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1.0 INTRODUCTION

1.1 Early Explorations

1.2 Revelations

1.3 Reunions

1.4 Acknowledgements

2.0 ORIGIN OF THE SURNAME M^cALPINE

2.1 Your Name - Edgar A. Guest

2.2 Early Records and Ancient Kings

2.3 Douglas' Account of Macalpin

3.0 RACIAL ORIGIN AND EARLY HISTORY

3.1 Origins of the Celts

3.2 Customs of the Celts

3.3 Historical Development of the Celts

3.4 The Coming of Christianity to the Celts

3.5 St. Patrick

3.6 Columcille

3.7 Kenneth the Great

4.0 M^cALPINES FROM 840-1700

4.1 King Kenneth M^cAlpin and His Descendants

4.2 The 400 year period after Kenneth M^cAlpin

4.3 Clan Life Before the Reformation

4.4 The Reformation in England

4.5 The Reformation in Scotland

4.6 Other Historical Events Involving M^cAlpines

4.7 M^cAlpines in the Service of the Campbells

5.0 M^cALPINE ANCESTORS IN ARGYLL 1650-1792

5.1 Earliest Known Ancestors

5.2 Ancestral Homeland and Lifestyle

5.3 Jacobites and Cattle Drovers

5.4 M^cAlpines alias M^cAlisters

5.5 Charlie's Year 1745-46

5.6 From Craleckan Farm, Argyll

to County Mayo, Ireland

6.0 M^cALPINE ANCESTORS IN IRELAND

6.1 Emigration and Settlement

6.2 John and Martin - Rebellion of 1798,

Baptism and Marriage

6.3 Visiting the Old Homesteads

6.4 Family of John Francis and

Marion (Maguire) M^cAlpine

6.5 Family of Martin I. M^cAlpine

7.0 CONDITIONS OF LIFE IN MAYO 1790-1845

7.1 Historical Background

7.2 The Penal Laws

7.3 The Great Famine

8.0 MONSIGNOR PATRICK M^cALPINE

- VICAR - GENERAL OF TUAM

9.0 EMIGRATION FROM MAYO TO AMERICA

9.1 First Generation

9.2 Second Generation

9.3 Third Generation

10.0 JAMES AND ANN (COLLINS) M^cALPINE

11.0 DESCENDANTS OF JAMES & ANN (COLLINS) M^cALPINE

12.0 ENDNOTES

CHART 1 Genealogy of Dalriadic kings from high kings of Ireland to Kenneth M^cAlpin

CHART 2 Scotland's line of kings 842-1625

CHART 3 Descendants of original M^cAlpine family at south end of Loch Awe, Argyll

CHART 4 Descendants of M^cAlpines at north end of Loch Awe, Argyll

CHART 5 Descendants of James and Ann (M^cLean) M^cAlpine

CHART 8 Descendants of James and Bridget (M^cAlpine) M^cAlpine

CHART 9 Descendants of Michael and Catherine (Hopkins) M^cAlpine

CHART 10 Descendants of Patrick and Mary (Hopkins) M^cAlpine