December 1 Decem is Latin for ten. From the time of Julius Caesar, and before, the year started after the VERNAL equinox in March, 21-24. So the 10th month from March was named December. After 13 centuries, Scotland only started the year on January 1 in 1600, the English in 1752 anno domini, the year Lord Jesus Christ.

1342 William 5th Earl of Sutherland granted a dispensation by Pope Clement VI for the marriage, although “related to each other in the fourth degree of consanguinity,’ of the Earl of Sutherland and the Princess Margaret, the King’s (David II, King of Scots with his Consort Joan, Queen of Scots & sister of King Edward III of England) sister of the whole blood.

Joan of the Tower of England, 1321-1362

1388 Sir [Robert Stewart], earl of Fife, second-born son of the king, and brother german of the same lord the firstborn son, [as] guardian of the kingdom under the king. Records of the Parliaments of Scotland to 1707, 1 December 1388, Edinburgh. http://www.rps.ac.uk/

1463 Queen consort Mary of Guelders died at Age 29. Wife of King James II of Scotland. She served as Regent of Scotland from 1460 to 1463. Mother of James III of Scotland (1451–1488) and Princess Mary of Scotland (May 1453-May 1488) who Married first Thomas Boyd, 1st Earl of Arran and secondly James Hamilton, 1st Lord Hamilton. Mary became the mother of James Hamilton, 1st Earl of Arran.

Duchy of Guelders with Gelderland, about 1477. The duchy was named after the town of Geldern (Gelder) in present-day Germany. Though the present province of Gelderland (English also Guelders) in the Netherlands occupies most of the area, the former duchy also comprised parts of the present Dutch province of Limburg as well as those territories in the present-day German state of North Rhine-Westphalia that were acquired by Prussia in 1713. Ancestor of all Scot’s monarchs after James 2nd, King, and England’s after James 6th.

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1641 The Grand Remonstrance is presented to the King.

1650 – Battle of Hieton, Scotland (skirmish) The site of the battle was by the Cadzow Burn, near the present day town centre of Hamilton, Scotland.

1682 – Charles II, on 1 December 1682, grant to Sir John Cunningham of Lambruchtoun and his heirs, ‘omnes et singulas et quascunque terras templarias et tenementa….infra integras bondas bailliatris de Kylestewart, et Kingskyleî; in addition to lists of identified parcels and occupants, ‘new discoveries are daily making, there is reason to believe that a great many of the lands within these bailliaries, at least many more than are hitherto discovered, are Temple Lands, and as such are comprehended under the petitioner’s right of regality constituted as is said over the whole Temple Lands within these bailiaries.’ YYMA 43 Andrew Millar I of Temple and Killoch

1749 Charles Cochrane (b 12.01.1749, d 18.10.1781, Major) born in Scotland and Descendant of the Earl of Dundonald. Service in the War of American Independence, British Soldier and 2nd in command under Banastre Tarleton, Lt. Col. Dragoons British, at capture of American General Charles Lee Dec 12, 1776 at Basking Ridge, New Jersey and at raid on Charlottesville, Virginia June 1781.  Painting His Excellency The Most Honourable General The Marquess Cornwallis KG. Charles was promoted to aide-de camp for British General Charles Cornwallis. Charles was killed at siege of Yorktown by cannon ball one day, (October 18th, 1781), so shocking General Cornwallis, who was standing next to the unfortunate Major, to surrender the British army the next day. Cornwallis’ heir married into the Cochrane family.

“Lieutenant-Colonel Banastre Tarleton” by Sir Joshua Reynolds

A Continental light dragoon from the North American Department.

 

1768 The first volume of Encyclopedia Britannica was published in Edinburgh, edited by William Smellier. Benjamin Franklin contributes a paper on electric studies. Franklin 250th anniversary.

 

1787 Scotland’s first lighthouse was officially installed on December 1, 1787.  Thomas Smith, the father-in-law of Robert Stevenson, who went on to build a family business out of lighthouses, gets credit for this installation. Stevenson decided to destroy the lighthouse in 1824, but according to Historic Scotland, intervention on the part of Sir Walter Scott probably changed his mind.

1831 Joseph Smith the Prophet, at Kirtland, Ohio, (clan Mack of Inverness, Malcolm King of Scots), Doctrine and Covenants 71. Behold this is wisdom; whoso breadth, let him understand and receive also.

1832 Archibald Gracie III (December 1, 1832 – December 2, 1864) born. Grandfather was from Dumfries Scotland. educated in Heidelberg. Then, after returning to America, he enrolled at West Point, graduating in 1854. His class at West Point included six future confederate generals including Curtis Lee and I.E. Stuart. George Washington Cutis Lee was the eldest son of Robert E. Lee. Jeb Stuart is in the Scottish American Hall of Fame. After serving two years in the army he resigned to go into business with his father in Mobile. Archibald Gracie 3rd was promoted to brigadier general at the age of 29 and fought in the East Tennessee and the Kentucky campaigns. At Chickamauga, his brigade suffered seven hundred casualties in just two hours. Later at Bean’s Station he was severely wounded. After, recovering from his wounds, he served under General Beauregard in Virginia beginning in May 1864. On December 2, 1864, one day before beginning his leave, while observing the enemy through a telescope, General Gracie was instantly killed by an exploding shell. The general is buried in the family plot in Woodlawn Cemetery.  General Archibald Gracie 3rd http://chicagoscots.net/HC%20Newsletters/2009%20July.htm

Gracie Mansion of New York City was from this Gracie family.

