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Beth’s Newfangled Family Tree Section B November 2013

Volume VIII Issue 6 Beth’s Newfangled Family Tree Section B November 2013

Sir Malcolm Colquhoun, 31st Chief of Colquhoun launches Clan Colquhoun International Society

http://www.clancolquhoun.com/


Clan BellNorth America

Visit ourwebsite:

clanbell.org


Benjamin Sandford Roper, Jr., Weddington,NC. Mr. Roper (Sandy) passed away Wednes-day, September 18, 2013 at his home inWeddington.

Sandy was a kind and generous man who lovedeveryone unconditionally, especially his chil-dren Ashley and Ben.

He lived life to the fullest enjoying hunting, fish-ing, snow skiing, traveling and being with friends.

He was a lover of the land in his business and inhis life; always educating you about the trees, plantsand waterways from the beaches to the mountains.

Mr. Roper was blessed with a large family, theonly son of Sam and Isbel Roper of Charlotte.Sandy is survived by his daughter Ashley RoperMolina (Tristan) and his son Ben Roper, his sis-

ters Connie Connelly, Caroline Roberts (Joe) andIbbie Alexander (Rick) and his best friend and con-stant companion Norma Jean Rector. He was pre-ceded in death by his father Sam Roper and hismother Isbel Roper and sister Margaret Lofton.

The church service to celebrate his life was heldon Saturday, September 21st at First Baptist Churchat with Dr. Michael T. Whitson officiating.

The family would like to thank the staff of theVA Hospital in Salisbury, and Jan Plyler Green,Kim Outen, and Jan Hall of Hospice UnionCounty for their expert care of Sandy in his fi-nal days.

Memorials may be made to the First BaptistChurch of Indian Trail . A private interment ser-vice was held by the family for Mr. Roper.

Flowers of the Forest


Clan Graham Society If you are a Graham or Sept of Graham, you are cordial-ly invited to share in a proud and noble heritage. Contact US Membership VP Clifford Fitzsimmons, 2919 Denson Ave., Knoxville, TN 37921-6671 [email protected] Or, Canadian Membership VP Alan Graham, 19 Brae Valley Court, Port Perry, Ontario L9L 1V1, Canada [email protected]

www.clan-graham-society.org


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Have you been awarded your own Arms?If you have been awarded your own Arms by the Lyon Court in Edinburgh,

Scotland, we’d like to feature them in these pages. Just send a note telling us abouthow and why you were honored plus a rendering of your Arms in color (jpeg files,please) and a copy of your Achievement in any Word format.

Just send to [email protected] and we’ll honor you in the pages of BNFT.

The new American College of Heraldry address is:

David Robert WootenExecutive Director,

The American College of Heraldry1818 North Taylor Street #312

Little Rock, AR 72207Web: www.americancollegeofheraldry.org

November 30 is St. Andrew Day! November 30 is St. Andrew Day!

Celebrate!


Why should we waituntil January 25th to re-call and ap-p r e c i a t e

Robert Burns? One of our Scottishlaureate’s longest poems was “Hallow-een”. We already know that Burns’ lovefor stories of ghosts, witches and othernocturnal spirits inspired the writing of“Tam O’ Shanter”. Legends, myths andtime honored traditions underlie the Hal-loween “spirit” that can be found in manyworks of Burns and other writers of his day.

The night now known as Halloween was, once upon atime, called Samhain and was celebrated by the Druidsas a harvest festival and the end of summer. In manyquarters this was the “Feast of the Dead”as some were thought to return as evil spir-its or witches. Bonfires were lit to ensurethat the sun would return the followingspring. In most ver-sions of history the oldCeltic calendar ended on October 31st.

One of the pagan rituals preserved to thisday is “dookin” for apples which were a sa-cred fruit to the an-cient Celts. The modern “bobbin’ forapples” originates from this practice. My childhood memoryof this Halloween pastime (from around age 7) includes verycold water taken from a gar-den hose in late fall and com-pletely submerging my head underwaterin order to “trap” an apple on the bottomof a large washtub.

