Catharine McPhail, the first wife of fisherman, Duncan McTavish, died before civil registration of Scottish births deaths and marriage commenced in 1855. The only clue to her ancestry was thirty-year old mariner, James McPhail, enumerated as brother-in-law with the McTavish family in the 1851 census.[1] But, James' occupation was a fabrication and for years the … Continue reading “Oh, thou demon Drink, thou fell destroyer”
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John and Duncan McPhail – A case of fratricide and suicide?
St Augustine, 354-430 – “Obscuritas or ambiguitas - hinders the hearer from discerning the truth in words”