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11 July 2007:
My father's family, the McKenzies, were blacksmiths at Craigie for over 200 years from 1770. They also ran the post office and stage coach service to Dunkeld.
Family legend has it that the McKenzies came to the district around the time of the Jacobite rebellion, fighting on the Royalist side (nobody's perfect I suppose). They brought a farrier with them, who so impressed the local Laird that he offered to set McKenzie up in his own Smithy at Craigie. The family eventually saved up enough money to purchase it from him.
Craigie was sold in 1979 after the death of Agnes McKenzie, my father's great-Aunt.
- Katherine Morrison (katherine.toms@english-heritage.org.uk)
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