April 3 1043 – Edward the Confessor is crowned King of England. In the 1050s, Edward pursued an aggressive policy with Scotland and Wales. Malcolm Canmore was an exile at Edward’s court after killed Malcolm’s father, Duncan I, whereupon seized the Scottish throne, as King. In 1054 Edward sent Siward to invade Scotland. Siward defeated , and Malcolm, who had accompanied the expedition, gained control of southern Scotland (lowlands). By 1058 Malcolm had killed in battle and claimed the Scottish throne. In 1059 Malcolm visited Edward. After Edward died in 1066, the Norman Conquest began.

The Seal of King William I

By 1068, Malcolm granted asylum to a group of English exiles fleeing from William Duke of Normandy (William the Conqueror or later William 1st), among them Agatha, widow of Edward the Confessor’s nephew Edward the Exile, and her children: Edgar Ætheling and his sisters Margaret and Cristina. Malcolm married the Confessor’s niece Margaret, absorbing the ancient Anglo Saxon royal line, and became ancestors to all Scots royalty. Malcolm’s descendants include Johnny Cash and Joseph Smith.

Máel Coluim and Margaret as depicted in a 16th century armorial. Note the coats of arms both bear on their clothing — Malcolm wears the Lion of Scotland, which historically was not used until the time of his great-grandson William the Lion (William 1st in the Scot’s royal line); Margaret wears the arms of Edward the Confessor, her grand-uncle, although the arms were in fact concocted in the later Middle Ages.

1594 Bothwell goes to Leith with 400 to 500 troopers and Lord Ochiltree. Anderson v. 1/ p 359.

1607 to 1641 circa. sometime in. Catholic Ban on intermarriage with Protestants; repealed 1778.

1643 Battle of Camp Hill.

1697 The Darien colony. Sometime in April.

The managers of Darien, supported by the general sense of the people of Scotland, made warm remonstrances to King William II (William of Orange, William the Lion being William 1st on the Scot’s line), on the hostile interference of his Hamburgh envoy, and demanded redress for so gross a wrong. In William’s (King William III, previously the same William of Orange, is designated the 3rd on the English royal line after William the Conqueror 1st and William Rufus 2nd) answer, William was forced meanly to evade what he was resolved not to grant, and yet could not in equity refuse. ” The King,” it was promised, ” would send instructions to his envoy, not to make use of his Majesty’s name or authority for obstructing their engagements with the city of Hamburgh.” The Hamburghers, on the other hand, declared themselves ready to make good their subscriptions, if they should receive any distinct assurance from the King of England, that in so doing they would be safe from his threatened resentment. But, in spite of repeated promises, the envoy received no [Sir Walter Scott’s Tales of a Grandfather-59-37] power to make such declaration. 

www.kinnaird.net/darien.htm

The Caribbean Course of the First Expedition. Company’s ships sunk or abandoned. 1 Hope of Bo’ness, 2 Dolphin, 3 Olive Branch, 4 Endeavor 5 Saint Andrew 6 Hope 7 Duke of Hamilton 8 Rising Sun. Darien Portobello, Curacao, Cuba, Jamaica Port Royal, Hispaniola, Puerto Rico, Saint Thomas Santa Cruz Montserrat Guadeloupe, Antigua, Desada, Matanzacs, Isle, Bahama Islands, Florida, Pacific Ocean, Gulf of Mexico, Carthagena.

Thus the Darien Company lost the advantage of support, to the extent of two hundred thousand pounds, subscribed in Hamburgh and Holland, and that by the personal and hostile interference of their own Monarch, under whose charter they were embodied.

William III (“William of Orange”) King of England, (William 2nd of Scotland) and Ireland, Stadtholder of the Netherlands. Assumed James’ thrones in the “Glorious Revolution” of 1689, with the support of the mainly Protestant “Williamites”, but had to fight to subdue the Jacobite stronghold of Ireland in 1689–91.

1728 – James Anderson, died, Scottish lawyer (b. 1662).

1764 – John Abernethy, English surgeon (d. 1831)

1775 Cambridge Massachusetts. Gun control. The English have a secret plan 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. The colonial assembly formed a Patriot provisional government known as the Massachusetts Provincial Congress and called for local militias to train for possible hostilities. The English declared it treason.

1783 – Washington Irving, born, American author (d. 1859). Irving’s parents were William Irving, Sr., originally of Quholm, Shapinsay, Orkney and Sarah (née Sanders), Scottish-English.