Well over a thousand years ago theVatican decided to make November1st All Saints Day. This accomplishedthe goal of having a day to honor thosewho did not already have a special day.The mass that accompanied this sacred

day was called Allhallowmass (mass of those who are hal-lowed). The night before thus became All Hallows Eve which

evolved to our current term, Halloween. Ad-ditionally, this savvy choice of timing facili-tated “recruiting” by the church due to the factthat Celtic people were already absorbed in agargantuan state of celebration.

Modern America uses the pumpkin as itsfavorite Halloween icon. Only a sparse por-tion of the population is aware that thepractice of scooping out the in-side andcutting through the skin to make faces and

other designs is centuries old. In our ancestral Scot-land this art form was developed using “neeps” (tur-nips). Just as we do today, candles were placed insidethe carved out vegetables, thereby creating lanterns. The

ancient ritual of placing skulls on polesaround an en-campment to ward off evilspirits is the precedent for this now en-tertaining Halloween activity.

After the carved pumpkins, our recollec-tions easily shift to costumes. We all havememories of going out to “trick or treat” inthe community. The children of our Scot-

tish ancestors dressed as evil spirits (in order to blendwith the “real” ones) and went “guising” (disguised). Thesechildren received an “offering” to ward off evil spirits.Some practices of this type include an expectation that a

song, dance or poem recitation shouldprecede the distribution of rewards.

This year as we observe Halloween,take a pause and think about theSamhuinn Festival along the RoyalMile in Edinburgh. It marks the CelticNew Year and, of course, is repletewith fireworks, dancing and other dis-plays or merriment.

Halloween, Samhain, AllhallowmassBill Graham, Society Educator St. Andrew Society of Tallahassee, Florida

Bill Graham, Bill Graham, Bill Graham, Bill Graham, Bill Graham, 850.391.9870 [email protected]. Andrew Society WebsiteSt. Andrew Society WebsiteSt. Andrew Society WebsiteSt. Andrew Society WebsiteSt. Andrew Society Website: www.saintandrewtallahassee


In July 1836, a group of boys hunting rabbits on the slopesof Arthur’s Seat, the rocky eminence overlooking HolyroodPark in Edinburgh, made a curious discovery: Seventeenminiature coffins secreted in a hollow in the ground underthree protective sheets of slate. Four inches in length, eachcoffin held a carved wooden figure dressed in crude dollclothes.

The boys made light of their discovery,and several coffins were carelessly brokenin their ensuing roughhouse play, but othercoffins eventually found their way into re-sponsible adult hands and private collec-tions. Curiosity about the find captured theimagination of puzzled city residents.

In 1901, eight coffins and their residentfigures were donated to the National Mu-seum of Scotland where they can be viewedtoday.

Over 175 years after their discovery, thesignificance of the little coffins and figuresstill remains a mystery. One popular theoryis that the figures represent unfortunateswho did not receive a Christian burial, aserious matter in early 19th Century Scot-land, and that family, friends, or sympathetic strangers per-formed a symbolic internment of the deceased to overcomethis stigma.

In 1836, memories of the 1828 serial killers William Burkeand William Hare were still fresh, giving rise to conjecturethat the effigies might represent the corpses of the 16 vic-tims murdered by these two enterprising Irish immigrantsand sold to the well respected Dr. Robert Knox for hisdissections, research, and popular anatomy lectures at Sur-geons’ Hall in Edinburgh.

The seventeenth figure may have represented an elderlytenant of Hare’s who was behind in his rent when he died inhis bed of natural causes. Burke and Hare filled his coffinwith bark and surreptitiously sold the body, the first of 17,to Knox, ever desperate for a reliable supply of cadaversto sustain his anatomical research.

For each cadaver, Knox paid the duo the then-princelysum of 10 pounds, no questions asked. Knox would soon

deeply regret his failure to honor the old adage caveatemptor.

Grave-robbing, body-snatching, and murder were a darkside of the Scottish Enlightenment that made Edinburgh,the “Athens of the North,” a world center for cutting-edgemedical research in the late 18th and early 19th Centuries.

