A tacksman (Scottish Gaelic: Fear-Taic, meaning "supporting man"; most common Scots spelling: takisman) was a landholder of intermediate legal and social...
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marries a dashing Highland warrior named Jamie Fraser (Sam Heughan), a tacksman of Gabaldon's fictionalized version of Clan Fraser of Lovat. Here, Claire...
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across Scotland highlighted the changed role of clan chiefs.: 37-46 A tacksman (a member of the daoine uaisle, sometimes described as "gentry" in English)...
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beginning of the 18th century. They were tenants at will underneath the tacksman and wadsetters, but practically their tenure was secure enough. The first...
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was a member of the minor gentry of Clan MacDonald of Clanranald, being tacksman and leaseholder of Milton and Balivanich. She had two brothers, Angus,...
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defining feature of run rig. The majority of townships were rented by a tacksman and sublet to the actual farming tenants. Some tacksmen would have leases...
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The MacCarthy dynasty of Muskerry is a tacksman branch of the MacCarthy Mor dynasty, the Kings of Desmond. The MacCarthy of Muskerry are a cadet branch...
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register of Buchanan, Stirling. His parents were the local Clan MacGregor tacksman, Donald Glas MacGregor, and Margaret Campbell. He was also descended from...
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be held in Gairloch commemorating John Mackay (1656–1754) piper to the Tacksman of Clan Mackenzie of Gairloch.[citation needed] Gairloch is the final resting...
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who wrote many immortal works of Scottish Gaelic literature and local Tacksman of Clan MacDonald of Clanranald. The Old Forge pub at Inverie holds the...
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minister. Under the influence of a relative, Allan MacDonald, the former Tacksman of Kingsburgh, Skye and the husband of the Jacobite heroine Flora MacDonald...
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were steadily eliminated over the last quarter of the 18th century. A tacksman (a member of the daoine uaisle, sometimes described as 'gentry' in English)...
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satirical poetry by, among many others, James MacIntyre, the Clan MacIntyre Tacksman of Glen Noe near Ben Cruachan, in (Scottish Gaelic: Òran don Ollamh MacIain...
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thereby increasing their income. By the early part of the 19th century, the tacksman had become a rare component of Highland society. T. M. Devine describes...
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Carthy Mór (by the law of tanistry). The MacCarthy dynasty of Muskerry is a tacksman branch of the MacCarthy dynasty, the Kings of Desmond. It was founded by...
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that accelerated from the 1770s onward, by the early 19th century the tacksman had become a rare component of society. Historian T. M. Devine describes...
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marks him out as a Cavalier poet in Welsh-language literature. Iain Lom, a Tacksman from Clan MacDonald of Keppoch, composed a long eyewitness account of the...
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Sir Alexander MacDonald of Sleat, and Lady Grange was housed with his tacksman, another Alexander MacDonald, and his wife. When she complained about her...
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subordinate to the king. In this later sense a flaith was similar to a tacksman in the Scottish clan system. The later development in meaning, innocent...
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denotes that the Sutherland brothers were members of the daoine uaisle or tacksman class, sometimes described as 'gentry'. George Edward Cokayne Complete...
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man of wealth and eminence, sends his child, either male or female, to a tacksman, or tenant, to be fostered. It is not always his own tenant, but some distant...
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British soldier during the Napoleonic Wars. He was a son of Donald Macleod tacksman of Balallan in the Isle of Lewis and Jane the daughter of Malcolm Macleod...
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assassination by a concealed marksman of Colin Roy Campbell, the Clan Campbell tacksman of Glenure and Factor for the Forfeited Estates Commission, on 14 May 1752...
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Mhaighstir Alasdair, moved from Arisaig to become Clanranald tacksman of Laig. While serving as tacksman Raonuill Dubh collected and published the poetry anthology...
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hill", name of a village, near which the element was discovered. Tack & Tacksman (a lessee) From Scots tak (take) cf. Old Norse taka. Trousers from triubhas...
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Roybridge, Lochaber. The identity of the killers, Alexander Macdonald, Keppoch Tacksman of Inverlair, and his six sons, were well known. Sir James at Dunelm Castle...
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Merchant. Simon Fraser of Auchnacloich, Auchnaclouch, Kiltarlity, Inverness, Tacksman. Alexander Fraser of Balchreggan Balcreggan, Kirkhill, Inverness. John...
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Ronald MacDonald, the Tacksman of Milton. Through his oldest brother, Ranald MacDonald, who succeeded their father as Tacksman of Milton and Balivanich...
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owned by Sir Alexander MacDonald of Sleat and she was housed with his tacksman (leaseholder), another Alexander MacDonald and his wife. When Lady Grange...
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Margaret Girvan ran a tearoom in a wooden building that stood next to the tacksman's cottage, famed for its pristine white table cloths and fresh scones. Girvan...
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