Anne (Farquharson) MacIntosh (abt. 1723 - 1787)

Born about 1723 in Aberdeenshire, Scotland

Ancestors

Died 2 Mar 1787 at about age 64 in Leith, City of Edinburgh, Scotland

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Biography

Anne (Farquharson) MacIntosh is a member of Clan Farquharson.

Anne Farquharson-Mackintosh was a Scottish Jacobite of the Clan Farquharson, a Scottish clan of the Scottish Highlands and also the wife of Angus Mackintosh. She became known as Colonel Anne for her role in the Jacobite Rising of 1745. ^[1]

Anne, then 22 years old, forcefully raised between 200 and 400 men from Clan Mackintosh and the confederation of Clan Chattan for the Prince Charles Edward Stuart, aka, Bonnie Prince Charlie. When the Prince was staying at Moy Hall, Lady Anne's home she received a message from her mother-in-law that 1,500 of Lord Loudon's men, including her husband's company stationed 8–12 miles away at Inverness, were planning a night raid on Moy Hall to snatch the Prince (and claim the £30,000 bounty. Anne sent five of her staff out with guns to crash about and shout clan battle cries to trick the Government forces into thinking they were about to face the entire Jacobite army. The ploy worked and the Government force fled. The event became known as The Rout of Moy. She became known by the Bonnie Prince Charlie as La Belle Rebelle (The Beautiful Rebel).^[1]

After the Jacobite defeat at the Battle of Culloden in April 1746, Lady Anne was arrested and turned over to the care of her mother-in-law for a time. She later met Prince William, Duke of Cumberland at a social event in London with her husband. He asked her to dance to a pro-Government tune and she returned the favour by asking him to dance to a Jacobite tune. She died on 2 March 1787 at Leith.^[1]

Relationship to daughter Janet McIntosh is unknown, and Janet may be the granddaughter instead of the daughter.

• According to The Peerage (see below) she died without issue

• Fact: Burial North Leith Burial Ground, Edinburgh, City of Edinburgh, Scotland

Sources

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1 1.2} https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lady_Anne_Farquharson-MacKintosh

• Anne “Colonel Anne” Farquharson Mackintosh (1723-1787) on Find A Grave: Memorial #156677194 Retrieved 04 January 2018.

• Wikipedia: Lady Anne Farquharson-Mackintosh

• The Peerage: Anne Farquharson

• Rejected Princess.com - Anne Farquharson-Mackintosh

Acknowledgments

• Thank you to Scott Ledbetter for creating WikiTree profile Farquharson-65 through the import of Ledbetter01.ged on Jun 8, 2013. Click to the Changes page for the details of edits by Scott and others.