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Flora MacDonald by Allan Ramsay (1713–1784), 1749, from Ashmolean Museum, Oxford. Image provided by Joanne Watson Most silk satin in the mid 18th century measured between 19” – 24”, with 20” being the most common, so I decided to cut panels 20” wide, whip stitch these together with many tiny stitches (this took me two or three weeks, I lost count) and then sew these panels together.
20 de ene. de 2023 · It is to someone’s brilliance in casting—probably her stepfather Hugh—that the young Flora Macdonald was chosen. The unmarried 24-year-old gentlewoman was well-spoken and sharp-witted, so ...
Seeking refuge in the Outer Hebrides, hoping to escape to France, he found an unlikely ally in Flora MacDonald, a young woman in her early twenties, loyal to the Stuarts. Disguising the prince as an Irish maid, petticoats and all, Flora conveyed Charles by boat to Skye, where they lodged safely with her family, until the prince’s inexpert ...
28 de jun. de 2022 · In 1750, Flora Macdonald was married to her cousin Alexander Macdonald, the younger, of Kingsburgh. Flora had a numerous family of sons and daughters. Her eldest son was a captain in the Queen’s Rangers. Source: Memoirs of the Jacobites of 1715 and 1745 by Mrs. Thomson. The genealogy of Hugh Macdonald, a descendant of Flora is available to ...
Flora and Allan MacDonald married in 1750. They farmed at Flodigarry, Skye, until financial difficulties forced them to emigrate to North Carolina, USA, in 1774. They settled at Cheek’s Creek in Anson, now Montgomery, County, where they acquired a farm.
14 de abr. de 2020 · Learn the amazing true life story of Flora MacDonald, the young woman who saved Bonnie Prince Charlie and later emigrated to North Carolina.
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5 de dic. de 2023 · Flora Macdonald. (1722-1790), Jacobite heroine. Sitter in 8 portraits. The daughter of an Outer Hebrides farmer, Flora Macdonald met Prince Charles Edward Stuart as he fled the Battle of Culloden in 1746. Flora helped him escape by boat to the Isle of Skye by disguising him as her maidservant. She was subsequently arrested and brought to London ...
