John MacDougall

Iain Mac Dhùghaill of Bunloit, Glen Urquhart: a blacksmith, and the bard of “Bràigh Rùsgaich.” William Mackay wrote in 1893 that it was “the only song, so far as is known, composed by Iain Mac Dhughaill, Bunloit,” and had “for the last eighty or ninety years continued to be one of the most popular songs of the district of Loch Ness. It was composed in Edinburgh, where the bard died in the early years of the present century, and happily depicts Nature in her pleasantest moods, and gives pathetic expression to his strong desire for the peaceful solitudes of Brae Ruiskich” (source). Rev. D. B. Blair adds that he “was a blacksmith and it seems had some connection with the army or Volunteers; for he lived in Edinburgh with the Regiment to which he belonged and there he died”; his widow went home to Glen Urquhart, where their youngest son John was born on 15 March 1805 (source). That son became an elder at Blue Mountain, Pictou County, Nova Scotia. Ten children, among them Duncan, Alpin, Christy (Mrs. Livingstone), Penuel (Mrs. McMillan), Jessy (Mrs. Fraser), Mary and John.

The ID’s year is the latest year he can have died, not a recorded one.

Research: research/mcmillan/McMillan_Humphrey_Bell_Connections.md.