Graveyards were initially a popular targetfor body-snatchers, whom Edinburgh resi-dents wryly termed “resurrectionists.” Evenas the demand for cadavers increased, thesupply was dwindling due to a reductionin executions and increased graveyard se-curity. Today, a walk through GreyfriarsKirkyard offers interesting examples of en-closed vaults and mortsafes (low iron cagessecured over gravesites) to prevent graverobbers from exhuming the dead.

Grasping the economic opportunityposed by the cadaver shortage, Burke andHare soon graduated from grave-robbingto murder, dispatching over the period ofa year 16 victims, of whom 12 werewomen, and delivering the corpses to aneager Knox. In an effort to allay suspicion,

the duo favored murder by suffocation, to make the deathsappear as natural as possible. The verb “to burke,” mean-ing to suffocate or to suppress in a clandestine way, en-tered the popular lexicon as a result of the publicity sur-rounding the apprehension and trial of the infamous mur-derers.

Burke and Hare were arrested when two of their board-inghouse lodgers found the body of Mary Docherty, care-lessly stored under one of the lodger’s beds for future ship-ment to Surgeons’ Hall, and later identified by police inKnox’s dissecting room. Even so, unsure that he possessedsufficient evidence to prove murder and obtain a convic-tion, Lord Advocate Sir William Rae granted Hare immu-nity from prosecution in exchange for his confession andtestimony against Burke, whom Rae perceived as the guid-ing force behind the murders. A jury took less than an hourto find Burke guilty of the murder of Docherty.

Murder & Medical Research: The Notorious Burke and Hare of Edinburgh

Jay Breeze, The St. Andrew Society of Tallahassee, Florida

Publication of this article is made possible by a grant from the Department of Anatomy,Florida State University School of Medicine

Continued on page11


The morally outraged Lord Justice David Boyle sentencedBurke to death, and also sentenced his mortal remains toshare the fate of his hapless victims – dissection in EdinburghUniversity’s Old College anatomy theater.Boyle expressed the hope that Burke’s skel-eton would be preserved as a reminder ofthe Irishman’s horrific crimes.

Burke subsequently made a full confessionof all the circumstances of the murders and,with a certain panache, asked if he could re-ceive the balance of payment from Knox forcadaver number seventeen. Burke explained that he neededthe money to purchase a fashionable suit of clothes for hispublic execution.

A standing room only crowd of jubilant citizenry, nolonger fearful of walking Old Town streets at night, wit-nessed Burke’s hanging in Lawnmarket in January 1829.

Public outrage over Hare’s immunity from prosecutionprompted him to wisely flee Scotland in order to escapemob justice. Although Knox always claimed his innocenceand was never charged, a mob convinced of his complic-ity in the murders attempted to apprehend him. Knox es-caped and also fled Scotland. As per the wishes of trialjudge David Boyle, the skeleton of William Burke remainson display to this day in Edinburgh University’s AnatomyMuseum. Surgeons’ Hall boasts wallets and other itemsmade from Burke’s skin, as well as his death mask, forvisitors who want to put a face to a name…and a skel-eton.

Jay Breeze, continued from page 10

COLLEGE OF ARMSFOUNDATION AWARDS £20,000

TO COLLEGE OF ARMS FORPIGOTT LIBRARY

To thank the Chief for his many generosities insupport of Clan MacTavish USA, the CMU Board ofDirectors voted this past year to have a custom madesterling silver belt buckle made for the Chief.

We commissioned Jeff Robinson, a well-knownCeltic artist to design and fabricate the buckle. Wepresented it to the Chief on Friday evening before theAGM October 2013 at Columbus, Indiana.

Stephen MacTavish Honored


The Clan Skene Asso-

ciation, Inc., invites mem-

bership from SKENE and

septs CARISON,

C A R N E Y / C A R N I E ,

CURREHILL, DYAS,

DYCE, DYER, HALL,

HALYARD/HALLYARD,

MacGAILLARD, RENNIE

& SKAINS.Dorna Comp, president103 Sumners AlleySummerville, SC 29485([email protected])

Danus George Moncreiff Skene of Skene

Chief of the Name and Arms of Skene

ContactCeltic League

American Branch

PO Box 30153

Dag Hammarskjold Center

New York, New York 10017

Send $35 for individual or

$40 for couple/family

membership

with your name,

and address.

