January 19 – 1095 Wulfstan, Bishop of Worcester,

1414 – Duncan Campbell, 1^st Lord Campbell Duncan became head of the Campbells of Loch Awe.

Kilchurn Castle is on the northeastern banks of Loch Awe in Argyll and Bute. In the mid-1400s, Sir Colin Campbell built the castle. Campbell was the 1^st Lord of Glenorchy, More buildings were erected in the 16^th and 17^th centuries. Sir John Campbell of Glenorchy converted Kilchurn Castle into a barracks in the 1600s, for 200 troops. Due to the Jacobite Rebellions of the 1700s (1715 and 1745), the Campbell family made attempts to sell the castle to the Government after moving to Taymouth Castle, though no sale was ever executed. In 1760, a powerful lightning strike badly damaged Kilchurn Castle Scotland and the structure was abandoned. www.destination360.com/europe/uk/kilchurn-castle   This lightning strike was after Dr. Benjamin Franklin controlled lightning with the invention of the lightning rod, and had been selected as a fellow in the Royal Societiy of London, and other countries, and Doctorates from Yale and Harvard.

On June 15, 1752, Dr. Franklin confirms the electrical nature of lightning by flying a kite in a thunderstorm. The lightning rod was obvious (to Franklin). 1956 stamp for Franklin’s 250^th (1706) birthday. Stamp after ‘Benjamin Franklin Drawing electricity from the Sky’ circa 1816, by Bgnjamin West, in the Philadelphia Museum of Art.

1477 John Blair obtained charter from James the Third (Stewart, King of Scots). John was heir to his grandfather. John had son john Blair of that ilk, who married Lady Elizabeth Montgomery, 5^th daughter of Hugh Montgomery (1460-1545 1^st  Earl Eglinton, 3^rd  Baron Montgomerie, Laird of Ardrossan 1484, Justice General of Northern Scotland 1526, and Council of Regency 1536), and had issue John his heir. Anderson v.1/p.319

Blair Crest: A stag lodged Proper Motto: AMO PROBOS [“I love the virtuous” Seat: Blair, Ayrshire

1599 never happened in Scotland.  The calendar  started at January 1, 1600.

January 1602 Crail infected and shut up, with suspects on the muir who wandered. A History of Epidemics in Britain from A.D. 664 to the Extinction of Plague Charles Creighton, M.A. M.D. Demonstrator of Anatomy University of Cambridge. 1891. Pp 370

1643 Battle of Braddock Down

1649 Charles 1^st STEWART, King Scots & English, trial begins at High Court of Justice, London. TG 45-66.

Charles as Prince of Wales by Isaac Oliver, 1615

1736 – James Watt, born, Scottish inventor (d. 1819)

1746 [Scotland’s calendar.] The Prince returned to Bannockburn with the lowland troopsr Lord George Murray with the clans remained at Falkirk.

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. 1751 ran from March 25^th 1751 (Lady Day) to December 31^st 1751, the next date being January 1^st, 1752. But this date in 1751 did occur in Scotland and most European countries.

1757 – Thomas Ruddiman, died, Scottish classical scholar (b. 1674).

1809 Edgar Allan Poe born, January 19, 1809 – October 7, 1849) was an American author, short story writer, poet and critic. Poe attended the grammar school in Irvine, Scotland.

1840 – Captain Charles Wilkes circumnavigates Antarctica, claiming what became known as Wilkes Land for the United States. Wilkes was born in New York City, on April 3, 1798, as the great nephew of the former Lord Mayor of London John Wilkes. His mother was Mary Seton, who died in 1802 when Charles was just three years old. (clan Seton)

1841 Nauvoo, Illinois. Hyrum Smith is called to be a patriarch to receive the keys of prophecy, and be co-President of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints. Doctrine and Covenants 111. (clan Mack of Inverness, Malcolm King of Scots).

Joseph Smith the Prophet, at Nauvoo, Illinois, And they shall not receive less than fifty dollars for a share of stock in that [Nauvoo] house, and they shall be permitted to receive fifteen thousand dollars from any one man for stock in that house. Doctrine and Covenants 124

. Depiction of Joseph Smith, Jr. at head of the Nauvoo Legion.

1948 Relief Society Magazine, January 1948, p. 8 published. President David O. McKay (clan McKay) once related that members of a class were criticizing Church leaders for permitting the Martin handcart company to commence its journey so late in the season.

An auld man listened and then arose.

“In substance [he] said, `I ask ye to stop this criticism. ye are discussing a matter ye know nothing about. Cold historic facts mean nothing here, for they give no proper interpretation of the questions involved. Mistake to send the handcart company out so late in the season? Yes. But I was in that company and my wife was in it and Sister Nellie Unthank whom ye have cited was there too. We suffered beyond anything ye can imagine, and many died of exposure and starvation, but did ye ever hear a survivor of that company utter a word of criticism? Not one of that company ever apostatized or left the Church, because everyone of us came through with the absolute knowledge that God lives, for we became acquainted with him in our extremities.

” `I have pulled my handcart when I was so weak and weary from illness and lack of food that I could hardly put one foot ahead of the other. I have looked ahead and seen a patch of sand or a hill slope, and I have said, I can go only that far and there I must give up, for I cannot pull the load through it. I have gone on to that sand and when I reached it, the cart began pushing me. I have looked back many times to see who was pushing my cart, but my eyes saw no one. I knew then that the angels of God were there.

” `Was I sorry that I chose to come by handcart? No. Neither then nor any minute of my life since. The price we paid to become acquainted with God was a privilege to pay, and I am thankful that I was privileged to come in the Martin handcart company.’ ” –

http://www.ldschurchnews.com/articles/20922/Nellie-Unthank-Despite-hardship-she-gave-more-than-she-received.html

Unthank is a hamlet, a half mile north west of Brechin in Angus, Scotland. Nellie Unthank, referred to in the above quote, was 9 in the year 1856 when the tragedy happened. Nellie (Ellen Pucell) was from Lancashire England. Nellie survived to marry William Unthank, a Scot. Her name and i the ‘old man’ gave President McKay inspiration. The ‘old man’ was the Ward Bishop, Francis Webster, (Welsh by ancestry) ancestor of Tova Ann Choate (nee Leigh) and Sophie Mae, Anne Elizabeth Grace, Jonathan and David Olaf Marcus.

statue commemorating Mormon handcart pioneers on Temple Square in Salt Lake City, Utah.

1986 Space Shuttle Challenger’s crew, Sharon Christa McAuliffe (1948) for NASA’s Teacher in Space Project (son Scot); and Ronald Ervin McNair, Ph.D. (1950) prepare for the Saturn rocket to leave its mother hangar and roll to the launch site.

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