Sir Christopher Seton

The following are excerpts from An Old Family or The Setons of Scotland and America by Monsignor Robert Seton (1899) and refers to Sir Christopher Seton, who was a valiant knight, and friend and brother-in-law to King Robert the Bruce. The first paragraph is about Sir Christopher Seton II. Interestingly, a portion of this paragraph reminds me of the stories of Robin Hood. You can decide for yourself...

(Note: Some sites state that Christopher Seton III's parents were John de Seton and Erminia Lascelles. However, this book, and my other research indicates Christopher Seton II is the father of Christopher Seton III and that John de Seton was the name of one of his brothers and of his uncle. More research is needed.)

SIR CHRISTOPHER SETON II. Sir Christopher Seton succeeded his pious father, and married Agnes, daughter of Patrick, Earl of March. He was a valiant knight, and did many brave deeds against the English when the crown of Scotland was in dispute between Bruce and Balliol. He was a friend and companion of the national hero, Sir William Wallace, and when driven off" his own lands by the enemy, took refuge with forty followers in Jedburgh Forest, "ay awating his tyme contrare the Englishmen," says Maitland. He was finally killed at the battle of Dillicarew, on the 12th of June, 1298, leaving two sons, Christopher and John.

SIR CHRISTOPHER SETON III. Sir Christopher Seton III succeeded his unfortunate but gallant father in these troublous times of the War of Independence. He was knighted by King Robert Bruce, and for his courtesy and valor was called by the common people, with whom he was a favorite, Good Sir Chrystell He is mentioned by Lord Hailes (Annals, II., 2) as one of the twenty "chief associates of Bruce in his arduous attempts to restore the liberties of Scotland." He is there styled Christopher Seton of Seton.

In 1301, when Sir Christopher was twenty-three years old, he married Lady Christian Bruce, sister of the heroic Robert. She was the daughter of Robert Bruce, Lord of Annandale, and of Margaret, heiress of Niel, Earl of Carrick.

At the disastrous battle of Methven, near Perth, on June 19, 1306, soon after Bruce' s coronation, the Scottish chiefs were defeated by Aylmer de Valence, Earl of Pembroke, and "the king was thrice unhorsed, and once so nearly taken, that the captor, Sir Philip De Mowbray, called aloud that he had the new-made king, when Sir Christopher Seton felled Mowbray to the earth and rescued his master."

The large two-handed sword, wielded on this occasion by our common ancestor, is now in the possession of George Seton, Esq., of Edinburgh, Representative of the Setons of Cariston.

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The historian Tytler says: "So dear to King Robert was the memory of his faithful friend and fellow warrior, that he afterwards erected on the spot where he was executed a little chapel, where mass was said for his soul." The widow of Sir Christopher was really the one who built this chapel for her husband, in honor of the Holy Cross; but her royal brother so generously endowed it by a charter dated at Berwick-on-Tweed, the last day of November 1323, that he is sometimes called the founder. This memorial chapel stood on a natural eminence just outside of the town walls, which was ever after called "Chrystell's Mount", and, by corruption, "Kerstie's Mount". It was a beautiful little Gothic building of oblong shape, cornered by pointed buttresses, and having a richly decorated oriel window. It was further endowed with a small portion of the surrounding land. Sir Richard Maitland, our earliest family historian, who lived before the downfall of the Old Religion in Scotland, tells us that he had sundry times held in his hand and read the king's charter endowing the chapel, that he had heard mass there, and that it was standing whole and entire in the year 1552. The chapel was closed after the establishment of the New Religion in Scotland, and its endowments were secularized. It remained standing for nearly two centuries, a forlorn protest against the spoliation, until it was torn down in a panic by the townspeople in 1715, to build a wall and rampart against an expected attack of the Jacobite insurgents. A Presbyterian church was raised in 1838 on what is still called "The Chrvstal Mount"; and when the excavations were being made, traces of the foundation of the chapel were discovered, and "many of the stones, but all without ornaments, are still to be discerned in the neighboring dykes." A few of these were collected and set up, with a well-meaning but inelegant inscription, within his private burial ground by the late Major James Adair in 1840.

