Tour Scotland Autumn travel video, with Scottish music, of Carnasserie Castle on ancestry visit one mile North Of Kilmartin In Argyll and Bute. The castle also known as Carnassarie is a ruined 16th Century tower house. The castle was built by reforming churchman John Carswell, who was Rector of Kilmartin, Chancellor of the Chapel Royal at Stirling, and later titular Bishop of the Isles. Carswell published the first book to be printed in Scottish Gaelic, a translation of John Knox's Book of Common Order. Construction began in 1565 using masons brought from Stirling; although supposedly built for Carswell's patron, the Earl of Argyll, he intended it as a personal residence for himself. On Carswell's death in 1572, the castle passed to the Earl of Argyll and sold in 1643 to Sir Dugald Campbell, 3rd Baronet of Auchinbreck. His successor Duncan Campbell was one of the few to actively support Argyll's Rising against James VII in 1685. The Atholl Raid that followed the failure of the Rising devastated large parts of Argyllshire; despite recovering his estates in 1689, Duncan Campbell was financially ruined. In 1690, he petitioned Parliament claiming Maclean clansmen burnt Carnasserie Castle, stole 2,000 cattle and murdered his uncle Alexander Campbell of Strondour. Although the outer walls remain largely undamaged, Carnasserie was never rebuilt and the Auchinbrecks eventually went bankrupt. In the 19th century the estate was sold to the Malcolms of Poltalloch, who also own nearby Duntrune Castle.
The surname Carswell was first found in Renfrewshire, Gaelic: Siorrachd Rinn Friù, a historic county of Scotland, today encompassing the Council Areas of Renfrew, East Renfrewshire, and Iverclyde, in the Strathclyde region of southwestern Scotland where they were recorded as a family of great antiquity seated at Carswell in the parish of Neilston in that shire, and later branched to Carnswell in the barony of Carnwath in Lanarkshire, and to Carswell in the barony of Hassendean in Roxburghshire. Over the years Carswell has been spelled Carswell, Cresswell, Carsewell, Cressville, Carswele, Kersewell, Cressewell, Chriswell and many more.
Elizabeth Carswell, aged 25, arrived in Nelson, New Zealand aboard the ship Gipsy in 1854; Hugh Carswell, a Scottish settler travelled from the River Clyde aboard the ship Robert Henderson arriving in Port Chalmers, Dunedin, Otago, South Island, New Zealand on 5th October 1861; John Carswell settled in Charles Town or Charleston, South Carolina, America, in 1767 with his wife Anne, and his children George, Joseph, Thomas, and Rebecca; James Carswell, aged 30, arrived in Washington County, Pennsylvania, America, in 1824.
Of interest to folks with ancestry, genealogy or Scottish Family Roots in Scotland who may wish to visit one day.
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