Loch Dochart On Visit To The Highlands Of Scotland

Tour Scotland travel video, with Scottish music, of Loch Dochart on ancestry visit to the Scottish Highlands. There is a small wooded island in the middle of the loch on which stands the ruins of a castle originally built by Sir Duncan Campbell of Glenorchy between 1583 and 1631. It was one of several fortified residences of Duncan; including Achallader, Barcaldine, Edinample, Finlarig and Monzie castles. Duncan Campbell died in 1631 and was followed by his son, Robert, who the owner during the Wars of Three Kingdoms. Robert was an active Covenanter and supporter of the Scottish Government which prompted the Royalist commander, John McNab, to burn Loch Dochart Castle in 1646. The Clan Campbell was known as the Siol Diarmaid an Tuirc or, alternatively, the Clan Duibhne, and in a Crown charter Duncan MacDuibhne was ancestor of the Lords of Lochow in 1368. The name Campbell has appeared as Campbell, Cambell, Cambel, Camble, Cammell and many more. Robert Campbell, a Scottish convict was convicted in Ayr, Scotland for 14 years, then transported aboard the ship Baring in April 1815, arriving in New South Wales, Australia; Robert Campbell landed in Bay of Islands, New Zealand in 1836; Duncan Campbell landed in Auckland, New Zealand in 1840; Angus Campbell landed in Nova Scotia, Canada, in 1749; Thomas Campbell landed in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada, in 1749; Colin Campbell landed in New Jersey, America, in 1685; Dugald Campbell landed in New York, America, in 1739 All photographs are copyright of Sandy Stevenson, Tour Scotland, and may not be used without permission.

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