Source: Archive.org (https://ia800308.us.archive.org/18/items/oldfamilyorseton1899seto/oldfamilyorseton1899seto.pdf)

Of That Ilk

Most genealogists, when researching their Scottish branches, will eventually come across the term "of that Ilk". It may be helpful to know that "ilk" refers to the place of the same name as the person or family. For example: Lord Allen Cathcart of that Ilk could translate to Lord Cathcart of Cathcart (the place named for him or his family).

Oxford Definition:
(of that ilk) Scottish chiefly archaic. Of the place or estate of the same name: Sir Iain Moncreiffe of that Ilk

"When you start about family, about lineage and ancestry, you are talking about every person on earth." -Alex Haley

Second Baptist Church, Colored - Linneus, Missouri

I’ve discovered a very interesting piece of information to help in the Hutchinson/Walden/Russell area of the tree. It’s the name of a church in Linn County, Missouri and a list of its founding members (some of the names match our tree). I am over the moon. Like many other genealogists, I have had more difficulty finding our African-American ancestors in the 1800s and before. In fact, beginning with my grandmother and going back 150 years, each of the mothers/grandmothers in her line was a housekeeper of a “private family”, and only one of the women has a documented father for her children. Each of the others raised and cared for her children, seemingly alone, and worked her entire life while remaining very loyal to the families they worked for. It's been an interesting journey, and I'm often reminded of the strength and independence of my grandmother, as I can see now that those qualities are present in a long line of women. I am proud to be part of that line.

The research does get complicated, and records are few, which is why I find this seemingly minor bit of info absolutely fantastic. I know it will help me, and I hope it can help some of you.

At a site called Genealogy Trails History Group, I found the info. It’s a transcribed excerpt from a book/document enitled “An Encyclopedia of Useful Information, and a Compendium of Actual Facts” by Birdsall & Dean, 1882. I will be researching this document to find more info, but here is the exciting part for this particular branch of the tree:

Linneus Churches (Town of Linneus, County of Linn, Missouri, USA)

Second Baptist Church, Colored — This church was organized in 1865, with the following members:

Jesse Johns, Henry Walden, Martha Walden, Harriet Russell, Mary Cheatham, J. Baker, Mary Johns, and Mary Hanson.  A frame church building in which services are held was erected in 1868, at a cost of about $600.  In this building the colored school is taught.  The pastors of this church have been B. Hillman and Hardin Morton.

View the complete document HERE.

I currently have Henry & Martha (Slack) Walden in my tree, and other people with the last names Johns and Russell are in my tree, from the same branch of the family, same generation, same town. I am quite anxious to do more research. My next step is to find out whether this church is still around, and whether any records are available. Maybe our later relatives were members and baptized or married in that church.

-Maria

A people that take no pride in the noble achievements of remote ancestors, will never achieve anything worthy to be remembered with pride by remote generations. 

—J. Macaulay

The Continuing Hunt for Alexander Cathcart

Discussed in this Article:

Alexander Cathcart
Born 3 Feb 1715, Ireland
Died 15 Apr 1780, Redstone Settlement, Fayette County, Pennsylvania, USA

Ann Gamble Cathcart
Born 28 Mar 1721, Graan Hill, County Fermanagh, Ireland
Died 20 Nov 1813, County Fermanagh, Ireland

David Gamble of Graan, County Fermanagh, Ireland
Born abt 1679 in Graan
Died 21 Oct 1763 in Enniskillen, County Fermanagh


In my (thus far futile, but diligent) quest to discover the ancestry of Alexander Cathcart, who married Ann Gamble (daughter of David Gamble b. 1679, and Magdalen Happer b. 1698), I found the following information to be interesting, and it may be of help to others.

Alexander was often referred to as Captain Cathcart. He died in America 15 Apr 1780, while his wife remained in Ireland. She passed in 1813; the trail of her ancestry was quite clear. But not so for Alexander. I am aware of most of Alexander’s descendants, but have found the search for his ancestors to be unfruitful. He had an uncle named Andrew, born about 1679, and in a letter from his wife in 1774, she mentioned his “brothers and sisters” (plural) sending their love, but that is all I know (Sherrard, 1890).

According to Robert A. Sherrard (1890), Alexander was born in 1715. Alexander and Ann were married March 17, 1742-43. I have learned that it was common at that time for the wedding to take place at the church where the bride-to-be had been baptized, or her family’s church. Not yet knowing the church her family attended, I have tried to find the burial location(s) of Ann and her immediate family members because of the possibility that the cemetery could be associated with a specific church.

