{"id":5679,"date":"2009-06-01T14:54:39","date_gmt":"2009-06-01T14:54:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scotclans.com\/bletherskite\/?p=636"},"modified":"2009-06-01T14:54:39","modified_gmt":"2009-06-01T14:54:39","slug":"clan-feud-over-digging-up-rob-roy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/project1-m9gb2xku8.live-website.com\/?p=5679","title":{"rendered":"Clan Feud Over Digging up Rob Roy"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_39617\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-39617\" style=\"width: 150px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/robroy.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-39617\" alt=\"Liam Neeson as Rob Roy\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/robroy.jpg\" width=\"150\" height=\"199\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-39617\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Liam Neeson as Rob Roy<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>An old Clan feud has resurfaced after plans were announced that the remains of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scotclans.com\/scotland\/scottish-history\/scottish-unification\/1671-robroy\/\">Rob Roy MacGregor<\/a> were to be dug up.\u00a0 The legendary outlaw is believed to have been buried in Balquhidder, Stirlingshire.\u00a0 But the chief of <a href=\"\/scottish-clans\/clan-maclaren\/\">Clan MacLaren<\/a> now plans to exhume a body for DNA testing, proving once and for all if it is truely the Scottish folk hero.\u00a0 Donald <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scotclans.com\/scottish-clans\/clan-maclaren\/\">MacLaren<\/a> claimed Rob Roy really lies in an unmarked plot several miles away stating &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.scotclans.com\/scottish-clans\/clan-macgregor\/\">MacGregor<\/a> properganda lives on long and hard.\u00a0 It would be suprising if he was buried in what was a MacLaren kirkyard.\u00a0 I&#8217;m not hugely in favour of bus parties standing around looking at the grave and putting little posies on it.\u00a0 If he&#8217;s not there, this myth would stop.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_39616\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-39616\" style=\"width: 350px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/robroy-grave12.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-39616\" alt=\"Rob Roys Grave, Balquidder, Stirlingshire - Or is it?\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/robroy-grave12.jpg\" width=\"350\" height=\"233\" srcset=\"https:\/\/project1-m9gb2xku8.live-website.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/robroy-grave12.jpg 350w, https:\/\/project1-m9gb2xku8.live-website.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/robroy-grave12-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-39616\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Rob Roys Grave, Balquidder, Stirlingshire &#8211; Or is it?<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.scotclans.com\/scotland\/scottish-history\/scottish-unification\/1671-robroy\/\">Rob Roy<\/a> is thought to have been buried with his wife Mary and his two sons in 1734.\u00a0 Peter Lawrie, of the Clan Gregor society, called the move &#8216;desecration&#8217;, adding: &#8220;How would you feel if we suggested digging up the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scotclans.com\/scottish-clans\/clan-maclaren\/\">MacLaren<\/a> graves?\u00a0 As far as we are conncerned, Rob Roy is buried in that grave.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/..\/..\/clan-shop\/macgregor\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-55741\" src=\"https:\/\/project1-m9gb2xku8.live-website.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/macgregor-ad1.jpg\" alt=\"macgregor-ad\" width=\"600\" height=\"212\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An old Clan feud has resurfaced after plans were announced that the remains of Rob Roy MacGregor were to be dug up.\u00a0 The legendary outlaw is believed to have been buried in Balquhidder, Stirlingshire.\u00a0 But the chief of Clan MacLaren now plans to exhume a body for DNA testing, proving once and for all if [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":39616,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,3,50,89,17,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5679","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-scottish-clans","category-genealogy","category-macgregor","category-maclaren","category-scottish-myths","category-scottish_news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/project1-m9gb2xku8.live-website.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/robroy-grave12.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/project1-m9gb2xku8.live-website.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5679","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/project1-m9gb2xku8.live-website.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/project1-m9gb2xku8.live-website.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/project1-m9gb2xku8.live-website.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/project1-m9gb2xku8.live-website.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5679"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/project1-m9gb2xku8.live-website.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5679\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/project1-m9gb2xku8.live-website.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/39616"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/project1-m9gb2xku8.live-website.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5679"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/project1-m9gb2xku8.live-website.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5679"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/project1-m9gb2xku8.live-website.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5679"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}