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Invergarry (Scottish Gaelic: Inbhir Garadh) is a village in the Highland Council Area in Scotland. It is in the Great Glen, near where the River Garry flows into Loch Oich. Near the centre of the village is the junction between the A82 road (from Inverness to Fort William) and the A87 road which branches off to the west towards the Isle of Skye.
Invergarry was located in the parish of Kilmonivaig in the County of Inverness. In 1975 Inverness-shire became part of Highland Region, and in 1996 part of the Highland Council Area.
The ruined Invergarry Castle is situated near the village on Creagan an Fhithich (the Raven's Rock), overlooking Loch Oich.
A Vision of Britain through Time provides the following description of Glengarry or Garry from Frances Groome's Ordnance Gazetteer of Scotland of 1882-4:
- "Glengarry, a beautiful Highland glen in Kilmonivaig parish, W Inverness-shire, traversed by the river Garry winding 18 7/8 miles eastward, out of Loch Quoich, and through Loch Garry, till it falls into Loch Oich at Invergarry, 7 ½ miles SW of Fort Augustus. From the beginning of the 16th century Glengarry was held by the Macdonnells, the last of whose chiefs, Col. Alexander Ranaldson Macdonnell, maintained to the day of his death (1828) the style of living of his ancestors, and is deemed the prototype of Fergus MacIvor in Waverley [Sir Walter Scott's novel]. His son was compelled to dispose of Glengarry to the Marquis of Huntly, and emigrated to America.
- "By the marquis it was resold in 1840 for £91,000 to Lord Ward (afterwards Earl of Dudley), and by him in 1860 for £120,000 to the late Edward Ellice, Esq. of Glenquoich (1810-80), who sat as Liberal member for the St Andrews burghs from 1837 till his death, and who held 99,545 acres in Inverness-shire, valued at £6721 per annum. This acreage includes the 25,000 acres of Glenquoich deer forest, to the N of Loch Quoich and the upper waters of the Garry. Let for £1800 a year to Michael Arthur Bass, Esq., M.P. for Stafford (b. 1837), Glenquoich forest was estimated in 1880 to contain between 800 and 900 stags and 1700 hinds. The seats of the Glengarry property, old and new, are noticed under Invergarry.
- "A quoad sacra parish of Glengarry is in the presbytery of Abertarff and synod of Glenelg; the minister's stipend is £120. Its church, 7 ¾ miles W of Invergarry, is an Early English edifice of 1865. Two public schools, Invergarry and Inshlaggan, with respective accommodation for 112 and 40 children, had (1881) an average attendance of 44 and 11, and grants of £50 and £21, 16s. Population of the quoad sacra parish (1871) 692, (1881) 627, of whom 469 were Gaelic-speaking, and 74 were in Boleskine and Abertarff parish."
Ord. Sur., shs. 62, 63, 1875-73.
Notes for the Highland Council Area and the Western Isles Council Area
The local archives are held by The Highland Archive Service which is based in Inverness with branches in Stornoway, Fort William and Caithness. It is "responsible for locating, preserving and making accessible archives relating to all aspects of the history of the geographical area of the Highlands."
Family history societies and historical associations covering the Highland Council Area and the Western Isles Council Area are:
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These associations publish their aims on their websites as well as a list of publications. In many cases the publications are also available through the Scottish Genealogy Society (see below).
- The FreeCen Project--Scotland has a searchable (not browsable) transcription for each of the counties in the area. Nairnshire and Caithness have the 1841, 1851, 1861 and 1871 complete. Inverness-shire and Ross and Cromarty have 1841 complete with some work on 1851 and Sutherland has not completed 1841.
Transcriptions of Gravestone Inscriptions
- The Scottish Genealogy Society provides a series of monumental inscriptions either in print in booklet form or on CD for each of the counties in the area (Caithness, Inverness-shire, Nairnshire, Ross and Cromarty, and Sutherland). Some of the booklets cover only one graveyard, others cover a group. Prices vary. In many cases the coverage is of pre-1855 stones only--this is because gravestone inscriptions are often used by family historians as death registration equivalents in the era of the Old Parish Registers (when deaths were not universally recorded).
- The Fearn Peninsula Graveyards Project has a paid website which allows browsing in ten graveyards in Easter Ross. They charge £2.50 for 24 hours of usage with unlimited searches.
- An index of monumental inscriptions from Caithness compiled by D J Ryrie might prove to be a useful start for searching gravestones in that county. GENUKI states "All (?) of the monumental inscriptions (MIs) in Caithness have been collected and are in print currently from Books From Scotland amongst other places." The Scottish Genealogy Society also has a list of their holdings.
- Sutherland cemeteries are covered in Pre-1855 tombstone inscriptions in Sutherland burial grounds by A S Cowper & I Ross, published at Edinburgh in 1989 by the Scottish Genealogy Society.
- There are no specific notes for gravestone transcriptions for either Inverness-shire or Nairnshire in GENUKI. However, the Scottish Genealogy Society lists booklets for both counties.
Sources for Emigration Records
- Hebrides People have a database containing lists of people who emigrated to North America from a number of parishes in the Western Isles.
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