According to the research of Séamas Mac Annaidh (n.d.), Ann’s father, David Gamble of Graan, among many other Gambles, is buried at the Old Rossorry Graveyard, located at the top of Rossole Road in Enniskillen. There is no longer a church at that site, as it was demolished in about 1841, when the new, larger, Church of Rossorry or Rossorry Parish Church, was built at Mullanacaw (Rossorry Parish Church, 2014). Mac Annaidh states that “Old Rossorry” refers to “an old church at Ros Oirthir… associated with St. Fanchea”. And Rossorry Parish Church calls the old demolished church the “church of St. Fanchea” (2014). A list of monastic houses in Ireland at Wikipedia states that Ros-airthir and Ros-oirthir are alternate names for the Rossorry Monastery founded before the year 480 by St. Fanchae, and it is there that the Church of St. Fuinche (alternate spelling of Fanchae) was founded in 1084. According to the Omnium Sanctorum Hiberniae blog (meaning “Of All Ireland”), Fanchae/Fuinche, refers to the fifth-century female saint Fanchae of Ross Oirthis, and her name has been spelled “Fanchea, Fuinchea, Fainc, Fuinche, and Funchea” (2013).

At this point, I am of the thought that since David and many family members are buried at Old Rossorry Graveyard, they likely attended the old church, which was called the Church of Saint Fuinche (or Church of Saint Fanchae). Any surviving records from this church may have been taken to the newer Rossorry Parish. Also, Sherrard (1890) states that Ann was Presbyterian and Alexander was Episcopalian. It is not yet clear what church/churches they may have attended. I have researched many church cemeteries in Fermanagh and thus far, I have found no record of where Ann Gamble Cathcart is buried.



References

Mac Annaidh, S. (n.d.)
Rossorry Parish Church. 2014. A Brief history of Rossorry Parish Church. Retrieved from http://www.rossorryparish.com/history

Sherrard, R.A. (1890). The Sherrards of Steubenville. Jas. B. Rogers Printing Company.

List of Monastic Site in Ireland http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_abbeys_and_priories_in_the_Republic_of_Ireland

Omnium Sanctorum Hiberniae Blog
http://omniumsanctorumhiberniae.blogspot.com/2013/01/saint-fanchea-of-ross-oirthir-january-1.html

Saint Fanchae of Ross Oirthir
http://omniumsanctorumhiberniae.blogspot.com/2013/01/saint-fanchea-of-ross-oirthir-january-1.html



UPDATE

28 JAN 2014:

Sherrard (1890) states that Mary Cathcart (daughter of the Alexander named above) was a member, along with her "father's family", of the Established Church. For those who might not know, the Established Church during that time was the Church of Ireland (also called Anglican Church of Ireland). According to Saint Michaels Parish Enniskillen (n.d.), the parish of Enniskillen belonged to the Clogher diocese. I also found a great post made by a researcher named Viola Wiggins in 2013 (view post here). She suggested to look for Protestant records when looking for marriages which took place in the Church of Ireland/Established Church; to look for "marriage bonds" for the Clogher diocese; and that Enniskillen Townhall records may have been moved to Belfast.

This may help.


References and Links


Diocese of Clougher
http://clogher.anglican.org

Saint Michaels Parish Enniskillen
http://www.st-michaels.net/theparish.htm

Steven Coerten Van Vorhees

 

Possibly drawn by Steven Coerten Van Vorhees himself, this map of Nieuw Amersfoort, Nieuw Netherlands (Now Flatlands, New York) also shows the ship he immigrated on, the Bonte Koe. (Image credit: Geoffrey & Kristen Bronner, http://cerebus.dartmouth.edu/genealogy/wp01/wp01_304.html)

 

The following is said to be written on a commemorative marker in Brooklyn:

 

Steven Coerten, born 1600, migrated with his family in 1660 from the manor of Voor-hees, Province of Drenthe, the Netherlands, to the village of Amesfoort, now Flatlands, Kings Co., NY, and settled near this site. He served his church as Deacon and Elder, and the community as a magistrate, patentee in the Nicills Charter of 1667.

 

 

 

Van Voorhees Park

Columbia St., Hicks St. Bet. Congress St. And Atlantic Ave., Brooklyn

 

"This park honors Tracy S. Voorhees (1890-1974), an attorney and decorated World War II veteran, and his family’s early contributions to the City.

