Drimintorran

[Duthill]

Originally Posted by Duthill

Kia ora Miriam Ann ,

Check out this map of the Sunart /Drimintorran area .

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It may get you somewhere close to the mark


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Toka

Miriam Ann , kiaora ano ,

This map is a lot clearer.
The name Drumnatorran is used here . I suspect that it is the 'pakeha' for Drimintorran
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ka kite ,
Toka

[Miriam Ann]

Drimintorran was owned by my Great Great Grandfather Donald McDonald.
His son,my Great Grandfather Donald McDonald emigrated to New Zealand in 1840 aboard the ship called Blenheim.
He passed away on his property in a small town called Shannon in New Zealand that he had named Drimintorran after his much loved home in Scotland.
I shall check out all the information that has been sent to me.
Cheers

[aNonnyMoose]

Scots spelling has always been a wee bit "variable" - people wrote it down the way it sounded to them, and as not everyone was fully literate, and there were no hard and fast rules on spelling at the time, both place- and people-names vary from record to record. Hence Mc and MacDonald in the same story of this place. Once the Ordnance Survey had surveyed an area, the name they used tended to stick - though in the Gaelic areas the OS now are reverting to the original names for many of the hills and other places, replacing the Victorian anglicised versions. A good idea.

[Miriam Ann]

Thanks to everyone who has supplied me with info, I have been finding out heaps of stuff......very rewarding.

Cheers

[Miriam Ann]

Still finding out heaps about my Scottish heritage, it's becoming addictive!

I do not claim to be Scottish as others do, I have no need or right to. I was not born there


I was born and bred in New Zealand and I am proud to be a Kiwi.

[Polwarth]

Good for you! Someone who is proud of their OWN heritage

[Miriam Ann]

Originally Posted by ScotSites

You are right Polwarth, there is a connection between the MacDonalds of Glencoe and Drimintorran... in the book Glencoe and Beyond: The Sheep Farming Years 1780-1830 by Iain S. MacDonald chapter 7 covers The MacDonalds of Drimintorran, of the Family of Glencoe. Other searches confirm what Duthill says, that Drimintorran is in the Sunart area... it now appears on the OS map as Drumnatorran to the north of Strontian!

The book mentioned above is not available in New Zealand
Thanks people for bringing the book to my attention, will order a copy from overseas.
I have found quite a lot out about Drimnatorran in Scotland thanks to a kind Scot who lives in the area.
Last weekend I found and visited the NZ Drimintorran land and house,something I have been longing to do for years, my camera has never worked so hard.
I do wonder why The MacDonalds did not spell the NZ property the same as the one in Scotland though.

Cheers