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Charles Westland, my Missing Great Grandfather

Charles Westland with his wife, Isabella McTavish of Boleskine, Foyers, returned to Scotland from exile in Liverpool with his four young kids where he had been looking for work. He got work at the smelter in Kinlochleven - maybe sometime between 1907-1912. One night he went out and was never seen again. It broke the heart of my Great Grandmother from which she never ever recovered. Some years later a couple of skeletons were found in the hills near a path that went over the hills to a place where it was well known you could get a drink. Amongst the bones were some gold sovereigns - it seems they went out on pay day but never got their drink - they probably perished in a storm. My grandmother always thought one of these skeletons was the remains of her father.
Does anybody know of this story from the Kinlochleven/Ballachuillish area? Does anybody know how I would find out more?

Morgan Westland Findlay (suvajra@hotmail.com)

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A memory of Kinlochleven in Argyll shared on Sunday, 15th May 2011.

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