Fun Fact: Actress, Rose Leslie (who played Ygritte in Game of Thrones, aka Jon Snow's lover) is the daughter of the current Cheiftan of the Aberdeenshire branch of Clan Leslie. She was actually born and raised in her family's ancestral seat of Lickleyhead Castle in Aberdeenshire. Her mother is also a descendant of Clan Fraser and Charles II of England. And of course, she's now married to Kit Harrington, who is also a descendant of Charles II, and the son of the 15th Baronet Harrington.
I got a kilt as my big souvenir from a semester abroad at the University of St. Andrews. Since my grandmother's maiden name is Hunter and my 3x great grandfather is John Hunter, the royal physician to King George III, I got the tartan of Clan Hunter. I mostly wear my kilt for the Christmas Eve service at my church, but my folks encourage me to where it whenever i get the opportunity.
This is amazing my partner and I are getting married in January and wished we could do this we are both Scottish. But we don’t know a whole lot about my partners family so we’re planning to have a 5yr vow renewal using our familial kilts after we finish researching our linage
One of your best, Lindsay! I especially love the episodes that explore lesser known customs, knowledge, or people, and while I'm sure we've all heard of tartans and clans, the information from your research is fresh and insightful for most of us! Well done.
Fun Fact: For the movie, Brave, The Walt Disney Company created 3 original tartans for the 4 clans in the movie and even registered Clan DunBroch's tartan with the Scottish Register of Tartans 🏴😊
I was fortunate enough to visit Culloden a few years ago. I love the irony that my maternal family is a Scots and Irish mix while my paternal line comes from their often allies, being French.
I'm Scots-Irish on both sides with German. All North and South Carolina colonies where they immigrated and then moved on to Alabama in the 1800s. Paternal Scots and German. My last name was originally Stutz. My family immigrated in 1738. One family from Zurich but Austrian. I don't know what clan I belong to. Maternal Scots and English.
Thanks for this one Lindsay. Ill show it to my partner. She is a descendant of the Stewart's and Shaw's on her Mothers side, and a large number of her Fathers ancestors fought and died at Flodden, so she is very much Scottish heritage. A large part of Her Family have been in New Zealand since the mid 1800's, so were among the scots that came early to NZ. On the other hand, I'm a first generation Kiwi, my family are all Dutch. Its crazy how far we can all go from our roots, but always can look back and see the past. I really enjoy the videos you make, Thank you from NZ
I’m from Clan Thomson on my papa’s side and Clan MacInnis on my nana’s side. Their families emigrated from Scotland to Canada and my grandparents met on Prince Edward Island before moving to the US. I’m trying to find more information on their families but it’s been a lot harder than finding information on my maternal Swedish side who kept a lot of ancestral records. This video is immensely helpful, especially the maps! Love all of your videos but this one felt like it was made for me! Thank you! 😄
Fellow Bruce here! I've been able to trace back to the 1760's in Hamilton but hit a document wall... Great video, it may inspire me to keep researching!
You may have already done this, but have you tried accessing the "Scotland's People" website? It is the Scottish Registry in Edinburgh and has online access to all births, deaths, marriages, etc since it became law to register. Before that there are Church records available too.
i’m from north carolina and my family are what’s left of Clan Beaton - originally Bethune, we crossed the channel with William the Conqueror and were granted titles, land and castles recorded in the Domesday Book. most of us fled the country after my 14x great grandfather, Cardinal David Beaton, was assassinated at his home of Saint Andrew’s Castle 🙃
My ancestors on my grandmothers family side, were Red Douglas, Black Douglas, Wyllie, Cushnie, Maize, Blackett, and so on in history. Glasgow, Edinburgh, and Ayrshire. Many were also originally Irish (Cushnie and Maize). Forced to move under Cromwell from Ireland to Scotland. Long running family history.
The Scottish part of my ancestry is from Clan Douglas, but we spelt it as Douglass (double s). And when I visited Scotland a few years ago, I got my clans tartan.
We also come from the Douglas Clan. Question would be Black Douglas or Red Douglas family, we are from the Red Douglas's.Geat Grandmother was born in Ayrshire. Also hence why my father's Middle name was from the Douglas family.
@@catevanslife yeah not related but fought for King Robert the Bruce and both Black Douglas and the Red Douglas family were extremely loyal to Bruce. It's cool history. Except Glencoe. That's terrible. And why Campbell's had a bad history.
I love Scotland, it reminds me of my culture too. I'm a Bataknese from Northern Sumatra Highland, we do have strong clans system, we also have traditional cloth known as Ulos, and we do have clan system that bounded clansmen by marriage.
My closest ancestor that's from Scotland is one of my great-great-great-grand-mother and grand-father. Their name was Drysdale, but upon moving to french north of New-Brunswick it became Dresdelle
Love this! Been with my scottish husband for 12 years now, and learned more in 30 mins than I ever did before! Unfortunately, his family don't have a tartan as they originate from one of the Scottish/English border villages, and they went from being Scottish, to English, to Scottish like a million times before ultimately being on the Scottish side of the border in the 1700's. A lot of the border villages and towns have had the same issues with the border being moved up and down so many times, the history of this area often gets forgotten about 😢
Clans usually wore plaids made with natural dye like woad, from whichever area they resided in, so colour would be slightly different but nothing like we have today. The clan tartans we know today were made popular by Sir Walter Scott during the romanticisation of highland culture during the Victorian Times. Border Reievers typically wore plaid trews and not kilts though😊
I still carry the last name of my Scottish ancestors who immigrated to Australia from Perth, Scotland sometime in the 1800s, and they were descendants of the Macgregor clan, of which Rob Roy Macgregor who the book mentioned in the video was written about was a member. The clan is still active and thriving today with a global society as well as a handful of official clan tartans, our clan are “Royal is my race” because legend states that clan Macgregor was founded by descendants of an ancient Celtic royal family. Robert the Bruce stole large swaths of ancient clan Macgregor land and “gifted” it to clan Campbell, which ignited a centuries long rivalry between the two clans and forced the members of clan Macgregor to retreat further up into the mountainous highlands. In 1603 King James VI outlawed the last name Macgregor, anyone who held the last name had to renounce it and change to using a different last name or face execution, which forced many Macgregors to change their names and go into hiding, Charles II briefly repealed the act banning the name in 1661 but William III reinstated it in 1693 and it remained in place until 1784. During this time and before when the Campbells took control of their ancestral lands, the Macgregors gained the nickname of “the children of the mist” as they would use the cover of mist high up in the mountains to sneak into Campbell lands and lands of other nearby clans and slaughter and take their livestock for themselves. My last name is one of the recognise alias last names that many Macgregors took while the name was outlawed.