The Van Voorhees family traces its lineage to Steven Coerten Van Voorhees who settled in Brooklyn in the mid-17th century. He established himself in the neighborhood of Flatlands, became a magistrate, an elder in the Dutch Reformed Church, and the head of a formidable clan. His ten children bore 20 grandchildren. The grandchildren amassed 85 children themselves, among them Tracy Voorhees, to carry on the family name. The “Van” was eventually dropped from the name."

 

Retrieved from http://www.nycgovparks.org/parks/vanvoorheespark/history

 

Gambles at Old Rossorry Graveyard, Enniskillen

The following is an excerpt of a body of work compiled by Séamas Mac Annaidh. There is much information about the Gambles of Enniskillen, County Fermanagh, Ireland. The complete document has been made available by Ireland Genealogy Projects and can be viewed here.m -M.M.

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Old Rossorry Graveyard, Enniskillen. By Séamas Mac Annaidh.

This graveyard which is in the care of Fermanagh District Council is at the top of Rossole Road, and is not to be confused with that at Rossorry Parish Church (Church of Ireland). Both Catholics and Protestants are buried here. The new parish church at Rossorry was first used for services in April 1840 though it was more than a year later when the church was finally consecrated by Bishop Tottenham and it was 1842 before the first burial took place in the new cemetery. [William Johnston, of Willoughby Place, Portora was buried  1 February 1842 aged 30 years.]

During this visit I completed reading several stones which had been giving me problems and also uncovered a number of  previously unrecorded stones. There are still a few inscriptions to be fully deciphered and the possibility remains of locating others. There are also some interesting crests and symbols which also should be copied.

Relevant newspaper notices have been included as well as several which may refer to the families of, if not the actual individuals named on stones.

Following a visit to the Public Record Office of Northern Ireland 26 October 2000 where the Church of Ireland burial register is available on microfilm (MIC 1/22) I have added many entries in italics covering the years 1799 to 1840. In the early years this register is impossible to read in places and does not appear to be complete. However after 1824 the legibility greatly improves and I have included all entries except those of which were difficult to read with certainty.

GAMBLE

Here lyeth ye body of David Gamble of Graan who departed this life October ye 21st 1763 aged 84 years.

GAMBLE

   In memory of Magdalene Gamble wife to Baptist Gamble of Graan who died December 8th 1802 aged 80 years. Also said Baptist Gamble who dept. this life ... 1807 aged 83 years.   

Magdelein Gamble wife of Baptist Gamble 9 December 1802

Jane Gamble, 15 April 1825

ECEP 30 April 1825 DIED: At Glasnevin, aged 14, Jane, only daughter of Samuel Gamble, of Graan, near this town, a young lady of the most engaging manners and amicable disposition.

Samuel Gamble of the Graan, 66, 9 June 1832

E 13 June 1832 DIED: On Thursday last at the Graan near this town Samuel Gamble Esq., after a short illness. This much lamented gentleman died regretted by all who had the pleasure of being acquainted with him for his unaffected mild and benevolent disposition. He was an affectionate husband, father, and a truly sincere friend. His remains were interred in Rossorry Churchyard on Saturday last.

Elizabeth Gamble of Enniskillen, formerly of Graan, 71, 18 July 1833

E 18 July 1833 DIED: in this town on Tuesday 16th inst. Miss Gamble, sister of the late Samuel Gamble Esq., Graan.

Catherine Gamble, Drumakin, 75, 8 July 1838

Baptist Gamble, Broughas, 61, 9 September 1839

IR 12 September 1839 reports Baptist Gamble of Brughas found drowned.

           [See TRIMBLE. W.C. History of Enniskillen  Vol III. P 1124- 1125 for further details of this family.]

GAMBLE

   Erected by Mary Gamble in memory of James her husband who died 18th January 1832 aged  ... years.

  ECEP 19 January 1832 DIED: Yesterday, Mr. James Gamble, of this town, innkeeper.

 James Gamble, 29, Enniskillen, 20 January 1832

GAMBLE

    Here lyeth ye body of Josias Gamble of Ballaghmore who dept. this life May the 27th 1767 aged 81 years. Also his wife Jane Gamble alias Burnside who departed this life August 6th 1768 aged 73 years.

