MACLEODS OF ASSYNT

Alice’s was the first generation in Scott’s line to leave an area that Leod had settled in some 800 years earlier. She was glad to go, yet for us the experience of going there – or in Scott’s case ‘going back’, was extraordinary, and moving.

From my point of view, it was a fascinating exercise in genealogy in the field. From Scott’s, much more importantly, it was a journey back into his own origins.

Reflecting over a glass of ‘MacLeod’s Tears Whisky’, Scott reflected that whilst the journey had confirmed some of the things he had known about his family, it had also revealed many that he had never expected or even suspected.

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