT FOR THEM BOTH ,AND TO CARRY ON THE MACALISTER NAME FOR THE ESTATE WHICH IS WRITTEN IN THE DOCUMENT OF ENTAILMENT DELIBERATELY SET DOWN BY HIM.IN THE 1820`S. DUNCAN AND JANNETTE HAD 13 CHILDREN,10 MALES AND 3 FEMALES.THE FIRST MALE CHILD BORN WAS ALEXANDER, BORN 1790,(MY G.G.G.GF.)EVIDENTLY PRIOR TO THEM GETTING MARRIED(TUT,TUT,SUCH GOINGS ON)HE BECAME A DOCTOR (BUT I REFER TO HIM AS SURGEON ALEXANDER MACALISTER IN MY GENELOGICAL RESEARCHING,BECAUSE OF THE NAME ALEXANDER BEING CARRIED ON IN THE VARIOUS GENERATIONS ,AND IT BECAME CONFUSING TO TRY AND SEPERATE WHICH ALEXANDER BELONGED TO WHAT GENERATION) HE FINISHED HIS MEDICAL TRAINING UNDER PROF.T.C. HOPE.AT GLASGOW MEDICAL UNIVERSITY IN 1815,AND EVIDENTLY WENT STAIGHT TO; OR SHORTLY AFTERWARDS,TO DEMERARA,BRITISH GUYANA,WHERE HE MARRIED A CATHERINE MEWBURN IN GEORGETOWN IN 1815,THE DAUGHTER OF THOMAS MEWBURN ,EVIDENTLY A CHURCH MINISTER THERE IN THE NATIONAL ASSEMBLY,AND RESIDED AT "GARNET LODGE"HER MOTHER`S MAIDEN NAME WAS DEBRUGH,AND I BELIEVE; HER FAMILY HAD SUGAR PLANTATIONS THERE. THIS SURGEON ALEXANDER AND CATHERINE HAD 11 CHILDREN,6 MALES AND 5 FEMALES.THE FIRST MALE CHILD BORN WAS THOMAS MEWBURN MACALISTER IN 1818.HE WAS TO LATER DIE IN BRUTHEN,GIPPSLAND ,VICTORIA,AUSTRALIA IN 1859,HAVEING COME OUT TO AUSTRALIA FROM GLASGOW SOMETIME IN OR AROUND 1837,AS A RESULT OF A REQUEST FROM LACHLAN MACALISTER,1797-1855 (A NEPHEW,A YOUNGER BROTHER TO SURGEON ALEXANDER MACALISTER) A SIDE DETAIL HERE......THIS LACHLAN MACALISTER (THE 5TH SON BORN TO JANNETTE AND DUNCAN)WAS THE FIRST MACALISTER FROM STRATHAIRD, AND SKYE, TO COME TO AUSTRALIA IN 1817, AS A YOUNG ENSIGN( A COMMISSION PURCHASED BY HIS FAMILY),IN THE 48TH REGT.FT.ALSO TO COME OUT WAS COLIN MACALISTER,A YOUNGER BROTHER OF LACHLAN`S ,AND A FRIEND OF THE MACALISTERS BACK IN SKYE ,ANGUS MACMILLAN FROM GLENBRITTLE,WHOSE FAMILY LIVED OVER THE WESTERN BOUNDARY SIDE OF THE CUILLANS WHICH BORDERED THE STRATHAIRD ESTATE, AND MATTHEW MACALISTER ,A COUSIN. LACHLAN WAS LATER GRANTED SOMETIME IN THE EARLY 1820`S, 2000 ACRES OF LAND AT PICTON ,SOUTH OF SYDNEY,WHEN HE DECIDED TO REMAIN IN THE NEW COLONY AFTER HIS UNIT HAD FINISHED ITS TOUR OF DUTY ,AND RECALLED BACK TO LONDON,AND INDIA.LACHLAN WAS DOING VERY WELL HERE IN AUSTRALIA,AND AS A RESULT OF EXTENDING HIS LAND HOLDINGS ,HE WROTE BACK HOME FOR ASSISTANCE TO MANAGE HIS PROPERTIES . IN 1839,LACHLAN SENT HIS MACALISTER RELATIONS SOUTH TO EXPLORE THE SOUTHERN MOST AREA OF WHAT WAS THEN NEW SOUTH WALES ,BUT LATER , IN 1850 ,BECAME THE STATE OF VICTORIA.AS A RESULT OF SEVERAL EXPLORATION PARTIES SENT BY LACHLAN OVER THE NEXT 2 YEARS MANNED BY HIS MACALISTER BROTHERS AND NEPHEWS,THE AREA WE HERE IN AUSTRALIA KNOW AS "GIPPSLAND" WAS PIONEERED ,AND DISCOVERED. THE MACALISTER RIVER WHICH FLOWS THROUGH LICOLA AND INTO THE GLENMAGGIE LAKE IS NAMED AFTER HIM. MEANWHILE ,ANOTHER MACALISTER,ALSO NAMED ALEXANDER (1828-1870)(AND I WILL REFER YOU TO HIM A BIT