Blair Collection > Celtic monthly > Volume 5, 1897

THE CELTIC MONTHLY.
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kill tosh of Kellachie, contract dated 9tli
Februarv, ITl-t, and had a sou, Lachlan of
Georgia, commonly called Lachlan " liath,'
afterwards noticed, also a daughter, Jean "Roy,"
whose descendants succeeded to Faillie,
Inverernie, and Wester Gask. David, or
L'onald, married Miss MacGillivray of !\Ii<l
Leys, and was father of Alexander MacGillivray
of Ballantruau, whose male issue are extinct.
Of FaiNjuhar's three daughters, Janet became
Mrs. Donald ^lacGillivray of Dalcroinbie, killed
near Leys the afternoon of the 16th April,
17-1(>. Magdalen, afterwards Mrs. Mackintosh
of Holm, and Anne, ]Mrs. Fraser of Farraliue.
Of this Captain William Baau, who died in
1734, the following anecdote is recorded by
the late Mr. Simon F. Mackintosh of Farr, in
the year 1835, in his valuable collections.
A F.\iRV T.\LE — The Captain Baan.
"About the beginning of the 18th century
the wife of one of the tenants in Druim-a-
ghadha, upon the estate of Dunmaglass, had
been carried away by the fairies, and was said
to have been taken by them into a small hillock
in that neighbourhood, called "Tomuashangan,"
or the Ants' Hill, and had been absent from
her family for nearly a year. No person
sll AKI'lCMCIi Tlli:i): SUiiKll:
however, could tell exactly where she was,
although their suspicions fell uj^ou the fairies,
and that she must be with them in the hill now
mentioned. Several attempts were made to
discover her, and none were bold enough to
encounter the residence of the fairies. At last
Captain William MacGillivray, alias the Caiitain
Baan (ij'. "White"), son of Farquhar Mac
Gillivray of Dunmaglass, who was resident at
the spot, at length vohmteered his services to
endeavour to get the woman released from her
long capti\ity in the " Fairy Hill,'' if it was
p(jssible that she could be there. The Captain
being informed that John Dubh (^M'Chuile)
M'Queen of Pollochaik was familiar and on
good terms with the fairies, ami that he had
wax candles in which there was a particular
virtue, he despatched a messenger to the far-
famed Pollochaik for one of his candles, in
order to assist him in discovering the lost
female. The candle was given by Pollochaik
to the messenger, who got particular instruc-
tions never to look behind him until he reached
home, otherwise something might happen to
him, and he would lose the caudle. This
person heard so much noise like that of horses