Great video! Well done and very informative. One small tweak. Somerled was not the father of the first clans. Prof John Bannerman pointed out that the use of the word clan to denote a kindred and not just literal “children of” dates back to the 900’s. So clans had been around for a while before Somerled. The kin-based society, using different words like cenél, goes back even further.
My mother always told us that we had "a history of peasants on both sides"; not so. We are actually descendants of an earl, a laird, and a countess, oddly enough, in Scotland. I was very excited to know about this, and we also have ties to a fair few clans, including MacPhee, MacIntyre, and MacKenzie.
My Scottish ancestors emigrated between the rebellions (I still carry their surname as my middle name, as do most of my immediate family members). One fun thing is that the clan badge of a boot and spur was retained as a family symbol. I have several 19th-century custom pieces with a boot and spur on them that will be used next week at Thanksgiving, including an enormous turkey platter and serving utensils. If you want to see an excellent depiction in pop culture of how the great kilt was put on, Outlander has you covered. A season one opening credits seen shows Jamie assembling his kilt. The full scene isn’t in the episode, but can be easily found online.
LOVE YOUR CONTENT Lindsay! Thanks For this! You're the Best Narrator there is! Could hear you talk about anything and still be happy! keep up the good work! Please consider covering The Japanese Imperial family! hearth please
As per usual, I found this video fascinating and informative. My interest was piqued to discover that you and I share the common heritage of Bruce descent on one side and Bragg on another.
@@EmmaTheCowie "Rory is a given name of Gaelic origin. It is an anglicisation of the Irish: Ruairí/Ruaidhrí and Scottish Gaelic: Ruairidh/Ruaraidh[6] and is common to the Irish, Highland Scots and their diasporas.[7] The meaning of the name is "red king", composed of ruadh ("red") and rígh ("king").[8]" Wikipedia disagrees. My brother's name is Rory. People bring these traditional spellings up to us all the time. But honestly it doesn't matter, people can pronounce it how they like. No biggie.
@ Wikipedia is right! Rory is the anglicisation of Ruariadh. They are pronounced differently. Ruariadh is Gaelic, Rory is the english language version. So yeah - similar names, pronounced differently 🙂
@@timelordvictorious Haha 🤣 not me. I also descend from John Comyn…whoooo Robert the Bruce had his men kill…in a church 😅 I’m not gonna test that Plus, Edward I is the great-great-great-great grandson of St Margaret and Malcolm III, so that counts for something right? 😅
Husband: Bruce decent. Me: Edward I Husband: Northern Army Me: Southern Army in the American Civil War Husband: British Army Me: Colonial Army (Revolutionary War) Husband: Scottish/English/French Me: German, Viking, English We are lucky we get along!!
I believe I saw my 4th great grandparents on your tree. They were John Bruce and Elizabeth Clay who were from Garrard County Ky. through their daughter Sophia. Very interesting!
I watched a lot closer to your narrative this time. I shared it on my family page but I guess they aren't interested since our Bruce's were 200 and more years ago! Thank you for the information!! Wish I could help you on the research. I was a history major in college.
When I went to Casper on one of my birthday trips, I found a silver Scottish clan badge in a trash and treasure shop and I bought it! It had what looked like a goats head and I think the clan name was McCleod! I thought it was beautiful but I didn't think that I should wear it since I'm sure it once belonged to someone with the McCleod name I still have it and I'm sure they'll want it back one day!
Probably just as easy to get it from Wikipedia frankly as I gather this is where most of her content is researched from . Only stopped by here by chance , don’t mean to upset people that like her content but she never puts where she does her research to get her content.
Thank you so much for this video. I have always loved learning about Scotland, especially its history. One of my ancestors might have been Scottish. The problem is his sons are rather infamous in my area, so there is a lot of misleading and contradictory information about them. Some of the stories I have found say he was Irish while others say Scottish, now I wonder if he was one of the Scotch Irish you mentioned. What I have found to be consistent throughout the stories, the brothers were red headed, raised Cherokee, spoke multiple languages, fought during the American Revolution, and hunted down the men responsible for the massacre of a Cherokee village. My family stories say their father married a Cherokee and was a fur trader working and living on the rivers of the Carolina’s, Virginia, and surrounding areas.
I'm probably going to look into this further as I begin diving into my family history, but my great-great-grandmother was from n. Ireland, and my grandmother knew that she had Campbell blood from (I'm assuming) that side of her family. She actually asked about a tartan from that clan when she visited back in the 1950s or 60s, but apparently there was still some bad blood from the Glencoe massacre and she got a REALLY dirty look from the lady at the shop. I've seen from looking into it further is that that really isn't the case anymore, but it's still an interesting anecdote!
