Quote Originally Posted by figheadair View Post
Your forebear may have been arrested and imprisoned in the latter half of the 1780s but he wouldn't have been for being a Jacobite. TheJacobite threat was well and truly over by that date which is one of the reasons that the Act of Repeal was able to be passed in 1782. It's more likely that he left Scotland for economic reasons at that date.
You know family tales are passed on. You probably are correct, but I do know they left and did spend time imprisoned in Fort Williams. Angus MacDonald, was a Colonel in the Jacobite uprising of 1745-46, was at Culloden, and went into hiding in the Highlands. There is a small monument at Knoydart dedicated to him and two others. Still researching and trying to get facts straight as opposed to family tales. Thanks for the enlightening, this will help me.