A Crime Against Our Gaelic Heritage A genealogical trip to Kintyre with an incredible outcome . It is quite amazing how many of us are unaware of our past. Most do not realise that many of our ancestors experienced more than a few attacks on their own heritage . Both my parents died at a comparatively young age and being an only child , I found that I was largely ignorant of my own “ roots “. My maternal grandmother Annabella Lamont ( maiden name McFarlane )was born in Glasgow . She died some ten years before I was born and I knew very little about her or her back ground . A little digging and delving in the records gradually allowed me to build up a picture of the family I did not know .Annabella’s parents were Mary and Archibald McFarlane ,who were in fact cousins ! Archibald had married ...