I discovered an entire Scottish part of my heritage through Ireland! I had 3 four and five times great grandparents move from Scotland to Ireland in the first half of the 1700s and then their Irish descendants emigrated to what is now Canada and then moved to the United States 😅
Love the video as usual! But you forgot Vivienne Westwood! MacQueen did amazing stuff with tartan but Westwood did it first and she was heavily inspired by the punk scene
@LindsayHoliday, You seem to possibly overlooked Rob Roy MacGregor aka The Highland Rogue whose life story was made into a movie for theatre screens by Disney as well as the McMillan clan mentioned in the episode “DEATH OF A MONSTER, BIRTH OF A LEGEND” from the classic 1971-76 NBC Mystery Movie program known as “McMILLAN & WIFE”.
I forgot to mention my infamous Scottish ancestor known as William “The Rebel” Lawson who went onto to serve as a spy for the patriots in the Revolution against King George III.
I'm English but my family passes down the Clan name as a middle name, the Clan imagery is also heavily displayed in our heraldry (which is directly passed on in England).
My grandfather- a Graham - while still living in South Africa- was invited to a gathering of the clan in Scotland. But true to his supposedly Scottish trait of never overspending- especially on himself - he chose not to go.
My grandfather was a Graham too! He used to wear the whole kilt and proper getup in the Graham tartan to a big festival at church every year since we were named after a Scottish saint. My mom had a cow over those daggers in his socks! 😂
For future videos, the pronunciation of “Alba” is “Ah-lah-pah.” And a “Plaid” is any form of woollen blanket (with tartan cross designs or one single colour, so it doesn’t require it to have any cross-cross threads of different colours to be a plaid)
I directly descend from Hugh Crawford of the Crawford Clan. My ancestor arrived here in America on the same voyage as George Washington. The Washington/Crawford papers are on file in the National Archives. I'm a 7th generation Floridian....with county parks named for my family.
love seeing a video about the land some of my ancestors came from. 🥰 I'm been learning Gaelic for the past couple of months. Chan eil mi math. But I'm still trying. Thanks for this wonderful video! 😊
I love your show I find that out about deferent things about otheir countries. That I didn't now about you bring history to life I can't wait for you new pise of history.
I love you so much !!!!!!! I did take classes but my issue was a small small town board that's votes on opening a business, so they said if I learned and proved I took classes and added FDA learning into it, I could open my store. so, I did 2 of them and did all the labeling and FDA research for my town, county, and state to sell legally. that's the class people look over. Amish Mennonite here so they taught me mostly but the wanted me to show proof of more knowledge then just Amish, so I did. happy to say for 2025 I was approved to open my store, with a clean kitchen in the apothecary :)
Loved the info on this. Question: does Mc have the same meaning as Mac? Also noticed on one of your maps that over 313,000 Scott's emigrated to Bangladesh. I think that is fascinating. What was the reason, if you know. It is such a tiny country compared to most others on the map. Just wondering if there were resources there that drew the migration. Love ya, Lindsey. Keep up the wonderful work
@@vjackson96Mc is simply an abbreviation for Mac. They mean the same thing. It all depends on how lazy the person handwriting the records was feeling in a particular day.
I am supposedly related to the Turnbull clan but I sadly think my link is very small .I was delighted when I found out there was Turnbull Scottish Reivers thou😅
Thank you for this video, I have done so much research on my family tree. I have yet to find the Irish side and this may explain why I am struggling to find it. I have found where a lot of my family came over during the clearances. This gives me a whole new angle to look at. :) "Touch not the cat bot a glove" Mackintosh
A fascinating video.Thank you Lindsay.One of my name's is Burns ,possibly related to the poet Robert Burns,but never been able to confirm that! An aunt of mine who died some 60 years ago,thought the family had claims to 3 tartans. It is one of my regrets that I have never investigated my ancestry.When my aunt made her study,I was only 5 years old! Rather appropriate as I am watching this on At Andrews Day!
My last name McIntyre comes from Scotland but my ancestry shows that I’m mostly German and Italian but now that I think about it maybe I had a Scottish ancestor that had the last name. 🤷♀️
This is a great video about Scottish Clan and Kilts 🏴 I am distant Scott-Irish on my mother’s side of Clan Campbell! Can you please make a similar video based on Irish Clans and own using of Kilts (but representing of the Irish Counties from where their families came from in Ireland 🇮🇪)
@jakebarret61......it's septs in ireland not clans. many of these septs would have an affiliation to the scottish clans who settled in ireland...kilts are scottish..
@@brucecollins641 I’m aware of that. I’m talking about the Irish tartans representing the counties on where their families came from! My Irish clan were from County Cork in Ireland 🇮🇪
@@jakebarrett6175 Most Irish county tartans were a commercial invention in the 1990's just like the Welsh ones more recently. The use of kilts in Ireland started at Saint Enda's School, 1908 where Patrick Pearse used the idea of the Scottish kilt as a uniform for the boys to promote Irish (Celtic) nationalism and pride . These were I believe plain blue (St Patrick's colour) although plain saffron kilts were later used for Irish pipers . Kilts are absolutely not an Irish tradition There is therefore no real story to tell about Irish clans and kilts , if however this is something people wish to pursue then it is a bit of fun In your case if your family came from Cork then wear County Cork which was registered tartan in 1996 You can of course wear a Campbell tartan if you wish or indeed any tartan that you like the look of .
A few Irish families have tartans. But all counties have an unofficial one. Relatively new thing - started in the 1990s. USA Kilts sells them and Irish sporans and such.
