August 6 33 The Transfiguration of Our Lord feast day.

1332 The “Disinherited” landed at Kinghorn in Fife. Second War of Scottish Independence. – those nobles or their descendents who had fought for the English but had not entered into Robert I’s peace, had forfeited their lands and titles.

Kinghorn is on the north shore of the Frith of Forth, on this 1799 Map. Also listed is Inverkeithing. On the South Shore, Queensberry, Preston Pans, Aberlady, Craig Leigh, Berwick, Dunbar and Douglas. Fifeshire inclues Duniermling, Burntisland, Inch Keith, Dvsart Kirkcaldy, Falkland, Kencuray, Largo, Cupar, Crail, St Andrew, Fife Nesss, Kitrenny Anstruthers E&W, Pitenween.

1484 John Drummond, 1^st Lord Drummond (died 1519) treat of the marriage of James, prince of Scotland, and Anne de la Pole, niece of Richard III (King of England and descended from Duncan and Malcolm).

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1506 Andrew Barton (died 1511) prepares for raid on Flemish pirates. In reprisal for the seizure of his father’s (John Barton) ship in 1476 by the Flemish, Andrew received a royal commission on 6 November 1506 from King James 4^th against the Portuguese, and was said to have preyed on their commerce in the English Channel.

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1608 The son of the slain Lord Maxwell invited Sir James Johnstone to a friendly conference, at Auchmanhill, on the 6^th August, 1608, when the attendant of Lord Maxwell, after bitter language with Johnstone of Gunmanlie, who was in attendance on chief Johnstone, at length fired his pistol. Sir James Johnstone turned round to see, Lord Maxwell treacherously shot him through the back with a pistol charged with a brace of poisoned bullets. (TG37-287)

The Hill of Auchman nock is in Galston, East Ayrshire, four miles up the River Ayr from Kilmarnock, and about 15 miles from Ayr, Scotland. The descriptor of Auchmanhill was used by Sir Walter Scott, uncovered by Sir Walter’s search of Scotland’s history. So I’m assuming the Hill of Auchman is the same as Auchmanhill. The River Ayr is 40 miles long, and is the longest River in Ayrshire, and empties its mouth at Ayr, into the Atlantic Ocean on the Firth of Clyde.

1729 On 6^th August, 1729, the first voluntary hospital in Scotland was opened in a little house on this site, opposite the head of Robertson’s Close. While still in that house in 1736, it became the Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh.

1773 On 6 August 1773, eleven years after first meeting Boswell, Johnson set out to visit his friend in Scotland, to begin “a journey to the western islands of Scotland”, as Johnson’s 1775 account of their travels would put it. Samuel Johnson (1709–1784) Lichfield, Staffordshire English

In 1763, Johnson befriended James Boswell, with whom he later travelled to Scotland; Johnson described their travels in A Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland. the spring of 1763, Johnson formed “The Club”, a social group that included his friends Reynolds, Burke, Garrick, Goldsmith and others (the membership later expanded to include Adam Smith and Edward Gibbon). The work was intended to discuss the social problems and struggles that affected the Scottish people, but it also praised many of the unique facets of Scottish society, such as a school in Edinburgh for the deaf and mute. Boswell’s account, The Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides (1786), was a preliminary attempt at a biography before his Life of Johnson. Included were various quotes and descriptions of events, including anecdotes such as Johnson swinging around a broadsword while wearing Scottish garb, or dancing a Highland jig.

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The Serenity of the Outer Hebrides – January 2005 – Smithsonian.com –The Arnol Blackhouse Museum showcases a typical late 19^th -century residence, with thatched roof and a central peat hearth—and no chimney, resulting literally in a black house.

The Real Scottish Landscapes That Inspired Pixar’s “Brave”

The Black House of Arnol and the Gearrannan Blackhouse Village (both were used as models for the witch’s cottage) and Dunnottar Castle, which played a role in the look of the DunBroch family’s house.

Read more: http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/smartnews/2012/06/the-real-scottish-landscapes-that-inspired-pixars-brave/#ixzz2PsPux78G

Outer Hebrides. The isle of Lewis is the Island north of the 58^th parallel, Lewis is the Isle for the village of Arnol, location of the Blackhouse Museum. Other locations from south to north, Toe Head, Ru Renish, Rowaldale, Loch Stokinish, Harris Ille, Loch Tarbat, Glass Ille, Shiant Ille, Loch Shell Loch Hourn, Loch Hamneway, Loch Seaforth, Loch Stornaway, Chicken Head, Bible Head, Keampan Head, Loch Tua, Gallan Head, Graf Iles, Part of Ross Shire, Limeshader, Barvas, Tolsa Head, Galson.

1777 Battle of Oriskany – American Bicentennial. Nicholas Herkimer was an officer who led New York militia to relieve Fort Stanwix, which was under siege by the British officer Barry St. Leger. On August 6, 1777, Herkimer’s group was ambushed by a party of Indians and loyalists near Oriskany, NY. Herkimer was gravely wounded in the skirmish and was forced to retreat. He died a few days later.  1977 August 8. John Stanwix (1690 to 1766) Quartermaster General with headquarters at Carlisle Pennsylvania in 1757 and relieved by General John Forbes (clan Forbes) in 1758. Built Fort Stanwix. Later Lieutenant General by 1761.

