This name, which sounds somewhat Irish, is derived from Loch Dochart, in Perthshire.

The M'Gregors having been proscribed, were subjected to severe penalties, and a group of the clan having been hunted by their superiors, swam the stream which issues from Loch Dochart, and in gratitude to the river they afterwards assumed the family name of Dochart.

A young lad of this name, on being sent to Glasgow College, presented a letter from his minister to Rev.Dr.Heugh of Glasgow.

He gave his name as Dochart, and the name in the letter was M'Gregor.

"Oh," said the Doctor, "I fear there is some mistake about your identity, the names don't agree." "Weel, sir, that's the way they spell the name in our country." The relative whom I have mentioned as supplying so many Scottish anecdotes had many stories of a parochial functionary whose eccentricities have, in a great measure, given way before the assimilating spirit of the times.