I’m married into the Bain (McKay) family on father side and McLachlan on mother side. But I’m of British noble of the Lord and Lady Beevor unfortunately our side became the poor brother when he left England 😂. My trip to the UK was so amazing.
The "Kilt" may have been documented in the 1600; however, Romans have described men dressed in blanket like garments. Further more, if your wool is getting soaked in the rain, you forgot to walk it.
I have a Scottish last name, based on historical events it probably wasn't obtained in the "most ethical" way. But I did find what would be my tartan and have pajamas.
I live in East Tennessee. I know Outlander films in Scotland for North Carolina, but it doesn’t look the same. Of course, I just would love Sam Heughan just over the mountains (not that I can get there now). My stepsister lives in Hillsborough (mentioned a lot in Outlander) and her neighborhood is called “Cornwallis Hills.” There are a lot of street names that reference the Revolutionary War and Napoleonic Wars. It’s a very nice area. But one time when we were driving to the beach, I saw the exit for Alamance. Sadly, I believe the area where Fraser’s Ridge is (yeah I know it’s not real) was damaged heavily by Hurricane Helene. We have been going to the beach in BC for 30 years (and my stepdad years before that) north of Wilmington. I am curious though - are Scots offended by so many things with the Cumberland name - Cumberland River, Cumberland Plateau, etc. After reading about how awful Butcher Billy was, I think it’s awful that there are so many “Cumberland” references when the Brits have kind of phased it out.
Woodbadge member of Clan MacLaren, by way of the Boy Scouts of America. MacLarens helped the founder of the World Scouting Movement, Robert Baden-Powell.
I'm descended from the Irish, Scots, and German, with English: Kelley/Kelly; McDonald, Hash, among others, plus my birth surname, Rogers. Thanks for these explanations.
I wore a plaid uniform throughout my elementary school years (in the US), which were required by parochial/Catholic schools - yes I'm a "stinkin' Papist" (Jamie's line to his son William in Outlander. In 1999 got married in Tobermory, Isle of Mull (McLean) my hubby wore full Highland dress, it was gorgeous. Am descended from Gordons & Stewarts ~ Thanks for this informative video!
so thanks to this video i went looking for scottisch last names in my 5000+ people family three found 2 names of scottisch familys with tartans so thats cool. galloway and strathclyde for me. wonder what everybody else can find in their family. these relatives are from somewhere between 500 ac and 1000 ac
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Have you seen the movie Brave? It’s a Disney movie.🎥🍿
Where did you get that ancestral chart?! I need one to 11th century, William Marshal.
@@lowellirish
Fun Fact: Actress, Rose Leslie (who played Ygritte in Game of Thrones, aka Jon Snow's lover) is the daughter of the current Cheiftan of the Aberdeenshire branch of Clan Leslie. She was actually born and raised in her family's ancestral seat of Lickleyhead Castle in Aberdeenshire. Her mother is also a descendant of Clan Fraser and Charles II of England. And of course, she's now married to Kit Harrington, who is also a descendant of Charles II, and the son of the 15th Baronet Harrington.
@@areiaaphrodite *Fraser.
@EmmaTheCowie Thank you 😊
What! So I did my DNA a couple years ago. I am a Thornton (my father) and am 43% Scot. Cool beans.
My husband's family is also from that clan, but their ancestrals were the ones who f-ed up everything.
If I go up to my moms grandma her maiden name was Swinton. And I am 43% Scottish so I guess it plays out
I got a kilt as my big souvenir from a semester abroad at the University of St. Andrews. Since my grandmother's maiden name is Hunter and my 3x great grandfather is John Hunter, the royal physician to King George III, I got the tartan of Clan Hunter. I mostly wear my kilt for the Christmas Eve service at my church, but my folks encourage me to where it whenever i get the opportunity.
Yes! Down with pants! Up with kilts! ✌️😜
My husband and I are Scottish and got married just last month, he, his uncle and grandfather all wore their family tartan 🥰
Oh, the wedding pictures with the same tartan kilts. Wow. 🥂 Congratulations to you both!
This is amazing my partner and I are getting married in January and wished we could do this we are both Scottish. But we don’t know a whole lot about my partners family so we’re planning to have a 5yr vow renewal using our familial kilts after we finish researching our linage
@@OkieJammer2736 thank you so much! 🥰
@@laraenastyman4908congratulations and best of luck on your research!
So cool! Love it. 💕. Congrats
One of your best, Lindsay! I especially love the episodes that explore lesser known customs, knowledge, or people, and while I'm sure we've all heard of tartans and clans, the information from your research is fresh and insightful for most of us! Well done.
Thanks, I'm glad you enjoyed it!
Fun Fact: For the movie, Brave, The Walt Disney Company created 3 original tartans for the 4 clans in the movie and even registered Clan DunBroch's tartan with the Scottish Register of Tartans 🏴😊
That's really cool.
That is really cool! 😎
Dumb on all accounts
@waynecameron4911 ....how?
I was fortunate enough to visit Culloden a few years ago. I love the irony that my maternal family is a Scots and Irish mix while my paternal line comes from their often allies, being French.
I'm Scots-Irish on both sides with German. All North and South Carolina colonies where they immigrated and then moved on to Alabama in the 1800s. Paternal Scots and German. My last name was originally Stutz. My family immigrated in 1738. One family from Zurich but Austrian. I don't know what clan I belong to. Maternal Scots and English.
Omg the way I am OBSESSED with Outlander
Me too 😅
Fraser here! Visited Cullodan some years ago. It was very powerful.
Wow! I'm sure it was.
Thanks for this one Lindsay. Ill show it to my partner. She is a descendant of the Stewart's and Shaw's on her Mothers side, and a large number of her Fathers ancestors fought and died at Flodden, so she is very much Scottish heritage. A large part of Her Family have been in New Zealand since the mid 1800's, so were among the scots that came early to NZ.