Join the Celtic LeagueHow to order

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You may order, if you’d like to use

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$25.00 includes s/hfrom Beth Gay-Freeman

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MacDuffee Clan Society of America, Inc. Clan MacFie

Organized July 1962

Services for Joel Stanley Gunn, age53 of Dublin, were held Friday, October 4,2013 at the First Baptist Church of EastDublin, Georgia. Burial followed in GrahamMemorial Church of the Nazarene Cemeterynear Dublin. Rev. Jack Sapp officiated.

Mr. Gunn was of the Baptist faith andwas vice president of Clan Gunn of NorthAmerica. He was a member of the St.Andrews Society of Atlanta, Georgia.

He passed away on Wednesday, Octo-ber 02, 2013.

Survivors include his parents, Archieand Mary Gunn of East Dublin; brother,Archie Gunn, Jr. of Doraville, GA and sis-ter, Judy Gunn Abston of Silas, AL.

Townsend Brothers Funeral Home wasin charge of the services.

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ClanLeslie SocietyInternational

Septs: Abernethy, Bartholomew,

Carnie, Laing, and More (Moore)

and other spelling variations

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Send Inquiries To:

Linda Flowers, Treasurer

Clan Leslie Society International

302 SW 3rd St.

Tuttle, OK 73089

The Honorable Alexander Leslie,

Chief of Clan Leslie

[email protected]

David Leslie White,Chieftain


[email protected]

Call: 770-823-1313

Scotland of Old

CLAN MAPS

Available now in the USA

The latest edition of the free on-line travel maga-zine,Your Life is a Trip, includes a description of a visitof exploration and discovery to Orkney. It includes ref-erences to the Highland Park distillery, many of the sitesof scientific and cultural interest in the Orkney Isles aswell as The Orkney Family History Society.

For the travel magazine, visit http://www.yourlifeisatrip.com/home/heritage-and-whisky-in-scotlands-orkney-islands.html

You might wish to read “Old Man of Hoy”, thefinal episode in Frank Demain’s book of adventurestories, “Off the Beaten Track”, available as an e-bookfrom Amazon. Our Scottish hero, Peter Sinclair,crosses from Orkney Mainland to Hoy in search ofhis family roots and discovers an illicit distillery – to hiscost – and I mean substantially more than just a sorehead from drinking substandard whisky!

The book also takes our intrepid traveler to adventuresin Croatia, the Canary Islands and the North Yorkshire coast.

If you would like to learn more about “Old Manof Hoy” e-book, visit http://www.amazon.com/Off-the-Beaten-Track-ebook/dp/B0092PLCC4

Orkney Islands,Scotland

Free on-line travelmagazine, Your Life isa Trip available now

The Old Man of Hoy at Orkney


The Clan Colquhoun Society of North Americais now

The Clan Colquhoun International Societyhttp://www.clancolquhoun.com/

Contact Tom Hodges: [email protected] families and septs of Colquhoun are:

Colquhoun, Calhoun, CowanMacClintock and MacManus

Clan Wallace SocietyWorldwide Gathering

Scotland 2014Bannockburn revisited

Dunfermline Abbey where legend states MargaretCrawford, Wallace’s mother, is buried. King Robert I,the Bruce, is interred within this ancient Abbey.

New evidence points to Ayrshire as the birthplace of SirWilliam Wallace; we will investigate this and more at theBurns Monument Center, Kilmarnock home of the EastAyrshire historical records and research center. Manymore Wallace-related sites and events will be explored.

As part of our too brief visit as well, a banquet is sched-uled with Andrew Wallace, Younger of that Ilk, ActingChief, who will be joining us at the Bannockburn cel-ebration representing his father, Ian Francis Wallace ofthat Ilk, 35th Chief of the Clan and Name of Wallace.

The tour includes all land arrangements, touring, ac-commodations and transportation in Scotland. A limitednumber of spaces are left on the tour. Full informationis available on the Society’s website: clanwallace.org,or from Lois Wallace, [email protected], orphone: 775-671-0148.

