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Rural Life

Waterloo Souvenir

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Skye crofter, Jonathan MacLeod (d.1874) was shot in the leg at Waterloo and lived with the bullet in his calf for ~60 years. When his son Angus was interred with him at Kilmartin, his grandchildren found the bullet in the earth, 72 years after it had been shot.

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“Waterloo Gordons and Greys to the Front” by Stanley Berkeley
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Kilmartin Cemetery on Skye where Jonathan and Angus MacLeod are buried.
References

Dundee Evening Telegraph. 24th March 1887. pg. 2
1887 MACLEOD, ANGUS (Statutory registers Deaths 112/2 7)

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People

Breid Jean Connel

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“Breid Jean” Connel (1786-1871) was a social carer and delivered bread to old people in the country around Cumbernauld right up until her death. Married to a soldier in the 79th regiment in 1813, she and her husband both fought at the Battle of Waterloo.