FURTHER ON IN THIS HISTORY OF MY ANCESTORS,AS HE WAS THE CATALYST FOR US BEING DONE OUT OF THE INHEIRITANCE OF STRATHAIRD) ALSO BECAME A DOCTOR,GRADUATING FROM EDINBURGH MEDICAL UNIVERSITY IN 1851,AND COMING STRAIGHT OUT TO AUSTRALIA TO BECOME THE FIRST DOCTOR IN GIPPSLAND ,PRACTICING IN SALE ,AND LATER IN BAIRNSDALE.HE WAS THE SECOND ELDEST SON OF SURGEON ALEXANDER MACALISTER,(AND WAS MY G.G.GF)AND AFTER THE DEATH OF HIS ELDER BROTHER;THOMAS MEWBURN MACALISTER IN 1859, DR.ALEXANDER BECAME THE ELDEST MALE HEIR OF THE BODY OF OLD ALEXANDER MACALISTER ESQ. OF STRATHAIRD WHO HAD DIED IN 1832.DR.ALEXANDER MARRIED A MARY HILLIER A YOUNG NURSE ,IN BAIRNSDALE ,ON THE 7TH AUGUST ,1860.NOW NOTE THIS,AS THIS IS THE IMPORTANT BIT OF THIS WHOLE AFFAIR....THEY HAD 7 CHILDREN ,THE FIRST BORN,AND ELDEST MALE SON WAS THOMAS MEWBURN MACALISTER ,MY G.GF.PRESUMEDLY BORN ON THE 27TH JUNE,1860....I SAY PRESUMEDLY BECAUSE...... THERE IS NO OFFICIAL RECORD OF THIS BIRTH HERE IN VICTORIA, OR NEW SOUTH WALES ,AS RECORDS WERE KEPTED IN NSW.PRIOR TO VICTORIA BECOMING A STATE IN 1850,OR IN AUSTRALIA FOR THAT MATTER,SO IT IS A BLOODY GIANT MYSTERY HOW IN 1883 ,WHEN 3 SOLICITORS WERE EVIDENTLY SENT OUT FROM SCOTLAND, BY THIS WEAK, INCIPENT,BLUDGING, MONGREL, GRANDSON ALEXANDER; OF THE SECOND MARRIAGE OF OLD ALEXANDER OF STRATHAIRD,TO GET HIM TO DISMISS HIMSELF BY DISENTAILING HIS RIGHT TO THE STRATHAIRD ESTATE, ON THE GROUNDS THAT HE WAS BORN ON THIS DATE....27TH JUNE ,1860.....(WHERE DID THEY GET, OR PLUCK THAT FROM)... THAT HE WAS THEREFORE A BASTARD, BORN SOME 5 WEEKS PRIOR TO HIS MOTHER AND FATHER MARRYING,AND UNDER SCOTTISH LAW, HE WAS DISQUALIFIED FROM ANY RIGHTS, OR INHEIRITANCE. NOW HERES A FURTHER MATTER,WHEN I WAS GOING FOR MY APPLICATION FOR A GRANT OF ARMS IN 1990,ALASTAIR CAMPBELL OF AIRDS WAS PURSUIANT AT THE COURT OF THE LORD LYON,AND MY REPRESENTER .HE TOLD ME THAT MY G.GF.THOMAS MEWBURN MACALISTER ,WAS A LEGITIMATE PERSON UNDER SCOTTISH LAW,WHICH WAS DESCENDED FROM ROMAN LAW ,WHERE,TWO PEOPLE WHO MADE AN AFFIRMATION IN FRONT OF THE VILLAGE PEOPLE WHILE HOLDING HANDS,THEN ALL CHILDREN BORN BEFORE THAT AFFIRMATION ,AND ALL CHILDREN BORN AFTERWARDS ,WERE LEGITIMATE. HE WENT ON TO SAY THAT, SEEING THAT MY G.GF .WAS BORN HERE IN AUSTRALIA,THEN HE WAS SUBJECT TO AUSTRALIAN LAW ,AND UNDER AUSTRALIAN LAW HE WAS ILLEGITIMATE. WELL MAGGIE,SURPRISE,SURPRISE,THERE WAS NO BLOODY AUSTRALIAN LAW IN THE 1860S ,AS AUSTRALIA WAS A COLONT OF GREAT BRITAIN ,AND THEREFORE WAS SUBJECT TO BRITISH LAW WHICH WAS SCOTTISH LAW ,WHICH WAS ROMAN LAW.AUSTRALIA DID NOT HAVE ITS OWN LAWS. AND CONSTITUTION UNTIL 1901. IN THE MEANTIME ,AND AS A RESULT OF WHAT ALASTAIR CAMPBELL HAD SAID ,I WENT TO THE SUPREME COURT HERE IN MELBOURNE,AND HAD AN APPLICATION BEFORE THE COURT TO LEGITIMISE MY G.GF UNDER AUSTRALIAN LAW,AND THIS ORDER WAS GRANTED ,THE MAIN CLAUSE STATEING ......I FIND THAT THOMAS MEWBURN MACALISTER WAS AND IS A (PAST TENSE AND