April 27 – 1124 Alexander the First dies, and brother David succeeds to throne, David introduces Norman or feudal system to Scotland. David’s brother in law is Henry the First. Anderson v. 2/p. 22.

1296 Battle of Dunbar (1296) John de Warenne defeats John Balliol, paving the way for most of Scotland to fall to Edward I. First War of Scottish Independence

From ‘Exploits and Death of William Wallace, the “Hero of Scotland” ‘ by Sir Walter Scott.. Popular report states this battle to have been lost by treachery; and the communication between the earls of Dunbar and Angus and King Edward I, as well as the disgraceful flight of the Scottish cavalry without a single blow, corroborates the suspicion. But the great superiority of the English in archery may account for the loss of this as of many another battle on the part of the Scots. The bowmen of Ettrick Forest were faithful; but they could only be few. So nearly had Wallace’s scheme for the campaign been successful, that Edward, even after having gained this great battle, returned to England, and deferred reaping the harvest of his conquest till the following season. If he had not been able to bring the Scottish army to action, his retreat must have been made with discredit and loss, and Scotland must have been left in the power of the patriots.

Wallace Motto: PRO LIBERTATE. 
[from Latin: “For liberty”]. Chief: Ian Francis Wallace of that Ilk. Crest: Issuant from a crest coronet of four (three visible) strawberry leaves Or, a dexter arm vambraced, the hand brandishing a sword all Proper.

The Battle of Dunbar took place on April 27, 1296.  Dunbar followed the Massacre at Berwick in the Wars of Scottish Independence.  John Balliol led the Scots. The English were lead by Balliol’s father-in-law, John de Warenne, the Earl of Surrey. The Scots lost. After the short-lived battle, King Edward I rode in to Dunbar Castle, which readily surrendered.

1297 sometime in. Wallace kills Sheriff of Lanark – 1297. In one of the first acts of rebellion against English domination William Wallace kills William Heselrig, the new English Sheriff of Lanark. Video: A history of Scotland: Hammers of the Scots.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/scotland/history/scotland_united/wallace_kills_sheriff_of_lanark/

1371 Robert III was crowned at Scone Abbey

1404 John the Fearless begins reign as John II, Duke of Burgundy, known as John of Valois and John of Burgundy (28 May 1371 – 10 September 1419), was Duke of Burgundy from 1404 to 1419. He was Regent for his mentally ill first cousin Charles VI of France and a member of the Valois Dynasty.

Duke of Burgundy, John The Fearless married Margaret of Bavaria had children Mary, Duchess of Cleves

Margaret, Duchess of Brittany

Philip the Good

Isabelle, Countess of Penthièvre

Anne, Duchess of Bedford

Agnes, Duchess of Bourbon

John and Margaret are great grand parents of Maria Guelders Queen of Scots to James 2nd Stewart King.

1534 to 1607 to 1641. Religious persecution laws adopted at various times in these years. The Act of Uniformity, the Test Acts and Penal Laws of England, (stretched into Ireland, Scotland and colonies of Africa, India, and Americas), enforced by execution and torture, fine and prison, confiscation and transport to the plantations (American colonies) 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, (Nonconformists, Presbyterians, Lutherans, Quakers, Covenanters, Methodists, Congregationalists, Jews, Anglicans 1650-1661, Baptists, along with slaves, felons, imbeciles. and foreigners) Ban on custody of orphans being granted to Catholics on pain of 500 pounds specie money that was to be donated to the Blue Coat hospital in Dublin. Wikipedia. repealed circa 1829.

1563 Contract at Edinburgh between James Ogilvy of Balfour, and Robert Crichton, Advocate to the King, and Elisabeth Stewart. Elisabeth’s sister Margaret Stewart was wife to James Ogilvy. Margaret died. Family of Stewart, Lord Avandale.

1593 – ‘Alexander Millar in Ochiltree’ as witness to a land transaction of Lord Ochiltree. Register of the Great Seal of Scotland.1593-1608, Item. No. 48 of 24 January 1593-94 bequeathes, in the barony of Rawallen, ‘Balliatu de Conynghame vic Ayr, 115 sol. nuncupatas [nuncupative will is an oral will – cannot deed land, only personalty, and is best used for immigrants giving away their land as they move away.] The Kill (per Robert Myllar, John et Thomas Quhytis occupatas)’ Item No. 1600,

1603 James 6th King, during his progress southward to accept the crown of England, issued an order for the apprehension of William and Patrick Ruthven (Cal. State Papers, Dom. Ser. 1603–10, p. 5). Who, in 1600, were boys at school in Edinburgh, but, being forewarned their older brothers were murdered at James’ order, they fled into England. William escaped again and went to the continent (France, then later to Virginia), where William gained a high reputation by his scientific acquirements; but Patrick was apprehended and lodged in the Tower for decades. The Ruthvens descended from the Master of Methven, the  son of Margaret  Tudor  and her third husband  Henry Stewart Lord Methven. The Master of Methven was Uterine  half brother to  King James  5th and thus from Henry the 7th Tudor King of England, and had an equal claim to the throne of England as James 6th, their cousin.

1646 Charles I leaves Oxford in disguise.

1681 MELDRUM, GEORGE (1635?–1709) published: 1. ‘Sermon preached in the High Church of Edinburgh, Sunday, 27 April 1690.’ 2. ‘A Letter to a Friend, giving an Account of all the Treatises that have been published with relation to the present Persecution against the Church of Scotland,’ anon. 1692. 3. ‘Letter asserting the Lawfulness of Informing against the Vitious and Profane before the Courts of Immorality,’ anon. 1701. 4. ‘A Letter from a Friend in the City to a Member of Parliament anent Patronage,’ anon. 1703. 5. ‘Sermon preached before the Lord High Commissioner in New Church, Edinburgh, on 16 May 1703,’ 1703. It touched on the evils of patronage and the danger of extending toleration. 6. ‘Defence of Sermon,’ 1703, in reply to the criticism of Bishop Sage. Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900, Volume 37

1719 – Princess Clementina Sobieski, daughter to Prince James Sobieski of Poland, and grand-daughter to that King John Sobieski who defeated the Turks before Vienna. (TG75-85) escapes Innsbruck cloister.

1746 April 27-29 14 A small loch in Rossinish is locally called Loch-na-arm, because, the story goes, the Prince’s party o their return from Stornoway threw their arms into it. My informant. Mr. John MacDonald. shepherd in Benbecula. lately found an old dirk there. The handle is of wood unknown in the island. Publications OF THE SCOTISH HISTORY SOCIETY VOLUME XXIII, Pg 63 (48) April 1897 SUPPLEMENT LYON IN MOURNING PRINCE CHARLES EDWARD STUART ITINERARY AND MAP. Ed.W. B. BLAIKIE, from Narrative of Lord MacLeod, son of the Earl of Cromarty  Lewis, Nist, Skie

1822 Ulysses S. Grant (born Hiram Ulysses Grant; April 27, 1822 – July 23, 1885) military Commander, Civil War, and American 18th President, 1869-77: The home of his maternal great-grandfather, John Simpson, at Dergenagh, County Tyrone, is the location for an exhibition on the eventful life of the victorious Civil War commander who served two terms as President. Grant visited his ancestral homeland in 1878.

U.S. Grant, lieutenant general and General-in-Chief Ulysses Simpson Grant 1843 (21. 1822-July 23, 1885. 18th President of the United States (1869–1877). Mexican-American War, Battle of Resaca de la Palma, Battle of Palo Alto, Battle of Monterrey, Siege of Veracruz, Battle of Molino del Rey, Battle of Chapultepec

American Civil War, Battle of Fort Donelson, Battle of Shiloh, Siege of Vicksburg, Chattanooga Campaign, Overland Campaign, Siege of Petersburg, Appomattox Campaign.

April 1965 marked the end of the Civil War Centennial.

 

1862 Mary Moffat Livingstone died on 27 April 1862 of malaria in Chupanga, Mozambique, and Livingstone continued his explorations. David Livingstone (19 March 1813 – 1 May 1873) was a Scottish Congregationalist pioneer medical missionary with the London Missionary Society and an explorer in Africa. His meeting with H. M. Stanley on 10 November 1871 gave rise to the popular quotation “Dr. Livingstone, I presume?” David Livingstone is a 1936 British historical adventure film directed by James A. FitzPatrick and starring Percy Marmont, Marian Spencer, James Carew, Hugh McDermott and Pamela Stanley. It portrays the expedition of the British explorer David Livingstone to Africa to discover the source of the Nile, his disappearance, and the expedition to find him led by Stanley.

Livingstone is a 1925 British silent biographical film directed by M.A. Wetherell and starring Wetherell, Molly Rogers and Henry Walton. It depicts the life of the African missionary David Livingstone including his efforts to end slavery and bring education in Africa and his celebrated meeting with Henry Morton Stanley. Wikipedia.

Livingstone’s birthplace in Blantyre. David Livingstone was born on 19 March 1813 in the mill town of Blantyre, in a tenement building for the workers of a cotton factory on the banks of the Clyde River under the bridge crossing into Bothwell, Lanarkshire, Scotland. Livingstone was the second of seven children born to Neil Livingstone (1788–1856) and his wife Agnes Hunter (1782–1865). Wikipedia. In 1877 Seventeen Eminent Scots’ Spirits, with Livingstone, 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

Plenty of Scots names in Utah, such as Bryce, Logan, Lomond, Alton, Alta, Altamont, Ballard, Blanding, Eccles, Elsinore, Highland, Ivins, McKay, Nibley, Oakley, Sterling, Torrey, and more.

1958 Monte Holm born, 52,(April 27, 1958) and Lisa K. Drake Holm, six children, Stone Cliff Ward, St. George Utah Little Valley Stake. Brother Holm serves as a Member of the High Council and is a former counselor in a bishopric, elders quorum president, and missionary in the North Carolina Greensboro Mission. Executive vice chairman, World Financial Group. Born in Salt Lake City, Utah, to Carl Otto and Florence Jessop Holm. New Mission President of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Lisa K. and Monte Holm. Assigned to South Carolina Columbia Mission

2015 All 4 of Joseph Smith’s firsthand accounts of the First Vision released in 10 languages. Deseret News. The Joseph Smith Papers and the Church History Department have translated all four of Joseph Smith’s firsthand accounts of the First Vision into 10 languages and made them available for study online. This marks the first time a Joseph Smith Papers project has produced material for non-English-speaking audiences.

Joseph Smith descended from the Mack family of Inverness Scotland.

http://www.deseretnews.com/article/865627253/Joseph-Smith-Papers-releases-First-Vision-accounts-in-10-languages.html?pg=all

2017 Hi I’m Luke Cunningham – People. Born and raised in Edinburgh, got called to serve in my home mission, I’m a Mormon…..last seen “livin the sick life” I’m from Scotland, Second oldest of 4, studied social sciences at college. I love Football ( the real kind where you use your feet) I also love music. https://www.mormon.org/me/BNPX/LukeCunningham

 

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