On the other hand, I'm a first generation Kiwi, my family are all Dutch.
Its crazy how far we can all go from our roots, but always can look back and see the past. I really enjoy the videos you make, Thank you from NZ
I am a Stewart on my Mother's side as well.
I’m from Clan Thomson on my papa’s side and Clan MacInnis on my nana’s side. Their families emigrated from Scotland to Canada and my grandparents met on Prince Edward Island before moving to the US. I’m trying to find more information on their families but it’s been a lot harder than finding information on my maternal Swedish side who kept a lot of ancestral records. This video is immensely helpful, especially the maps! Love all of your videos but this one felt like it was made for me! Thank you! 😄
Fellow Bruce here! I've been able to trace back to the 1760's in Hamilton but hit a document wall... Great video, it may inspire me to keep researching!
Hello from Hamilton!
You may have already done this, but have you tried accessing the "Scotland's People" website? It is the Scottish Registry in Edinburgh and has online access to all births, deaths, marriages, etc since it became law to register. Before that there are Church records available too.
i’m from north carolina and my family are what’s left of Clan Beaton - originally Bethune, we crossed the channel with William the Conqueror and were granted titles, land and castles recorded in the Domesday Book. most of us fled the country after my 14x great grandfather, Cardinal David Beaton, was assassinated at his home of Saint Andrew’s Castle 🙃
Wonder if some became Benton in the USA??
My ancestors on my grandmothers family side, were Red Douglas, Black Douglas, Wyllie, Cushnie, Maize, Blackett, and so on in history. Glasgow, Edinburgh, and Ayrshire. Many were also originally Irish (Cushnie and Maize). Forced to move under Cromwell from Ireland to Scotland. Long running family history.
The Scottish part of my ancestry is from Clan Douglas, but we spelt it as Douglass (double s). And when I visited Scotland a few years ago, I got my clans tartan.
We also come from the Douglas Clan. Question would be Black Douglas or Red Douglas family, we are from the Red Douglas's.Geat Grandmother was born in Ayrshire. Also hence why my father's Middle name was from the Douglas family.
I am descended from the Black Douglases. ❤
@@catevanslife Black Douglas family huh? Yeah our descendant is Red Douglas. Red heads
@stevenbaker8184 😻
@@catevanslife yeah not related but fought for King Robert the Bruce and both Black Douglas and the Red Douglas family were extremely loyal to Bruce. It's cool history. Except Glencoe. That's terrible. And why Campbell's had a bad history.
I love Scotland, it reminds me of my culture too.
I'm a Bataknese from Northern Sumatra Highland, we do have strong clans system, we also have traditional cloth known as Ulos, and we do have clan system that bounded clansmen by marriage.
My closest ancestor that's from Scotland is one of my great-great-great-grand-mother and grand-father. Their name was Drysdale, but upon moving to french north of New-Brunswick it became Dresdelle
I think there were some Drysdales on the Beverly Hillbillies😂 But you are probably too young to have seen the show💚
@@elizabethmencia6027I'm not, and that was funny.
Thank you for your video! Both sides of my family are from Highland Clans. I absolutely love all your videos! Thank you for your hard but fun work!
Love this! Been with my scottish husband for 12 years now, and learned more in 30 mins than I ever did before! Unfortunately, his family don't have a tartan as they originate from one of the Scottish/English border villages, and they went from being Scottish, to English, to Scottish like a million times before ultimately being on the Scottish side of the border in the 1700's. A lot of the border villages and towns have had the same issues with the border being moved up and down so many times, the history of this area often gets forgotten about 😢
Clans usually wore plaids made with natural dye like woad, from whichever area they resided in, so colour would be slightly different but nothing like we have today. The clan tartans we know today were made popular by Sir Walter Scott during the romanticisation of highland culture during the Victorian Times. Border Reievers typically wore plaid trews and not kilts though😊
They could still have Tartan. I come from a border family aswell and They have their own tartan
Many lowland and border clans never had a tartan. Few did until the king's visit in 1822.
My maternal grandmother was born a McIntosh. Thank you for this
I still carry the last name of my Scottish ancestors who immigrated to Australia from Perth, Scotland sometime in the 1800s, and they were descendants of the Macgregor clan, of which Rob Roy Macgregor who the book mentioned in the video was written about was a member. The clan is still active and thriving today with a global society as well as a handful of official clan tartans, our clan are “Royal is my race” because legend states that clan Macgregor was founded by descendants of an ancient Celtic royal family. Robert the Bruce stole large swaths of ancient clan Macgregor land and “gifted” it to clan Campbell, which ignited a centuries long rivalry between the two clans and forced the members of clan Macgregor to retreat further up into the mountainous highlands. In 1603 King James VI outlawed the last name Macgregor, anyone who held the last name had to renounce it and change to using a different last name or face execution, which forced many Macgregors to change their names and go into hiding, Charles II briefly repealed the act banning the name in 1661 but William III reinstated it in 1693 and it remained in place until 1784. During this time and before when the Campbells took control of their ancestral lands, the Macgregors gained the nickname of “the children of the mist” as they would use the cover of mist high up in the mountains to sneak into Campbell lands and lands of other nearby clans and slaughter and take their livestock for themselves. My last name is one of the recognise alias last names that many Macgregors took while the name was outlawed.
Hello from an Iowa MacGregor!
I'm very sorry that some person could decide whether or not you had a 'good' last name. That's just wrong. May you always be able to be who you are.