PRESENT)LEGITIMATE PERSON, ACCORDING TO AUSTRALIAN LAW. I SENT A COPY OF THIS SUPREME COURT ORDER TO ALASTAIR CAMPBELL ALONG WITH ALL THE RELEVANT BIRTH, AND DEATH, AND MARRIGE CERTIFICATES, OF MY ANCESTORS,REQUIRED TO SUPPORT MY APPLICATION. NOTHING HAS EVIDENTLY BEEN DONE OR CORRECTED .I HAVE A BLOODY CHEQUERED BORDER AROUND MY ARMS,SUPPOSEDLY HIGHLIGHTING ILLIGITMACEY,AND ON TOP OF THAT,WHEN I ASKED IN MY APPLICATION TO BE RECOGNISED AS MACALISTER OF "STRATHAIRD" I HAVE BEEN FURTHER SOMERSALTED OR FOBBED OFF WITH BEING GRANTED AS "CADET OF TARBERT"PRESUMEDLY I AM POSITIVE THAT THE LORD LYONS COURT DOES NOT RECOGNISE ANY MALES EXISTING FROM THE STRATHAIRD LINE. I STRONGLY INSIST THAT THIS BE CORRECTED ,AND I CALL UPON MY CHIEFLY BROTHER CLAN DONALD TO SUPPORT ME IN THIS,JUST AS US MACALISTERS HAVE FOR CENTURIES ,STOOD TO THE RIGHT OF CLAN DONALD IN ALL THEIR BATTLES. SO HELP ME GOD. I AM A KNIGHT TEMPLAR HERE IN AUSTRALIA, AND ALSO IN SCOTLAND, AND I STAND AND FALL BY THEIR MOTTO OF OVER A THOUSAND YEARS....."VERITAS NOS LIBERABIT"......THE TRUTH WILL SET YOU FREE. NOW TO REFER YOU BACK TO THE ABOVE RED HIGHLIGHTED SECTION. WITH MOST OF THE MALE SONS OF JANNETTE AND DUNCAN MACALISTER OUT HERE IN AUSTRALIA,AND JANNETTE DIEING IN 1841 ,---9 YEARS AFTER HER FATHER ,AND DR.DUNCAN MACALISTER ,JANNETTE`S HUSBAND, DIEING IN 1854( BOTH BURIED IN THE MACALISTER TOMB AT DRINAN.... BETWEEN STRATHAIRD HOUSE AND GLASNAKILLE,THERE WAS NO DIRECT MALE MACALISTER LIVEING ON THE STRATHAIRD ESTATE EXCEPT ANOTHER SON OF JANNETTE AND DUNCANS ,THAT BEING,DR.NORMAN MACDONALD MACALISTER ,1801-1868,WHO WAS STILL ON THE FARM AT GLASNAKILLE . NOW THE SAGA GETS MORE COMPLICATED.....OLD ALEXANDER OF STRATHAIRD MARRIED A SECOND TIME ,ON THE 21ST SEPT.1780,TO JANET MACLEOD OF GRESHORNISH.EVIDENTLY ,MARY CAMPBELL,OLD ALEXANDER`S FIRST WIFE ,DIED IN A FIRE, PRESUMEDLY SOMETIME AROUND THE MID 1770S.THIS WAS TOLD TO ME BY ANGUS CHARLES MACALISTER (MY COUSIN) OF" GLEN-BARR",WHEN I STAYED AT GLENBARR ABBEY FOR 3 MONTHS IN 1994.AS A RESUT OF THIS 2ND MARRIAGE THERE WERE 6 CHILDREN BORN,3 SONS AND 3 DAUGHTERS.OLD ALEXANDER OUTLIVED ALL OF HIS SONS.ONLY ONE SON ,JOHN WAS MARRIED,AND HE HAD A SON ALSO NAMED ALEXANDER 1820-1898.(HE WOULD HAVE BEEN 11 WHEN OLD ALEXANDER DIED IN 1832) THIS GRANDSON OF OLD ALEXANDER SOMEHOW GOT CONTROL OF STRATHAIRD,ABOUT WHEN EXACTLY I DO NOT KNOW,POSSIBLY ABOUT THE MID 1850S,I WOULD HAZARD A GUESS AND SAY NOT LONG AFTER DR.DUNCAN MACALISTER ,JANNETTES HUSBAND,DIED IN 1854,AS IT WAS THIS MONGREL WHO WAS RESPONSABLE FOR THE STRATHAIRD CLEARANCES IN 1854.THIS WEAK, INCIPENT BLUDGER HAD PREVIOUSLY BEEN DIVORCED FROM HIS WIFE---THE DAUGHTER OF ADMIRAL FLEMING,WHICH IS RECORDED THAT SHE SUFFERED CRUELITY,AND WHETHER IT WAS ALSO BECAUSE THIS MONGREL HAD ELOPED WITH HIS COUSINS,(KEITH MACALISTER OF GLENBARR) WIFE, MARY CAMPELL,AND SHOT THROUGH TO FRANCE ,AND BOUGHT A CHATEAU NAMED "BEAU MANOIRE",AT FONDETTES,A