Daguerreotype of Washington Irving (modern copy by Mathew Brady, original by John Plumbe). 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

The front page of The Sketch Book (1819)

Irving’s grave, marked by a flag, in the auld Dutch Cemetery (from 1650s), Sleepy Hollow, New York. The cemetery was made famous by Irving, and the town stayed as North Tarrytown until about the 1990s, when the name was changed to Sleepy Hollow.

1814 – Lorenzo Snow, born, 5th president of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church) (d. 1901).

Lorenzo Snow. Descent (7th great grand father) John Lyon of Angushire, Elizabeth Scrymgeour (Angus), Andrew Gray (Roxburgh), Janet Keith (Kincardine), Gorge Douglas (Ayr), Elizabeth Boyd (Renfrew), John Drummond (Stobhill),

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Elizabeth Lindsay (Lanark), Mariota Maxwell (Lanark), Isobel Sibbald (fife), Mariot Murray (Perth), Margaret Dunbar (Berwick).

Scrymgeour Crest: A lion’s paw erased in bend Or holding a crooked sword or scymitar Argent. Motto: DISSIPATE. [from Latin: “Disperse”]. Chief: Alexander Henry Scrymgeour of Dundee, 12th Earl of Dundee

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1823 William Magear Tweed, Boss Tweed, born in New York City (died April 12 1878). Later head of Tammany Hall, the Democratic Party Political Machine. At the height of his influence, Tweed was the third-largest landowner in New York City, a director of the Erie Railroad, the Tenth National Bank, and the New-York Printing Company, as well as proprietor of the Metropolitan Hotel. Scottish ancestry, the River Tweed is the boundary between Scotland and England.  W.M. Tweed

1836 Joseph Smith the Prophet in the temple at Kirtland, Ohio. (Clans Mack, Mackenzie of Inverness, Hamilton, Huntley, Malcolm King of Scots) We saw the Lord standing upon the breastwork of the pulpit, before us; Moses appeared before us, and committed unto us the keys of the gathering of Israel from the four parts of the earth, and the leading of the ten tribes from the land of the north.  After this, Elias appeared, and committed the dispensation of the gospel of Abraham, saying that in us and our seed all generations after us should be blessed. After this vision had closed, another great and glorious vision burst upon us; for Elijah the prophet, who was taken to heaven without tasting death, stood before us, and said: Behold, the time has fully come, which was spoken of by the mouth of Malachi—testifying that he [Elijah] should be sent, before the great and dreadful day of the Lord come—To turn the hearts of the fathers to the children, and the children to the fathers, lest the whole earth be smitten with a curse— Doctrine and Covenants 110.

1851 sometime. On the voyage of the Ellen in 1851, Crandell Dunn recalled, “We left the dock with singing some of the songs of Scotland.”12 As the Scottish Saints would converge at Liverpool before departure, some encountered a language and culture they were not accustomed to. For example, one Scotch woman would later recall, to “hear them talk English . . . was quite amusing to us, as we had never been out of Scotland until then.” HISTORY SCOTLAND – MAGAZINE

1893 – Leslie Howard, born, English actor (d. 1943). Not Scottish, but played one in the 1941 movie 49th Parallel as the character Philip Armstrong Scott,

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with Musical Director Muir Mathieson.

49th Parallel (The Invaders)

1929 RMS Queen Mary ordered and was built in 1936 by John Brown & Company in Clydebank, Scotland for what is now the Cunard Line. The ship was named after Queen Mary, the consort of King George V. She made runs across the Atlantic between Southampton, Cherbourg and New York City in partnership with Queen Elizabeth. The Queen Mary was used as a troop ship in the Second World War, carrying 16,082 people on one voyage. After the war she resumed Atlantic runs but these became loss making. She was withdrawn from service in 1967 and is now in Long Beach California as a hotel and tourist attraction. The ship is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.

 RMS Queen Mary at Long Beach, California.

 

1941 Pot o’ Gold is an American romantic comedy, also known as Jimmy Steps Out (American alternative title) and as The Golden Hour (in the United Kingdom).

Poster. James Maitland “Jimmy” Stewart 1908-1997. Major General United States Air Force, American actor, Scottish descent.

 

2012 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 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scottish_Americans#Scottish_Americans_by_state ).   How are the Scots in Utah doing? United Health Foundation America’s health rankings 2012 High Blood Pressure -Utah ranked 1st, Oklahoma 42nd http://www.americashealthrankings.org/UT-OK/2012

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