Comments on: Isle of Jura Malt Whisky http://ScottishJerk.com/14/isle-of-jura-malt-whisky/ Discover the real Scottish culture and people Fri, 27 Apr 2012 13:45:50 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: admin http://ScottishJerk.com/14/isle-of-jura-malt-whisky/#comment-349 admin Fri, 27 Apr 2012 13:45:50 +0000 http://scottishjerk.com/?p=14#comment-349 Patrea Thanks for this insight into a part of the story I had never heard before. But obviously I do not have access to your private family records so you definitely have an advantage over me. I also apologise to you for not approving this comment from you for so long but over the last four months I have been in hospital almost more than I have been out and a lot of the time when I was not an inpatient I was in too much pain to be able to think clearly. I will now hopefully be able to get involved in this website again. Thanks again Ron Patrea

Thanks for this insight into a part of the story I had never heard before. But obviously I do not have access to your private family records so you definitely have an advantage over me.

I also apologise to you for not approving this comment from you for so long but over the last four months I have been in hospital almost more than I have been out and a lot of the time when I was not an inpatient I was in too much pain to be able to think clearly. I will now hopefully be able to get involved in this website again.

Thanks again

Ron

]]> By: patrea http://ScottishJerk.com/14/isle-of-jura-malt-whisky/#comment-345 patrea Sat, 11 Feb 2012 09:28:20 +0000 http://scottishjerk.com/?p=14#comment-345 The story about my great grandfatherr James Ferguson is not enitrely accurate: contemporary family records have it that he abandoned the distillery after the first world war on the basis that he had killed enough men during the war not to want to continue to make what was basically lucrative gut-rot. The serving highlanders' kilts were of such a length that they brushed against the top of the trenches and during the winter months they would become alternately wet or frozen, cutting into the bare leg causing continuous pain. Whisky (mostly supplied from Jura) was doled out in great quantities before any assault and the demented and drunken soldiers didnt really care who shot them. But it does appear that Campbell also hiked the rent at the same time. The family still own the original cottage on Jura. And one can only applaud that James Ferguson got out of the whisky business before the prohibition forced him to - like so many others. The story about my great grandfatherr James Ferguson is not enitrely accurate: contemporary family records have it that he abandoned the distillery after the first world war on the basis that he had killed enough men during the war not to want to continue to make what was basically lucrative gut-rot. The serving highlanders’ kilts were of such a length that they brushed against the top of the trenches and during the winter months they would become alternately wet or frozen, cutting into the bare leg causing continuous pain. Whisky (mostly supplied from Jura) was doled out in great quantities before any assault and the demented and drunken soldiers didnt really care who shot them.

But it does appear that Campbell also hiked the rent at the same time. The family still own the original cottage on Jura. And one can only applaud that James Ferguson got out of the whisky business before the prohibition forced him to – like so many others.

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