April 1 Easter 2018

Abbreviations of Sources for Scots Book of Days – 017ca Anderson The Scottish nation, or The surnames, families, literature, honours, and biographical history of the people of Scotland – 3 volumes circa 1862

Helen Hill Miller, Yours for Yesterday the Millers of Ayrshire circa 1960 YYMA

Sir Walter Scott – Tales of a Grandfather 3 volumes 1825

Wikipedia – the free encyclopedia 2012

System of Heraldry, Speculative and Practical: with the True Art of Blazen, according to the Most approved Heralds in Europe, published in 1742, Vol. II, appendix to Part IV P. 42, Alexander Nisbet 1742 and 1765.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/ 1950-2005

electricscotland.com

Tytler, Taylor and Reid, History of Scotland from Encyclopedia Britannica 1845

Scotland is a country that is part of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland. Volna.org

Tytler, Taylor and Reid, History of Scotland from Encyclopedia Britannica 1845

CHRONOLOGY OF THE PERIOD.

  1. A.D. Sometime in. Giovanni Boccacio. ob. set. 62. Geoffrey Chaucer, John Barbour. John Froisart, John Fordun, flourished.

1377. A.D. Sometime in. Richard II., King of England; Wickliffe, flourished.

  1. A.D. Sometime in. Two Popes; Urban VI. at Rome, Clement VIII. at Avignon.
  2. Contention.
  3. A.D. Sometime in. Tamerlane (or Timour), the Mogul conqueror, subdues Chorassan; 1398, subdues Part of Hindostan, and takes Delhi.
  4. A.D. Sometime in. Wat Tyler and Jack Straw’s Insurrection in England.

1389 The poet Geoffrey Chaucer, whose day job was as a royal administrator, supervised building works at the Tower. His most famous work is The Canterbury Tales.

Royal Fortress Tower of London. Wharf is on the Thames River.

A.D.

  1. A.D. Sometime in. Henry IV. (of the House of Lancaster), King of England; Order of the Bath instituted.

1413 A.D. Sometime in. Henry V., King of England

1415 A.D. Sometime in. France invaded by Henry V.; Battle of Agincourt. John Huss and (1416) Jerome of Prague burnt as heretics.

1422 A.D. Sometime in. Henry VI., King of England.

1428 A.D/Siege of Orleans, raised by Joan of Arc.

A.D. 1431. Sometime in. Maid of Orleans (Joan of Arc) burnt for sorcery. Rise of the Medici family at Florence.

1549 Archibald Douglas, 6th Earl of Angus one of extraordinary lords of session sitting as the court. In 1546 after hearing George Wishart preach at Inveresk, he said publicly, ‘I know that my lord governor and my lord cardinal will hear that I have been at this sermon. Say unto them, I will avow it; and not only maintain the doctrine that I have heard, but also the person that teacheth to the uttermost of my power.’ Anderson Scot’s History v. 2/p. 46.

1571 Dumbarton Castle, under siege since January 1570, captured by Captain Thomas Crawford scaling the walls.

Crawford Motto: TUTUM TE ROBORE REDDAM. 
[from Latin: “I will give ye safety though strength”].Crest: A stag’s head erased Gules, between the attires a cross crosslet fitchée Sable.

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1696 The Darien colony.  The narrow neck of land between the North and South American Continents, a days journey between the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans. Sometime April.

‘’Such was the hopeful state of the new [Darien] company’s affairs, when the English jealousy of trade interfered to crush an adventure which seemed so  promising. The idea which then and long afterwards  prevailed in England was, that all profit was lost to the British empire which did not arise out of commerce exclusively English. The increase of trade in Scotland or Ireland they [the English] considered, not as an addition to the general prosperity of the united nations, but as a positive loss to England. The commerce of Ireland they had long laid under severe shackles, to secure their own [Sir Walter Scott’s Tales of a Grandfather-59-33]  predominance ; but it was not so easy to deal with Scotland, which, totally unlike Ireland, was governed by its own independent legislature, and acknowledged no subordination or fealty to England, being in all respects a separate and independent country, though governed by the same King [William].’’

The Caledonia’s return, via New York. Second Expedition, from the Clyde, First Expedition, from the Forth, via Madeira. Darien New York, Madeira. W. Bromage. http://www.kinnaird.net/darien.htm

1775 Massachusetts Bay Colony. The English have resolved to disarm the colonials, by confiscating the Colonials personal pistols and muskets. Across the ocean from Scotland, hundreds of thousands of Scots and their descendants are scattered 2,000 miles up and down the Atlantic coast of the colonies, many having been forced by the Highland Clearances. Troubles over taxation and political control have been growing for a decade. The English occupied Boston 3 years earlier and have identified different caches of colonial arms, particularly those at Lexington and Concord. Gun control will jump start the War of Independence and be the spark for the American Revolution.