See Clan Wallace advertisement, with all details of the trip, on page 4 of Section A of this publication.

and Clan Wallace will be there”Only 10 spaces left (at this writing)

Over the period of two days in June of 1314, KingRobert I, the Bruce, led his Scots to victory over KingEdward II of England just a few miles below StirlingCastle at Bannockburn. Seven hundred years later, notquite on the day, Scots from around the globe will con-gregate near that historic site to celebrate the famousbattle. The National Trust of Scotland will commemo-rate this 700th anniversary with 3D and live reenact-ments of that historic battle, as well as including a clanand medieval village. Clan Wallace Society Worldwidehas been accepted by the National Trust to representClan Wallace at this event. CWSW has organized anofficial tour to attend this once in a lifetime occurrence.

Our visit in 2014 will include not only the Bannockburnevent itself, but also visits to several locations connectedwith Sir William Wallace. Lanark, the site of WilliamWallace’s earliest exploits and where he killed the sheriffof Clydesdale. Falkirk Kirkyard to view the newly re-stored tomb of Sir John de Graeme’s Tomb, Wallace’ssecond in command at the Battle of Falkirk and theonly known burial site of a knight who died in that era.


If you have the name “Buchanan” in your family or anyof the allied family/sept names below, you are invited to

join your cousins and Buchanan kin. Just send an email fora membership form and/or information to

[email protected] or visit:

BohananBuchananColmanCormackCousland

DewarDonleavy

Dove, DowGibb(s)(y)

GibbonGibsonGilbert

GilbertsonHarper

HarpersonLeavy

LennieLenny

MacaldonichMacalman

MacandeiorMacaslanMacaslin

MacauselanMacauslan(in)

MacauslandMacauslaneMacalman

Macalmon(t)Macammond

MacaslandMacchruiterMaccolmanMaccolwan

Maccormac(k)MaccommonMaccoubreyMaccubbinMaccubbingMaccubin

MacdonleavyMacgeorgeMacgibbonMacgilbert

MacgreusichMacgubbin

MacinallyMacindeo(r)

MackibbMackibbonMackinlayMackinleyMacmaster

MacmauriceMacmorris

MacmurchieMacmurphy

MacneurMacnuirMacquat

MacquattieMacquattieyMacquyer

MacQuintenMacwattie

MacwhirterMacwhorter

MastersMastersonMorriceMorris

Morrison(of Perthshire only)

MurchieMurchisonRichardson

RiskRusk(ie)RuskinSpittal

SpittleWalterWaltersWasonSassonWatersWatson

WattWatters

WeirWuillWoolWuleYuille

YoolYuleZuill

The CBSI wasformed in 1970 asthe Clan BuchananSociety in America.It was founded atthe GrandfatherMountain Games inNorth Carolina.The name was laterchanged to the ClanBuchanan SocietyInternational Inc.,to reflect oursociety’s expandedpurpose andmembership.

http://www.theclanbuchanan.com/html/contact.html

Pres.Ken

Buchanan

[email protected]’re welcome to email the Pres.


The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge have a new coat ofarms to represent them as a married couple, KensingtonPalace has announced.The conjugal coat of arms was approved by the Queenearlier this year.It combines Prince William’s coat of arms and hiswife’s shield, from the Middleton family coat of arms.Designed by the College of Arms in London, conjugalarms traditionally combine the separate shields of a royalhusband and wife.Prince William’sshield, onthe left of the coatof arms, is his versionof the RoyalCoat of Arms,granted to him bythe Queen on his18th birthday.It shows thevarious royal emblemsof differentparts of theUnited Kingdom- the three lionsof England, thelion of Scotlandand the harp ofIreland.It is surroundedby a blue garterbearing the mottoHoni soit qui maly pense - Shameto those who think evil of it - which symbolises the Orderof the Garter, of which he is a Knight Companion.The Duchess of Cambridge’s shield comes from theMiddleton coat of arms, which was granted to the familyin 2011, ahead of her marriage.It is divided vertically, with one half blue and the otherhalf red, and includes a gold chevron across the centre with

white “cotises” either side.It also includes three acorns - representing the duchess

and her siblings Pippa and James - with gold stalks andleaves.