  1. Kilmarnock Scotland. John Lyon, age 44, (1803-1889) hosts Mormon elders, Levi Richards, Samuel W. Richards and Franklin D. Richards. They travel with Lyon to Robert Burns’ birthplace in Dalloway. Artier. Lyon’s 3rd great grand-daughter Melodies Lyon Henderson, an accomplished musician, was the choir director in the Arlington 1st Ward, McLean Virginia Stake in 2012. The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints.

1866 The steamship “Scotland,” belonging to the National Steam Navigation Company, a corporation of Great Britain, sailed from New York for Liverpool, on the 1st of December, 1866, with freight and passengers; and after reaching the high sea, opposite Fire Island light, ran into the American ship “Kate Dyer,” bound from Callao, Virginia, in the republic of Peru, to New York, laden with a cargo of guano. The “Kate Dyer” immediately sank, and ship and cargo were totally lost. The Scotland grounded at Sandy Hook. 15 years later the case is before the US Supreme Court. Who owed what to whom?

105 US 24, 26 L. Ed. 1001, 6 S. Ct. 1174 – Supreme Court, 1881

Scotland njlhs.org.

1926 – Colin Tennant, 3rd Baron Glenconner, Scottish noble (d. 2010) born. Descendant of John Tennant (1725–1810) and his second wife Margaret McClure (1738–1784) of Glenconner, Ochiltree, Ayrshire.

1961 John D. Rockerduck appears as a fictional character from the Duck universe (fictional clan McDuck).

John D. Rockerduck #255 Boat Buster, was an oil tycoon, who argued with Scrooge McDuck, portrayed in that story as another oil tycoon, over which one of them made the best gasoline.

 

1966 Follow me Boys released. Last movie produced and released in his lifetime, by Walter Elias “Walt” Disney (December 5, 1901 – December 15, 1966) education McKinley High School, Chicago Academy of Fine Arts.  Frederick Martin “Fred” MacMurray (August 30, 1908 – November 5, 1991) (clans Martin and Murray) stars. MacKinlay Kantor (February 4, 1904 – October 11, 1977), born Benjamin McKinlay Kantor, was an American novelist of Scots descent (clan McKinlay).

Co-star Vera Miles was born Vera June Ralston August 23, 1930) in Boise City, Oklahoma, the daughter of Thomas and Burnice (née Wyrick) Ralston. (clan Ralston). Ralston (Baile Raghnaill in Scottish Gaelic) is a small, suburban settlement in Renfrewshire, Scotland, next to Paisley on the road to Glasgow. Ralston takes its name from the ancient feudal estates of Ralphistoun (Ralph’s town), named after the younger son of the Earl of Fife, to whom the lands were gifted in the early 12th century. The feudal estates included the lands of Auldtoun (now Oldhall), Hullhead, Barshaw, Whitehaugh, Byres, Honeybog, Pennilee, Maylee and Ralstonwood.

When surnames were adopted in the Scottish Lowlands, the descendants of the Earl’s younger son named themselves ‘Ralston’ after the estates. The lands remained in the Ralston family until 1704 when they were sold by Gavin Ralston to John, Earl of Dundonald (chief of Clan Cochrane), who conferred them on his daughter, Lady Anne Cochrane, when she married James Hamilton, 5th Duke of Hamilton. Their son sold Ralston in 1755 to William MacDowal of Castle Semple, (clan Semple) an eminent Glasgow merchant and founder of the Ship Bank there. His son, William of Garthland and Castle Semple, sold Ralston in 1800 to William Orr, of Paisley, a manufacturer of linens in Ireland. Three years earlier, Orr acquired from the Earl of Glasgow, part of the lands of Ingliston, on which Orr built an elegant manor house. Upon purchase of the estates, Orr merged all of them into one, which he called Ralston, and his manor house became the Mansion of Ralston. The Ralston estates were eventually carved up and sold as farmland in the late 19th century. The ruins of Ralston Mansion were demolished in the 1930s, however part of the original stonework forms an annex to the club house at Ralston Golf Club. Wikipedia.

1977 – Lee McKenzie, Scottish television presenter born, in Ayr, Scotland)

2011 dec 1 Scottish National Portrait Gallery Edinburgh reopens.

James V King of Scots; Gavin Douglas, poet and Bishop of Dunkeld; James IV King of Scots; Margaret Tudor, Queen of King James IV; William Dunbar, poet; Blind Harry, author of life of Wallace; Archibald “”Bell-the-Cat” Douglas, 5th Earl of Angus, soldier and politician; Robert Cochrane, Earl of Mar, architect and court favourite of James III, Alexander Stewart, Duke of Albany, brother of James III, James III King of Scots, Margaret of Denmark Queen of James III; James Kennedy, Bishop of St Andrews, statesman; Robert Boyd, Lord Boyd, statesman; Marie of Gueldres, Queen of James II; Sir William Crichton, Lord Crichton, Chancellor of Scotland;

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James II King of Scots; Sir Alexander Livingston Guardian of James II;

 

2012 Humor “Ah hear Maggie and ye’self settled yer difficulties ane decided ta get married after ooll,” Maxwell said to Seton. 
”That’s right,” said Seton “Maggie’s finger was turnin’ green from the gold engagement band, ane Ah didn’t want to take the engagement ring off her finger.” http://www.scotlandvacations.com/JokesPage1.htm (In early 1990s, John, during a visit to Marine Air Corps Station Yuma, bought Gretchen a ‘gold’ ring with a ‘ruby’ stone (no kidding, that’s what the jeweler advertised). The ‘gold’ ring left a green ring on Gretchen’s finger. Life imitating art. The ring had sufficient Copper, which over time touching the skin would turn the skin green.)

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