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This is a research notebook on Glengyle - its history and the people connected to it.

It is kept by Steven Robertson, with ongoing research contributions from Clifford Stinson.

Steven is a descendant of the McGregors of Glengyle: his paternal great-grandfather was Alexander McGregor, whose own grandfather was descended in the male line from Maol-coluim, fourth chieftain of Clann Dubhgall Cheire. He is also descended from Rob Roy through three female links in an otherwise male line; Rob Roy is an eighth great-grandfather.

Clifford Stinson is a descendant of the last chieftain of Glengyle. He is a great-grandson of Anne MacGregor, daughter of James MacGregor, last of Glengyle. Clifford has generously shared a considerable body of prior research into the Glengyle family, and continues to inform and contribute to the work here.

The site is built and edited with the assistance of large language models and agentic coding tools, under the keeper's direction. Corrections are welcome.

Type

The body is set in EB Garamond, a revival of Claude Garamont's sixteenth-century romans. Headings and ornamental capitals are set in IM Fell - a digitisation of the seventeenth-century Dutch types acquired by John Fell for the Oxford University Press, and the same family of letterforms found throughout early Scottish printing of the period: the chapbooks, kirk records, and Glasgow imprints of the Foulis brothers.

Construction

Pages are written in Markdown and rendered through Caddy's templates directive - no build step, no JavaScript framework. The source is plain text on disk.

Credits and sources

The website draws on a wide range of sources: family papers, public archives, printed work now out of copyright, and other heritage sites and authors. Each quotation, photograph, and transcript is credited where the source is known. New material continues to come to hand, and the occasional misattribution will be found in what is already here. Corrections in attribution, or requests for removal from anyone with a proper claim on the material, will be acted on.

The header photograph is Suspiciously romantic grouping of rocks above ruin in Glen Gyle by ian shiell, September 2011, via Geograph Britain and Ireland, used under CC BY-SA 2.0.

The pine-sprig motif in the site header is Pine branch with cone by Dpaczesniak (Wikimedia), used under CC BY-SA 4.0 and rendered as a single-tone silhouette. Scots pine is the plant badge of Clan Gregor.

Contact

If you spot an error, hold a relevant photograph, document, or family recollection, know a source that ought to be cited here, or believe you may be a male-line descendant of the Glengyle MacGregors, please get in touch via the contact form, or write to steven [dot] robertson [at] glengyle [dot] org.

Mailing lists

Public and private mailing lists for ongoing discussion are at lists.glengyle.org.