GAMBLE

  Erected in memory of Thos. Gamble of Ballaghmore who died March 1 1808 aged  ... years.

Moses Gamble 23 November 1802

Jane Gamble, Ballaghmore 22 January 1815

ECEP 23 January 1815 DIED: In the 73rd year of her age, Mrs. Gamble, relict of the late Mr. Moses Gamble of Ballaghmore.

Richard Gamble, 17 December 1815

James Gamble, Ballaghmore, 1 October 1817

ECEP 2 October 1817 DIED: On Monday last, Mr. Samuel Gamble of Ballaghmore in this neighbourhood, an honest and respectable man and greatly lamented by his acquaintances.

Anne Gamble, Enniskillen, 60, 4 October 1825

ECEP 7 October 1825 DIED: On Monday the 3rd inst. In the 57th year of her age, Mrs. Anne Gamble, relict of the late Mr. David Gamble of this town. She bore a painful illness with Christian resignation and during twenty years of widowhood (with a degree of fortitude and energy rarely to be met with in females) she surmounted not a few of the vicissitudes of this uncertain life, and by her exertions supported a family respectably, who are now left to deplore her loss.

John Gamble, Ballaghmore, 60, 20 January 1828

IR 24 January 1828 DIED: On Saturday last, Mr. John Gamble of Ballaghmore.

Andrew Gamble, Ballaghmore, 27, 27 November 1835

Elizabeth Gamble, Ennniskillen, 9, 5 July 1840

NOBLE

Anne Noble of Drumskew alias Belfast, 32, 19 April 1833

ECEP 27 January 1831 MARRIAGE: Yesterday morning by the Rev. Ephraim Stevenson, Mr. James Noble of Belfast, merchant, to Anne, second daughter of Mr. David Gamble, of Drumskew, near this town.

E & IR 25 April 1833 DIED: On the 19th instant at Drumscue, in the 32nd year of her age, of decline, after a lingering illness, Anne, wife of Mr. James Noble, of Belfast, merchant, and daughter of the late David Gamble of Ratona near this town.

Thomas Noble, Derryharra, parish of Enniskillen, 70, 31 October 1839

 

Cathcarts/Manor of Castle Hume & Tully

A rent roll (list of tenants) of the Castle Hume & Tully in 1742 lists a Lochowick Cathcart (location Bowara), a Lew Cathcart (location Moyglass), and a

“Wido: Cathcart”  (location Maghagannon).

The last location sparked my interest because it is so similar to Maughrygannon and I wonder if it is a misspelling or variation of the same name. According to my information, Alexander Cathcart (b. 1715, Ireland; d. 1775, America) was born three miles from Enniskillen. When he was married to Ann Gamble in 1743, he lived on farm in Maughrygannon, Ireland under a life lease which had been granted to his ancestors by James I (King of Ireland and England from 1603-1625) and which was renewed each generation. I believe that Maughrygannon was the name of the area he was born and later married.

The Public Record Office of Northern Ireland describes the manors of Hume below. I was thankful to find this, as I didn't at first understand how there could be

“tenants of a castle”  in multiple locations. Apparently, many manors were built upon the castle's vast estate. According to Lord Belmont in Northern Ireland, the estate was more than 17000 Irish acres.

Very interestingly, the list below doesn't mention a “Maghagannon”  as spelled on the rent roll mentioned above. Rather it lists “Magheragannon” , which I have researched and found a place within the Devenish Parish in County Fermanagh. I even found a home for sale “2.5 miles from Enniskillen”  on a road called Magheragannon, which reminds me of Alexander's history: “born 3 miles from Enniskillen; lived on a farm in Maughrygannon” . It gives me reason to believe that Maughrygannon and Magheragannon could be one in the same, or at least near each other.


