Anne Cameron

Anne Cameron was a Jacobite Camp follower from Lochaber. During the Jacobite uprising many of the Cameron’s joined the Jacobite army, including the women. As a camp follower Anne would help with the day-to-day things, but she was also a Knitter and spinner, so she would help with keeping the camp supplied with knitted items and repairs to clothing. Anne was captured during the retreat from Derby in December 1745, and was imprisoned until May 1747 when she was transported along with a further 149 Jacobite prisoners (men, women & children) destined to be indentured servants.
Find out what life was like for women in the 18th Century, what kind of clothes they wore, what life was like as a camp following, and then as a Jacobite prisoner.
Props: clothes, wool in different stages from raw wool to the finished spun wool ready to knit with.
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Anne’s story didn’t end as you may think, as the Jacobite prisoners on board the “Veteran” transport ship didn’t actually end up as indentured servants. Find out how Anne’s story, and those of her fellow prisoners, did not go as the British Government hoped.