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April 19 1012 Alphege Archbishop of Canterbury Martyr 1012 Millennium of martyrdom 2012.

1390 King Robert II Stewart dies in Dundonald Castle Ayrshire. (KG16-240) age 75. The castle was remodeled again around 1350 by Robert II, who died here in 1390. Robert III also used the castle, and he died here in 1406.

Only a stout, crumbling tower remains of the huge fortress of dundonald. www.phouka.com/travel/castles/dundonald/dundonald.html

Map of the west coast of Scotland, with Dundonald Castle, also Ayr, Kyle, Cunningham, Strathaven, Avondale, DouglasDale, Douglas Castle, Lanark, Johnston Castle, Nithsdale, Carrick, Turnberry, Lochmaben,

Buried at Scone. Robert II (2 March 1316 – 19 April 1390) became King of Scots in 1371 as the first monarch of the House of Stewart. He was the son of Walter Stewart, hereditary High Steward of Scotland and of Marjorie Bruce, daughter of Robert I and of his first wife Isabella of Mar.

Robert II (2 March 1316 – 19 April 1390) became King of Scots. Robert 2^nd 6^th great grand son Hugh Montgomerie (1460-1545) 1^st earl of Eglinton. Hugh’s daughter Elizabeth married John Blair 2^nd. John and Elizabeth had John Blair 3^rd of Blair who died (1609) but married Grizel Semple, and they had Alexander Blair of Blair, who married Elizabeth Cochrane. Alexander changed his family name Cochrane, and they had Lord William Cochrane of Paisley and Ochiltree, and after the restoration William was commissioned 1^st Earl of Dundonald, whose descendants are chief of clan Cochrane. Dundonald Castle as the site of King Robert’s death returned to his descendants, Blair and Cochrane.

1534 to 1607 to 1641. The Act of Uniformity, the Test Acts and Penal Laws of England, Ireland and Scotland were, according to Edmund Burke “a machine of wise and elaborate contrivance, as well fitted for the oppression, impoverishment and degradation of a people, and the debasement in them of human nature itself, as ever proceeded from the perverted ingenuity of man.” Savage, John (1869). Fenian Heroes and Martyrs. Patrick Donahoe. pp. 16. Bans on Catholics, Dissenters from the Established Church and Presbyterians, Ban on Catholics buying land under a lease of more than 31 years; repealed 1778. Wikipedia.

1681 William Cochrane of Ochiltree (d after 1716) married (19.04.1681) Mary Bruce (d after 1739, daughter of Alexander Bruce 2^nd Earl of Kincardine)

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1775 Battle of Lexington and Concord, Massachusetts Bay colony. The Stamp act attempted to raise revenue. It raised protests instead. It was repealed. More taxes were passed. The Americans, amongst its leaders perhaps 40% of Scots descents, were determined to resist Parliamentary taxation. (having previously paid for the lands and settlements.) British oppression provoked riots, which were pretext for fresh oppression. Ministers warned of war. Tytler’s Britannica.

1925 George Washington at Cambridge, taking command of the American Army. In the French and Indian War, circa 1757, Washington was with Gen. John Forbes’ (clan Forbes) successful campaign that resulted in Fort Duquesne becoming Fort Pitt. usstampgallery.com

1775 –Battles of Lexington and Concord. Massachusetts Bay Colony. British commander John Pitcairn (born 28 December 1722 in Dysart, a port town in Fife, Scotland. – 17 June 1775) was a British Marine who was stationed in Boston, Massachusetts. His parents were the Reverend David and Katherine (Hamilton) Pitcairn.

