South Uist, Donald Currie

Donald Currie was the crofter from South Lochboisdale who gave evidence to Lord Napier's Commission at Lochboisdale on 28 May 1883. Unfortunately, it is not possible, using the evidence in hand, to determine which of the two men named Donald Currie at South Lochboisdale in the 1881 census was the township representative. One lived at no 14, the other at no 24.The Donald Currie at 24 South Lochboisdale was born in 1837, which broadly tallies with the age of the witness. The other man, at no 14, was born in 1832. Although the indications are pretty strong towards the former, I would not like to pin my colours to the mast on either of them.