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~ "500 Years"
of MacLennan Pipers ~
You are Listening To:
"The Maclennans of Croy"
Note: The following genealogy information is a summary extracted from the book; "By The Banks of the Ness", by Mairi A. MacDonald, pps. 92-101, Chapter 15.
Murdoch (1504-1574)
Murdoch (1547-1627), the latter killed by retainers of the Earl of Moray held positions as town pipers in Inverness.
Murdoch, a piper, born about 1700, lived at Mellon Charles -- "Charles's
little hill"--Ross-shire, fought at Culloden and married Janet MacKenzie,
Tighnafiline--House of the Shorefield--Aultbea.
Murdoch MacLennan and Janet MacKenzie's Family
Duncan, Alexander, Black John and several others.
* Duncan was the most adventuresome.
* Duncan MacLennan married Margaret MacLennan;
{Duncan was taught to play the pipes by Angus MacKay, he joined the
renowned "Frieceadan Dugh"--Black Watch. Distinguished himself as
one of the pipers whose skirl persisted at Waterloo, wherever fire
was hottest.}
Catherine MacLennan brothers, Francis and Tom, were singers,
Farquahar, the Ross-shire Wanderer.
* Francis emigrated in the 1860 evictions. His son, Francis, born in Michigan, sang in the Covent Garden Opera Company, London, between 1889 and 1893.
Thomas MacLennan of Neil and MacLennan's well-known music shop; which flourished in Inverness in the 20's, was connected with this branch of the family.
Duncan, a tailor-crofter, born at Aultbea, and Catherine, reared a large family, eight sons, all pipers and dancers, and one daughter Anne, a poetess, whose poems "Sacred and Secular", were published in Edinburgh in 1884.
2nd son's musical background; - - - John, married Lady Elizabeth MacKenzie of Gruinard.
3rd son's musical background; - - - Big Donald of Moy, also a piper, had three sons, Donald, Alex and John.
Alex was a pipe-major in the Inverness Militia and is mentioned by General Thomason in the preface of his Ceol Mor, and John became piper to the Earl of Fife.
Listen To:
"Inverness Rant"
4th son's musical background; - - - Murdoch, Duncan's fourth son, was a piper.
5th son's musical background; - - - Kenneth, had two sons, Murdoch and Alex;
Murdoch, the famous Munlochy piper, born in 1826, winner at the Northern Meeting in Inverness in 1862. The bagpipes used on this occasion, given to him by John Ban MacKenzie, are held by a family descendant to this day, and bear a plate with the inscription:
"By the Northern Meeting to Murdoch MacLennan, Piper to the Munlochy Rifle Corps for best performance of the Great Highland Bagpipe. Sept. 1862."
Alex of Tore, son of Kenneth was also a well-known piper.
Duncan MacLennan and Catherine MacLennan's Family
Listen To:
"Scotland The Brave"
Anne MacLennan was born in Resolis in April 1840 educated in Killearnan relocated to Perth. She accepted the appointment of Bible Woman in Lochgilphead, where she spent the later years of her life and wrote her poems..........She died in September 1883.
Murdoch and Alex, performing dancers, who by 1850 were the only individuals who could dance the, "Dirk Dance"; originally known as "Dannsadh na Biodaig", a kind of pyrrhic dance performed after a battle won at great costs.
John, the youngest, born at Mulbuie, Kilcoy, in 1843, became a lieutenant in the Edinburgh Police, and during his lifetime was one of the foremost authorities on pipe music and an expert teacher on the bagpipe. When retired he published "The piobaireachd As MacCrimmon Played It", A Collection of Pibrochs, Marches, and Two Reels. He died in Edinburgh in 1923.
Listen To:
"The Gordon Highlanders - Major John MacLennan"
John MacLennan's son - George S. MacLennan.
At an early age, George illustrated his genius as a piper by winning both the Amateur Championship of Scotland and the Open Championship of London twice before he was 11 years of age. He performed before; Queen Victoria, who had earlier expressed an ardent wish to hear the "Marvelous boy who could express on his tuneful pipes songs that men who had labored to do could not bear".
In 1899, George, age 15, joined the Gordon Highlanders, and three years later was promoted to the rank of pipe-major. When he died in 1929 at the early age of 45 his quiver of honours was full and overflowing--2800 cups, medals, and prizes having been won during those years. The Kemble Star, gifted by Col. Kemble of Knock, was his most prized trophy. His jacket and medals are housed in the Military Museum, Edinburgh Castle.
Listen To:
"Pride of Scotland"
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Note: The following genealogy information is a summary extracted from the book; "By The Banks of the Ness", by Mairi A. MacDonald, pps. 92-101, Chapter 15.
The following pipe and drum bands originate from around the world. Each is unique to themselves but all have the same proud Celtic Scot tradition.
