February Sources

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 cir 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

February 1 –  Imbolc Ireland  called Saint Brighid’s Day

c.525  Brigid of Kildare, Abbess of Kildare.

1299 Robert VI the Bruce, 6^th  Lord of Annandale, Earl of Carrick (1253–1304) Rents lands at Hatfield Regis, Essex to a John de Bledelowe, for 4s annual rent.

bust of Robert the Bruce at the National Wallace Monument

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1327 – Teenager Edward III is crowned King of England, but the country is ruled by his mother Queen Isabella and Roger Mortimer. King Edward III of England, son of King Edward II, son of King Edward I, son of King Henry III, son of King John, son of King Henry II of England,  son of Matilda, Daughter of Matilda, daughter of King Malcolm III of Scotland, son of Scottish Kings. (Edward 3^rd was 7^th great grand son of the King of Scots).

Roy Eduard (with 9 generations of Rouyal arms)..

1327 Treaty of Northampton, a peace treaty between English and Scots .

[TG11-171, Tales of a Grandfather, chap. 11, p. 171]   English envoys came October 1327. By March 1 1327 the English Parliament at York agreed to the treaty. On 17 March 1327 Bruce signed the treaty in Edinburgh. 6 weeks late, on May 3, 1328 (note year changed March 25^th) English ratified the treaty at Northampton. Also calledthe Treaty of Edinburgh-Northhampton.

Renewal of the war with Scotland originated in private, rather than royal initiative. A group of English magnates known as The Disinherited, who had lost land in Scotland by the peace accord, staged an invasion of Scotland and won a great victory at the Battle of Dupplin Moor in 1332. They attempted to install Edward Balliol as king of Scotland in David II’s place, but Balliol was soon expelled and was forced to seek the help of Edward III. Edward III, the English king responded by laying siege to Berwick and defeated a large relieving army at the Battle of Halidon Hill. Edward reinstated Balliol on the throne and received land in southern Scotland, in 1333.  Edward III declared himself rightful heir to the French throne in 1337. In 1338, Edward III was forced to agree to a truce with the Scots. On 17 October 1346, an English army defeated and captured King David II of Scotland at the Battle of Neville’s Cross.  (King’s led their armies into battle well into the 1^7th century, until the nobles  realized that either the King’s capture (resulting in payment of ransom), or the King’s death (usually followed by a long time regent) were both expensive and distracting to the national economy. The countries stopped the practice  of King’ going off to war.).

Treaty of Edinburgh/Northampton. National Records of Scotland

1439 · sometime this year.  Battle of Corpach battle in which the Clan Cameron routed the Clan Maclean.

Tytler’s History of Scotland fromEncyclopaedia Britannica.103.

CHRONOLOGY OF THE PERIOD.

A.D. 1492. Sometime this year. America discovered by Columbus.

1493 A.D. Sometime this year. Maximilian I emperor of Germany.

1497 A.D. Sometime this year.  The Portuguese, under Vasco de Gama, double the Cape of Good Hope, and sail to the East Indies

1498 A.D. Sometime this year. U.S. Louis XII., king of France.

1499 A.D. Sometime this year. North America discovered by Cabot. Execution of Perkin Warbeck, pretended son of Edward IV.

1500. A.D. Sometime this year. The Portuguese discover Brazil.
1501. Henry VIII becomes king of England. His sister Margaret is already Queen of Scots.
1502. A.D. Sometime this year. Invasion of France by Henry VIII. Battle of the Spurs.

1515 Louis XII, King of France born son of Mary of Cleves (1426–1487) and Charles, Duke of Orleans; the auld alliance lead to Flodden Field 2 years earlier.

1586 Elizabeth, Queen of England, signed the death warrant of Mary Queen of Scots, and entrusted it to William Davison, a privy councillor.  Wikipedia gives the year as 1587, but notes Mary was arrested the previous August 11, 1586.  As both England and Scotland were on the March 25 to March 24^th calendar year, it would still be 1586 in February.

Photo by john Choate of a poster at the National Security Agency Museum and Library Fort Meade Maryland.  Under the letters are the substitution code of Mary Queen of Scots cryptographic code used while captive at Fotheringhay estate. The Mary code letters are under the O, B and U.

