The Mini Biographies

I looked at the four large cardboard boxes of individual folders that I have already accumulated about people who travelled from here to live abroad. 

They are filed in chronolgical order which is how I hope to file them on the website. 

The advantage of the chronological approach is that it is possible to see patterns emerging in the demographic changes. 

If you click on the two arrows to the right of the century in the left hand menu you will see the individual mini biographies as they are added. It is a slow process but, with the help of others, we will soon have what I hope will be a treasure-trove of personal introductions to keep readers engaged productively.

The major disadvantage for a site like this, where people are interested in only part of the timeline, means they might have to wait too long and lose all interest.

The result is that I decided to plunge off my slow-moving history paddle-steamer in mid voyage and to choose the experiences of two women in what will inevitably be a male dominated series of stories. 

Both are Grants, one by birth and the other by marriage and they belong to overlapping generations. 

To be even less chronological I chose the youngest first. 

She is the best known and has probably done more than anyone else to make Rothiemurchus a household name and a place with which many can identify as a result, in spirit anyway even if not genealogically or geographically.

Not much guessing needed for most people about who that is.

She is simply best known as “The Highland Lady”.