. Records of the clan and name of Fergusson, Ferguson and Fergus;. Craigdarroch lost his life owing tohis servant making off with his horse, when the Lowland ranks broke beforethe fierce rush of Highlanders. It is said that when Toom hame cam the saddleBut never cam he, the widow, with the hot spirit of her Pictish blood, turned on the unfortu- ?nate groom and cursed him in the words : May you and yours never see a ?horse again ; and that from that day to this total blindness, or serious defectof eyesight, has affected all his descendants. FEEGUSSONS IN DUMFRIES AND GALLOWAY 403 allied branch
. Records of the clan and name of Fergusson, Ferguson and Fergus;. Craigdarroch lost his life owing tohis servant making off with his horse, when the Lowland ranks broke beforethe fierce rush of Highlanders. It is said that when Toom hame cam the saddleBut never cam he, the widow, with the hot spirit of her Pictish blood, turned on the unfortu- ?nate groom and cursed him in the words : May you and yours never see a ?horse again ; and that from that day to this total blindness, or serious defectof eyesight, has affected all his descendants. FEEGUSSONS IN DUMFRIES AND GALLOWAY 403 allied branch of the family, were also sufferers in the cause ofreligious liberty. Wodrow tells of the harsh usage of LadyKaitloch and her children, who were allowed to retain posses-sion of their home for some time after the husband and fatherhad been driven into exile and his estate declared forfeited,but who were afterwards (in 1683) evicted by the Fergusson, husband of Annie Laurie, maintainedthe loyalty of his house to the new dynasty, and raised a. R. C. FERGUSSON, company for its support in 1715. In Major Frasers Manu-script mention is made of him being at Dumfries in thatyear, and associated with Kirkpatrick of Closeburn andothers in the defence of the toAvn. The will of his wife, theheroine of the song, is preserved at Craigdarroch. It is abrief holograph document, in which she constitutes her hus-band sole legatee, and in which her name is spelled Anna. 404 CLAN FERGUSSON The Whistle/ sung of by Burns, and won by their grandson,Alexander Fergusson of Craigdarroch, a distinguished lawyer,remains in the possession of the family. The most eminentof their descendants was Robert Cutlar Fergusson, one of theearliest advocates of Parliamentary Reform, who was tried in1798, along with the Earl of Thanet, on the charge of aidingone of the prisoners charged with sedition, and for whom hewas counsel, to escape. He subsequently went to India,where he became Attorney-Gen
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