Talk:Alexander Cannon (general)

Updates to Infobox

I've provided an Inbox as requested but I cannot track down a photo - Cannon is extremely elusive.

Robinvp11 (talk) 19:18, 8 February 2018 (UTC)

More things to look at

Possibly a bit of trivia more than anything else, but where did Cannon go after Cromdale? I've seen sources suggesting he took shelter with the MacDonalds, with Sir John MacLean on Mull (Mitchell, 1900) and with MacPherson of Cluny (Roberts, 2000). Perhaps all true. Few of the sources in this area are modern academic texts.

It would also be good to establish his origins more firmly. If the family was Scottish and Catholic they should in theory be easy to identify given the small numbers. Some books describe him as Irish, though I suspect this is the same error as seen with Buchan. There are however Cannons in Ireland as well as Galloway (his own letters spell it "Canan").Svejk74 (talk) 11:08, 10 February 2018 (UTC)

By early 1691, Cannon and Buchan were with Glengarry at Invergarry Castle; their safe passage to France was part of the deal Glengarry did with Lord Stair in December 1691, which included changing the target to the Glencoe Macdonalds (see my article on the Glencoe Massacre :)).

Re origins; the Cannons or Cannan (more usual spelling) can be traced living in the area back to 1456 and like other families were associated with the cattle trade between Galloway and Ulster. Following the 1609 Plantation, the Murrays of Broughton acquired 65,000 acres in Donegal, which they used for raising cattle and then importing them into Galloway; so that's probably where the Irish v Scottish thing comes in. I'll expand the article to clarify :).

Robinvp11 (talk) 16:19, 14 February 2019 (UTC)