July 29 – 33 Mary Martha and Lazarus Companions of our Lord. Feast day.

1136 sometime in July. Lord of Abernethy, a Scottish title of nobility. The Lord of Abernethy was from the 12^th century to the 14^th century the hereditary holder of the church and lands of the Scottish monastery at Abernethy with the title Abbot of Abernethy, and held by the descendants of Gille Míchéil, Earl of Fife.  Abernethy is 8 miles south east of Perth. XIth Century Scots.

1306 Battle of Dalry, The Battle of Dalrigh, the Battle of Dail Righ or Battle of Strathfillan, was fought in the summer of 1306 between the army of King Robert I of Scotland and the MacDougalls of Argyll, allies of Clan Comyn the English.

The Battle Dalrigh, a hamlet (King’s Field) near Tyndrum, Argyll, or Lorne. 19^th century map of railways. Tyndrum is a station on the east west railway on the border of Argyll and Perth. Tyndrum is 10 miles north of the end of Loch Lomond, 10 miles east of Loch Ane and Dalmally, 10 miles west of Killin. