Catriona (novel) the 3rd duke of Argyll, Simon Fraser of Lovat, Prophet Peden and Hugh Palliser were real people and the frigate HMS "Seahorse" actually existed. However, the heroine who gives her name to the novel is a fictional character. The real James MacGregor had seven sons and six daughters, none of them named Catriona. The 1971 film "Kidnapped" was based on "Kidnapped" and the first half of "Catriona". Catriona (novel) Catriona (also known as David Balfour) is an 1893 novel written by Robert Louis Stevenson as a sequel to his earlier novel "Kidnapped" (1886). It was first published in the magazine
Lewis Balfour who married the lighthouse engineer Thomas Stevenson and together were parents to the world-famous author Robert Louis Stevenson. The latter was christened Robert Lewis Balfour Stevenson, after his grandfather, but Lewis was changed to Louis to make it sound more French, and Balfour was dropped altogether. Their daughter Henrietta Louisa Balfour (1822-1853) married R. H. Traquair, uncle of Ramsay Heatley Traquair. Their son Lewis Balfour (1817-1870) was a merchant in Calcutta. Mackintosh Balfour (1825-1894) was a manager in the Bank of Bombay. Stevenson's book; A Child's Garden of Verses remembers his summers at Colinton manse. The 1851 census has two