History of Scottish clans: Every year (834-1707)

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  • Опубликовано: 21 ноя 2024
  • Legend:First/Darker color: Owned and fully controled land
    Middle color: Vassal
    Third/Brightest color: Occupied territory
    (-) - Clan is fully annexed
    (V) - Clan is currently a vassal of another clan or country
    (O) - Clan is outlawed (Only MacGregor)
    Mistakes in Legend:
    Menzies shouldn't have "(V)" after 1306
    Pollock, Fleming, Maxton, Montgomery and Maxwell shouldn't have "(V)" after 1314
    Music in the video:
    Celtic battle music - The King of The Highlands by Antti Martikainen Music

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  • @oakmapping68
    @oakmapping68  3 года назад +140

    As this video has recently gotten tons of new views and with the views come comments I really can't read or reply to all of them, so I am making this sort of an announcement/FAQ comment which will hopefully answer your questions.
    I am not from Scotland nor I have any Scottish ancestry (at least that I know of) so if there is any bias in this video it's accidental. Most of my info I got from www.scotclans.com/ and similar websites to either double-check or to find the info which scotclans.com is missing. Areas of control are based on few maps I found and on the territorial descriptions of a clan. There most likely is a certain amount of info that about Scottish clans that doesn't exist online so this video is likely to have innaccurasies.

    • @jeffreym68
      @jeffreym68 3 года назад +9

      Thanks for the video. My clan is missing, so I guess I've got some detective work to do!

    • @Thurgosh_OG
      @Thurgosh_OG 3 года назад +8

      @@jeffreym68 Same for mine.

    • @bibby949
      @bibby949 3 года назад +9

      Definitely missing some clans

    • @kimsutherland5061
      @kimsutherland5061 3 года назад +2

      My clan is there. Loud and proud Sutherland.

    • @jenmaryday
      @jenmaryday 3 года назад +6

      Thanks 🙏 I am not Scottish but my soul and heart ❤️ is great music and great Job Jday

  • @stevenmackintosh8160
    @stevenmackintosh8160 3 года назад +563

    Still live in the exact same place my ancestors have for hundreds of years. Kinda cool.

    • @elizabethsullivan7176
      @elizabethsullivan7176 3 года назад +53

      You are fortunate. My ancestors, the MacIntyre, were kicked off their homeland in the 1700s and have no home anymore. Finding family tree info is a nightmare.

    • @a11osaurus
      @a11osaurus 3 года назад +18

      @@elizabethsullivan7176 my last name is McIntyre. MacIntyre and McIntyre are pretty much the same

    • @po-qo7vd
      @po-qo7vd 3 года назад +10

      It means you're inbred

    • @RehdClouhd
      @RehdClouhd 3 года назад +15

      Clan Mackintosh!

    • @elizabethsullivan7176
      @elizabethsullivan7176 3 года назад +2

      @@a11osaurus It's just a different spelling. 🙂

  • @mblecrmsn8068
    @mblecrmsn8068 4 года назад +164

    I can see the intense effort just from looking at the key box.

  • @dancunningham5039
    @dancunningham5039 3 года назад +113

    Had the privilege of visiting Scotland in 2018 and seeing my ancestral homeland 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

    • @soleaguirre100
      @soleaguirre100 2 года назад +6

      me too in. Glasgow and Edinburgh nostalgic moments! my grandpa came to Chile 🇨🇱 because he studied in Cambridge University Mine Engineer and in Chile we have Copper .

    • @Grug-Jack
      @Grug-Jack Год назад

      it was a shitehole wasn't it

    • @cliftonchapma1
      @cliftonchapma1 Год назад +3

      My wife's a Cunningham , very proud of her scotch ancestry.

    • @NordicBlackmetaler
      @NordicBlackmetaler Год назад +9

      @@cliftonchapma1 Hey bud rule number one is never call a person from scotland scotch they are scottish, or scot they don't like being referred to an alcholic drink some may even take offence to this.

    • @Parker_Douglas
      @Parker_Douglas Год назад

      It’s not offensive as being referred to a Jock or sweaty by the English.

  • @micahistory
    @micahistory 4 года назад +252

    Wow this video is absolutely AWESOME! I can't believe how much time and effort it must have taken not only to write all this clans but put them all on a map every single year. You deserve 1 million subs by now. This is the best mapping video of 2020 for sure

    • @PredatorUpHill
      @PredatorUpHill 2 года назад +2

      Shush Yank.

    • @sharonhamilton8907
      @sharonhamilton8907 2 года назад +1

      Absolutely incredible! Thank you so very much for your dedication and tireless research!

    • @paranihiaanaru4414
      @paranihiaanaru4414 Год назад

      Far as I can see, he has the number of subs that he deserves

  • @cleophusA
    @cleophusA 3 года назад +89

    I would love to have a full size wall poster of the complete map. Very informative!

    • @huntertaylor4424
      @huntertaylor4424 Год назад +9

      I have an old vintage one that my grandparents bought in the late 60s/early 70s. Its really awesome to see and it also includes on the borders a complete display of all of the coats of arms of all of the clans. Really awesome to look at

    • @prioritytarget7157
      @prioritytarget7157 5 месяцев назад

      Do an image search for "Scottish clans" and you can probably find the completed map and get it printed at Staples.

    • @carolynklenk8467
      @carolynklenk8467 4 месяца назад +1

      Yes could you do some more research on it
      Clans and the Coat of Armour and maybe if found have it so people could look at or even purchase from you? I'm sure you would make some jingle ❤

    • @lynb2039
      @lynb2039 Месяц назад +1

      NATL TRUST FOR SCOTLAND. BUT AS A GENEALOGIST NOT FULLY HAPPY WITH ANY CLAN MAPS....TOO MANY ERRORS AND OMMISSIONS. TAKE HEED.

  • @Rebelass74
    @Rebelass74 3 года назад +175

    The most fiercest and badass fighters to come out of the British isles.
    Huge respect to the Scottish clans from your fellow Nepali highlander.
    Must be the harsh climate because us mountain people are made tough as nails.👍🏽

    • @Buildbeautiful
      @Buildbeautiful 2 года назад +4

      No The Irish broke away from englidh rule a century ago unlike the scots who are still ruled by the english in london

    • @Buildbeautiful
      @Buildbeautiful 2 года назад +5

      But english landlords tried to replace highlanders with sheep forcing many to move to America

    • @brianbell4491
      @brianbell4491 2 года назад +5

      Lol yeah some were sent to Ireland first then America as a bell I can say we still hold a gruge for a lifetime. Lol drink like fish and our blood still boils.

    • @johnrambo99999
      @johnrambo99999 2 года назад

      To be fair. English ruined all of you so....suppose we're the most nails.

    • @Rebelass74
      @Rebelass74 2 года назад +5

      @@johnrambo99999 The English, Welsh, Irish and Scots are all awesome fighters, there is absolutely no doubt about it but in the British Raj, home to many battles and theatre of wars, the English believed the Scots to be best fighters out of the British Isles, and pound for pound the Gurkhas to be the best overall. This was the first hand experience and conclusion of the English when they were analysing their “martial race” theory. 👍🏽

  • @judy6734
    @judy6734 3 года назад +23

    Thank you soo much for doing this Scottish Clans map. I think your work in phenomenal.

  • @craigh8602
    @craigh8602 3 года назад +185

    I attended Univ of Edinburgh for a semester and while visiting the Isle of Skye a proprietor asked if I had any Scottish blood. I replied I'm 3/5 Scot mostly from the Maxwell Clann. He paused and said, "Aye lad, a bunch of sheep thieves ya be." So I got that going for me.

