Name/Title
War of 1812 Cannons at Moy Hall, ScotlandEntry/Object ID
2024.785.1Description
As written by Jack Milliken: "In 2019 our family visited Moy Hall, Scotland, the ancestral home of the Clan MacIintosh.
My grandmother was a MacIntosh, and my grandparents had named their summer cottage in Saskatchewan “Moy Hall” in honour of that.
A main goal of the visit was to capture images of the two 6-pound cannon from HMS Nancy that we understood to be mounted on the stone wall in front of Moy Hall.
As I’d learned at Nancy Island, and through other reading, after the War of 1812, Alexander MacIntosh had taken the two cannon from the Nancy back to Moy Hall and mounted them on the stone wall in front of it.
From a distance we took photos of the wall in front of Moy Hall with the two cannon mounted on top.
We didn’t want to disturb the elderly MacKintosh matriarch whom we understood to be in the house, so we didn’t get any close up photos.
Moy Hall was surprisingly obscure and hard to find given its history and importance to the MacIntosh descendants.
I’ve attached 3 photos that we took at Moy Hall on June 27, 2019 .
One is of the front yard of Moy Hall looking out on to Loch Moy.
A second is a close up of the stone wall in front of Moy Hall with the HMS Nancy cannon on top.
The third photo shows the gates of Moy Hall with myself and my son Robert walking up it after having taken the first two photos"Acquisition
Accession
2024.785Source or Donor
Jack MillikenAcquisition Method
Gift
