1881 Census for the Bohespic Area

Allt-an-Tomanbuidhe (Tomanbuie) - Blair Atholl Parish (district 3)

Tomanbuidhe was uninhabited during the 1881 census

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Dalriach - Blair Atholl Parish (district 3)

Dwelling Name Occupation Related Status Age Birth-place
1 Margaret Robertson1-3 farmer of 20 acres head u/m 54y Fortingall
Alexander McDonald shepherd servant u/m 22y Blair Atholl
John McCaskill shepherd servant u/m 35y Skye
Christine McDonald dom. servant servant u/m 18y Blair Atholl

1 Daughter of Charles Robertson, farmer, and Janet (Jessy) McGregor, christened 28th December 1819, Fortingall.
2 Charles Robertson married Janet/Jessie/Jessey McGregor on 4th February 1816, Fortingall.
3 Jessie died at Dalriach on 30th December 1878, aged 87 years. Parents given as Peter McGregor and Margaret McGregor.

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Bohespic Lodge - Blair Atholl Parish (district 3)

This was built in the 1860s and is first mentioned in the 1871 census

Dwelling Name Occupation Related Status Age Birth-place
1 John Cameron1,2 gamekeeper head widower 36y Kilmonivaig,
Inverness-shire
Jessie Cameron scholar dau u/m 8y Strontian
John Cameron scholar son u/m 6y Strontian
Archibald Cameron scholar son u/m 4y Strontian

1 John Cameron married Helen McBeath in Blair Atholl parish, 30th April 1872
2 Helen McBeath died at Bohespic Lodge on 13th February 1879, aged 34 years. Her parents were given as Archibald McBeath (Rinancoilleach), post runner, deceased and Janet McGlashan (Rinnancoilleach, his second wife, married 14th April 1840).

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Dalno - Blair Atholl Parish (district 3)

Dwelling Name Occupation Related Status Age Birth-place
1 John Anderson1-4 retired farmer head marr 74y Weem
Jane Anderson post mistress wife marr 52y Blair Atholl
Catherine Rutherford scholar niece u/m 11y Little Dunkeld
2 unoccupied
3 John Irvine5 head marr 45y Fortingall
Frances Irvine wife marr 49y Dull
James J. Irvine scholar son u/m 12y Fortingall
Frances C. Irvine scholar dau u/m 8y Blair Atholl
William Menzies ploughman visitor u/m 28y Dull
Christine McGregor dom. servant servant u/m 22y Ullapool
4 James Campbell mail contractor head marr 31y Fortingall
Jessie Campbell wife marr 26y Redgorton
Jessie G. Campbell dau u/m 8m Blair Atholl
Mary Campbell farm servant sis u/m 21y Fortingall
5 Donald Lamont6-8 surfaceman head widower 63y Blair Atholl
William Lamont9 stone dyker son u/m 25y Blair Atholl
Catherine Lamont dau u/m 23y Blair Atholl
Charles Lamont scholar son u/m 12y Blair Atholl
James Lamont scholar son u/m 8y Blair Atholl
John Ferguson tailor visitor u/m 27y Airdrie
6 Isabella Clark10 pauper head u/m 70y Kingussie
7 Duncan Douglas11-13 shoemaker head marr 30y Blair Atholl
Annie Douglas wife marr 30y Dull
Donald Douglas son u/m 2y Blair Atholl
Betsy Douglas dau u/m 4m Blair Atholl

1 Born at Weem 7th December 1806, the son of John Anderson and Ann Campbell who married 8th September 1799, Weem.
2 John Anderson, in Laggan, parish of Fortingall married Elizabeth McGlashan of Kinloch parish on 10th November 1833.
3 Blind by the 1881 census.
4 Married Jane Rutherford, his second wife, in 1872.
5 Previously working as a gamekeeper and living at Bohespic Lodge.
6 Born 18th December 1817, the son of William Lamond (McGilliwie) and Helen Low.
7 Married Jane Douglas 26th June 1853.
8 For information on William Lamond and his family, see - William Lamont (or McGilliwie) of Bohespic
9 Married Isabella Gilmour 25th December 1908.
10 Illegitimate daughter of William Clark and Ann McPherson, born 30th September 1810, Kingussie. Died at Bohespic 24th April 1887.
11 Son of Donald Douglas and Catherine Stewart in Over Bohespic.
12 On 1st December 1876 Duncan married Annie Menzies, the daughter of James Menzies, gardener, and Elizabeth McGibbon at Woodend, Foss.
13 For the ancestry of this family, see - The Douglas family of Borenich.

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Nether (Lower) Bohespic - Blair Atholl Parish (district 3)

Dwelling Name Occupation Related Status Age Birth-place
Janet Robertson1 crofter of 20 acres head u/m 60y Blair Atholl
Catherine Robertson sis u/m 50y Blair Atholl
Donald Forbes servant u/m 25y Tenandry
Catherine McGregor servant u/m 20y Blair Atholl

1 Janet, born 12th November 1808, daughter of John Robertson of Nether Bohespic and Katherine Stewart of Mualichbeg, Glen Fender, who married on 7th March 1803.

