IN SEARCH OF SCOTTISH ROOTS - Article #1 Archibald MacGregor |
| "The scarcity of provisions, had none become so great, that the men were on this important day reduced to the miserable allowance of only one small loaf, and that of the worst kind… Its ingredients appeared to be merely the husks of oats and a coarse unclean species of dust." |
| "The persevering and desperate valour displayed by the Highlanders on this occasion is proved by the circumstance, that at one part of the plain, where a very vigorous attack had been made, their bodies were afterwards found in layers three and four deep, so many, it would appear, having in succession, mounted over a prostrate friend to share in the same certain fate." -- ‘Jacobite Memories: Lyon in Mourning’ |
| “Upon Thursday, the day after the battle, a party was ordered to the field of battle to put to death all the wounded they should find upon it, which accordingly they performed with the greatest dispatch and the utmost exactness, carrying the wounded from the several parts of the field…where they ranged them in due order, and instantly shot them dead” -- ‘Jacobite Memories: Lyon in Mourning’ [x] |
by William Elsey Connelly
(MacAlpin) MacGregor Family
- F – Ann MacGREGOR. She was born on the 14th of February, 1756, in North Carolina, and died about 1830, in Oil Springs, Floyd County, Kentucky. She married Henry CONNELLY in 1774, in Guilford County, North Carolina. He was born on the 2nd of May, 1752, in Chester County, Pennsylvania, and died on the 7th of May, 1840, in Oil Springs, Floyd County, Kentucky. He was the son of Thomas & Mary (Van HARLINGEN) CONNELLY.
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- Figure 1: Charles Edward Stuart (1720-1788) – Picture on Left is a portrait painted between 1739 to 1745 by William Mosman, showing Charles clothed in a tartan jacket, with the garter containing the star and ribbon, and the white cockade displayed on his hat. Picture on Right, by Maurice Quentin de la Tour, 1748. Wearing the blue sash of the Order of the Garter across his breastplate.
- Figure 2: Statue of “Robert the Bruce.”
- Figure 3: The Battle of Culloden, by David Morier. 1746. – Title of the painting: “The Highland attack on the Grenadier Company of Barrell’s King’s Own Royal Regiment.”
- Figure 4: “The Battle of Culloden showing the Encampment of the English Army; At Nairn, and the march of the Highlander’s in order to attack them by night.” Map by John Finlayson, dated about 1746.
- Figure 5: The Battle of Culloden, by Mark Churms.
- Figure 6: Territorial Map of North Carolina, dated 1755.
- Figure 7: Detailed map of the Coastal & “Cape Fear” region of North Carolina, 1755.
- Figure 8: The Crest of the MacGregor Clan.
- Figure 9: The Tartan Colors of the MacGregor Clan & Ancient Tartan of the MacAlpine Clan.
- Figure 10: Andrew Lang – “A prolific Scots man of Letters.” (1844-1912); Drawn by Burne Murdock, engraved by J. F. Jungling.
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Thank you for this.I am a decendent of Archibald and Eddith through my grandmother Betty Connelly
Thank you for this! I am a descendant of Captain Henry Connelly and Ann MacGregor through their great-great granddaughter Serena Conley.
Very interesting! I am related to Ann and Henry Connelly through Henry, Jr, Peggy Connelly/Richard Caswell Adkins.
Thank you Steven, I enjoyed your research very much. I am Related through John Conely, son of Henry and Ann Connelly. Thank you again
Roy Whitsett
Thank you for putting this together and publishing it. I am a descendant of Henry Connelly and his wife Ann McGregor.
I am also a descendant of Henry and Ann Connelly. Henry was my 6th great grandfather. My grandmother is a Connelly. Excited to find this, and hope to connect with relatives.
Thank you