Public Record Office of Northern Ireland:

The townlands in the Co. Fermanagh estate

The main component of the Hume estates, the manors of Ardgart, Castle Hume, Moyglass and Tully, mainly in the barony of Magheraboy, Co. Fermanagh, comprised the following townlands:
  
Ardees Lower Ardees Upper Ardgart Aughameelan Aughamore Aughrim

Ballinakill  Ballustybeg Ballustymore  Ballustymore Mountain Ballygonnell Ballyhose & Levally Banagher Blackslee Boheaveny Bonohone Bowara Brecah Broghas Brollagh

Callaghean Car Island Carnadarwin Carranmore Carrickreagh Carrowbeg Carry East Carrygoola Cassycon Church Hill Cleens Clenows Coagh Concaroe Corgarry Corkeel Corrymore Crawfordshill Croaghum Crogahan & Drummohan Cullen

Derrydoon Derrynacross Derrynaeska Derrynamew Derryvara Dodgebran Donegal
Drumbadmeen Drumbadrevey Drumberry & Drumboovy Drumgrow Drumilisaleen Drummeenaghmore Drummohan Drumnassareene Drumnatoffin Drumreask Drumsillagh Enaghan

Fardrum Farncassidy Fassow Fassow Island

Garryross Gillyholm Glen (East) Glen (West) Gortnaleo Gortnaleo Gortnamonaghan Gurteen or Garrison

Kelaghan Killymore Kilmore Bog Knockaraven Largan Largylinny Laughill Leenagh Legg Leglehid Lenaghan Lenaghan House Levally Lockhart Lurgandarrah

Magheragannon Magho Mangermoohan Mangermore Meenaelybane Minrin
Moneendogue Moneywilkin Moyglass Muckinah Muckinash Island Muglinagrow Mullaghanilly

Outer Ross

Portmush Portnaclyduff

Rabraan Ratona Ratona Land Rooskey Roscor

Shean Shruanure Slavin

Ternagheramore Ternagherbeg Tonagh Toneypull Tully Tullyloughdan Tullymore

Wheathill Glebe Whitehill

Retrieved from www.proni.gov.uk/introduction__ely.pdf

Enniskillen Cathcarts

In researching my ancestor, Alexander Cathcart (b. 1715), which has been an almost futile effort, I've been seeking other Cathcarts in County Fermanagh, Ireland, and specifically Enniskillen, where I know he spent some of his life. I found some info I thought would be helpful to other people looking for Cathcarts in this area.

There is a list of cemeteries in Fermanagh at http://www.genealogylinks.net/uk/ireland/fermanagh/cemeteries.htm.  Of all of the cemeteries listed, I only found Cathcarts at Carne Cemetery.

That particular site is full of information and I found the following to be very interesting. It places some Cathcarts in Enniskillen whom I recognize from my other research. They are Allan, Hugh, James, and Malcome Cathcart; as well as Gustavus Hamilton, who married Jane Cathcart on January 13, 1721 or 1722 in Enniskillen; and Robert Johnston, who may be the same Robert Johnston who married Jean Cathcart on January 20, 1710 in Enniskillen. Michael Foster is not listed below, but you may find it helpful to know that a man by that name married a Jean Cathcart in Enniskillen on January 29, 1710.

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From DERRY AND ENNISKILLEN by Thomas Witherow is the following list of signers to a "Humble address of the Governors, Officers, Clergy , and other Inhabitants of your Majesties' Town of Enniskillen" which was forwarded to William and Mary from that city in 1689.

To their most Excellent Majesties King William and Queen Mary The humble Address of the Governor, Officers, Clergy, and other inhabitants of your Majesties’ Town of Enniskillen, in your Majesties Kingdom of Ireland.  We your Majesties’ most faithful and most loyal subjects do in the first place offer up unto Almighty God our most humble thanks for the deliverance vouchsafed us from our merciless and bloody enemies; and next unto your most sacred Majesties for your gracious care taken of us, and in sending Major-General Kirk to the relief of the poor handful of your Majesties Protestant subjects left in this place and Derry (whose miraculous holding out, under God, has been the preservation of the Protestant interest in this Kingdom), and for those worthy officers sent to this place by him; among which the honourable Colonel Willaim Wolseley, our Commander-in-Chief, under whose great and happy conduct God has been pleased to bless us with the most sacred Majesties on the eleventh day of March last, so we shall persevere in the same dutiful allegiance to our lives’ end, ever imploring the Divine Majesty to continue your prosperous reign, long and long over us, most humbly begging your most sacred Majesites favourably to accept this Address of your most humble and sincere obedience, which we shall ever be ready to make both good with our hearts and hands.