1811 Bonaparte married Austrian archduchess Maria Louisa. Tytler’s History of Scotland Britannica.

1829 Angus “Pothole” McDuck, born. Scrooge McDuck’s uncle. (fictional Clan McDuck).

Angus McDuck was born in Glasgow, Scotland in 1829 to Dingus McDuck and Molly Mallard. Angus had two younger brothers named Fergus McDuck and Jake McDuck. Angus migrated to the United States during the late 1840s.

In 1850 Angus was working as a cabin boy in the Mississippi River riverboat Drennan Whyte, when it sunk. Angus was the only fictional survivor.

 

1988 Our Nice Issue. Donald Trump

(clan MacLeod, of Tong, Isle of Lewis and Harris, Outer Hebrides, Scotland)

SPY, “The New York Monthly”

 

1996  THE WINNER IS . . . SCOTLAND AS BEST SUPPORTING COUNTRY. Several bed-and-breakfasts in the area have been renamed the Rob Roy Inn.

The region of remote lochs and mountains north of the Trossachs has long been marked on maps as Rob Roy Country. It became one of the first great tourism regions in the 1820s following the publication of Sir Walter Scott’s novel, “Rob Roy.” The 1990s has seen a similar pattern driven by romanticism of Scotland’s rugged beauty, this time by Hollywood.

The Rob Roy Center at Callander, 30 miles northwest of Stirling, is due to reopen April 1 after a $600,000 expansion intended to help it cope with the doubled tourist traffic since that film.

http://www.deseretnews.com/article/480052/THE-WINNER-IS—-SCOTLAND-AS-BEST-SUPPORTING-COUNTRY.html?pg=all

 

2006 President Thomas S Monson, First Counselor in the First Presidency, article Becoming our Best Selves. ‘‘The Scottish poet James Barrie wrote, “God gave us memory so that we might have roses in December.” 6 What memories do we have of Mother? Father? Grandparents? Family? Friends?’’

Monson’s great grand mother was Margaret Watson (nee Miller) (born 1836). “In the spring of 1848, recent converts Charles Stewart Miller and Mary McGowan Miller, left their native Rutherglen, Scotland, to join with the Saints in Zion.

So the Millers with eleven children could earn their means to make their way to the Salt Lake Valley, they stopped at St. Louis. A plague of cholera struck the area, and within two weeks, four of the Miller family members died including the parents and sons, William and Archibald.

So many died from the epidemic, the surviving sons had to dismantle the family’s oxen pens to make caskets for their parents and brothers.

The nine remaining Miller children, including young Margaret Miller, left St. Louis in the spring of 1850 and arrived in the fall of 1850 in the Salt Lake Valley.

Margaret Miller’s great-grandson, Thomas Spencer Monson, was First Counselor in the First Presidency of the Church.” Margaret Miller Married Alexander Watson, known as “Sandy,” and was sealed in the Endowment House on November 8, 1855.

The Watsons raised twelve children. Their third child, Margaret Ellen, married Thomas S. Condie. Their daughter, Gladys, married G. Spencer Monson. Their son is Thomas S. Monson.

http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=ldshistorical&id=I137701

2012 Humor. Boyd once attended a Temperance lecture given by Sinclair, Scotland’s top medical man, a noted anti-drink campaigner. Sinclair began by placing a live, wriggling worm in a glass of whisky. After a moment or two the worm died and sank to the bottom of the whisky.
 Sinclair asked the audience, “Now me friends, what doe’ this tell oos?”

Boyd piped up, “If ye drink whisky, ye’ll not be bothered by worms!”

http://www.scotlandvacations.com/scottishhumour.htm

 2016 Utah is ranked 2nd highest (4.6% of the state population) among the 50 United States with the top percentages of Scottish residents (Wikipedia) 26 March 2017. Stone Cold Sober colleges.

  1. Brigham Young University (UT) Provo, UT 30,979 Enrolled
  2. United States Air Force Academy USAF Academy, CO 4,237 Enrolled
  3. United States Military Academy West Point, NY 4,389 Enrolled
  4. United States Naval Academy Annapolis, MD 4,526 Enrolled
  5. United States Coast Guard Academy   New London, CT 898 Enrolled
  6. Baylor University Waco, TX 14,348 Enrolled

Most Conservative Students #1 BYU

Scotch and Soda, Hold the Scotch #1 BYU Got Milk? #1 BYU

https://www.princetonreview.com/college-rankings?rankings=stone-cold-sober-schools