The Dunbars of Ackergill and Hempriggs: The Story of a Caithness Family Based on the Dunbar Family Papers Miller James
The Dunbars of Ackergill and Hempriggs: The Story of a Caithness Family Based on the Dunbar Family Papers Miller James The Dunbars of Ackergill and Hempriggs emerged in the late 1600s as one of the…
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The Dunbars of Ackergill and Hempriggs: The Story of a Caithness Family Based on the Dunbar Family Papers Miller James
The Dunbars of Ackergill and Hempriggs emerged in the late 1600s as one of the largest landowners in Caithness. Readers will learn about the Dunbars selling Caithness grain in the Lowlands, coping with the effects of the last Jacobite rising, handling disputes with their neighbours, arranging elections, dealing with debt - and that is just in the 18th century. As such they played a major part in the history of the county, a role revealed in the family papers with their wide variety of documents, including personal letters and legal missives.
At the same time the British Fisheries Society acquired land from the family and began to develop Pulteneytown as a major herring fishing port. During the Napoleonic wars the Dunbars recruited a fencible regiment called the Caithness Legion that saw action in Ireland. An agricultural revolution swept over the estates, leading to the enclosing of
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