Highland Clearances With Music On History Visit To Glencalvie Strathcarron Highlands Scotland

Tour Scotland short 4K travel video clip, with Scottish music, of the site of the highland clearances on ancestry, genealogy, family history visit to Glencalvie on the banks of the River Carron in Strathcarron, Highlands, Britain, United Kingdom. Great cruelties were perpetrated at Glencalvie, where the evicted had to retire into the parish churchyard. There for more than a week they found the only shelter obtainable in their native land. No one dared to help them, under a threat of receiving similar treatment to those whose hard fate had driven them thus among the graves. Many of them, indeed, wished that their lot had landed them under the sod with their ancestors and friends, rather than be treated and driven out of house and home in such a ruthless manner. They sang the 145th Psalm. In the Parliamentary Church at Croick and there were two families who had not followed their neighbours into the Free Church, ten men, women and children who held a service in English and the Gaelic. It was a terrible spectacle to see these poor people march out of the glen in a body, with two or three carts filled with children, many of them mere infants; and other carts containing their bedding and their clothing. There were 23 children in the local churchyard, all under the age of ten, and seven of them were ill. There were also some young and unmarried men and women, but most of the refugees were over forty. Within a week the churchyard was empty. Where the people went, to what southern town or what emigrant colony is not known. The six families for which it was claimed settlement was found, were as thus: David Ross and his son got a piece of black moor near Tain, 25 miles off, without any house or shed on it, out of which they hoped to obtain subsistence. Another old man was given a small lot at Edderton, and these three alone received anything from which they might confidently expect to get the barest of livings. The other three families were given turf huts near Bonar Bridge. The rest were hopeless and helpless. Eighteen families, 88 people, had lived here in Glencalvie in turf cabins indistinguishable from the brown hills, growing barley and oats, herding cattle and sheep on a total holding of no more than 20 acres. The most incredible rent, almost four times what a farmer in England would pay for the same land, was paid for this land for generations without arrears except for some weeks during the famine in 1836. The little community had no paupers on the poor roll and no inhabitant of this valley had been charged for any offence since years back. During the wars it had furnished many soldiers. Of interest to folks with ancestry, genealogy or Scottish Family Roots in Scotland who may wish to visit one day. Find things to see and do in Scotland where you are always welcome All photographs are copyright of Sandy Stevenson, Tour Scotland, and may not be used without permission.

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