Author: Robert McGillivray
Publisher: Thunder Bay, Ont. : G.B. Macgillivray
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Category : Clans
Languages : en
Pages : 264
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"The MacGillivrays were drawn to...Nova Scotia and Glengarry County in Upper Canada now called Southern Ontario...in the early 1790s." Includes family history in Scotland, and discusses some descendants in the United States.
Author: Robert McGillivray
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 162
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Author: Amos J. Wright
Publisher: NewSouth Books
ISBN: 1603060146
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 332
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Amos Wright unveils exhaustive research following two extended Scottish clans as they made their way across the ocean to the American frontier. Once they arrived, the two families made an impact on the colonials, the British, the French, the Spanish, and the American Indians. Some of the Scots were ambitious traders, some were representatives for the Indians, some were warriors, and one ended up as a chief. This annotated history delves into the harsh and often violent lives of Scottish traders living on the frontier of colonial America.
Author: George Eyre-Todd
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Clans
Languages : en
Pages : 402
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Author: Kenn Gordon
Publisher: BookRix
ISBN: 3748769253
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 486
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This book will take an academic look at those who are of the Gordon name and clan. There are already quite a few books about the Gordons but they either skip over the lineage or romanticise battles and positions held. There are defining traits within the Gordon DNA that much is true, however that does not always make us ‘good people’. We strive to be the absolute best, in our chosen fields. That could be taking the fore in battles or being the best musician, you can be. There are amazing acts of bravery that have been carried out by the Gordons along with substantial acts of cowardice. If that sounds like an oxymoron then you would be right, as we occupy both ends of the moral and social scales. The Gordons have fought for and against the Papacy. We fought on both sides of the Jacobite rebellion. We stood for and against England. The Gordons even as individuals have fought on both sides in World War 1 and 2. There were Gordons on either side of communism. We have been great scientists and doctors. I have one son who is a great Chef, and the other is a Quantum Physicist, whilst I am a Musician and Writer. So, we all do have a personal choice, but it is what and how you act upon us that will mark our places in the history of the Gordon name. I wrote this book in the year 2020 when the world was facing a global pandemic. Not only were our doctors and nurses fighting an invisible enemy (Covid 19) but worse was happening on the streets around the world. Racism seems to raise its ugly head when mankind is at its lowest ebb. ‘Black Lives Matter’ was a new movement. To an old problem. I feel that ‘ALL’ Lives matter. There are Gordons who are African, Indian, European, Australian, Asian, North American and South American. Those Gordons have every shade of skin colour that comes within the human range. We also follow every faith and no faith at all. If you go back far enough in any clan or race you will find some element of slavery. We Gordons have also been on both sides of that evil. We have been Slaves, Slave Owners and even Slave Traders. Slaves would normally keep their own first name but would also adopt the surname of the slave owner, hence not all Gordons are Celtic. Being involved in slavery is not a matter of pride to most Gordons, it is just a matter of historical fact. Tearing down statues or defacing buildings that bear the name of historical people, to me is pointless. It would be like tearing down the Auschwitz Museum. There was a holocaust and Auschwitz is testament to that horror and by it being there, it tells us not to forget. When people tried to tear down the statue of William Wallace saying that he was a racist. His statue is there because he fought for Scotland and its people. There were 12 presidents of the USA that owned slaves., Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, James Monroe, Andrew Jackson, Martin Van Buren, William Henry Harrison, John Tyler, James K. Polk, Zachary Taylor, Andrew Johnson, and Ulysses S Grant. You would have to tear down America and start building all over again, starting with Washington DC and the White House. We remember our history, the good along with the bad in order to learn from our mistakes. Consequently, in this book you will find all the great moments in the Gordon history since 66BC all the way up to 2020. You will also find the truth and the facts that point to unspeakable acts carried out sometimes in the name of the Gordon families, other times just out of coincidence to them bearing the name of Gordon. One such example would be the Highland clearances carried out by the Duke of Sutherland whose wife was Countess Elizabeth Gordon. He committed an act of ethnic cleansing in the north of Scotland. This is not something that gives me pride, it is though part of my history and if you are a Gordon then it is part of your history, especially if you can trace your roots back, to that period in America, Canada, Newfoundland and Australia. These were the predominant areas that the crofters from the north of Scotland were forced to flee too. Gordons fought on both sides of the American Civil War. The Gordons fought during the crusades, it is even said that it was a Gordon that was responsible for the death of Richard The Lionheart. This book is not a romanticised novel where facts are cherry picked. I have written this as a non-fiction, work and as a starting point for any genealogical work you wish to embark upon. I have taken information for many sources in order to complete this and I give thanks to the Encyclopaedia Britannica, Wikipedia, Ancestry online, The Gordon Highlanders, UK Census, as well as reading many books on Scottish History and land ownership. Long and Short of this book is that it is written by a Gordon, for all, Gordons.
Author: Edward J. Cashin
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
ISBN: 9780820313689
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 430
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Lachlan McGillivray knew firsthand of the frontier's natural wealth and strategic importance to England, France, and Spain, because he lived deep within it among his wife's people, the Creeks. Until he returned to his native Scotland in 1782, he witnessed; and often participated in the major events shaping the region--from decisive battles to major treaties and land cessions. He was both a consultant to the leaders of colonial Georgia and South Carolina and their emissary to the great chiefs of the Creeks, Cherokees, Choctaws, and Chickasaws. Cashin discusses the aims and ambitions of the frontier's many interest groups, profiles the figures who catalyzed the power struggles, and explains events from the vantage points of traders and Native Americans. He also offers information about the rise of the southern elite, for in the decade before he left America, McGillivray was a successful planter and slave trader, a popular politician, and a member of the Savannah gentry.
Author: MacGillivray
Publisher: Pighog
ISBN: 9781906309664
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
Languages : en
Pages : 132
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1864. In a Santa Fe gulley, scalped Scots thirteen-year-old Robert McGee lies bleeding to death. The Last Wolf of Scotland is his dream, etched onto the plate of pioneer America, his scalp lock speaking back to him, a hallucination projected in a near-death cinema. This shocking real-life incident is our point of departure into the ritualistic imagination of MacGilivray. In this, her first collection, she dissects the Scottish imaginary and builds it up anew, creating a poetic panorama which stretches from the Highlands to the Wild West.
Author: Charles John Shaw
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 456
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The Shaw family of Scotland between the 1200s and the present, including branches in Ireland, Canada, Australia, New Zealand and elsewhere.
Author: Sir John Scott Keltie
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Clans
Languages : en
Pages : 1196
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Author: Stuart Farquharson
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780692460566
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 74
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In 2013 I had the opportunity to visit Preston, England, the site of the last battle in England. During the Jacobite Uprising of 1715, Captain Peter Farquharson had been shot in the knee. He was taken to the White Bull Inn, where it was decided that his leg should be amputated. He requested a glass of brandy and said "Come lads, here is our master's health; though I can do no more, I wish you good success." I walked through the streets trying to imagine the setting 300 years earlier. I found the current version of the White Bull Inn and drank a brandy to the memory of Peter Farquharson, John Farquharson (the Clan Chief), and all the Farquharsons and their Highland Clansmen that took part in the Uprising of 1715. When I returned from my trip, I read as much as I could about this Uprising. Most books barely mention the participation of our clan. I thought it worthwhile to summarize their important role as the 300th anniversary neared. This book is the result.