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John’s father was descended from the ancient Scottish family of Pitcairn. Pitcairn was in command of the advance party when the first shot (the original shot heard ’round the world) was fired at Lexington, Massachusetts on 19 April 1775 starting the Battles of Lexington and Concord. John had a horse shot out from under him, and even lost a pair of matched pistols when the column’s baggage was abandoned. American leader Israel Putnam carried the Pitcairn pistols through the rest of the war. A daughter, Catherine Pitcairn, married MAJOR Charles Cochrane, (Cochrane clan) a son of the 8^th Earl of Dundonald and a first cousin of Admiral Thomas Cochrane, 10^th Earl of Dundonald.   In 1781, MAJOR Cochrane was carrying dispatches from Sir Henry Clinton to Lord Cornwallis at the Siege of Yorktown, as a result of which Cornwallis made Major Cochrane, Cornwallis’ aide de camp. Major Charles Cochrane was killed while standing next to General Cornwallis, by a cannon ball to and thru the head. The proximity and astonishment of such a decapitation persuaded Cornwallis to surrender the next day.

 A portrait of Major Pitcairn based upon his surviving grandson. Pitcairn Island in the South Pacific (known chiefly as the settlement from the sailors of mutiny on the HMS Bounty) was named for another son, Robert, who was a midshipman in the British navy. While on watch on a voyage led by Captain Philip Carteret, he was the first to sight the unknown island on 3 July 1767.

The second of four engravings by Amos Doolittle from 1775, depicting the British entering Concord.

The third of four engravings by Amos Doolittle from 1775, depicting the engagement at the North Bridge.

The fourth of four engravings by Amos Doolittle from 1775, showing Percy’s rescue in Lexington.

1824 George Gordon Byron, 6^th Baron Byron, later George Gordon Noel, 6^th Baron Byron, died, FRS (22 January 1788 – 19 April 1824), commonly known as Lord Byron. His maternal grandfather, George Gordon of Gight, son of Alexander Gordon 1716-1760) and Margaret Duff (1720-1801) a descendant of James 1 Stewart, King of Scots (July 1394-21 February 1437) and Cardinal David Beaton (1494-29 May 1546), Archbishop of St. Andrews, Keeper of the Privy Seal of Scotland (1542). Beaton fathered 8 children with Marion Ogilvy, daughter of James Ogilvy of Airlie. Beaton and Ogilvy’s daughter Agnes married George Gordon 4^th of Gight, ancestor of Lord Byron.

In 1877 Seventeen Eminent Scots’ Spirits appeared to and requested Baptism from Wilford Woodruff, President of the Saint George Temple, WASHINGTON, Utah 22-23 August 1877. Woodruff’s eminent men – Scots

NEWSTEAD ABBEY, NOTTS, THE HOME OF LORD BYRON. Inheriting Newstead when ten years old, Lord Byron lived here for about a year on leaving Cambridge in 1808. Returning from his travels in Europe three years later, he published part of Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage, the poem which made him famous. He died in 1824 while assisting the Greeks in their war or independence. Portrait by courtesy of The National Portrait Gallery.

1856 Ship S Curling, sailed from England, Daniel D. McArthur captain of emigrants heading for Boston, to hike across North America to Great Salt Lake City Utah Territory. Wikipedia.

1861 Sam Houston, was returning home after being evicted from the office of Governor of Texas on March 16, 1861, for refusing to take an oath of loyalty to the Confederacy. Sam’s great-great grandfather Sir John Houston, built a family estate in Scotland in the late 17^th century. An elected convention voted to secede from the United States on February 1, 1861, and Texas joined the Confederate States of America on March 2, 1861. Houston refused to recognize its legality, but the Texas legislature upheld the legitimacy of secession.

On April 19, 1861 from a hotel window he told a crowd:

Let me tell ye what is coming. After the sacrifice of countless millions of treasure and hundreds of thousands of lives, ye may win Southern independence if God be not against you, but I doubt it. I tell ye that, while I believe with ye in the doctrine of states rights, the North is determined to preserve this Union. They are not a fiery, impulsive people as ye are, for they live in colder climates. But when they begin to move in a given direction, they move with the steady momentum and perseverance of a mighty avalanche; and what I fear is, they will overwhelm the South.

Sam Houston as a U.S. senator.