    • @amandamaxwell7370
      @amandamaxwell7370 3 года назад +8

      @Old Crow Could our lawlessness have something to do with our viking heritage? 🤔😅

    • @JackBlack-cy1wp
      @JackBlack-cy1wp 3 года назад +19

      @@amandamaxwell7370 No, it wouldn't, because your heritage is Yankee and your immediate and most related people were Yankee cowboys and cattle rustlers, nobody is more genetically closer to you than your parents, each generation you become less related to the previous generation and most Yanks parents are Americans (also Yanks) so they're immediate ancestors are also Yankish, you're not Scottish or Viking, and Viking wasn't anything other than an occupation, you could get Vikings from many nations that shared the north sea, they weren't all from Scandinavia. A Yank trying to romanticise themselves as royalty (now there's a contradiction and a half) is laughable.
      A Yank is the total opposite of royal.
      Most Yanks ancestors are also Yanks and their ancestors were also mixed up Yanks who were related to equally mixed Yankee cowboy outlaws of the old west, whose ancestors were from Northern Ireland (not Irish) whose ancestors were largely Reivers - who came from the land known as 'The Debatable land'- which was neither Scottish or English, Reivers were their own people and identity and came from a lawless place that neither the crowns of Scotland or England had any jurisdiction over, it was the Kowloon of Great Britain - a lawless land that was rife in crime such as murder, rape, arson, theft and pillaging, they played by their own rules and thumbed their noses at both the crowns of Scotland and England, they attacked both Scots and English and the Scots and English likewise attacked them both in return on their way when they warred, they were considered the unwanted scum on either side.
      They became a source of national embarrassment to both the Kingdoms of Scotland and England and before the two kingdoms United in 1707 as Great Britain, that's why they were gotten rid of, the Reivers who were not executed for their crimes were deported as 'stateless criminals' as they did not belong to any nation so they were easy to get rid of as foreigners who committed crimes.
      And there distant descendants in Ulster to North America became outlaws in America whose descendants eventually fought against the Kingdoms of Scotland and England, so they always put their own families first as they attacked others but they were not Scottish or English, the Reivers were a stateless people of their own identity who were gotten rid of by both Scotland and England.
      So it probably has more to do with that, and explains the Yank obsession with backward inbred clans and their distancing away from their own native American national/ethnic identity.

    • @RighAlban
      @RighAlban 3 года назад +11

      @@JackBlack-cy1wp Shite! For one Yanks were Dutch so your whole BS rant contradicts itself from the get go.
      Second the borders have never been known as the "Kowloon" of the UK ever!
      Stop making stuff up!
      Third, I'm going to refrain from poking about forty more holes in the BS.
      Just wow!

    • @RighAlban
      @RighAlban 3 года назад +27

      @@amandamaxwell7370 Don't pay any attention to what that guy just wrote it's 98% BS the only things factual were the place names.

    • @craigh8602
      @craigh8602 3 года назад +6

      ​@Ramming Speed Aye!! James Clerk Maxwell, not only responsible for the world's first color photograph; but he was the most important physicists to have ever lived according to Einstein. A little trivia for your next cocktail party: Established electricity and magnetism are aspects of the same entity---electromagnetism; predicted the existence of radio waves in 1865, paving the way for radio, TV and electronics... s considered to the father of electronics.

  • @angele1968
    @angele1968 3 года назад +59

    Fantastic ! from France, i'm in love with your country, since I was 14, a looong time ago , and I've just started to learn scottish Gaelic. Félicitations! encore merci.Tapadh leibh agus latha math !

    • @pianoflat
      @pianoflat 3 года назад +3

      Is toil leam seo

    • @angele1968
      @angele1968 3 года назад +10

      @@pianoflat Tapah leibh ! since I speak german too, not as well as english, it helps me a lot with "arch" sound , and I found some links with the french too . We have the "à" and the "de" too in very similar meanings ! When I think of Alba... my heart just melts

    • @LetsAllDrinkToTheDeathOfAClown
      @LetsAllDrinkToTheDeathOfAClown 3 года назад

      It's a shame the French, the Scots, the Germans and almost all other Europeans are facing what amounts to a genocide that will take about 50 years to complete if trends continue as they are at present.

    • @PredatorUpHill
      @PredatorUpHill 2 года назад

      @@LetsAllDrinkToTheDeathOfAClown Fk off Yankman, you're not Scottish.

  • @juleselliott7196
    @juleselliott7196 2 года назад +5

    What an amazing body of research! Hats off to you. Well done. The music is rather invigorating too.

  • @AcademyMike
    @AcademyMike Год назад +10

    Wonderful. I couldn't see the Davisons (Davidson), but then we were Border Reivers (basically cattle/sheep thieves. A fascinating history) killed off in 15th century! I was born in Newcastle upon Tyne, and recognise so many surnames from school. I've travelled since then with HM Forces, but man alive, going home (gannin yhem) is a joy every time and lifts my spirit without fail. I once met a bloke in a bar in Katmandu, who had lived in the same road as me! I shit you not. Happy, blessed, days! Cheers Bonny Lad.

    • @BeardOperator
      @BeardOperator Год назад +2

      I’m a Davidson. We are in the Appalacian mtns. A lot of Scott and Irish people moved here to the mountains.

    • @lynb2039
      @lynb2039 Месяц назад +1

      From a Clan Bell lass to a Davidson lad, SLANTE!

  • @connieduke5828
    @connieduke5828 2 года назад +4

    THANKS so much for sharing this information! I am of the Clan MacQuarrie, and see them in your list in 968. ~Blessings~

  • @valentinosky9435
    @valentinosky9435 3 года назад +10

    Clan Gunn
    Clan Gunn is a Highland Scottish clan associated with lands in northeastern Scotland, including Caithness, Sutherland, and, arguably, the Orkney Isles. Clan Gunn is one of the oldest Scottish Clans, being descended from the Norse Jarls of Orkney and the Pictish Mormaers of Caithness Father side

    • @marylougoehring8794
      @marylougoehring8794 3 года назад +1

      Clan Gunn here, father was very proud of it

    • @Alex9Uk
      @Alex9Uk Год назад +1

      Also Gunn betrayed there own people and fought against the Jacobite's with the English

    • @nsrfreak
      @nsrfreak 7 месяцев назад

      Proud Gunn here!

  • @alamoflint7055
    @alamoflint7055 4 года назад +71

    Me before watching this video: The HRE is the most complicated and confusing thing ever
    Me after watching this video: Wow, what???

    • @thekaiser7555
      @thekaiser7555 3 года назад +2

      What confuses you, sweetheart?

    • @constantinethegreat6713
      @constantinethegreat6713 3 года назад +1

      I searched on Google that how many Scottish clans in 1700, it said that its 500 and now I'm shocked

    • @AL-lh2ht
      @AL-lh2ht 7 месяцев назад +1

      @@thekaiser7555 Perhapts the five hundred different clans all allying and fighting each other.

  • @clanyoung14
    @clanyoung14 3 года назад +61

    Nice. I am the historian for the Clan Young, which has rarely ever been recognized. It is nice to see that they are here and that the location in eastern Roxburghshire seems to be correct. I have an Adam Young mentioned as a witness to the lands of Mowhaugh, in the Bowmont Valley, in the year 1195. I should note, however, that the English did not recognize these lands as a part of Scotland until the Treaty of York in 1237 when the current border was established. At the time of Adam the owner of the lands of Mowhaugh was Lady Eschina de Molle, as known as Eschina de Londoniis, since she dwelt in London, England. Here grandfather, Uctred de Molle, had left his property to her. The Youngs eventually were in possession, one way or another, of most of the valley between Mowhaugh and Yetholm and various nearby lands such as Otterburn, Hoselaw, Lempitlaw and Moss Tower. Good work!

    • @theyounger8462
      @theyounger8462 3 года назад +2

      Clan Young, hell ya.

    • @Edp-ox8ei
      @Edp-ox8ei 3 года назад +1

      mine is Borders I am very confused about my bloodline and the clan origins do you know?My great grandfather grandfather and father said how it was a clan but do not know details I want to know bout my relatives and who they were.

    • @richardroxburgh2984
      @richardroxburgh2984 2 года назад

      Roxburghshire is their a Roxburgh clan just by any chance

    • @Turnbull62
      @Turnbull62 2 года назад +1

      As a Turnbull my ancestral lands are not far away at Denholm. But personally I grew up at Attonburn farm and Cliftoncote farm, both adjoining Mowhaugh. All three farms (and most of the Bowmont valley) now belongs to the Kerrs, formerly of nearby Cessford, but now of course the Dukes of Roxburgh at Floors castle.

