ROMANCE OF HISTORY
HEATHER ON CAMPBELL ISLAND Lk\K WITH SCOTLAND A piece of heather in ilower, which is at present on view in the Otago Museum, comes from one of the most romantic spots in the south seas. On Campbell Island may lie found a woman's grave on which heather is, growing and from which this slip was taken.
Many stories have: been told of tliis woman, all of them equally romantic, but the one told by Ro. Carrick, in his ''Government Survey," said that the woman was French by birth, but. Scottish by extraction, being the daughter of Meg Wilkinshaw and Bonnie Prince Charlie. When the Prince retired to France, Miss Wilkinshaw accompanied Jiim and became involved politically with the Jacobite Party. - On her death suspicion was transferred to her daughter, and in order to get rid of. her a seaman named Stewart abducted her and took her to New .Zealand. He then handed her oVer to a brother sailor,, who marooned her on Campbell Island, where she died. As Carrick points out, this fits in with pieccs of history, but lie adds, that Campbell Island was not discovered until 30 years after the supposed date.
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Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 6, Issue 48, 16 February 1943, Page 5
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