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Fergusson was possibly born in Contin, Ross-shire,[1][2] where her father is said, according to Ronald Black, to have been, "a blacksmith - chiefly employed in making dirks and other implements of war.

In his later Report, the Bishop had described the region, unlike the Hebrides, as so abundant with trees that the local population lived in wattle and daub houses instead of dry stone and thatch blackhouses.

A roadside memorial, erected by the Frasers of Mauld near Struy in Strathglass, now marks the site of William and Christina Chisholm's criel house and their last farewell.

[11] Other sources, according to Ronald Black, name Clan Chisholm's standard bearer at Culloden as John MacDonald, alias (Scottish Gaelic: Iain na Brataich'), who survived the Battle and later emigrated to Canada.

Literary scholar John MacKenzie later wrote that Christina, "devotes to the Prince one solitary expression of sympathetic condolence... and then, with the wings and wail of a mateless dove, flutters over the mangled carcass of her husband, and depicts his matchless person and soul in language that would melt the sternest heart to sympathy.