Alexander Acheson	Francis Aldrich	Daniel Armstrong
John Armstrong	Martin Armstrong	Thomas Armstrong
John Ballard	Claudius Bealy	Ambrose Bedel
William Birney	Hugh Blair	William Blashford
James Browning	John Browning	William Browning
Marcus Buchanan	Theodore Bury	James Campbell
William Campbell	Christopher Carleton	George Cashell
Allan Cathcart	Hugh Cathcart	James Cathcart
Malcome Cathcart	William Charleton	Robert Clark
Isaac Collyer	George Cooper	George Corry
Hugh Corry	James Corry	John Corry
Arnold Cosbye	Edward Cosbye	Lawrence Crow
John Crozier	Edward Davenport	Thomas Davenport
John Dean	Paul Dean(Provost)	James Delap
James Devitt	Edward Dixy	Cor. Donellan
George Drury	Robert Drury	Au. Ellis
Edward Ellis	Francis Ellis	Francis Ellis
Hercules Ellis	James Ewart	Francis Folliott
Samuel Forth	Daniel French	John Frisell
William Frith	All. Fulton	John Fulton
Hugh Galbraith	John Galbraith	Bar. Gibson
Francis Graham	James Graham	William Gore
Edward Gubbin	John Hale	Andrew Hamilton
Gustavus Hamilton(Governor)	George Hammersley	George Hart
Morgan Hart	Thomas Hart	Jason Hazard
Daniel Hodson	Povey Hookes	Henry Howel
H. Hughes	Thomas Hughes	William Jivine
Henry Johnston	James Johnston(2)	Robert Johnston(2)
Thomas Johnston	William Johnston	Charles King
F. King	James King	John King
William Kittle	Thomas Leturvel	Matthew Lindsay
Thomas Lloyd	John Lowder	James Lucy
Robert McConnell	William McCormick	Charles McFayden
James Matthews(2)	James Mitchell	Andrew Montgomery
Hugh Montgomery	Robert Moor	Toby Mulloy
John Neper	Richard Newstead	Thomas Osborne
William Parsons	John Price	John Rider
John Roberts	James Robison	Robert Robison
Thomas Roscrow	William Ross	George Russell
Ninian Scot	Thomas Scot	John Sherriffe
Thomas Shore	Ichabod Skelson	William Slack
Henry Smith	W. Smith	Aylet Sommes
Robert Starling	Robert Stevenson	Richard Taylor
Robert Vaughan	Robert Ward	George Watson
Matthew Webster	Robert Wear	Thomas White
Roger Wilton	William Wiseheart	Edward Wood
John Woodward	Matthew Young(2)	Thomas Young

Retrieved from http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~nirfer/ennisk-address.htm

Cathcart Castle, Glasgow, Scotland

 

What is left of Cathcart Castle today

This is what happens when a castle comes under the care of Glasgow. Cathcart was a massive tower house of the early 15th century surrounded by a curtain wall equipped with round towers. Its situation was dramatic, high on a rocky outcrop above the River Cart which is bridged at this point.

Cathcart Castle in 1904 - Demolished by Glasgow City Council in 1980

 

It was abandoned as a dwelling in the mid 1700s and the roof removed and so it lay until it came under the control of Glasgow. The castle then formed part of a public park, though the castle itself was fenced off. Numerous attempts were made to secure the future of the structure and the 'Cathcart Society' was founded for this express purpose.
All in vain, on the pretext that the castle constituted a danger to children it was demolished over a week end in 1980.

Credit: Photos and article by Scottish Castles Association (2013)
http://www.scottishcastlesassociation.com/rec-id-289-cat_id-1-highlight-2.htm



NOTE:

Some fantastic info on the parish of Cathcart can be found at http://www.scotcities.com/cathcart/cathcart.htm. You'll find history, artwork, photos, and old maps of the area. It's an interesting site by George Blaikie.

McKenzie Surname Origin

 

 

Clan Mackenzie Crest

 

 

McKenzie Genealogy & History

The surname McKenzie is of Scottish origin. Alternative spellings include MacKenzie, Mackenzie, and Makenzie. It derives from the Old Gaelic Maccoinnich or Macchoinnich and translates as "son of the fair-skinned", which suggests that Norse Vikings were part of McKenzie genealogy. An infamous part of the McKenzie family history includes their long-running feud with the McDonald clan, which lasted from the 13th to the 16th centuries. The first recorded spelling of this surname appears to be that of a Makbeth Makkyneth in 1264. In Angus. The McKenzie family motto is "luceo non uro", which translates from the Latin as "I shine but I do not burn".

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