SHORT DISTANCE FROM TOURS,IN FRANCE,EVIDENTLY OUT OF ALL THE MONEY THIS MONGREL GOT FOR NOTHING FROM ESTATES LEFT TO HIM ,NAMELY GENERAL KEITH MACALISTER`S ESTATE OF "TORRISDALE",(A YOUNGER BROTHER TO OLD ALEXANDER OF STRATHAIRD,NOT MARRIED)THE"LOUP" ESTATE ALSO FROM GENERAL KEITH, WHICH HE PURCHASED ABOUT 1810 OR 1812, WHEN THE" LOUP" BRANCH WENT BANKRUPT,ALSO "TRESLANE "AT VATERNISH,NEAR THE MACLEODS DUNVEGAN,AND SOME PROPERTY NEAR OR OF" GLENBARR",KINTYRE,AND OTHER PROPERTIES AS THERE WERE NO MACALISTER MALES LEFT(FROM JANNETTE AND DR.DUNCANS MARRIAGE AT STRATHAIR,AS THEY WERE OUT HERE IN AUSTRALIA)AND AFTER THE DEATH OF DR.NORMAN MACDONALD MACALISTER IN 1868,THIS MONGREL GRANDSON OF THE SECOND MARRIAGE OF OLD ALEXANDER ,WAS TRYING TO DISPOSE OF STRATHAIRD ,AS HE DID NOT HAVE THE HIGHLAND BACKBONE OR TRUE STRATHAIRD GENES TO CARRY ON, OR PRESERVE STRATHAIRD,ALL HE WANTED WAS MORE MONEY, AND LESS RESPONSABILITY,BUT HE EVIDENTLY COULD NOT DO SO BECAUSE OF THE STRICT LINE OF SUCCESSION OF STRATHAIRD SET DOWN IN THE DOCUMENT OF ENTAILMENT ,WHICH MEANT AT THIS POINT OF TIME ,THAT MY G.GF.ALSO NAMED THOMAS MEWBURN MACALISTER (1860?-1941),THE ELDEST SON OF DR.ALEXANDER MACALISTER (1828-1870)WAS IN THE WAY, AND PREVENTED HIM FROM DOING SO. NOW TO REGRESS A LITTLE TO FURTHER ADD TO ALL OF THIS ,IN 1871,A DRAMATIC AND FAMOUS TRIAL COMMENCED IN LONDON,"THE TICHBORNE AFFAIR",AND ENDED IN 1874,WHERE ONE ,A THOMAS CASTRO, WAS CLAIMING TO BE THE LOST ROGER TICHBORNE, HEIR TO RATHER LARGE ESTATES IN LONDON.THIS THOMAS CASTRO ,ALIAS ARTHUR ORTON,HAD WORKED ON ONE OF LACHLAN MACALISTERS PROPERTIES CALLED "BOISDALE"IN GIPPSLAND DUREING THE EARLY 1870S.LACHLAN HAD DISPOSED OF" BOISDALE" IN THE 1850S DUE TO SEVERE DROUGHT CONDITIONS ,AND WAS PURCHASED BY A CAPTAIN FOSTER.WHEN THE CAPTAIN DIED ,HIS WIDOW LATER REMARRIED MATHEW MACALISTER ,A YOUNGER BROTHER TO MY .G.GF.THOMAS MEWBURN MACALISTER.THEPOINT I AM TELLING YOU THIS IS THAT BOTH MATTHEW AND HIS WIFE WERE CALLED TO LONDON TO GIVE EVIDENCE DUREING THIS FAMOUS TRIAL,AND I STRONGLY SUSPECT THAT THIS MATTHEW ,BEING JEALOUS OF HIS BROTHER THOMAS MEWBURN ,WHICH WAS FAMILY KNOWLEDGE HERE ,HAS EVIDENTLY DISCLOSED INFORMATION TO THIS MONGREL ,WEAK ,INSIPENT,MONEY GRABBING ,BLUDGING , GRANDSON ALEXANDER, OTHERWISE, THERE IS NO OTHER POSSIBLE WAY THAT THIS MONGREL COULD KNOW WHAT MY ANCESTORS WERE DOING OUT HERE IN AUSTRALIA. ACCORDING TO MY FAMILY RELATIONS HERE ,THESE SOLICITORS CORNERED A YOUNG, IGNORANT, AND UNREPRESENTED, THOMAS MEWBURN MACALISTER IN A HOTEL IN ORBOST ,PLIED HIM WITH DRINK ,AND AS I HAVE BEEN TOLD ,HE WAS PARTIALLY DRUNK,BUT THIS IS HERESAY NOW IN THIS DAY AND AGE,AND CANNOT BE SUBSTANCIATED.THEY TOTALLY CONFUSED HIM WITH LEGAL JARGON .HE DID NOT HAVE THE SLIGHTEST CLUE AS TO ENGLISH LAW ,SCOTTISH LAW ,AND ENTAILED DOCUMENTS,OR HIS RIGHTS AS A LEGITIMATE PERSON . THOMAS MEWBURNS FATHER, THE DOCTOR ,DIED SUDDENLY, AND UNEXPECTANTLY IN 1870,WHEN