The conjugal arms was made by putting the Middletonshield next to Prince William’s, in what is known as an impaled

coat of arms.Spencer family tradition

In the couple’s arms, the Duchess of Cambridge’s shieldis surrounded by awreath of oak, to

balance out herhusband’s garter- a tradition for

royal spouses whoare not themselves

entitled to surroundtheir arms

with an order ofchivalry.

Both shieldsare supported

by the royal lionand unicorn, each

wearing a threepointed collar,

known as a label.The label has

a red escallopshell derived from

the Spencer coatof arms, which

has been used byPrince William’s

ancestors on his mother’s side for many centuries.The couple will keep the coat of arms forever, but

parts could change as their own circumstances and roleschange.

They will also keep their own coats of arms to representthemselves as individuals, Kensington Palace said.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-24303317

The Duke and Duchess of Cambridgehave a “married” coat of arms

With many thanks to the American College of Heraldry’sArmegerious News newsletter.


Photos from the recent

Gaelic Modheld at the Ligonier Games

Ligonier, Pennsylvania.

Thanks to Mike MacKay!


Bill Leslie’s Starlite Coupe

For those of you who watch the TV seriesChasing Classic Cars on the Velocity Channel,you may remember several years ago when the“star” of Chasing Classic Cars, Wayne Carini,discovered an old hot rod that started life as a1931 Ford Model A coupe.

At some time in the past, this car had been adragster, with an Oldsmobile V-8 engine, a 3-speed Buick transmission, and hydraulic drumbrakes.

This car was bought in 1964 by Bill and DonLeslie of Buffalo, New York which they thenconstructed to compete on the show car cir-cuit It was “chopped” (the top was lowered)four inches, with a blue and white Naugahydeinterior (do any of you remember Naugahyde?),custom bucket seats, and painted a striking1957 Buick Starlite blue metallic paint. Doorand trunk handles were removed and hiddenreleases installed. In addition, it had a customtinted glass roof insert, allowing the occupantsto be able to view the night sky (star-light?).

David Leslie White from Clan Leslie’s newsletter, Grip Fast Online

We must remember that such hot rods wereunique, in that there were no two exactly alike.And there were virtually no commercial shopsconstructing hot rods like the late BoydCoddington who founded Boyd Coddington HotRods in 1978. Most were used until they werewrecked or eventually fell apart. Few survived andeven fewer survived as they were originally built.

After Leslie’s Starlite Coupe won Best of Showat the Buffalo Autorama in 1964, and 2nd placeat the 1964 Rochester Auto Review, the Leslies“retired” their Starlite Coupe and apparently itwas never shown again. It was “discovered” byWayne Carini of Chasing Classic Cars whoreturned it to running condition after 45 yearsof storage. This hot rod was thoroughly detailedand sold as an original vintage hot rod and it nowresides at the Saratoga Auto Museum’s RightCoast Rods exhibit. A sight to warm the heartsof passionate old-car gearheads.

For information on Clan Leslie, Contact:[email protected]


Genealogical research, like charity, should be-gin at home. The first step involves recordingeverything you know about your family. The fol-lowing points are of particular importance:

Talk to parents, grandparents, aunts, uncles,and cousins, even neighbors.

When interviewing older mem-bers of the family, consider record-ing their answers and memories ontape or video to preserve the infor-mation for future generations.

These interviews may help infuture research especially whenthose inevitable discrepancies ariseand clarification is needed to de-termine what was actually said.

Family documents, photos andother sources can provide you withvaluable clues to help get the re-search process started.

These home sources may in-clude the names of ancestors, datesand places for births, marriages and deaths andinsight into what life was like for your ancestors.

In almost every family, one or two mem-bers, perhaps more, become the “unofficial” fam-ily record holders. Key documents often end upin their possession.

Beginning the research process at home maylead to several time and money saving benefits:

Provide links and clues to previously un-known or additional records and sources.

Identify additional family members in the oldcountry or other places of residence.

Provide specific dates and places for birth,death, and marriages.

Provide clues and insights about major eventsthat impacted life decisions within the family oran individual member.

Provide clues on migrations both in theUnited States, Canada, and the old country.

