Balquhidder

The minister of the parish of Balquhidder, whose name was Robertson, was at one time threatening to pursue the parish for an augmentation of his stipend.

Rob Roy 2005

They even dared to carry her to the public church of Balquhidder, where the officiating clergyman

Rob Roy 2005

Balquhidder hills at the head of a body of his own tenantry, the Duke of

Rob Roy 2005

Balquhidder, and other Highland districts, as having been part of the ancient possessions of their tribe; though the harsh laws, under the severity of which they had suffered so deeply, had assigned the ownership to other families.

Rob Roy 2005

He had formerly been minister at the neighbouring parish of Balquhidder, and died at Aberfoil in 1688, at the early age of forty-two.

Rob Roy 2005

I have never wanted to check out the family folklore that we could be traced back to a dominie at the hamlet of Balquhidder in the Scottish highlands.

Sir James W. Black - Autobiography 1989

Pious, to the height of a proverbial model, he was withal frank, cheerful, and social; and from his extraordinary command of the Gaelic idiom, and its poetic phraseology, he must have lent an ear to many a song and many a legend [103] -- a nourishment of the imagination in which, as well as in purity of Gaelic, his native Balquhidder was immeasurably inferior to the Rannoch district of his adoption.

The Modern Scottish Minstrel , Volume I. The Songs of Scotland of the past half century Various

Dougal Buchanan was born at the Mill of Ardoch, in the beautiful valley of Strathyre, and parish of Balquhidder, in the year 1716.

The Modern Scottish Minstrel , Volume I. The Songs of Scotland of the past half century Various

Balquhidder, is a sculptured stone raised for some one who had probably died in wealth and honour hundreds of years before Rob stole cattle.

The Book-Hunter A New Edition, with a Memoir of the Author John Hill Burton

Balquhidder was the scene of some of the exploits of

Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 2 "Baconthorpe" to "Bankruptcy" Various