1599 never happened in Scotland. Dating its years from the birth of Jesus Christ, so that ‘’ every nation, kindred, every ear shall hear, every knee shall bow, and every tongue shall confess, Jesus Christ is Lord,’’ thru computer software applications and aviation, the Christian calendar has been adopted world wide for the Musselmen of Islam, the Buddhist, Confucian, Hindu, nativist, Jew, agnostic,  or atheist (Isaiah 45:23, 1 Kings 19:18, Philippians 2:11, Romans 14:11, confirmed in modern times Mosiah 16:1  Mosiah 27:31 Doctrine and Covenants 76:110, Doctrine and Covenants 88:104

An 1883 map of the world divided into colors representing “Christians, Buddhists, Hindoos, Mohammedans, Fetichists”.

1692 Campbell of Glenlyon, a captain in Argyle’s regiment, was ordered to Glencoe with 120 men.  Campbell being uncle to young Macdonald’s wife, was received with full honors, and lodged at free quarters in the houses of the clan.  Tytler’s Britannica.

Lyon – Nevada

1709 – Alexander Selkirk, (1676 – 13 December 1721) was a Lower Largo, Fife, Scottish sailor who spent four years as a castaway after being marooned on an uninhabited island, is rescued, inspiring the book Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe.

An 1835 book inspired by Selkirk’s life.

1717 Duke of Rannoch created 1 February 1717 for Murray became extant for William, Earl of Tullibardine (“Titular Marquess of Tullibardine”, and after 9 July 1724 “2^nd  Titular Duke of Atholl”, by which title he was known among Jacobites, and even by King James VIII & III). Marquess of Blair created 1 February 1717 for Murray still extant      subsidiary title of the Duke of Rannoch,

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Rannoch Moor. The seat of Fictional clan McDuck is the McDuck Castle.

Rannoch Moor / Dismal Downs McDuck Castle in The auld Castle’s Other Secret or A Letter From Home portrayed by Don Rosa. See 1877.

1744 Charles Edward (aka Chevalier Douglas) resides in Gravelines. TG 75-65.

1746 [in Stirling], 1745 [in London and Manchester] Bonnie Prince Charlie (Charles Edward Stuart) formed the siege  of Stirling castle on the 6^th of January with 9000 Highlanders. The Jacobites, who had been storing their gunpowder at St Ninian’s Kirk (an ancient Christian centre, established around 1500 years ago), managed to ignite their powder store with the resulting explosion reducing the church building to a pile of rubble on the 1st February.The whole series of events is depicted in delicate colour on a beautiful fan held at the Smith Art Gallery and Museum.

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Right side is the River Forth.

In the  upper center is the explosion of St. Ninian’s Kirk with bodies flung high in the air. On the right are The Highland troops wrapped in wool tartan plaid fleeing to the River  Forth, carrying trunks, some wading across, wearing bonnets, most with swords. A musket lies in the fore ground, with a sword, having been abandoned by an Highland soldier.  A wagon pulled by twin horses heads for the river, and two highland officers on horse back are aimed toward the river. Note the hils in the background and town houses, lots of evergreen trees.

In the front center is a Government Officer in tri corner hat, knee length coats, super sied arm cuffs, long hose, holding a spear, receiving surrender from a falle Highland soldier without a wig, and bonnet in his hand. Three foot soldiers in red coats and red pointed hats of the uniform of the Hanover or  German military, with swords drawn and held high.  A fallen highland soldier in plaid lies on the ground about to be trampled by another Government officer on a horse, with sword long dark coat, tricorner had, and ribbon, leading

On the left side, 4 English soldiers in gentlemen’s coats, swords drawn, held high.  An angel floats above the Government soldiers.  Countryestate homes are in the background with Stirling castle on the rise, with columns on the walls. Drums down front, cannon barrels.

Because of the ’15 and ’45 uprising, the Government in London will strangle the Scottish economy requiring massive immigration of the Scots to the colonies, and Canada. The Hanoverian cleansing policy will continue thru the reigns of Kings George 2^nd and George 3^rd, a period of 75 years.  And that’s how the Scots filled up the South.