    • @Turnbull62
      @Turnbull62 2 года назад +1

      @@richardroxburgh2984 I worked at Roxburghe Estates, home of the Dukes of Roxburghe (Kerrs) who’s lands include the village of Roxburgh. I also worked with a guy surnamed Roxburgh (no relation to the Duke) and attended high school with his daughter and son, so it is a local family name linked to the Borders, but not sure if it is recognised as a clan?

  • @maryhughes6400
    @maryhughes6400 3 года назад +17

    My father's family were from the Houston clan descendents of General Sam Houston of Texas, which supposedly originated from Glasgow,Scotland. I would love to see Scotland.

    • @jibberer
      @jibberer 3 года назад +2

      Houston is a small village near Glasgow! There is an interesting Wikipedia article on it if you search for Houston Scotland...

    • @maryhughes6400
      @maryhughes6400 3 года назад +2

      Thanks , I will.

    • @colindarroch5057
      @colindarroch5057 2 года назад +2

      @@maryhughes6400 Houston was established by a Templar Knight whose first name was Hugh, Hence Hugh's Town.

    • @brian3174
      @brian3174 7 месяцев назад

      Houston family came from Johnstone in Renfrewshire besides Elderslie birthplace of William Wallace they built a lot of Johnstone Houston nearby is coincidence

  • @scotth6814
    @scotth6814 3 года назад +33

    Excellent work. I didn't realize so many of these names that I recognize were Scottish (well all the Mc's and Mac's of course, but a lot more). The Scots were a major force in eastern Canada too. Nova Scotia = New Scotland.

    • @munecaxoxo8930
      @munecaxoxo8930 3 года назад +1

      That’s where my family migrated to from Scotland, Nova Scotia and then Massachusetts. It’s really cool to see all of this it’s great work

    • @MsG1ggs
      @MsG1ggs 2 года назад +1

      Thank you so much. Such a visual impact especially when it is OUR history. I must confess I was pleased when my family (MacDougall) appeared, but was upset when 1300 AD came and all of our land disappeared. I will find out what happened - obviously some of us survived. My branch came to Nova Scotia in 1819, so I am curious as to where they were for 500 years. I love a Treasure Hunt. Thank you again! I hope you are as proud of your work as we are.

    • @SmokingLaddy
      @SmokingLaddy Год назад +1

      A lot of these clans are Anglo-Saxon or Norman, don't kid yourself with romanticisms.

    • @lynb2039
      @lynb2039 Месяц назад

      ​@@SmokingLaddy both sides the tweed for survival

    • @eamonlyons8069
      @eamonlyons8069 8 дней назад

      Mc/Mac names tend to be associated with the Gaelic or Norse-Gael clans. Mc/Mac is not exclusive to Scotland and originally was from Ireland. MacCarthy, MacDermott, MacNeice, MacBride, MacCann, MacDonagh, MacBrian, MacEoin (Keown) MacCloskey, MacSweeney, MacAteer, MacNamara etc. Alot of people don't realise that the Scots originated in Ireland and took the gaelic culture with them.

  • @davehachey3888
    @davehachey3888 3 года назад +5

    Wow, this really cool, and probably a lot of work to put it together. BTW, my 21st great grandfather was Robert the Bruce and my 19th great grandfather was Sir Alexander Lindsay, so it was nice to see the families listed on the graphic. Thanks for sharing this video.

    • @davehachey3888
      @davehachey3888 3 года назад

      @Old Crow I wish I did, most of this came from Ancestry and a few other genealogy sites. Once you get into a royal line the documentation is reasonably good.

    • @davehachey3888
      @davehachey3888 3 года назад +1

      @Old Crow Thanks Old Crow. I'm aware of much of what you say, and I've had problems too with Ancestry records, so I rely on primary sources as best I can. After a few generations the genes get scrambled quite a bit, but I'm reasonably confident of my recent (17-18th century) Scottish ancestry. Right now I'm focussed on my Greek ancestry, which is even worse than the Scottish side. It's a lot of fun, though I doubt the Royal family is keeping an open chair for me at the Christmas table.

  • @reddevilsadvocate7838
    @reddevilsadvocate7838 3 года назад +4

    In 1707 the Acts of Union formed the Kingdom of Great Britain NOT the United Kingdom.
    The UK was formed when Great Britain was formally united with Ireland in 1801.
    Apart from that one error, great video!

  • @elisabethm9655
    @elisabethm9655 3 года назад +5

    Descendant of the Malcolms of Poltollach here. My daughter got to visit a couple of years back and was warmly greeted by the current Laird’s family, who remembered my late mother’s family visits before WWII. Thank you for this map and its historical presentation. In diversity there is Unity.

  • @vbachman6742
    @vbachman6742 2 года назад +25

    Love this information about the home of my ancestors
    Contrary to popular belief, not all Americans are careless of their family history even though ancestors left 200 or 300 years ago. We feel a deep connection to our shared past.

    • @sharonhamilton8907
      @sharonhamilton8907 2 года назад +2

      Indeed!!!! Don’t let that slip your cap! - a McClain/ McGowen

    • @francescapoteet5481
      @francescapoteet5481 Год назад +1

      Aye. Wanting to know more about my grandmother’s mom Kate Kincaid’s roots.

    • @lorenrobertson8039
      @lorenrobertson8039 Месяц назад +1

      According to what I was able to find out about my own family history, we were evacuated (those that survived that is from the take over from England), were imprisoned then sold as bond slaves and that is how we were bought and enslaved to the Americas. Unsure of my maternal side, the Scott clan and how they came to be here. I've never trusted giving out my DNA to be tested. I know enough about my ancestors to know I have a good deal of Scottish blood in me from both sides. And basically am a mutt! Having several other bloodlines added in through the generations.

  • @vivalashenanigans4306
    @vivalashenanigans4306 3 года назад +5

    Blair, Colquhoun, MacDonald... I also have, but didn't see: Beattie and MacGonagall

  • @dracodistortion9447
    @dracodistortion9447 4 года назад +75

    People: Germany had so many tiny states before unification lol
    Scotland:

    • @randyross5630
      @randyross5630 3 года назад +7

      They weren't States, a State would be the Earldom of Ross (what he puts up a Century Late as Ross) not to mention missing Clan Arias, which was our name before the Great Clan Ross which the present Clan Ross is the Gentry too. the Earldom of Ross was the 1st Scottish Earldom, with the War Master of Scotland, the Chief of Clan Arias, the 1st Earl of Ross Fearchar the Son of the Priest being second of anyone notable to give way to the new more Norse and Anglo political system after his Cousin the King Malcom (Malcom was a title, he was the 1st to bear it) with before the Earldom of Ross being the Mormaerdom of Ross, with the last Mormaer of Ross we have any record of was Macbeth the Mad King (different Bloodline) so maybe to him Clan Arias wan't on the map, but we predate the thing, and can be traced for outside scotland far greater back in the past. Before all that it was Pictland in the Northeast half, and the other half Full of Scotties (Irish), and as seen in Roman Maps before the Scotties, but after the Celts pushed the Picts up to the highlands there was quite a few states, Kingdoms, about as many Kingdoms as there are Counties now, at 1st Mormaers were like Kings, generally independent, and every cool place had one or something like. By the Start of this map we were hanging out in what shows as Ross, on the Western Half more towards the bottom near the coast, as the Hereditary Priests and Rulers of Apple Cross in Wester Ross, the Red Priests, and Clan Arias predates this map, and Clan Arias became Clan Ross, a Clan of Pedigrees, unlike the greater portion of the rest, who are more like copy cats atleast to us or the few other originals in their own ways... Just think about how many more he missed, this was all recorded in a different language than English, and I am afraid they didn't write much back than, and their was Clans when they even used an older Language, so this map is sorely lacking, and is like it was done for some college class...

    • @thekaiser7555
      @thekaiser7555 3 года назад +1

      And Russia traded in Rubles as a monetary current for a period of time. WHAT'S your point? You often don't have a point. It's part of your charm.

