What Are Scottish Clan Maps Useful For?
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- čas přidán 20. 09. 2023
- Do you have one of these maps on your wall or on your computer? Are they useful? If so, what are they good for? I describe how you can understand what you're looking at and what to watch out for when drawing conclusions from the map.
Origins of the Scottish Clans 101 course: www.scottish-clans.com/origins
Podcast Episode on this subject:
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I live in Glasgow, Scotland The Brave playing at the start reminds me of the time some guy was playing Scotland The Brave on the bagpipes from his flat in the high rise flats opposite us, with his window wide open, lol.
That is how Scots did in the Colinies, too. My 6th Great Grandfather was Rev. William Robertson the “immigrant” who migrated to Henrico County, VA circa 1700. The children by his first wife were named Robertson, but the children by his second wife were named Robinson. I descend from the second wife, so my mother was a Robinson. I have no idea why the name change but assume it was because he wanted to give them a better chance to succeed in the English driven colonies because the Englishhated the Scots but this does not keep me from having 25% Scottish DNA.
My 13th great grandfather John MacLeod IX of Gesto and Glenelg had his lands seized by King James I. These lands were near Waternish Isle of Skye and Also Glenelg on the mainland. Dunno why it happened. I would be curious to find out. The land had been handed down for 6 generations from the 3rd MacLeod clan cheif as I understand it. My ancestors moved to Dumfries after the land seizures and eventually to Kirkmichael before they came yo America in the 1740s. The Father and Son duo of McClure's were Revolutionary War Patriots. If it weren't for land seizures maybe I am never born?
Or born in Scotland or somewhere else?
Land was usually taken back then depending on whose side they took during a particular war if they were one the losing side then the winner may decide to take the land and give it to someone else, the Douglas clan had land then had it taken then given back. It was a strange time back then.
It did help, my ancestry goes back to both the Douglas and Kilgore clans
douglasssssss!
@@alexminard6975 yes on my great grandmother's side, and my father's name was klan Kilgore.
Clan (Kilgour) is a sept of Clan MacDuff
@@davidk9557 yes but that's the spelling my father's spelling was Kilgore and they were septs of the Douglas clan which was my great grandmothers clan. There is a larger story behind that mess
Yea mine is Killgore the L was added in 1783 in North Carolina Decedents of the 5 Kilgore's that were in the Kings mountain battel. They trace back to Lord Lames Douglas Kilgour in Scotlande 1580@@doc3162