1790-91 circa sometime in the year. Emma Lady Hamilton,

Lady Hamilton as a Bacchante, by Marie Louise Élisabeth Vigée-Lebrun, 1790–1791.

1833 Joseph Smith the Prophet, at Kirtland, Ohio (clan Mack of Inverness, Malcolm King of Scots), Doctrine and Covenants 98. When the wicked rule the people mourn.

1836 Salem Massachusetts Joseph Smith the Prophet, and Hyrum Smith the Patriarch, visit Salem. Doctrine and Covenants 111. (clan Mack of Inverness, Malcolm King of Scots).

1866 David Livingstone reached Lake Malawi. In January 1866, Livingstone (clan Livingstone) returned to Africa, this time to Zanzibar, from where he set out to seek the source of the Nile (which was partially correct, as the Nile “bubbles from the ground high in the mountains of Burundi halfway between Lake Tanganyika and Lake Victoria”

David Livingstone by Frederick Havill. Forced by ill health to travel with slave traders Livingstone arrived at Lake Mweru on 8 November 1867 and continued on, travelling south to become the first European to see Lake Bangweulu. Finding the Lualaba River, Livingstone decided it was the “real” Nile, but in fact it flows to the Upper Congo Lake.

1879 Johann von Lamont (December 13, 1805 – August 6, 1879) was a Scottish -German astronomer and physicist . Aberdeenshire , Scotland

1881 – Sir Alexander Fleming, (clan Fleming) born Lochfield, Ayrshire, Scotland scientist, 1945 Nobel laureate (d. 11 March 1955), discovers the curative power of penicillin, saves hundreds of millions of lives. Cures for Staphylococcus, streptococcus, syphilis, gangrene, tuberculosis – boils, sore throats, coughs,.

Sir Alexander Fleming on Europa stamp.

1889 – Arthur Stuart, 7^th Earl Castle Stewart (1889–1961) born. The Stewart family descends from Sir Walter Stewart (died 1425), younger son of Murdoch Stewart, 2^nd Duke of Albany, son of Robert Stewart, 1^st Duke of Albany, younger son of King Robert II of Scotland. Sir Walter had several natural children who were later legitimized. One son, Andrew Stuart, was created Lord Avandale (or Avondale) in 1459 and served as Lord Chancellor of Scotland from 1460 to 1482. Another son, Walter Stewart, became feudal Baron of Morphie and was legitimized in 1479. His grandson Andrew Stewart was created 2^nd Lord Avondale in circa 1499, a revival of the title which had become extinct on his great-uncle’s death in 1488. Lord Avondale was one of the many Scottish peers who were killed at the Battle of Flodden in 1513.

1914 map showing the RSH in AyRSHire, with Ochiltree on the road west of Auchinleck and Cumnock.

And Andrew, Lord Avondale, was succeeded by his elder son, Andrew, the third Lord. In 1530, Sir James Colville

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transferred the barony of Ochiltree to Sir James Hamilton of Finnart. Years passed, then to Andrew Stewart, Lord Evandale. Andrew, 3r^d Lord Avandale, then exchanged his lordship with Sir James Hamilton for the lordship of Ochiltrie and by Act of Parliament in 1542 was ordained to be styled Lord Stuart of Ochiltrie (1^st Lord). Ochiltree’s daughter, Anne or Nanne, married Andrew Millar 1^st ( circa 1560). Anne’s uncle, Ochiltree’s younger brother Henry Stewart, became Lord Methven (1525), and third husband to Margaret Douglas (nee Tudor, Stewart) dowager Queen of Scots. Andrew became an ancestor of Ruffin who married Kinchin to Jared to Simmons to Choate.

Stamps featuring two James, two Charles, a William, Mary and Anne.

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1911 Lucille Désirée Ball (August 6, 1911 – April 26, 1989) was an American comedienne, model, film, television, stage and radio actress, and executive, and star of the sitcoms I Love Lucy, The Lucy–Desi Comedy Hour, The Lucy Show, Here’s Lucy and Life With Lucy. Ball was born to Henry Durrell Ball (September 16, 1886 – February 19, 1915) and Desiree “DeDe” Evelyn Hunt (September 21, 1892 – July 20, 1977) in Jamestown, New York. her father was of Scottish descent.

A screenshot featuring Ball from the trailer for Stage Door (1937). 11 generations from Isaac Cummings, Topsfield Essex Massachusetts.

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1937 Stella Davis released.

Ruby Catherine Stevens, born in Brooklyn, New York on July 16, 1907, (died January 20, 1990) was the daughter of Catherine Ann (née McPhee) and Byron E. Stevens. Scots descent. Stanwyck, Stage Name, received one of five Academy Award nominations Best Actress in a Leading Role for Stella Davis.

1942 On the 6^th August 1942 the east coast of Scotland was bombed by the Luftwaffe. Christine Scott, has a vivid memory of the attack. Aged eleven, she was on holiday in St Andrews when the bombs fell.

Starting with the outbreak of war and her evacuation to a sheep farm in Lockerbie, Christine tells us her “war” story.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/scotland/ history/modern_scotland/39_45/

A 1900 map of South Scotland showing Lockerbie in Dumfries Shire. Other locations Longtown, Annan, River Annan, Lochinaben, Langholm, River Esk flowing into the Solway Firth (the blue at the bottom) Liaad, New Abbey.