    • @JamesAlexander14
      @JamesAlexander14 3 года назад +3

      Your understanding of Scotland and it’s chieftains are on a par with the ingredients of the stuff you are snorting!

    • @randyross5630
      @randyross5630 3 года назад +4

      @@JamesAlexander14 Hope you ain't talking to me! Or I am going to tell mee cousin (1 out of about 150,000) the Chief of the Hereditary Coat of Arms of Ross, Barron of Balnagown David Campbell Ross of Ross and Formerly of Pictland to get out his Claymore and Beat your Arse with it!

    • @valentinosky9435
      @valentinosky9435 3 года назад

      @@randyross5630 LOL

  • @Ytzaakpiscator
    @Ytzaakpiscator 3 года назад +8

    Very interesting to learn about the names of the Scottish clans.

  • @TheTurnstyle13
    @TheTurnstyle13 4 года назад +10

    Proud to be a Somerville! Thank you for posting and putting this together! I love anything that will help me learn more about my lineage. If anyone has anymore info about the Somerville clan or sources where I might be able to find out more, I'd greatly appreciate it!

    • @mrderek271
      @mrderek271 4 года назад +1

      Us herons,herring sometimes spelt gave the summervilles the lands of drum house in Edinburgh when a Summerville married sir John Hearing,herons daughter . I hope that helps you with looking up your ancestors

    • @colinpatterson6585
      @colinpatterson6585 Год назад

      Have read that they came with the Normans from Normandy from the village of Somer in the invasion of 1066 with William Duke of Normandy. They are of Nordic origin , not Keltic. Vikings.

    • @SmokingLaddy
      @SmokingLaddy Год назад

      The Somervilles were Norman, not Scots, put down your kilt boy.

  • @olwens1368
    @olwens1368 3 года назад +3

    What an amazing piece of work. Thank you.

  • @brendaleverick3655
    @brendaleverick3655 3 года назад +9

    I love Scottish music; so exciting and dramatic! 🎼🎵🎶🥁

  • @rideordiestark
    @rideordiestark Год назад +5

    while trying to figure out how I was related to Ulysses S. Grant, I found my true ancestors: Clan Grant from the Highlands. I was always told all my life that we were related to Ulysses but have found no DNA connection to the man. My ancestor was the 12th child (a son) of the 8th Laird of Freuchie. Pretty amazing. I actually contacted Marty Grant who has a massive genealogy website of Grants, and he and I have a common ancestor who was the son of the 12th son of the 8th Laird of Freuchie. I am also Welsh and Irish so pretty much just Celtic all the way thru. I'm hoping to get to Scotland in the next couple of years. Nice work putting this together

    • @Parker_Douglas
      @Parker_Douglas Год назад +2

      I’m Scottish born & bred but too done my DNA my dad was Irish my mum a Scottish lassie anyway am 83% Irish Scottish Welsh although I knew this it still brought tears running doon ma cheeks . My mum was born a Douglas . The rest of my dna is Greek & south Italian & Baltic .
      Ps my cousin married a Grant they’re a huge family from Coatbridge.

    • @rideordiestark
      @rideordiestark Год назад

      @@Parker_Douglas I have only traced my my maternal great grandmother’s ancestry. I had been so focused on trying to find the male connection to Ulysses Grant & couldn’t find anything and then I reached out to Mr. Grant and we compared our ancestry and found that we had ancestors in common and now here I am. It just takes so much time to go down the rabbit hole and trace down the past

    • @kgrant3184
      @kgrant3184 6 месяцев назад

      We're also related to Ulysses S. Grant, and, to explorer Simon Fraser. Ulysses is actually on our family tree twice, as my great-grand-parents were 2nd cousins. "Craigellachie!" (Stand Fast - our clan motto)

  • @richardstephens3327
    @richardstephens3327 3 года назад +3

    Fantastic work, but I missed Clan Wallace did they make the cut?

  • @Cailean_MacCoinnich
    @Cailean_MacCoinnich 2 года назад +7

    Looks very pretty. Shame over half were never clans. They were lowland families, that didn't use the Clan system, didn't have clan chiefs, and basically hated the highlanders.

    • @b.bradley6525
      @b.bradley6525 Год назад

      Yup, sad to see a pile of muppets descended from lowland Scots, Borderers and the English clutching at straws.

    • @Riys-hp8jx
      @Riys-hp8jx 2 месяца назад +2

      Aye😂

  • @ClanShaw
    @ClanShaw 4 года назад +14

    I’m a Descendent of the Tordarroch Shaws it wasn’t until the 1400s that My Ancestors settled there ,they came from Rothiemurchus.

  • @bellemoon1008
    @bellemoon1008 Год назад +7

    Ross clan here! Grew up in Cults, Aberdeen, before my dad moved us to America. It’s wonderful to see such intricate history playing out in an easy to grasp video. Thanks for much for reminding me of home ❤

  • @Koopinator
    @Koopinator 4 года назад +36

    How does the king of Scotland play into this? Were the clans independent under the king's nominal rule or something else?

    • @oakmapping68
      @oakmapping68  4 года назад +46

      All clans were loyal to king of Scotland and (most of them) fought together against other countries. Though there were cases when clans rebelled against the king.

    • @emceeunderdogrising
      @emceeunderdogrising 3 года назад +8

      @@oakmapping68 Yep. Like Clan Armstrong. The border reivers were famous for rebellion right?

    • @crazydocphoenix9436
      @crazydocphoenix9436 3 года назад +3

      My clan MacMillan was on very friendly terms with Robert The Bruce. Afterwards couple generations down the line I’d think we switched sides working with the lords of the isles against the Scottish royalty.

    • @eamonlyons8318
      @eamonlyons8318 3 года назад +1

      Like Ireland and high kingship

    • @pauls3204
      @pauls3204 3 года назад +4

      The king used to be elected from the lesser kings, he was then known as Ard Righ (high king) the lesser kings controlled their own kingdoms,under then guidance of the high king.
      I am not entirely sure when this system totally ended , history books can be conflicting, but it was likely around 10 th century.
      The lesser kings are still there though, they are now known as Earls, although have no power over electing a monarch.

  • @Finding_Elysium
    @Finding_Elysium Год назад +1

    The irony of Scott, being so late on the timeline

    • @lynb2039
      @lynb2039 9 месяцев назад

      Only if when the English RECOGNIZED the clan. Dont you worry, the Bells will vouch for you. Old Clan

  • @Macoosy
    @Macoosy 3 года назад +11

    Very interesting and well done.I’m from Northumberland in England were we have an interesting history of reiivers
    A lot of these clans were Reivers and these names are still very common in places in the north east of England like Newcastle etc !

    • @ronsutherland9191
      @ronsutherland9191 2 года назад +2

      Reivers!

    • @lynb2039
      @lynb2039 9 месяцев назад

      Devils Dirty Dozen anyone?

    • @irenejohnston6802
      @irenejohnston6802 Месяц назад +1

      Armstrong. Elliot, Johnston/e.

    • @Heinz57ish
      @Heinz57ish 19 дней назад

      apparently i am descended from reivers. i have a Tate/Dunn marriage in Monkwearmouth. the Dunn declared they were Scottish . i think Renfrew but haven't proved it yet. i also have Kerr.

    • @fromnzwhoisalsohalfindien
      @fromnzwhoisalsohalfindien 17 дней назад

      Kerr clan here too

  • @wombatone5577
    @wombatone5577 3 года назад +26

    Go the McEwan Clan. Never give up your land, we will never be defeated! Greetings from sunny Australia.

    • @drhonknbonk5798
      @drhonknbonk5798 3 года назад +2

      Ta very much i want my castle back lol

    • @yomammascan
      @yomammascan 3 года назад +2

      Tell that to the Aborigines!

    • @cycleSCUBA
      @cycleSCUBA 3 года назад +2

      G'day to the McEwans, from the MacLarens! Health to ye.

    • @xIBEASTYFUNK
      @xIBEASTYFUNK 3 года назад

      @Old Crow being ethnically British is very appealing

    • @Gizmomadug
      @Gizmomadug 3 года назад

      You've been Exported...