Can’t wait for new Outlander season!!! 🩷🩷
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Great video! Well done and very informative. One small tweak. Somerled was not the father of the first clans. Prof John Bannerman pointed out that the use of the word clan to denote a kindred and not just literal “children of” dates back to the 900’s. So clans had been around for a while before Somerled. The kin-based society, using different words like cenél, goes back even further.
My mother always told us that we had "a history of peasants on both sides"; not so. We are actually descendants of an earl, a laird, and a countess, oddly enough, in Scotland. I was very excited to know about this, and we also have ties to a fair few clans, including MacPhee, MacIntyre, and MacKenzie.
I love getting a history lesson from best teacher Lindsay
My Scottish ancestors emigrated between the rebellions (I still carry their surname as my middle name, as do most of my immediate family members). One fun thing is that the clan badge of a boot and spur was retained as a family symbol. I have several 19th-century custom pieces with a boot and spur on them that will be used next week at Thanksgiving, including an enormous turkey platter and serving utensils.
If you want to see an excellent depiction in pop culture of how the great kilt was put on, Outlander has you covered. A season one opening credits seen shows Jamie assembling his kilt. The full scene isn’t in the episode, but can be easily found online.
LOVE YOUR CONTENT Lindsay! Thanks For this! You're the Best Narrator there is! Could hear you talk about anything and still be happy! keep up the good work! Please consider covering The Japanese Imperial family! hearth please
As per usual, I found this video fascinating and informative. My interest was piqued to discover that you and I share the common heritage of Bruce descent on one side and Bragg on another.
Ruaraidh is pronounced ‘Roo-ah-ray’ or more simply ‘Roo-ray’. It’s my nephew’s name and I love it 💕🏴
THIS!!! Had to rewind a few times. Some of her pronunciations were a bit off.
Isn't it just Rory? Thus making the clan MacCrory?
@@elleeeeish Rory and Ruaraidh are different names.
@@EmmaTheCowie "Rory is a given name of Gaelic origin. It is an anglicisation of the Irish: Ruairí/Ruaidhrí and Scottish Gaelic: Ruairidh/Ruaraidh[6] and is common to the Irish, Highland Scots and their diasporas.[7] The meaning of the name is "red king", composed of ruadh ("red") and rígh ("king").[8]"
Wikipedia disagrees.
My brother's name is Rory. People bring these traditional spellings up to us all the time.
But honestly it doesn't matter, people can pronounce it how they like. No biggie.
@ Wikipedia is right! Rory is the anglicisation of Ruariadh. They are pronounced differently. Ruariadh is Gaelic, Rory is the english language version. So yeah - similar names, pronounced differently 🙂
Lindsay: *Descendant of The Bruce Family*
Me: * Descendant of Edward I (Hammer of the Scots) * .....So... Truce? 😅
Me too 😂
You guys not going to fight and start the war with Scotland and England are you 😅
@@timelordvictorious Haha 🤣 not me. I also descend from John Comyn…whoooo Robert the Bruce had his men kill…in a church 😅 I’m not gonna test that
Plus, Edward I is the great-great-great-great grandson of St Margaret and Malcolm III, so that counts for something right? 😅
Husband: Bruce decent. Me: Edward I
Husband: Northern Army Me: Southern Army in the American Civil War
Husband: British Army Me: Colonial Army
(Revolutionary War)
Husband: Scottish/English/French
Me: German, Viking, English
We are lucky we get along!!
That was the best presentation I’ve listened to in a long time. Thanks.
This might be your greatest video yet!🏴
I believe I saw my 4th great grandparents on your tree. They were John Bruce and Elizabeth Clay who were from Garrard County Ky. through their daughter Sophia. Very interesting!
That is so cool! It's amazing to see how connected we all are.
I watched a lot closer to your narrative this time. I shared it on my family page but I guess they aren't interested since our Bruce's were 200 and more years ago! Thank you for the information!! Wish I could help you on the research. I was a history major in college.
I learn something whenever I watch your channel. Thank you.
Very lucky to live on the east coast of Scotland. It's an amazing country ❤ 🏴
When I went to Casper on one of my birthday trips, I found a silver Scottish clan badge in a trash and treasure shop and I bought it! It had what looked like a goats head and I think the clan name was McCleod! I thought it was beautiful but I didn't think that I should wear it since I'm sure it once belonged to someone with the McCleod name I still have it and I'm sure they'll want it back one day!
If I ever won the lottery, I think I’ll ask Lindsay to do a history of my family. The way she can even explain the history of kilts is amazing!
Probably just as easy to get it from Wikipedia frankly as I gather this is where most of her content is researched from . Only stopped by here by chance , don’t mean to upset people that like her content but she never puts where she does her research to get her content.
Hello lindsay! LOVE the history of the British isles and you're the Best channel for it! Much thanks ❤❤❤❤
Watching from Falkirk 👋, love your content Lindsay, true Scottish lass at heart ♥ ♥
Further into the video you say Ayrshire as ( Eye-r-shire) it should be (Air-shire), still love it though
Thank you so much for this video. I have always loved learning about Scotland, especially its history. One of my ancestors might have been Scottish. The problem is his sons are rather infamous in my area, so there is a lot of misleading and contradictory information about them. Some of the stories I have found say he was Irish while others say Scottish, now I wonder if he was one of the Scotch Irish you mentioned. What I have found to be consistent throughout the stories, the brothers were red headed, raised Cherokee, spoke multiple languages, fought during the American Revolution, and hunted down the men responsible for the massacre of a Cherokee village. My family stories say their father married a Cherokee and was a fur trader working and living on the rivers of the Carolina’s, Virginia, and surrounding areas.
That is a great story. Thanks for sharing!
