McCurdyFamily.ca -Margaret "Peggy" Cameron Details

Name Prefix		Gender	Female
Given Name	Margaret "Peggy"	Born
Nickname			of the Banks of the Tweed
Surname Prefix		Died
Surname	Cameron
Name Suffix		Parents
GedRef ID		Submitted By
Note	In "Cameron's Family Notes & Reminiscences," William Cameron, in a letter to his cousin, Peggy, in 1660 in reguard to the persecuted Presbyterians says, "The inhabitants of the borders, being warriors by choice, husbandmen by necessity, either quitted the country or became shepards. The elevation of religious sentiments began to decline but the familiarity and kindness which had long subsisted between the gentry and the peasantry cannot be obliterated. While visiting my cousin Peggy, who married Donald MacKirdy, a rural Presbyterian on the banls of the Clyde, they portraided in lively and delicate colours the fears and hopes that agitated the breast of the rural Presbyterians, etc." In another letter he says, "Many family ties have been broken as to religious sentiments and many of the persecuted have turned persecutor. Of the six sons of Donald MacKirdy, three have seceded from the Presbyterian church but Alexander, Pethrick, and Daniel remain loyal." With the above evidence and certain traditions existing in many families, it is quite evident that Donald and Peggy MacKirdy were the grandparents of the five MacKirdy brothers who settled in Ireland.
Note	Great granddaughter of James IV

Married	Donald MacKirdy ( Family )
Children	Pethrick MacKirdy
	Fingal MacKirdy
	Irven MacKirdy
	Daniel MacKirdy Sr	1622	Isle of Bute,Bute,Scotland
	Gilkrist MacKirdy	1628
	Alexander MacKirdy	1630	Buteshire, Scotland