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MacIntyre, Cui-beg; Angus Maclaren, Boat Hirer, Oban; John Macfarlane, porter, Oban; Colin Cowan, boat hirer, Oban.

Another estate owner who distributed venison on a large scale was Lord Burton, the tenant of Glen Quoich in West Inverness-shire. In 1890, he sent James Henderson, his head stalker, the following list: For the people of Barrisdale (Loch Hourn), two hinds; Kylesmore, three hinds; Skiary, seven hinds and to the people living around Loch Hourn-side, six hinds (shepherd, Campbell, Macrae, McKillop and Mackenzie). Two fencers, Sinclair and Morison, got a hind each; the postman one hind; Donald Roy, one hind; the captain of his yacht, one hind; Donald Cameron of Lochiel’s shepherds, three hinds; the path builder living at Kingie, one hind; the people living at Inshlaggan, four hinds; Stewart and Sandy at Garrygualach, one hind; A Cameron, Greenfield, two hinds; Fort William Infirmary, two hinds; Inverness Infirmary, two hinds; Inverness Orphanage one hind; Peter Grant, Inn-keeper, Tomdoun, one hind; W Malcolm [factor] one hind; the Rev Mr McRae, two hinds; Pinkerton [unknown] two hinds; Grant, the gardener, one hind; the Lodge, one hind; people about the square, two hinds; the gamekeepers and stalkers, 18 hinds and 12 to be sent away making a grand total of 79 and all to be of the best yeld hinds. Haunches equal to six hinds were sent to various people outwith Lochaber including: Mr Forbes, Stationmaster, Inverness; Mr McLaggan, Stationmaster, Perth, and Andrew Dougall Esq, the Highland Railway Company, Inverness. Mr Innes, the innkeeper at Fort Augustus, was later added to the list. Four haunches were to be despatched every week in December to Lord Burton at his estate Rangemore, in the County of Stafford.

The late Mr Christopher MacRae, head stalker on Kingairloch estate from 1917 to 1946, told me there were 17 households on Mr Arthur Strutt’s venison list, not including the Corran-Ardgour ferrymen; the Fort William and Oban hospitals, the local nurse, police, ambulance drivers, doctor, vet, postmen, fox hunter, inn-keeper, blacksmith, station master, coal men, car hirers, estate factor and suppliers of goods, many of whom continued to be recipients of these gifts up until the death of Arthur Strutt’s widow in 2000.

The late Mrs Cameron-Head of Inverailort’s list was equally long and added to whenever there was a death and a subsequent funeral anywhere between Glenfinnan, Morar, Arisaig, Mallaig and Lochailort.

No doubt it was the same coast.

I would be pleased to hear from any reader who may know of other lists. all over the west