  • @clementhy9638
    @clementhy9638 Год назад +11

    Greetings from France ! From a descendant of the Keith clan ! Protect your legacy dear cousins ! 🇫🇷🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

    • @04straw
      @04straw 6 дней назад +1

      I'm Clan Keith, also! That was my maiden name. Unfortunately, I know nothing else about my Keith relatives. USA 🇺🇸

  • @nickcapella2440
    @nickcapella2440 4 года назад +7

    That moment when he just proved the Celtics grew like a firestorm. Much rather have Celtics running this planet. Healers of the world.

  • @Ritaisthebestgramdma
    @Ritaisthebestgramdma 3 года назад +1

    A huge hello from Miami! Thanks for the awesome video!~~ Clan Mackie here

  • @WillyYum55
    @WillyYum55 4 года назад +13

    I come from the clans Campbell and Gunn and my great grandparents named their business after clan Gunn

  • @MichelleBeahm
    @MichelleBeahm 3 года назад +4

    This is AWESOME! I shared it with my siblings.. Boswell is my maiden name!

  • @JosephWilsonProductions
    @JosephWilsonProductions 3 года назад +10

    Well done. It is nice to see more than a few of my lines on the map. Sinclair, Gunn, Mackay, MacLeod, Murray. Thank you! I'd love to see one for Ireland though that would be very difficult to do.. :)

  • @lauriecandlelover
    @lauriecandlelover 4 года назад +5

    I don't see how this could be 100% accurate. It Shows Stuart before Stewart Clan. Stewart Came from Walter hereditary 6th high Steward of Scotland changing it to Stewart as a Sir name. Stuart came after Mary Queen of Scotts was sent to France to be raised by her mothers side. She kept the French spelling when she returned to Scotland. Generations after Sir Walter Stewart. This is one of my Scottish lines including Bruce (my maiden name)and maany others.

    • @bryanx7923
      @bryanx7923 3 года назад +1

      We are related as I also go back to the Queen.

    • @irenejohnston6802
      @irenejohnston6802 Месяц назад

      Steward... Anglo Norman. Different spelling according to pronunciation. Stewart. Stuart,

  • @MewxPro
    @MewxPro 4 года назад +5

    Bell Clan forever!
    Edit: can you please supply a download for this map?

  • @JuliaDM
    @JuliaDM 4 года назад +12

    Great job !

  • @robertscheinost179
    @robertscheinost179 3 года назад +2

    Damn! That was cool! Somebody put lots of effort into this vid. Thanks!!

  • @jarom676
    @jarom676 3 года назад +7

    I’m 7% Scottish according to my ancestry dna test.. (93% Irish). Hussey is my father’s family. My mother’s name was Christie and they are part of Clan Farquharson. My Paternal grandmother was a Moffatt.

    • @PredatorUpHill
      @PredatorUpHill 3 года назад

      No, that doesn't make you Scottish at all, that just means you are a Yank who according to a test (largely inaccurate) had 7% of far distant ancestors who actually derived from a piece of Scotland long ago, but it doesn't translate any 'Scottishness' into you, and they were likely not even Scottish, but Reivers who lived on the border who were neither Scottish nor English, and were deported as stateless criminals many centuries ago as an embarrassment to the Kingdoms of Scotland and England.

    • @jarom676
      @jarom676 3 года назад +1

      @@PredatorUpHill this from a traitorous Campbell?! 🤣 What’s that saying oh yeah ‘Never trust a Campbell’. I am actually Irish not American. My direct line never left Ireland! On my Moffatt line we have documented the link back to Scotland in the 1650’s. My Moffatt’s at that time came from Edinburgh. I’m not relying on DNA at all (alone) to establish my link to Scotland. 7% would probably correspond with Scottish Ancestry about that far back. My mother was a Christie.. We haven’t documented a Scottish link to that family, but it’s likely. We can get back to about 1800 with them here in Ireland. No need to be all dismissive and rude Mr Campbell. I’m a generous by nature anyway.. so I didn’t inherit the tight arseness of you Scots 😉

    • @PredatorUpHill
      @PredatorUpHill 3 года назад

      @@jarom676 LOL, look at you talking like a plastic about 'lines' and shite. First off, I have several names, I just use Campbell and there's so much BS in history about the name, that's why I like using it, because I know right away who the dunces of historical fact are.
      Secondly, you go off on a long tangent about 'lines', oblivious of the facts I have just stated, these do not translate anything tangible at all that would make somebody a certain ethnicity/nationality, yet you talk like Yank with this belief in the contrary, so go and explain how that works.

  • @cherihill2086
    @cherihill2086 3 года назад +3

    Any Anderson's viewing this? Really enjoyed this - awesome job to its' creator!

    • @Bob-v3g4m
      @Bob-v3g4m 8 месяцев назад

      I knew an Anderson once, by god she wore me out, and I had to buy a new mattress after just 3 months of courting. A wild young woman, lovely though, died in a car crash.

  • @aaronbrown2432
    @aaronbrown2432 3 года назад +12

    Members of the Brown family, my father's line, sailed from Aberdeen to the American colonies in the early 19th Century before moving on to Australia. Our family histroy reveals to us how closely related the people of all the English speaking countries are.

    • @lynslee5679
      @lynslee5679 2 года назад

      My mother was a Brown, and I’ve recently discovered that all her father's family were all Scottish. His father immigrated to Australia before he was born. But since Brown is the second most common name in Scotland, we’re probably not related.

    • @SmokingLaddy
      @SmokingLaddy Год назад

      Not very closely after 200 years i guess??

  • @DQUACK
    @DQUACK 4 года назад +29

    I'm part of the Buchanan Clan as my grandma's side of the family is called dow which is part of the Buchanan clan

    • @lazyproeagle
      @lazyproeagle 4 года назад +1

      I'm part of the Macpherson clan

    • @masond7573
      @masond7573 4 года назад

      My grandma's side of the family is Stark, which belongs to the Donnacaidh (Robertson) clan

    • @kadenelijah9329
      @kadenelijah9329 4 года назад

      McKinnon Clan

    • @prestonramsey2475
      @prestonramsey2475 4 года назад

      I am part of the Ramsay clan

    • @YoungT18
      @YoungT18 3 года назад +1

      MacLean clan

  • @takshashila2995
    @takshashila2995 4 года назад +20

    This is some Holy Roman Empire level Border Gore. Nice!

  • @bluebagger1262
    @bluebagger1262 3 года назад +5

    G'day from Perth, Western Australia.
    I am a Wallace. My great grandfather, Andrew Wallace, was born in Paisley, Renfrew shire.
    PRO LIBERTATE

    • @Heinz57ish
      @Heinz57ish 19 дней назад

      we have Dunn from same area.

  • @gavingaming123
    @gavingaming123 3 года назад +1

    No Dickson’s on the East March ? Good effort though👍Thanks for sharing. All the best from Reiver country. GD

  • @bluerock4456
    @bluerock4456 8 месяцев назад +2

    When one stands on the ramparts of Edinburgh Castle & looks south, one can see a feature called Hillend. That is the eastern extent of the Pentland Hills, the former domain of the Pentlands, my clan.

  • @NeutronexMappingcentral
    @NeutronexMappingcentral 4 года назад +6

    Nice job

  • @cameronbaker97
    @cameronbaker97 3 года назад +13

    I'm a descendant of Clan Skene, which I only found out in mid-2020, when learning more about my ancestry and bloodline.

    • @ethangrout3718
      @ethangrout3718 3 года назад +2

      My ancestors are part of clan mccorqudale

    • @darkphantomz8978
      @darkphantomz8978 3 года назад +1

      @@ethangrout3718 cool I’m an sevens of clan Mcculloch

    • @gurkslunga
      @gurkslunga 3 года назад +5

      I am born by finnish parents and live in Finland. On my mothers side the bloodline goes back to the Ramsays. Alexander Ramsay together with 5000 scottish mercenaries came north to fight for king John III of Sweden in his war against Russia in the late 16th century. When the war was over the surviving scottish mercenaries went on to fight for another king in another war, european monarchs knew where to recruit good warriors, but Ramsay stayed in Sweden, married and got a son who moved to the finnish side ( Finland was a part of Sweden then) and from there on the line goes doiwn to my mother.