HE WAS ONLY 9 OR 10 YEARS OLD.HE WAS TAKEN IN BY THIS MATHEW MACALISTER, AND HIS WIFE, AND I ASSUME ACTED AS HIS GUARDIAN. EVIDENTLY, FROM WHAT I WAS TOLD BY A GRANDDAUGHTER OF DR.ALEXANDER MACALISTER BACK IN 1968,THE DOCTOR WAS INTENDING TO RETURN BACK TO SCOTLAND TO SORT OUT WHAT THE HECK WAS GOING ON BACK AT STRATHAIRD,BUT UNFORTUNATELY,HE DIED SUDDENLY BEFORE HE COULD DO SO.THERE WAS A NEWSPAPER ARTICLE IN "THE GIPPSLAND TIMES" IN 1868 WHICH STATED ,AND I QUOTE....DOCTOR ALEXANDER HAS RETIRED TO HIS PROPERY AT" MIEBOST",AND IS NO LONGER PRACTICING MEDICINE,DUE TO COMING INTO A FORTUNE OF SOME £18.000.00 POUNDS ,THE RESULT OF PROPERTY BEING SOLD BACK IN SCOTLAND ON THE ISLE OF SKYE. THE DOCTOR ,MY G.G.GF,NEVER RECEIVED THIS MONEY,NOR DID HIS SON ,THOMAS MEWBURN,MY G.GF.IT JUST SOMEHOW MAGICLY DISAPPEARED,GONE,VANISHED.AS A RESULT OF ALL OF THIS ,MY FAMILY HERE HAVE BEEN ON THE BONES OF OUR ARSE EVER SINCE NOW FOR 4 GENERATIONS.NOT ONLY HAS THIS MONEY DISAPPEARED ,BUT WE WERE ALSO DONE OUT OF OUR FAMILY ROOTS,AND HISTORY, AT STRATHAIRD. I DO HOPE, AND APPEAL TO YOU MAGGIE, THAT CLAN DONALD CAN, OR WILL LOOK INTO THIS INJUSTICE, AND MISTAKE, AND CORRECT THE INFORMATION CONTAINED IN YOUR CLAN HISTORY RELATING TO US MACALISTERS OF STRATHAIRD.I WOULD ALSO GREATLY APPRECIATE ANY ADVICE YOU MAY OFFER ME AS TO WHAT I MAY HAVE TO DO FURTHER.PLEASE HELP IF YOU CAN. P.S.....I AM ATTACHING AN E/MAIL REPLY THAT HAS JUST COME IN WHILE I HAVE BEEN TYPEING THIS SAD TALE TO YOU REGARDING MY QUEST TO OBTAIN THE SASSINE RECORDS OF STRATHAIRD SINCE 1786 UP TO 1884,THE PERIOD OF OUR MACALISTER OWNERSHIP, IN THE HOPE THAT YOU MAY KNOW OF AN APPROPRIATE RESEARCHER TO OBTAIN THIS INFORMATION FOR ME. I TRUST YOU FIND THIS SAGA AN INTERESTING READ ..I AWAIT YOUR THOUGHTS, AND REPLY, WITH A GREAT DEAL OF ANTICIPATION. MY REGARDS TO YOU AS USUAL , YOURS SINCERELY AND IN CLAN SHIP. MAX M.ESQ. ______________________________________________________________________ Chev. Max M Macalister ESQ. KOTJ. FAHSA. 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Lord of "Clifton-Coldwell"MACALISTER OF GLENBARR AND COUR AND OTHERS INCLUDING COLONEL NORMAN MACALISTER OF CLACHAIG HOUSE
Though the primary purpose of this document is to draw attention to the deaths of Lieutenant Charles Augustus Macalister of Glenbarr and Cour, at Peking in 1911 and Colonel Norman Macalister of the unfinished and abandoned Clachaig House, he GovernorGeneral of Penang's Prince of Wales' Island and lost at sea aboard The East India Company's ship "Ocean" in 1810, it makes sense to add some record of the clan's history and lineage to their stories here. In 1770 it is recorded that one Gilbert McIlchallum (McCallum), from Bracklarach, Carradale, took out a 19-year lease of the farm of Crubastill, near the village of Muasdale, on the west coast of Kintyre. The lands of Crubastill extended to 4 merklands and he had the rental of one merkland for 19 