@@MythStarFire fascinating
I'm probably going to look into this further as I begin diving into my family history, but my great-great-grandmother was from n. Ireland, and my grandmother knew that she had Campbell blood from (I'm assuming) that side of her family. She actually asked about a tartan from that clan when she visited back in the 1950s or 60s, but apparently there was still some bad blood from the Glencoe massacre and she got a REALLY dirty look from the lady at the shop. I've seen from looking into it further is that that really isn't the case anymore, but it's still an interesting anecdote!
I discovered an entire Scottish part of my heritage through Ireland! I had 3 four and five times great grandparents move from Scotland to Ireland in the first half of the 1700s and then their Irish descendants emigrated to what is now Canada and then moved to the United States 😅
There's still a saying in Scotland today "never trust a Campbell"😂
History tea time and outlander? Yes please!🎉
Love the video as usual! But you forgot Vivienne Westwood! MacQueen did amazing stuff with tartan but Westwood did it first and she was heavily inspired by the punk scene
Did you catch her cameo in the video? 😅
Oh hells yes, never been more excited for a video of yours before
@LindsayHoliday,
You seem to possibly overlooked Rob Roy MacGregor aka The Highland Rogue whose life story was made into a movie for theatre screens by Disney as well as the McMillan clan mentioned in the episode “DEATH OF A MONSTER, BIRTH OF A LEGEND” from the classic 1971-76 NBC Mystery Movie program known as “McMILLAN & WIFE”.
I forgot to mention my infamous Scottish ancestor known as William “The Rebel” Lawson who went onto to serve as a spy for the patriots in the Revolution against King George III.
Information I didn't know I needed! This was so cool to learn!
Brilliant video,very informative and well presented . Thank you.
I've been subconsciously waiting for you to do this video for soooo long 😭✨
I'm English but my family passes down the Clan name as a middle name, the Clan imagery is also heavily displayed in our heraldry (which is directly passed on in England).
Another awesome video and Can you do a video of The Baroque in Italy and Spain
My grandfather- a Graham - while still living in South Africa- was invited to a gathering of the clan in Scotland. But true to his supposedly Scottish trait of never overspending- especially on himself - he chose not to go.
My grandfather was a Graham too! He used to wear the whole kilt and proper getup in the Graham tartan to a big festival at church every year since we were named after a Scottish saint. My mom had a cow over those daggers in his socks! 😂
For future videos, the pronunciation of “Alba” is “Ah-lah-pah.”
And a “Plaid” is any form of woollen blanket (with tartan cross designs or one single colour, so it doesn’t require it to have any cross-cross threads of different colours to be a plaid)
I look forward to every Tuesday because of you!! Thank you Lindsay!! Love your videos
Just found your channel-love it! You provide the information clearly and in an engaging way. Excited to make my way through your vids!
Q: Why aren’t you supposed to run with bagpipes?
A: You could poke an aye out..or worse, get kilt 😅
Clan Campbell passing through! 😁
We’re also possibly related to Rob Roy MacGregor.
I directly descend from Hugh Crawford of the Crawford Clan. My ancestor arrived here in America on the same voyage as George Washington. The Washington/Crawford papers are on file in the National Archives. I'm a 7th generation Floridian....with county parks named for my family.
I’m also a descendant of Clan Bruce and Clan Kennedy through my maternal grandmother!
love seeing a video about the land some of my ancestors came from. 🥰 I'm been learning Gaelic for the past couple of months. Chan eil mi math. But I'm still trying. Thanks for this wonderful video! 😊
1:21 the blue and white pattern shown at this time stamp in the video. Just curious if anyone else knows this as gingham.
I do
I'm part of the Dawson family, it's my last name, I am still learning about my family and thanks you for this video
👋The tea 🍵 you’re serving here goes nicely w/ my jam. New subbie here & on the ‘gram ! 🤗. Super stoked for the new season of 📽️Outlander 🎞️ 🏴🇺🇸.
I love your show I find that out about deferent things about otheir countries. That I didn't now about you bring history to life I can't wait for you new pise of history.
Thanks for the tea, History Mom! ❤
I love you so much !!!!!!! I did take classes but my issue was a small small town board that's votes on opening a business, so they said if I learned and proved I took classes and added FDA learning into it, I could open my store. so, I did 2 of them and did all the labeling and FDA research for my town, county, and state to sell legally. that's the class people look over. Amish Mennonite here so they taught me mostly but the wanted me to show proof of more knowledge then just Amish, so I did. happy to say for 2025 I was approved to open my store, with a clean kitchen in the apothecary :)
Loved the info on this. Question: does Mc have the same meaning as Mac? Also noticed on one of your maps that over 313,000 Scott's emigrated to Bangladesh. I think that is fascinating. What was the reason, if you know. It is such a tiny country compared to most others on the map. Just wondering if there were resources there that drew the migration. Love ya, Lindsey. Keep up the wonderful work
Same question here because my first last name is a Mc
@@vjackson96Mc is simply an abbreviation for Mac. They mean the same thing. It all depends on how lazy the person handwriting the records was feeling in a particular day.
Mc is just an abbreviation of Mac. See my reply below.
I am supposedly related to the Turnbull clan but I sadly think my link is very small .I was delighted when I found out there was Turnbull Scottish Reivers thou😅
being from falkirk I was caught off guard to hear you mention us!
Your family tree is amazing ! Thanks for sharing !
Member of Clan Napier here! Nice video Lindsay!
I’m a maclean not many left now love the history not much I can do to keep my clan alive now! love this vid thanks for sharing xx
My great grandmother was May Mcure, a sept of Clan McCleod.