    • @madr309
      @madr309 3 года назад +2

      Traditionally, the Skenes were founded by the younger son of the chief of Clan Donnachaidh (Robertson). The Skene chief's arms seem to allude to this; they're three wolves' heads impaled on daggers on a red field. The Robertson arms are three wolves' heads on a red field. However, the first mention of a Skene is in the twelfth century, whereas the first Donnachaidh chief doesn't appear until the fourteenth.

  • @robfielding100
    @robfielding100 3 года назад +42

    My wife claims she’s from the McMuffin Clan ... I don’t see it on the map🙄

    • @dgolnh
      @dgolnh 3 года назад +5

      Hysterical!

    • @nelsonx5326
      @nelsonx5326 3 года назад +6

      Haha, not in the Hebrides, try Egg Island.

    • @loristrahan832
      @loristrahan832 3 года назад +3

      Haha I am from McGriddle clan🤣

    • @anthonysutherland4108
      @anthonysutherland4108 3 года назад +1

      I'm going to leave that well alone. As you should have.🇦🇺

    • @edgardeese
      @edgardeese 3 года назад +10

      Probably a sept of the MacDonalds...🙄

  • @marydonohoe8200
    @marydonohoe8200 2 года назад +2

    This is very nice info! Any chance you could do it for Irish clans as well? I’m part Maxwell on my dad’s side, but they actually immigrated to Canada from Northern Ireland. My husband is a Donohoe, and there are many families of that spelling in County Cavan as well as a few down in Cork. Big spread.

  • @danabuck6461
    @danabuck6461 Год назад +1

    Clan MacGillivray here and this is simply spectacular! Thank you!

  • @chazmascias4259
    @chazmascias4259 2 года назад +3

    Found out a few days ago I am a Schaw of Sauchie. Not sure what that particularly means but I found out they were the hereditary cup bearers to the king? Kind of ironic that I was born and still live in Scottsdale Arizona lol. Can't wait to visit the Motherland! lol

  • @NY_Mapper
    @NY_Mapper 4 года назад +31

    The border gore... anyways good video

  • @CherepashkaShusha
    @CherepashkaShusha 4 года назад +6

    Oh my God, amazing video!!

  • @FXSTrider
    @FXSTrider 3 года назад +21

    We always assumed our family was of English descent on my father’s side. My grandfather was a Brown and my grandmother a Watson. Recently my dad took a DNA test and we were both surprised to find that we’re of Scottish descent. I see the Browns on the map in 1377 and the Watsons in 1393. Thank you for this!

    • @xIBEASTYFUNK
      @xIBEASTYFUNK 3 года назад +3

      You do know Scotland and England are right next to eachother?

    • @herringfly
      @herringfly 3 года назад +3

      ​@@xIBEASTYFUNK We have much in common, but it is possible to make distinctions with DNA. For example, my folks come from the Outer Hebrides and I know they've been there for a very long time. DNA for those islands, Shetlands and the Orkneys show strongly for Norwegian.
      The majority of eastern, central and southern England is made up of a single, relatively homogeneous, genetic group with a significant DNA contribution from Anglo-Saxon migrations. Even the Celts across Britain aren't particularly related - for example, the Cornish are much more similar genetically to other English groups than they are to the Welsh or the Scots, yet they have a different genetic profile to neighbouring Devon. The most interesting thing for me is the fact that these profiles remain prominent in their areas.
      I remember, years ago, a locality in the West Country (I don't recall exactly where) where post-ice age human remains were found. DNA was extracted and a living 'relative' was found living nearby.

    • @herringfly
      @herringfly 3 года назад +1

      DNA analysis has been an eye-opener in all sorts of ways!

    • @FXSTrider
      @FXSTrider 3 года назад +3

      @@herringfly I believe it was Cheddar where the human remains were found and interestingly the relative lived in Cheddar

    • @herringfly
      @herringfly 3 года назад

      @@FXSTrider Thanks for the info!

  • @Metafluxx
    @Metafluxx 4 года назад +3

    Thank you for compiling and sharing this! Just a couple of problems I see is Irvine, Farquarson Mackintosh and Findlay/ McKinley should predate or occur around a similar time as MacDuff

    • @brettfinley8041
      @brettfinley8041 2 года назад +1

      Findlay was a sept of Farquharson. Which I believe stemmed from Chattan. Someone correct me if I'm wrong.

    • @Metafluxx
      @Metafluxx 2 года назад +1

      ​@@brettfinley8041 that's correct but Findley same as McKinley comes from King Macbeth Finley ( Gaelic: Fhionnlaoich (Finley) Son of Fhionnlaoich (Anglicized: McKinley)) I'm a McKinley (mother)

    • @Metafluxx
      @Metafluxx 2 года назад

      also can be spelt as Findlaích

    • @brettfinley8041
      @brettfinley8041 2 года назад +1

      Interesting, I will have to look into that some more.

  • @manwithanamethystheart
    @manwithanamethystheart 3 года назад +16

    I love the bagpipes😀
    Feels like a call to arms deep in my soul.

    • @theScottexan
      @theScottexan 3 года назад +1

      McAlpine!!!! You have the 1st king of Scotland's blood! How amazing!

    • @manwithanamethystheart
      @manwithanamethystheart 3 года назад +1

      @@theScottexan yes! I am blood related. Not much good that sort of thing does nowadays lol

    • @theScottexan
      @theScottexan 3 года назад +1

      It's still cool!!!

    • @manwithanamethystheart
      @manwithanamethystheart 3 года назад

      @@theScottexan well thank you! 😊

  • @greeneyedsheshe
    @greeneyedsheshe 3 года назад +4

    One of my maternal great grandmothers was a Hamilton, descended from the Hamiltons of Lanarkshire. On my father's side we have Robertson ancestors. Great video!

    • @madr309
      @madr309 3 года назад +3

      The Robertsons are on that list as Clan Donnachaidh, their original Gaelic name.

    • @greeneyedsheshe
      @greeneyedsheshe 3 года назад

      @@madr309 yes, I found that out recently as I have been researching my genealogy and discovering clans and septs along the way! Thanks!

    • @sharonhamilton8907
      @sharonhamilton8907 2 года назад +1

      Iam a Hamilton; English: means bare hill. And Irish nobility, Scottish via Ireland.

  • @robanks3895
    @robanks3895 2 года назад +12

    I am 66% Scottish, my dad was from Caithness, surname Banks, but no clan with that surname. But we have loads of Bruces, Sinclairs, Sutherlands and Mackays on my dad's lineage. My mum was a Dunbar, but she was English, her great grandparents came over from Ireland, and must have come from Scotland before that. My closest clans are the Dunbars and the Bruces.

    • @veemack6980
      @veemack6980 Год назад +2

      I am an Australian, my paternal lineage are Mackay's. We do not know a lot about our history!

    • @michaelbarnett2527
      @michaelbarnett2527 Год назад +1

      I’m 2/3 Celtic, somewhat more Scottish than irish. Mom’s family were Johnstons and Cromarties , and Tyners on the Irish side.
      My dad’s family were supposedly english , Scottish,and irish, but Dna test said no english and so more Celtic than I had thought. Wallace on the Scottish side, and burke on the Irish…Also 1/5 scandinavian, which partly could come from the burkes I reckon , as they were Norman originally…and apparently Barnett is norman also…

    • @jeffreymackay4343
      @jeffreymackay4343 Год назад +2

      Hooray for Mackay!

    • @SmokingLaddy
      @SmokingLaddy Год назад +3

      If I could bet on this I would bet my live savings that you are American.

    • @b.bradley6525
      @b.bradley6525 Год назад

      Your right there isn't a Clan Banks, it's a lowland name. Your a lowland Scot, now have a wee cry and a swally of Buckies and deal with it.