1870 Thomas Jefferson McKean Major General 1831 (19). 1810- April 19, 1870. Seminole Wars, Mexican–American War Battle of Churubusco, American Civil War Battle of Corinth in Mississippi,

1880 Battle of Ahmed Khel. 2^nd Afghan War. Between Kandhar and Kabul in Central Afghanistan. Lieutenant General Sir Donald Stewart. Stewart marched out of Kandahar for Kabul on 27^th March 1880. A force would march south from Kabul to meet him on the road at Sheikabad. Stewart’s army, totaling 7,200 combatants with a similar number of camp followers, moved in two brigades marching a day’s interval apart on opposite sides of the Tarnak River so far as Ghuznee. The shortage of transport animals, camels and oxen, required the Indian troops to live off the countryside. The army halted at Kalat-i-Ghilzai on 6^th and 7^th April 1880 and recommenced the march on 8^th with signs of a gathering opposition from the Afghans.

Bengal Cavalry patrol crossing a bridge.

1892 William Wallace Burns 1847 (28) brigadier general, 1825- April 19, 1892. Son of U.S. congressman Joseph Burns and a relative of George Washington through his mother’s family. Burns was part of an expedition sent to Utah in 1857 for the Mormon blunder. Mexican-American War, American Civil War.

George Washington 20 cent, 1863

1908 Macbeth (1908 film), directed by J. Stuart Blackton. Play by Shakespeare.

Charles Kean and his wife as Macbeth and Lady Macbeth, in costumes aiming to be historically accurate (1858).

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1948 Henry Methvin (April 8, 1912 – April 19, 1948 Killed in train accident) was an American criminal, bank robber and Depression-era outlaw with Bonnie Parker (d. 1934 May 23) and Clyde Barrow (d. 1934 May 23) gang. Son of Ivan “Ivy” T. Methvin and Avie Stephens,

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users/m/e/t/Mildred-Methvin/WEBSITE-0001/UHP-0179.html Ivy son of Hamilton Terrell Methvin, (1837-1886) son of Daniel Robinson Methvin (1797-), son of Nathan Methvin (about 1763 Midlothian, Edinburgh, Scotland) The Methvin’s in Scotland spell the name Methven, the Methvin’s in England spell the name Methuen, and the Methvin’s in the U.S. spell the name Methvin. Methven is a village near Perth, Scotland.

1940s  Scrooge the expert (fictional clan McDuck) 

1960 The Battle of the Sexes. Filmed in Scotland. clerk in a Scottish Tweed weaving company (Sellers) cleverly bests the brash modern American efficiency expert (Cumming). The expert emerges from the landrover on a Scottish island at the Crofters cottage where they spin the wool.

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1985 Bruce Redd McConkie , died, born 29 July 1915- 19 apr 1985 died. Wrote Come Listen to a Prophets Voice Hymn 21, I believe in Christ Hymn 134. Son of Oscar Walter McConkie, son of Emma Somerville 1857-1924, daughter of William Somerville B 4 apr 1817, D 25 apr 1878   Lanark, Lanarkshire, Scotland Md-3 Feb. 1847 Eliza Smith,   Andrew Miller Somerville, John Summervale 1704-1736 Lanark, William Summervail 1678-1703, David Girdwood 1683-1714, James Fowler 1719-1743, John Darnley 1722-1745, Margaret Maxwell 1723, Alexander Fowler 1656-1681 Midlothian; Thomas Laik 1633-1658, Agnes Symsoun 1637 Midlothian; John Finlay 1688; James Maxwell 1694; Hugh Calhoun 1799 Pennsylvania. Apostle of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints.

1995 Oklahoma City bombing. Carol Ann Cook (nee Choate) injured by glass. (clan Abernethy, Ralston and Montgomery).

2014 Utah is ranked 2^nd highest (4.6% of the state population) among the 50 United States with the top percentages of Scottish residents (Wikipedia 26 March 2017). United Health Foundation America’s health rankings Smoking Percent of adult population Utah #1 LOWEST p.128, 2014

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