{"id":376820,"date":"2026-01-18T12:02:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-18T12:02:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/376820\/"},"modified":"2026-01-18T12:02:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-18T12:02:07","slug":"whats-millwall-fc-got-to-do-with-bonnie-prince-charlie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/376820\/","title":{"rendered":"What&#8217;s Millwall FC got to do with Bonnie Prince Charlie?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Years later, her relatives the McFies had a dramatic situation of their own to deal with &#8211; losing their home in the Highland Clearances. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The clearances of the 18th Century and early 19th Century saw hundreds of families moved off land by landowners to make way for large-scale sheep production or other agricultural uses.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Some families moved to other parts of Scotland, while others emigrated.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Calum Beaton, chairman of Skye&#8217;s Kilmuir Historical Society, said the McFies were among those who headed overseas.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I understand they were evicted from Erisco when Duntulm Estate brought in Cheviot sheep,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;There wouldn&#8217;t have been much for them here at the time and they went to Australia in search of a better life.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Martin McFie was born in 1867 in Merino Downs in Australia, but his connection to Skye remained strong and the cause of some interest for football historians.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Years later, her relatives the McFies had a dramatic situation of their own to deal with &#8211; losing&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":376821,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,50,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-376820","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-kingdom","tag-gb","tag-great-britain","tag-greatbritain","tag-news","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/376820","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=376820"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/376820\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/376821"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=376820"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=376820"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=376820"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}