May provide the researcher with originaldocuments, photographs, certificates, etc.

May provide information and insights to helpformulate questions and strategies for oral histo-ries.

May help identify candidates to approach fororal history interviews.

One barrier to the efficient useof home sources is the inevitabledifficult family member. While thereare some families where one mem-ber hoards the family records, anddoes not share, this is relatively un-common.

In such situations, be as kindand persuasive as possible in ask-ing the individual for permission toexamine such records. Whendealing with a difficult family mem-ber, avoid any mention of taking therecords with you and returning themat a later date. Your chances of suc-

cess in this type of situation are slim and none. In other families where this is a problem, the

record holder is usually worried about preservingthe records, and concerned that if he or she loansthem to a family member, they may get acciden-tally lost or destroyed. The best strategy is togradually gain their confidence by first request-ing permission to examine the records in theirpresence. Make careful notes.

At a later date, as you get closer to yourfamily member, he or she will come to trust youmore, and may volunteer to let you take therecords to make photocopies.

When it comes to historical documents and/or family heirlooms, overcoming barriers withina family, even in the best of circumstances, isusually a gradual process. This is particularly trueif the documents or heirlooms are in the posses-sion of an elderly family member.

Home sources and genealogical researchBryan Mulcahy, M.L.S., Reference Librarian, Bryan Mulcahy, M.L.S., Reference Librarian, Bryan Mulcahy, M.L.S., Reference Librarian, Bryan Mulcahy, M.L.S., Reference Librarian, Bryan Mulcahy, M.L.S., Reference Librarian, Fort Myers - Lee County Public Library, 2050

Central Avenue, Fort Myers, FL 33901-3917. Email Bryan at [email protected] the library website at leelibrary.net


Clan Sinclair Association, Inc. (U.S.A.)

Do you know who came to North America

almost 100 years before Columbus’ famous voyage?

Prince Henry Sinclair in 1398!

President Membership Contact

Melvin Sinclair Alta Jean Ginn224 Bransfield Road 12147 Holly Knoll CircleGreenville, SC 296715 Great Falls, VA 22066

864-268-3550 703-430-6745

[email protected] [email protected] a list of spelling variations and septs Website: www.clansinclairusa.org

7 ft. x 9 ft. tent panel created by Heraldic Artist, Tom Freeman, for the 1999 Gathering in Edinburgh.


In the May issue of Grip Fast, everyone wasinformed of the Clan Leslie Society Interna-tional Council’s approval to purchase and installa Scottish oak plaque honoring the founders ofour Society, The Right Honourable Ian Leslie,21st Earl of Rothes, and Alexander Leslie Kli

Our intent was to have this plaque hung in theChapel of the Garioch in Aberdeenshire, whichis also named the Clan Leslie Chapel of NorthEast Scotland. However, we needed the approvalof the church board before we could proceed.

David Leslie from Leslie, Baron Bailey ofBalquhain, presented our requestto the board. The board approvedour request in principle, but alsoadvised David that the memorialshould be in accordance with theguidelines of the Church of Scot-land. Part of this guidance is “Thismeans that the best memorial maynot be a plaque, which records thepast, but something to enhanceand resource the daily life andmission of the church in thepresent day.”

In further discussion with theboard, it was suggested that an oakbaptismal font would be welcome,as the church does not have one.

David recommended, with theconcurrence of the board and theCouncil, that the oak baptismalfont shown here would be appro-priate.

In place of the carved dovewould be the Clan Leslie SocietyInternational’s badge and on theside a plaque that would honorboth the 21st Earl of Rothes andAlexander Leslie Klieforth.

I am confident that we can do

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this. It is right and proper that we honor thosewho gave so much of their time and talent tobring our Society into existence.

Please send your donations to our Treasurer,Linda Flowers, at 302 SW 3rd., Tuttle, OK73089 USA and mark your check for the“Founders Font Project.” You may also pay byPayPal to [email protected] orpay by Visa, MasterCard or Discover. If payingby credit card, you need to send the card type,number, names on the card, expiration date, andthe 3 digit security code on the back of the card.

Listed below are the names of themembers who have already givena donation to this worthwhileproject.