1745 Prince Charles Edward retreats with his army across the Forth at Frew TG 82-285.

1751 did not occur in England, Ireland, British North America, and British colonies, as 1751 only had 282 days due to the Calendar Act of 1750. But 1751 February 1^st  did occur in Scotland, as the Scot’s 1751 had 365 days.

1753 Paper War of 1752–3. Smart published The Hilliad, an attack upon Hill that one critic, Lance Bertelsen, describes as the “loudest broadside” of the war. Henry Fielding started it.

1759 Samuel Pullein read the paper A New and Improved Silk-reel before the Royal Society.  His bookseller was Andrew Millar 6^th (clans Stewart, Lockhart, and Hunter).

The Culture of silk or, An essay on its rational practice and improvement. In four parts. I. On the raising and planting of mulberry trees. II. On hatching and rearing the silkworms. III. On obtaining their silk, and breed. IV. On reeling their silk-pods : for the use of the American colonies 
by the Rev. Samuel Pullein. Etc London Printed for A. Millar in the Strand. MDCCLVIII

1812 Mental problems of George 3^rd vested the regency in the Prince of Wales, Duke of Rothesay, until this date.  But no change in the Parliamentary  government. Tytler’s Britannica.

Regent, George, Prince of Wales,  Portrait miniature by Richard Cosway, c. 1780–82

1830 Scots Roman Type, prepared in Glasgow Scotland, and shipped to a foundry in Albany New York, then delivered to the E. B. Grandin Printing company in Palmyra New York, according to the Crandall Gutenberg Printing Museum in Provo Utah. The Scots Roman type is the font used to print the first edition of the Book of Mormon. The contract with E. B. Grandin’s print shop to print the book was signed on Tuesday 25 Aug 1829, and the completed book was on sale by Friday 26 March 1830.  Typesetter John H. Gilbert selects type and inserts commas, periods, and other punctuation as Gilbert reads Oliver Cowdery’s hand written copy. One form signature of 16 pages, in quantities of 5,000 copies will be printed, 37 signatures, a form per 6 day, 11 hour per day week. Meridian Magazine (14 Apr 2005). http://www.johnpratt.com/items/docs/lds/meridian/2005/printing.html

26^th        form of 16 pages printed. Somewhere in Helaman

1850 story of  Highland Potato Famine. editorial following mid-page masthead (1 February 1850). “Royal Cornwall Gazette, Truro, Friday. Various seaweeds, including true kelp, gathered and burned to yield soda ash. The industry was only able to compete with imported barilla in the early 19th century because of the Napoleonic Wars and a high import duty on barilla: from 1822 onwards the duty on barilla was progressively reduced and 1845 abolished; by then neither natural source could compete on price with the Leblanc process. “Kelp was formerly a valuable resource of the highland and Irish peasantry on the coast, but it ceased to be remunerative as Barilla became cheaper, and the manufacture of soda by chemical means has reduced the price still more and utterly destroyed the trade” Wikipeda

1877 Scrooge McDuck (Fictional clan McDuck) goes into business with a shoeshine kit that his father Fergus got for him, but his first customer fools him and pays him with an American dime (which was actually a plan of his father’s). He keeps the dime he cannot spend as his symbol of success.

(As of 2012, the Barber dime, composed of 90 percent silver is worth about $5 in circulated condition, more if it’s condition was uncirculated, which apparently it is, as having never been spent.)

1938 Rose Marie is a 1936 black-and-white musical film starring Jeanette MacDonald.

Poster. Jeanette Anna MacDonald (June 18, 1903 – January 14, 1965) was an American singer and actress, Scottish descent.

2003 – Space Shuttle Columbia disintegrates during reentry into the Earth’s atmosphere, killing all seven astronauts aboard. Pilot: William Cameron McCool, a U.S. Navy commander. Eagle Scout,

STS-107 flight insignia; Columbia’s final flight.

Mission Specialist: David McDowell Brown, a U.S. Navy captain trained as an aviator and flight surgeon. Brown worked on a number of scientific experiments. Attended McKinleyElementary, Arlington, Virginia, 1974. Active in the Boy Scouts of America rank, Life Scout. Graduated from Yorktown High School, Arlington, Virginia, 1978: Received bachelor of science degree in biology from the College of William and Mary (both Scots and Stewarts).

