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  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  an Anne McLean . They were both  from the Parish of Kilcalmonell in Kintyre , Argyll . Archie