Vivian Westwood used the tartan patterns before Alexander McQueen did just stating that for fashion girls
Thank you for this video, I have done so much research on my family tree. I have yet to find the Irish side and this may explain why I am struggling to find it. I have found where a lot of my family came over during the clearances. This gives me a whole new angle to look at. :) "Touch not the cat bot a glove" Mackintosh
My fifteenth great grandfather was King James V aka King James Stewart
We're related somehow. My 5th grade maternal biological grandmother was a member of Clan Donaldson.
A fascinating video.Thank you Lindsay.One of my name's is Burns ,possibly related to the poet Robert Burns,but never been able to confirm that! An aunt of mine who died some 60 years ago,thought the family had claims to 3 tartans. It is one of my regrets that I have never investigated my ancestry.When my aunt made her study,I was only 5 years old! Rather appropriate as I am watching this on At Andrews Day!
My last name McIntyre comes from Scotland but my ancestry shows that I’m mostly German and Italian but now that I think about it maybe I had a Scottish ancestor that had the last name. 🤷♀️
This is a great video about Scottish Clan and Kilts 🏴 I am distant Scott-Irish on my mother’s side of Clan Campbell! Can you please make a similar video based on Irish Clans and own using of Kilts (but representing of the Irish Counties from where their families came from in Ireland 🇮🇪)
@jakebarret61......it's septs in ireland not clans. many of these septs would have an affiliation to the scottish clans who settled in ireland...kilts are scottish..
@@brucecollins641 I’m aware of that. I’m talking about the Irish tartans representing the counties on where their families came from! My Irish clan were from County Cork in Ireland 🇮🇪
@@jakebarrett6175
Most Irish county tartans were a commercial invention in the 1990's just like the Welsh ones more recently.
The use of kilts in Ireland started at Saint Enda's School, 1908 where Patrick Pearse used the idea of the Scottish kilt as a uniform for the boys to promote Irish (Celtic) nationalism and pride .
These were I believe plain blue (St Patrick's colour) although plain saffron kilts were later used for Irish pipers .
Kilts are absolutely not an Irish tradition
There is therefore no real story to tell about Irish clans and kilts , if however this is something people wish to pursue then it is a bit of fun
In your case if your family came from Cork then wear County Cork which was registered tartan in 1996
You can of course wear a Campbell tartan if you wish or indeed any tartan that you like the look of .
A few Irish families have tartans. But all counties have an unofficial one. Relatively new thing - started in the 1990s. USA Kilts sells them and Irish sporans and such.
Nice video very good explantion regarding.Clanss and Tarta kilts.
I've never been this early to an upload
Thank you for this synopsis. I found it very well done.
I’m married into the Bain (McKay) family on father side and McLachlan on mother side. But I’m of British noble of the Lord and Lady Beevor unfortunately our side became the poor brother when he left England 😂. My trip to the UK was so amazing.
The "Kilt" may have been documented in the 1600; however, Romans have described men dressed in blanket like garments. Further more, if your wool is getting soaked in the rain, you forgot to walk it.
YESSSS!! I am so excited for this!
I noticed every time I see one of these they never have my grandfathers family name of Dalrymple in these clan names 🤷🏼
I have a Scottish last name, based on historical events it probably wasn't obtained in the "most ethical" way. But I did find what would be my tartan and have pajamas.
I live in East Tennessee. I know Outlander films in Scotland for North Carolina, but it doesn’t look the same. Of course, I just would love Sam Heughan just over the mountains (not that I can get there now). My stepsister lives in Hillsborough (mentioned a lot in Outlander) and her neighborhood is called “Cornwallis Hills.” There are a lot of street names that reference the Revolutionary War and Napoleonic Wars. It’s a very nice area. But one time when we were driving to the beach, I saw the exit for Alamance. Sadly, I believe the area where Fraser’s Ridge is (yeah I know it’s not real) was damaged heavily by Hurricane Helene. We have been going to the beach in BC for 30 years (and my stepdad years before that) north of Wilmington.
I am curious though - are Scots offended by so many things with the Cumberland name - Cumberland River, Cumberland Plateau, etc. After reading about how awful Butcher Billy was, I think it’s awful that there are so many “Cumberland” references when the Brits have kind of phased it out.
Thank you, this was so helpful and educational. I've been doing Genealogy. This is helpful.
Why wasn't my clan listed the McDougalls.?One of the Oldest clans in Scotland.
Hey, Lindsay! Can you make a video on the difference between the irish and scottish culture.
Woodbadge member of Clan MacLaren, by way of the Boy Scouts of America. MacLarens helped the founder of the World Scouting Movement, Robert Baden-Powell.
I love the Murray tartans, I have them as scarves and one kilt
Currently wearing tartan/plaid PJs
😂😂😂
The macleans made black white and green tartan cloth and sold it .anybody who bought it could wear it .
This is beautiful thank you for sharing this with us!
I'm descended from the Irish, Scots, and German, with English: Kelley/Kelly; McDonald, Hash, among others, plus my birth surname, Rogers.
Thanks for these explanations.
I wore a plaid uniform throughout my elementary school years (in the US), which were required by parochial/Catholic schools - yes I'm a "stinkin' Papist" (Jamie's line to his son William in Outlander. In 1999 got married in Tobermory, Isle of Mull (McLean) my hubby wore full Highland dress, it was gorgeous. Am descended from Gordons & Stewarts ~ Thanks for this informative video!
so thanks to this video i went looking for scottisch last names in my 5000+ people family three found 2 names of scottisch familys with tartans so thats cool. galloway and strathclyde for me. wonder what everybody else can find in their family. these relatives are from somewhere between 500 ac and 1000 ac
The Prince who defeated the Scots at Cullodan Hill was named William Augustus known as The Butcher Martial Boy and Sweet William.
Lindsay is talking about my favorite show I’m going to die!!!