years at 18 pounds (Scots), £10 7 shillings sterling, 1 boll bear (barley) and '?' boll meal annually. He was succeeded by his son Peter McCallum, who farmed there until 1829 on the Mid-Crubastill division until it changed hands, one Iver McGeachy becoming the new tenant. Crubasdale Lodge, or 'Rockfield' as it was originally named, was built either around that time, or slightly later, its construction funded by an uncle of one Thomas Butler Parry who, according to a list of British Guiana colonists, died in the Surinam town of Paramaribo on August 6, 1843, Parry perhaps a missionary of some sort, his wife being Mary McDonald, daughter of Killean and Kilchenzie parish's minister, the Rev. Donald McDonald, minister of the parish from minister from 1798 to 1851, who lived in the old manse on the shore at 1
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Subject: Re: Jane MacalisterMARY JANE MC ALLISTER OR MC DONALD Pedigree Female
Event(s): Birth: 12 OCT 1873 Saint Nicholas, Aberdeen, Aberdeen, Scotland Christening: Death: Burial:
Parents: Father: JOHN MC ALLISTER Family Mother: CHARLOTTE MC DONALD
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FIRST DOCTOR IN GIPPSLAND, 1851. HAD PROPERTY OF "MIEBOST", AT SARSFIELD ON ROAD TO BRUTHEN.
Married Anne Macdonald of Kingsburgh,ISLE OF SKYE, 1742. Anne borned 1722- died 1802.
FIRST MACALISTER TO COME TO AUSTRALIA ON THE 7TH. AUGUST 1817, AS ENSIGN IN THE 48TH REGT FT.PIONEER, AND DISCOVER OF GIPPSLAND, 1839. Home property Clifton, Picton, NSW
Forced to sign documents of disentailment in 1883 when several solicitors were sent out from Scotland to Orbost, Gippsland, Australia and forced to sign a document of disentailment to the estate of Strathaird on the grounds that he was born above it, presumedly born on the 27/06/1860, son 5 weeks prior to his parents marriage on the 7th of Auguest 1860. When Max Macalister applied for his grants of arms in 1990, he was told that Thomas Mewburn Macalister was a legitimate person.
Left: Thomas Mewburn Macalister
Right: Ruth Hanna Macalister
1760-1810 Governor of the prince of walesisland-Penang 1807-1810
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Lord of "Clifton-Coldwell"
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Clan Donald Lands Trust,
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Isle of Skye IV45 8RS
Library Tel: 01599-534454
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Clan Donald Lands Trust is a registered charity No.SC007862
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Maggie Macdonald
Archivist, Clan Donald Library, Museum of the Isles, Clan Donald Skye
Clan Donald Lands Trust,
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Subject: follow up
Hope things are better out your way than the last time we 'talked'. I haven't heard much more about fires, but that could just mean the news people with their five-second attention spans have moved on. . . .
