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Coat of Arms Parish of Dalziel

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Baillie

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Brownlie

Calvert

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Clan MacGregor

Colquhoun

Cullen

Ferguson

Findlayson

'S rioghal mo dhream (Royal is my race)

Hodge

The first certain chief of the Clan Gregor was Gregor of the Golden Bridles. His son, Iain Camm, One-Eye, succeeded as the second chief before 1390.

Lawson

Under the Clan system, every man was equal, his land was his own, no one was taxed, the Chief was usually elected by an assemblage of senior men.  All members of the Clan were considered as family ( i.e. MacGregors, et al.)

Lilley

Lindsay

The names of Clan Gregor were erased from existence. To even claim one of these names openly was to invite an immediate execution

Lindsay 2

The persecution of Clan Gregor finally ended in 1774 when the proscription against them was repealed - 171 years later.

Lloyd

Lusk

Naismith

16 Apr 1746 The Battle of Culloden saw the Jacobite army  defeated by the Hanoverian Forces. This saw the end of the last Stewart attempt to regain,   the throne forfeited by James VII. . Lord Murray advised the Scots to withdraw as their posision was not tennable.Charles Edward Stewart (the young pretender) stupidly  listened to his Irish supporters. The ill equiped Scots were cut down before most of them crossed the moor, The injured Scots were ordered to be butchered by the Duke of Cumberland (Butcher Cumberland) where they lay , dead or alive they  were dumped into mass graves, The Highland  Clearances  put and end to 2000 years of the Clans

Mackie

McLeod

Miller

Parkinson

Smellie

On 1st August  1746, after the Jacobite Rising of 45 , The  Hanoverian government passed an act banning the kilt,  and as such was punishable by death  . The ban lasted 35 years, until the act was repealed by the Duke of Montrose, during the 35 year period only military regiments wore the kilt. After this period the Kilt was  wore  with pride by all.

Sym

Niamh

The fair have sighed for it, The brave have died for it, Foeman sought for it, Heroes fought for it, Honor the name of it, Drink to the name of it, The Tartan!

The question for any politician or would-be politician in Scotland today is                                            simply:- 'Do you accept that the Sovereignty of Scotland lies with the People of Scotland' ? All else flows from there . . .

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