  • @angiemac334
    @angiemac334 Год назад +1

    McCabe here 👋 Son of cape or hoddie but i know my clan went back to viking era So i have the privilege of that plus most my family are Irish or Scottish ❤ love it

  • @evebluesea
    @evebluesea Год назад +2

    Clan Gordon here, i'm a proud scottish lassie

  • @BeautifuLakesStreamsBiologists
    @BeautifuLakesStreamsBiologists 2 года назад +4

    Really fun video! I hope it improves with time since it was about 300 years too late after the Kerr/kers actually appeared. The last man to die defending Wallace before he was captured was William Ker in 1305. That would have been hard to do had they arrived in 1450. Perhaps we have a secret clan time machine!

    • @valoriel4464
      @valoriel4464 10 месяцев назад +1

      Wondering abt Carr history. Thx for sharing

    • @BeautifuLakesStreamsBiologists
      @BeautifuLakesStreamsBiologists 10 месяцев назад

      @@valoriel4464 There has been much written, and much more to learn about the Kerr/Carr Clan.

    • @fromnzwhoisalsohalfindien
      @fromnzwhoisalsohalfindien 17 дней назад +1

      Good comment, I have the ferniehirst book written by Anthony Kerr, I thought the clan name appeared far too late.

    • @BeautifuLakesStreamsBiologists
      @BeautifuLakesStreamsBiologists 17 дней назад

      @@fromnzwhoisalsohalfindien We Kerrs have to stick together!

  • @brianbell7117
    @brianbell7117 Год назад +3

    Ok I have historic information about clan Bell , you stated 1400 in fact in early 1100 near Dundee the first of the Bell clan were reivers near the border FYI

    • @lynb2039
      @lynb2039 9 месяцев назад

      BINGO. Slante comrade. And the Lord Lyon and those Brits still holding down their thumb against reestablishment.

  • @keithwier6953
    @keithwier6953 3 года назад +3

    The Weir clan originate in Prussia / Poland as Wier. The name comes from the irrigation flow control valve used in irrigation systems in the dryland foothills of the alps according to my grandfather, a Weir from Edinburgh Scotland. and a Wier in Colorado whose Grandfather built the water irrigation systems here in Colorado. The spelling of the name was changed in Scotland by William the Conqueror around 1166 AD so the French aristocracy could pronounce it properly.

  • @KathyAndrew
    @KathyAndrew Год назад +2

    My son played with his band in Glasgow a few weeks ago. He really enjoyed Scotland.

  • @PhilippensTube
    @PhilippensTube Год назад +1

    My grandmother was a Campbell, and I learned that there was a little skermish between the Campbell's and the MacDonalds way back. Not sure if they still hold a grudge...

  • @xgomenx
    @xgomenx 3 года назад +4

    This is soo cool! I believe my ancestry technically is Schaw, as most fall around Central belt of Scotland and Ireland, but its really interesting to learn - I'm actually from the Glasgow area. I've been handed down the Macleod and Stewart titles from family also. I've been told the Macleods were from Skye, so this was really interesting!

    • @theScottexan
      @theScottexan 3 года назад +1

      Skye is correct and the seat of Clan Macleod is Dunvegan Castle! It's beautiful 😍

    • @steveburnside3242
      @steveburnside3242 3 года назад

      Your ancestry is Yank Doodle ancestry, of the Yank Doodle peoples of Yankee Doodle Dandy Doo land (USA), you're not Scottish (northern British), and you're not Irish, but are American with American ancestors like your parents (your most immediate and direct related ancestors). But either way, ancestry does not transmit nationality (native homeland) nor ethnicity (cultural upbringing), you are American by ethnicity as well as by nationality.

    • @xgomenx
      @xgomenx 3 года назад +3

      @@steveburnside3242 can't be yank, as born in GLASGOW, SCOTLAND.

    • @joewoods2155
      @joewoods2155 2 года назад

      Schaw family with the particular spelling where a very powerful family in Greenock in ancient times or not so ancient times maybe up untill 17 or 1800s

  • @sandrarose7129
    @sandrarose7129 3 года назад +5

    I am a descendant of the tribe of Mar ( Marrs). I understand that this family was absorbed by the Erskine and Gordon Clan?

    • @aeroklin
      @aeroklin 3 года назад +1

      Eh, sort of, but not quite. This is semi-true for the chieftains, who were defined by their status as the Earl of Mar. The last Earl wholly from Clan Mar (and thus the last Mormaer for Mar), had only daughters, so the title passed through other Clans, like Drummond or Douglas before being claimed by the Stewart Crown. Mormaer Gartnait had a daughter Elen, who married a Menteith. Their daughter Christian married a Keith, and their daughter Janet married Robert Erskine. When Queen Mary returned the title, the Mormaers no longer had male Mar heirs, and so the title was traced to a Lord Erskine. Mar and Erskine did not merge, but they did share the Earl of Mar as their Chief. The chief's descendants could be either Mar or Erskine, but were usually Erskine, as that's the name they bore. These days, there are two Earls of Mar, an Erskine and a Mar, each the chief of their respective Clans.
      The common members of Mar were generally just the people living in the area called Marr not otherwise a part of any other Clan, and were not typically part of Clan Erskine unless related, even if the Earl was. This is represented in the Red Mar tartan not being open for everyone to wear, just the Earl, while the more geographically defined Green Marr can be worn by anyone, like most tartans. Also, you might notice at some point in the video a (V) appears next to Mar. The description says that shows vassalage to another Clan or Country. At some point, likely through marriage or a contract for security, Mar became a Sept of Clan Gordon. It is still a separate, un-merged Clan, it just simply owes allegiance to Gordon, but Gordon, Erskine, and Mar all have their own respective Chieftains.

    • @lynb2039
      @lynb2039 9 месяцев назад

      Castle of Mar. One of the oldest in Scotland. North Aberdeenshire

  • @RobbsHomemadeLife
    @RobbsHomemadeLife 3 года назад +11

    Hello to all the Moffetts,Moffats,Moffitts from sunny Sunrise Florida.😎👌

    • @saltydogz4657
      @saltydogz4657 2 месяца назад

      From Clan Johnstone.... sorry about the whole burning thing.

  • @dirkstorm
    @dirkstorm 3 года назад +2

    What data did you use for this because I see some clans popping up in the list long before their parent clans are shown. Clan Anderson for one.

    • @HeritageRescue
      @HeritageRescue 3 года назад +1

      An excellent point, Clan Chatten formed in the wake of several smallish clans, almost reduced to individual septs, by inter-clan conflicts and politics. My Davidson forebears are depicted as a Davidson Clan ca. 1000AD, but Chatten hits the list very early.in the first ten! I credit the mapmaker here for giving us a excellent point of departure, and am eager to see whether the Anderson’s and Clan Chatten roots were set very early, and our Clans wound up affiliated under one banner at a later time. Cudos to the mapmaker!

  • @tarl1812
    @tarl1812 7 месяцев назад +1

    I'm a Boyd and your timeline is from when The Bruce made Robert Boyd a Lord and Castle/ Lands. We Boyds were around way before that first mention 1205 Robert de Boyd.

  • @ianshaw6488
    @ianshaw6488 3 года назад +5

    Did my Family Tree few Years ago and my Great Great Grand Parents were from Scotland hense the SHAW family name, Didn't realise it was that old the 7th Family Clan to appear .on the Banks of Loch Ness

  • @rainingyarrow540
    @rainingyarrow540 3 года назад +6

    I can see why I'm descended from several particular Scottish clans... they were adjacent to each other!

    • @PredatorUpHill
      @PredatorUpHill 3 года назад

      Naw, you're just a Yank, get over it.

  • @pawsnclawsOG
    @pawsnclawsOG 3 года назад +6

    Proud to be 24% Scottish! Representing Clan Donnachaidh (Robertson) and Campbell. I've always heard that if you have roots in Scotland or Ireland then you also have Viking blood. So I'm also proud to be 14% Norwegian and 11% Irish. SKOL!!

    • @grobbosixtyone
      @grobbosixtyone Год назад

      I, too, am a Robertson from clan Donnachaidh. Hello

    • @b.bradley6525
      @b.bradley6525 Год назад

      @@LucMtl1 Well their DNA is 25% homologous with a dandelion, so I'm surprised they aren't boring us with that too!

