The rush for Kildonan gold

MRS CECIL FOLJAMBE was lucky in the timing of her wedding, July 22, 1869, which happened to coincide with the short-lived Kildonan Gold Rush. Small amounts of gold had long been found in the Strath of Kildonan, which runs west and north from Helmsdale in Sutherland, but, on returning from the Australian goldfields, Robert Nelson Gilchrist was authorised by the Duke to pan along the river, where he found