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Tighnacoille - Blair Atholl Parish (district 3)

Dwelling Name Occupation Related Status Age Birth-place
1 William McGregor1,2 crofter of 5 acres head marr 66y Blair Atholl
Catherine McGregor3,4 wife marr 51y Blair Atholl
Alexander McGregor scholar son u/m 13y Blair Atholl
Isabella McGregor scholar dau u/m 8y Blair Atholl
William McGregor scholar son u/m 5y Blair Atholl
Charlotte Robertson5 dom. servant u/m 29y Blair Atholl
Catherine Robertson g.niece u/m 4y Blair Atholl
James Menzies6 surface man bro-in-law u/m 42y Blair Atholl
2 Charlotte Livingstone7-11 pauper head widow 77y Blair Atholl

1 William McGregor, farmer at Tighnacoille, aged 53y, son of William McGregor (crofter, deceased), and Isabella Mclean, married Catherine Campbell, aged 35y, daughter of John Campbell (shepherd, deceased), and Ann Stewart (farmer), on 6th October 1871 at Tighnacoille. Witnessed by John Robertson and Catherine Robertson.
2 Family at Dalno Cottage in the 1891 census.
3 Catherine Campbell, daughter of John Campbell and Ann Stewart, born 11th May 1828, Innerhaddan, Fortingall.
4 Ann Stewart died at Tighnacoille on 2nd April 1880 aged 84 years. The death certificate was witnessed by James Menzies (son) although she was described as single. Her parents were given as Alexander Stewart, crofter, and Ann Stewart (same maiden name). See note 9.
5 Daughter of Catherine (Campbell) McGregor.
6 Helen (Ellen) Douglas, the daughter of Donald Douglas and Catherine Stewart in Over Bohespic had an illegitimate son, Robert, on 6th November 1864. The father was James Menzies of Tighnacoille. A couple of years later, on 9th July 1869 at The Grey Hound Hotel in Perth. she married Alexander Robertson who farmed Nethertown of Duntaulich on the south side of Loch Tummel. Sadly, within a few years she was diagnosed with breast cancer, and died at Duntaulich on 19th November 1880. Her husband not only looked after her son Robert Menzies, but also took in her aged father Donald Douglas, who died at Duntaulich 15th August the following year.
7 According to 1871 census, the widow of Patrick Livingstone, fisher and labourer, born in Poolewe, Ross-shire, but according to her marriage and death certificates, the widow of Roderick Livingstone, who died in 1880 aged 75 years.
8 Roderick Livingstone, labourer at Bohally, aged 40 years, married Charlotte Stewart, merchant at Bohally, aged 48 years, on 28th September 1855. His parents were given as Murdoch Livingstone, small farmer (crofter), and Catherine Campbell of Gaoloch (Gairloch) parish.
9 Roderick Livingstone died 1880.
10 Charlotte's 1855 marriage certificate gives her parents as Alexander Stewart, farmer, and Ann Stewart (see note 3). It also says that she was a widow with two children from her previous marriage, one still alive in 1855.
11 Charlotte died at Tighnachoille on 29th November 1885 aged 80 years.

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Gascan - Blair Atholl Parish (district 3)

The Enumerator did not distinguish between Gascan and Upper Gascan.

Dwelling Name Occupation Related Status Age Birth-place
1 Duncan McDonald1 crofter of 25 acres head u/m 40y Blair Atholl
Donald McDonald crofter bro u/m 37y Blair Atholl
Grace McDonald sis u/m 30y Blair Atholl
Jessie McDonald scholar dau u/m 11y Blair Atholl
Christina Anderson dom. servant servant u/m 22y Muthil
2 Charles Robertson2 crofter of 13 acres head widower 89y Blair Atholl
Margaret Robertson dau u/m 52y Blair Atholl
Duncan Robertson farm servant son u/m 42y Blair Atholl
Eliza McDonald dom. servant servant u/m 15y Blair Atholl
Annie Young dom. servant visitor u/m 16y Dull

1 Son of Alexander McDonald, tailor, and Margaret McDonald.
2 Charles Robertson in Bohespic married Janet McFarlan of Bohespic on 6th August 1826, Blair Atholl. He died in 1881.

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Tighmore - Blair Atholl Parish (district 3)

Dwelling Name Occupation Related Status Age Birth-place
1 George Menzies farmer of 30 acres head u/m 38y Aberfeldy
Archibald Menzies ag. labourer bro u/m 40y Dull
John Menzies scholar son u/m 10y Dunkeld
Mary McDonald dom. servant servant u/m 35y Gairloch
2 John Cameron1 labourer head marr 60y Inverary,
Argyll
Janet Cameron wife marr 66y Blair Atholl
Duncan Cameron sergeant,
Duke of Edinburgh's Own
son u/m 28y Blair Atholl

1 John Cameron, ploughman, residing Nether Blairish in the parish of Fortingall and Janet Lamond residing at White Bridge Tollbar in this parish were duly proclaimed in order to marriage in the parish church of Dull and no objection offered. 25th May 1851.

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Over Bohespic - Blair Atholl Parish (district 3)

Dwelling Name Occupation Related Status Age Birth-place
1 James Stewart1-4 farmer of 35 acres head marr 69y Blair Atholl
Grace Stewart5 wife marr 56y Blair Atholl
Elizabeth Stewart dom. servant dau u/m 32y Blair Atholl
Margaret Stewart dom. servant dau u/m 23y Blair Atholl
Peter Stewart son u/m 21y Blair Atholl
Donald Stewart son u/m 18y Blair Atholl

1 James Stewart in Balnauld and Grace McDonald in Balintuim married 18th January 1848, Blair Atholl.
2 James Stewart died at Balnearn, Foss, aged 79 years.
3 Family are at Balnauld of Strathtummel in the 1851 census.
4 There is a memorial stone to James Stewart of Bohespic in the Struan churchyard.
5 Daughter of Alexander McDonald and Elizabeth Dow of Balintuim of Strathtummel.

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