Exciting Development in Glendrian's History

Look carefully at this picture and you will find the houses of an abandoned village.  Around them are their stone walls and fields.  This is Glendrian, a township in a beautiful position almost in the centre of the peninsula, a place of loneliness and peace.

Some months ago, a history of the abandoned village of Glendrian was added to 'A Kilchoan Diary' with a link in the right-hand column.  Towards the end of this history, a somewhat despairing note was added saying that much of the human story of the township was very likely lost.

 Just over a week ago, Andy Carter wrote to say that his family came from Glendrian.  He continued, "Glendrian (it was always spelt Glendryen by my family) has a special place in my heart as it is where ten or eleven generations of the MacLachlan side of my mother's family lived before crofting was finally given up in about 1925/6. The MacLachlans who were the last people to inhabit Glendrian, in the largest house in the township, are not related to my family though. Researching my family tree six or seven years ago also led to my trying to make sense of Glendrian as a settlement. Working from birth, marriage and death records, information passed down through the family, census information, and other documents all helped to build part of the picture, though we will never know it all."

Andy included this wonderful photo of the croft with his great grandmother standing outside it.  He thinks the picture may have been taken in 1925 as a keepsake, as the house was abandoned around that time.

This is a remarkable photograph, the only known one of a Glendrian house in use - unless someone knows of another.

Andy has edited the family history he so painstakingly researched, and has made it available on the internet.  The Diary is very grateful to him for allowing this wonderful document to be read by us all.  It's here.