    • @TrueNativeScot
      @TrueNativeScot Год назад

      @@LucMtl1you don't always get exactly 25% DNA from each grandparent, it can very within a few percent

  • @mrbabyhugh
    @mrbabyhugh 5 месяцев назад +1

    6:12 yup, Clan Lachlan still exists today, old castle is just a monument now, a new one was built across the lake/river. this showed the lil land that was said that they lost. I am McLaughlin, of Irish descent but the Scottish Lachlan/MacLachlan migrated from Ireland to Scotland.

  • @Scott.Elliott
    @Scott.Elliott 3 года назад

    I wish this video would have shown up in my suggestions a year ago. I don't see any Elliotts in the comments so I'll represent. Great video!

  • @ChanceKearns
    @ChanceKearns Год назад +4

    Its surprising how many surnames stem from scottish clan names in Canada. My surname was transformed over time from Cairns or Kerns and we ended up in Canada after the Scots got to Nova Scotia

  • @vittorioveneto4477
    @vittorioveneto4477 4 года назад +7

    Underrated af, great job

  • @caelidhg6261
    @caelidhg6261 3 года назад +3

    I have a family name of SMITH.. that came from Inverness (one son traveled to America in the 1700s) and they were associated with CLAN CHATTAN (the clan of the Cat) . I got to meet the very young Laird (probably in his 20s and teaching English abroad) and the little museum his clan maintains and has a lot of Culloden stuff in there.. including the bed of Bonnie prince charlie...

    • @whiteryno1989
      @whiteryno1989 2 года назад

      where is this museum? im a macqueen

    • @b.bradley6525
      @b.bradley6525 Год назад +1

      Smith is one of the most common native surnames in the Brtish Isles, the likelihood of you with that as a surname actually being associated with any clan is slim to none.

  • @torinbrown8196
    @torinbrown8196 Год назад

    Macnab descendant here. I appreciate the video if not actually too factually correct.
    A very well done effort and yes, I already read the disclaimer.
    I applaud you❤

  • @DaveMcIntosh
    @DaveMcIntosh Год назад +2

    While a charming video. I am highly circumspect of any Scottish history prior to 1300 and certainly anything pre-1100

  • @beybladerkid5489
    @beybladerkid5489 4 года назад +13

    I am a descendant of the 11th chief of Clan MacTavish a clan from the highlands.

    • @maximilianolimamoreira5002
      @maximilianolimamoreira5002 4 года назад

      yay, a Mactavish here

    • @beybladerkid5489
      @beybladerkid5489 4 года назад

      @@maximilianolimamoreira5002 are you a Clan MacTavishian as well?

    • @thefrontline1
      @thefrontline1 3 года назад

      I’m Clan GRANT

    • @CelicEvie
      @CelicEvie 3 года назад +5

      I am not sure where I belong, my DNA shows I am 48% Scottish! I use to be a rep for Clan McTavish in Arkansas! My maiden name is Thompson and have Davidson & Bell surnames on my mothers side!!!

    • @Hvnzangl819
      @Hvnzangl819 3 года назад +1

      @@CelicEvie I have Bell on my mother’s side as well.

  • @stephwatson6157
    @stephwatson6157 3 года назад +8

    I'm a desendant of Mary Queen of Scotts! Sir Loin is what they call me!

  • @shotgunshawzy
    @shotgunshawzy 3 года назад +4

    My Clan Shaw was a part of the Chattan Federation who fought alongside Robert The Bruce at Bannockburn! ;)

    • @peterembranch5797
      @peterembranch5797 3 года назад

      You mean the Frenchman, Robert Le Brus?

    • @shotgunshawzy
      @shotgunshawzy 3 года назад

      @@peterembranch5797 he was half Norman half Scot ;)

    • @xgomenx
      @xgomenx 3 года назад +1

      Hello fellow Shaw!

    • @robertbruce7772
      @robertbruce7772 3 года назад +1

      My thanks to your descendants from a member of clan Bruce!!!

    • @shotgunshawzy
      @shotgunshawzy 3 года назад

      @@xgomenx Hello family! :)

  • @Hammer1978
    @Hammer1978 Год назад +1

    MacMahon wasn't on this list. I'm descended from them. Do you know why? Also, what are the colors for?

  • @sgtmayhem7567
    @sgtmayhem7567 3 года назад +5

    I liked everything about this video. The visuals were fantastic, the tartans of each Clan was displayed next to the Family/Clan name. Your choices of Bagpipe music was also outstanding. Here’s a fun fact for you, after the failed uprising in 1745 playing the Bagpipes was banned in Scotland by the British.

    • @mushypeasplease8872
      @mushypeasplease8872 3 года назад +4

      ??? Oi, the Scottish were and are British. In 1746, after the forces loyal to King George had defeated the Jacobites in the Battle of Culloden, king George II attempted to assimilate the Highlands more into the British system by weakening the clan system, though the oft-repeated claim that the Act of Proscription 1746 banned the Highland bagpipes is not substantiated by the text itself, nor by any record of any prosecutions under this act for playing or owning bagpipes. The Jacobites were just trying to help an exiled Catholic Stuart (whose family had previously held the British throne) who'd landed in Scotland to take Protestant George off the throne and put that Catholic Stuart on it. They'd invaded England as far as Manchester picking up (some) English support along the way well before culloden. And there were 1 Irish and 4 Scottish regiments fighting on George's side against the descendant of the Stuarts. Lots of the "soldiers" raised on the Jacobite side were just lowly farmers living on the landowners land pressed into "arms" by their aristocratic masters and were not really up for it and not equipped for it. It was more a claim and a bid for the British throne by a (by now foreign) aristocrat cynically using Scottish clans to do his bidding. A real game of thrones. All those slaughtered Scots for nothing. Heart breaking.

    • @scott6926
      @scott6926 3 года назад +1

      You mean the english it’s the island that’s called Britain so if you live there your Brit ish

    • @sharonhamilton8907
      @sharonhamilton8907 2 года назад +1

      Strange! Where was the bagpipe originated? Makes my soul soar!

  • @sue-n-bobbybates5120
    @sue-n-bobbybates5120 3 года назад +4

    What happened to my Clan? Clan Arthur or Clan MacArthur, (Scottish Gaelic: Clann Artair) is a highland Scottish clan that once held lands on the shores of Loch Awe opposite Inishail.[1] The clan has been described as one of the oldest clans in Argyll.[2] Clan Arthur and Clan Campbell share a common origin, and at one point the MacArthurs challenged the seniority of the leading Campbell family.[3] A branch of MacArthurs from the Isle of Skye were a sept of the MacDonalds of Sleat, and were hereditary pipers for the MacDonalds of the Isles.[1][4] In late 18th century the chief of the clan died without an heir, leaving the clan leaderless until the late 20th century. In 2002, the first chief of Clan Arthur (James Macarthur) was recognised in about 230 years.

    • @jakeb7087
      @jakeb7087 2 года назад +3

      Don't worry, my clan Clan Logan wasn't on there either lol

    • @leeneufeld4140
      @leeneufeld4140 Год назад

      My Clan Robertson wasn't there either.

    • @marcymoir3389
      @marcymoir3389 Год назад

      Neither was Moir

    • @b.bradley6525
      @b.bradley6525 Год назад

      Obvious isn't it, your clan wasn't much more than a shit-smear in the breeches of Clan Campbell so the OP rightly decided it wasnee worth including.

  • @derekheron5336
    @derekheron5336 4 года назад +2

    My surname Heron the year 1325 on hear. We were first recorded in 1100s although started owning lands around early early 1300 . Great video

    • @lewisherron6842
      @lewisherron6842 3 года назад

      Yooo we have (nearly) the same last name!

  • @carolynklenk8467
    @carolynklenk8467 4 месяца назад +1

    Could find an old vintage Clan and Coat of Armour and have it to purchase ? ❤

  • @alanrobertson9790
    @alanrobertson9790 9 месяцев назад +2

    So how come the Robertson clan never got included? Well I see Donnachaidh was included so I suppose that is it.

  • @jaybruz.5688
    @jaybruz.5688 3 года назад +2

    this is amazing, well done