Just downloaded the files you sent so I can print them out and look over them over the weekend. I think most of the information you sent is information I already have, but as I said, I will take a closer look. I do apologise for having taken this long.
Thanks again - you're my major source for info on the Strathaird people, and Australia Macalisters in general.
Yours Aye,
Lynn
Lord of "Clifton-Coldwell"
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Sent: Wednesday, 13 June 2012 11:14 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Retours, our enquiry ref 57938
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DEAR KIRSTY,THANK YOU FOR YOUR E/MAIL.GOOD TO HEAR BACK FROM YOU.
I WAS WORRIED THAT YOU MIGHT BE A LITTLE OFFENDED BY MY AUSTRALIA ISIM`S.
YES, I THOUGHT THAT THAT WAS WHAT YOU MEANT ....£22 AN HOUR .."F...,ME ".
THERE I GO AGAIN.
THAT WILL HAVE TO BE OK..K SARA SARA ...DO THE SASINE
ABRIDGEMENTS, AS YOU HAVE SUGGESTED IN THE FIRST INSTANCE,AND IF WE THINK WE
HAVE FOUND SOMETHING THAT MIGHT BE RELEVANT TO WHAT MY WHINGE IS ...IE.THIS
MONGREL GRANDSON JUMPING OVER JANNETTE IN LINE OF INHEIRITANCE, AND IF NOT
HER ,THEN HER MALE SONS,THEN WE CAN PROCEED FURTHER,AND IF HE SHOULD HAVE
FILED SERVED AS HEIR .....BLOODY MORE EXPENSE.
HOW DID YOU ABSORB ALL THE INFORMATION I SENT YOU? DID IT MAKE
SOME SENSE?HOW WAS MY PICTURE ?DID I LIOIK LIKE A BRONZED ANZAC?.
YOU HAVE ME A LITTLE LOST WITH THIS "VASSEL" BIT...WHAT DOES THAT
ACTUALLY IMPLY?AND WHATS THIS "SUBJECT SUPERIOR" MEAN IN LAWFUL
STANDING/POSITION?
AND THIS IS NEW TO ME ...WHAT THE "F" DOES "PRECEPT OF CLARE CONSTANT" MEAN?
YOU SEE I SHOULD HAVE SAT NEXT TO YOU AT SCHOOL,AS I`M A BIT LOST WITH THESE
TERMS AT THE MOMENT ,NO BUGGER HAS ENLIGHTENED ME TO THEIR MEANING BEFORE.
A COUPLE OF THINGS HERE AT THIS POINT TO MENTION TO YOU TO GAUGE YOUR
THOUGHTS AND KNOWLEDGE.....
1. THE MACLEODS FOR INSTANCE WERE LED BY A FEMALE ,AND ALTHOUGH I`M NOT ALL
THAT VERSED IN THE MATTER ,I THINK THERE HAS BEEN OTHER PRECEDENTS OF
FEMALES INHEIRITING THE MALE GENES OF THE BODY, WHEN THERE HAS BEEN NO MALE
LEFT,AND THEN HER SON WOULD CONTINUE THE LINE AFTER HER.
2.IN THE DOCUMENT OF ENTAILMENT OF"STRATHAIRD",IT STATES THAT.... IN THE
EVENT OF THERE BEING NO MALE HEIRS OF THE BODY ,THEN THE FEMALE HEIRS OF THE
BODY ARE TO ASSUME THE MALE HEIRS.
KIRSTY(I THOUGHT THAT WAS MORE OF AN AMERICAN NAME RATHER THAN
SCOTTISH?) I HAVE ALSO SENT A LONG RAMBLING E/M WHINGE TO MAGGIE
MACDONALD,THE CLAN ARCHIVEST, AT THE CLAN DONALD CENTRE,IN ADVASSER ,ON
SKYE.I HAVE MET HER SEVERAL TIMES BEFORE WHEN I WAS IN SKY AND TRAVELLING
TO STRATHAIRD.
ACCORDING TO THE CLAN DONALD HISTORY,IT STATES IN THE SECTION DEALING WITH
CLAN MACALISTER(AS WE ARE A SEPT OF CLAN DONALD)....THAT THE MALE LINE OF
STRATHAIRD HAD DIED OUT, AND WAS TAKEN OVER BY THE MACALISTERS OF
GLENBARR,KINTYRE(THEY ARE MY COUSINS ANYHOW)
I DONT KNOW IF YOU KNOW OF HER ,BUT IN CASE YOU NEED TO CONTACT HER ABOUT ME
AND/OR MY ANCESTORS ,HER E/M [email protected] I HAVE COMPLAINED
TO HER AND CLAN DONALD THAT I WANT THIS CORRECTED,OTHERWISE ,WHERE THE
BLOODY HELL DID I COME FROM....AN ELEPHANTS BUM? I AM UNDER THE IMPRESSION
THAT IT IS ENCUMBANT THAT THEY ,CLAN DONALD ,CORRECT THIS,SEEING AS I AM THE
SENIOR MALE LEFT ALIVE OF MACALISTERS.