Don and Janice AbernathyBob BaileyDamon BurnsAdam FlowersLinda FlowersDavid Leslie from LeslieGloria KlieforthBrian and Petra LesslieDavid Leslie WhiteSamantha GrayLaura MessingStephen K. LeslieBonnie SimmonsLeslie WeaverBonnie RudniskyRobert E. LeslieDale S. YoungLois LeslieJulia Lessley ElliottDr. Duncan MooreRobert G. LeslieRichard Ross LeslieTom and Sherry HuxtableLewis and Christine JohnsonDonald Leslie


Clan MacCord Society

McFettridge and Kane.Contact

Ronald JohnMcCordPresident/Chief1805 Mews DriveWilmington, NC 28405Ph. 919-256-3798 [email protected]

Invites for membership all spelling variations anddescendants of McCord (a)(e)(y).Also McCourt, McChord, McCoard, Cord(e), McCart,McCort, Cort(e)(s) and Flynn,

Clan Home SocietyClan Home SocietyClan Home SocietyClan Home SocietyClan Home Society(International)(International)(International)(International)(International)Cordially invites membership inquiriesworldwide from all HOME, HUME & SEPTS

Information aboutThe Clan Home Air Force,contact [email protected] For information and application, write to:

Camille Simmons, President1205 Avery Way

Kernersville, NC [email protected]

[email protected].


Kinpurnie EstateNewtyle, Angus, DD2 5PA

Isn’t it fun to browse the fanciest real estate sometimes? Justfor fun. This gorgeous property is in Scotland, of course. Theprice? The real estate listing says, “Price on application.” How-ever, it DOES include over 4,000 acres, a castle, a huge estatehome and the smallest is what we would call a mansion!

Here’s an estatefor you and yours!

If we’re going to dream,we might as wellDREAM LARGE!


ThirteenCDUSA Regions

cover theUnited States

With membershipyou will receive yourregional newsletter

several times each year,plus the CDUSA

national publicationBy Sea By Landtwo times a year.

Clan Donald USA“There is no joy without Clan Donald”

High CommissionerForrest Lee Piver405 Pettigrew DriveWilmington, NC 28412910-399-2455highcommissioner@clan-donald-usa-org

Membership Secretary Marion Schmitz

1685 Casitas Avenue Pasadena, CA 91103

[email protected]

To see the many names on the Clan Donald sept/allied family list, please visit:

http://www.clan-donald-usa.org


The most unforgivable oversight of TV isthat Martha Raye’s shows were not taped.

I was unaware of her credentials or whereshe is buried.

The following is from an Army Aviator whotakes a trip down memory lane:

“It was just before Thanksgiving ’67 andwe were ferrying dead and wounded from alarge GRF west of Pleiku. We had run out ofbody bags by noon, so the Hook (CH-47 CHI-NOOK) was pretty rough in the back.

All of a sudden, we heard a ‘take-charge’woman’s voice in the rear.

There was the singer and actress, MarthaRaye, with a Special Forces beret and junglefatigues, with subdued markings, helpingthe wounded into the Chinook, and carry-

We knew Martha Rayewas wonderful as anentertainer...but did youknow this about her?

ing the dead aboard.‘Maggie’ had been visiting her Special

Forces ‘heroes’ out ‘west’.We took off, short of fuel, and headed to the

USAF hospital pad at Pleiku.As we all started unloading our sad pax’s, a

‘Smart Mouth’ USAF Captain said to Martha....“Ms Raye, with all these dead and wounded toprocess, there would not be time for your show!”

To all of our surprise, she pulled on herright collar and said ......”Captain, see thiseagle? I am a full ‘Bird’in the US Army Re-serve, and on this is a‘ C a d u c e u s ’ w h i c hmeans I am a Nurse,with a surgicalspecialty....now, takeme to your wounded!”

He said, “Yes ma’am.... follow me.”Several times at the Army Field Hospital

in Pleiku, she would ‘cover’ a surgical shift,giving a nurse a well-deserved break.

Martha is the only woman buried in theSpecial Forces cemetery at Ft Bragg.

With thanks to Mike Buchan of Ufa, Russia

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