Medical doctor 2003 Laurel Blair Salton Clark (March 10, 1961 – February 1, 2003) was a United States Navy Captain, NASA astronaut and Space Shuttle mission specialist. Clark was  a flight surgeon assigned to the Submarine Squadron 14 Medical Department Head in Holy Loch, Scotland.

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Columbia debris (in red, orange, and yellow) detected by National Weather Service radar over  east Texas and northern Louisiana.  Portions of southeastern Oklahoma and southwestern Arkansas are visible as state border.  The ragged line in the upper right quadrant is the Oklahoma Texas border which follows the Red River.

2012 Humor.

Drummond found himself in dire trouble. His business had gone into foreclosure, overwhelmed by debt.   So desperate,  he decided to get a ticket to the silver and gold fields, and asked God for help. “God, please help me. Ah’ve lost ma wee store and if Ah dinna get some money, Ah’m going to lose me hoose too. Please let me find a silver mine!”  Mining reports came in, and …Nothing for Drummond…  Drummond prayed again. “God, please let me find a gold mine! Ah’ve lost me wee store, ma hoose and Ah’m going to lose ma car as weel!” Mining field reports came in again! Still no luck… Drummond prayed again.
 “Ah’ve lost ma business, ma hoose and ma car. Ma bairns are starving. Ah dinna often ask Ye for help and Ah have always been a good servant to Ye. PLEASE just let me find a silver or gold mine, this one time so Ah can get back on ma feet!”
 Suddenly there was a blinding flash as the heavens open and the voice of God Himself:
”Drummond at least meet Me half way and buy a pick axe and shovel! Ane ticket to the  mining fields.”

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

2013 Kilmarnock. Olive Marie Craig (nee Osmond) sings Paper Roses for Kilmarnock fans. American singer Marie Osmond has performed her 1970s hit single Paper Roses for a specially-invited group of 500 Kilmarnock football fans. The singer, who was in Glasgow with her brother Donny and Susan Boyle to play a concert at the SECC, was approached to make the Rugby Park appearance by fan Robert Morton. The song has been adopted by the Kille fans as the club’s anthem. It reached number two in the UK charts in 1973. View and hear the performance on this link with the BBC.

http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-scotland-glasgow-west-21300458

[Paper Roses was Marie’s first single, which only went to Number One on the US Country charts, and crossed over.]

Marie Osmond.

[husband clan Craig]  The Miller’s were Ministers in Kilmarnock in the 18^th century.

On Twitter Marie said: “Hey @officialkillie fans. I’m on my way there to sing ‘Paper Roses’, your official #KILLIE theme song. Lets have some fun!!!”

‘’It is a sad song about a lost love, but sometimes that’s the way you feel about Kilmarnock”

Robert Morton,  Kilmarnock fan

The event, which was open to the club’s season book holders, was an all-ticket sell out. Kilmarnock supporters adopted the song Paper Roses in the early seventies and there are conflicting theories about the reason why, one of which was explained by Mr Morton.

“I was too young to know, but in 1975, when things were going against us, we were going part-time and maybe it was just a song about a failed love that was adopted by the Kilmarnock supporters at Dumbarton one day,” he told BBC Scotland.

“It is a sad song about a lost love, but sometimes that’s the way you feel about Kilmarnock.”

Mr Morton explained how he laid the groundwork for Ms Osmond’s Rugby Park appearance ahead of her evening appearance at Glasgow’s SECC.

“I went to Las Vegas for a holiday, took two signed Kilmarnock tops and managed to buy meet and greet tickets and get her to sign them and told her a little about Paper Roses being our song and she’s been following us ever since,” he said.

The singer answered fans’ questions with a Kilmarnock scarf [blue and white stripes] draped round her shoulders, standing next to the Scottish Communities League Cup, which the club won in March [2013].

“She’s a superstar,” added Mr Morton. “She could not do enough for us. She ran over time because she wanted to go out and see the stadium as well, she signed so many things and there’s still lipstick on the League Cup.

“Maybe the next thing I need to do is ask her for £10m to get us out of debt.”

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