OK ,WHILE I AM TYPEING THIS TO YOU ,YOU ARE SOUND ASLEEP.ITS 3PM HERE
ON A HOT SATURDAY AFTERNOON.
LET ME KNOW IF THERE IS ANYTHING MORE YOU NEED TO KNOW,UNTIL THEN ,I WILL
WAIT UNTIL YOUR NEXT E/M.
REGARDS FROM ME,
YOURS SINCERELY,
MAX M.ESQ.
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Max M Macalister Esq.
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-----Original Message-----
From: My Ain Folk: Kirsty F. Wilkinson [mailto:[email protected]]
Sent: Saturday, 16 February 2013 5:57 AM
To: Max Macalister
Subject: Re: Straithaird Sasine Searches
Hi Max,
Sorry if my previous email was unclear, £22 GBP is my hourly rate and
copying & postage costs are in addition to my hourly fee. If you are happy
with this, I would suggest an initial search of the Sasine Abridgements for
Strathaird for the period 1789-1950. This will likely take around 2-3
hours. You can then decide if you want full copies of any particular
sasines.
Whether it would have been necessary for Alexander Macalister junior to be
served as heir (with a record in the Services of Heirs) in this particular
case might depend on how the land was held. For example, if he was a
'vassal' rather than a 'subject superior' then a Precept of Clare Constat
issued by the subject superior could have been sufficient. It would have
been usual for the eldest son to inherit (and failing him, his eldest son),
rather than a daughter and her heirs (even though Janet was the older
child).
My knowledge of Latin is pretty basic so I couldn't provide an accurate
translation, although as many documents are quite formulaic it's often
possible to pick out the main points.
Regards,
Kirsty=
Lord of "Clifton-Coldwell"
Sent: Thursday, 14 February 2013 4:59 AM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: Enquiry from your listing on www.asgra.co.uk
Message:
KIRSTYI AM INTERESTED IN FINDING/RESEARCHING ALL THE SASINE RECORDS FROM 1789 UP TP 1950, DEALING WITH MY ANCESTOR`S,(ALEXANDER MACALISTER ESQ.1744-1832) ESTATE OF "STRATHAIRD",ISLE OF SKYE,WHICH HE PURCHASED IN 1789.STRATHAIRD WAS AN ENTAILED ESTATE.MY MALE LINE WERE DONE OUT OF THE ESTATE AFTER HIS DEATH IN 1832,BY AN ARSEHOLE MONGREL GRANDSON....(ALSO NAMED ALEXANDER,1820-1898) OF OLD ALEXANDER`S SECOND MARRIAGE IN 1884,WHEN MY G.GF.(THOMAS MEWBURN MACALISTER 1860-1941)HERE IN ORBOST ,GIPPSLAND ,VICTORIA ,AUSTRALIA,WAS COERCED INTO SIGNING A DOCUMENT OF DISENTAILMENT, ON THE SO CALLED DUBIOUS GROUNDS THAT HE WAS ILLEGITIMATEWOULD YOU BE KIND ENOUGH TO GIVE ME A QUOTE PLEASE,AND I SUPPOSE YOU WILL QUOTE SO MUCH AN HOUR WHICH SEEMS TO BE THE STANDARD THER,BUT YOUR PRICES ...SCOTTISH,ARE BLOODY OUTRAGEOUS COMPARED TO OUR PRICES HERE IN AUSTRALIA.
I CANNOT AFFORD A BLOODY GREAT ENORMOUS BILL,HOPEFULLY IN THE RANGE OF A COUPLE OF HUNDRED AUSTRALIAN DOLLARS ...OR AM I ASKING TOO MUCH OF YOU.ANYHOW,I WOULD APPRECIATE A QUOTE FROM YOU BEFORE I START FISHING AROUND.HERE IS YOUR CHANCE TO GET INVOLVED IN A MATTER THAT I DON`T THINK YOU WILL EVER HAVE THE OPPORTUNITY TO DO SO AGAIN.MAX MACALISTER ESQ.SCOTKT T. SENIOR OF STRATHAIRD,CADET OF TARBERT,ALL ARMS OF SCOTLAND,LORD OF CLIFTON-COLDWELL.PRES.CLAN MACALISTER AUSTRALIA.
Submitters IP address: 124.180.195.80
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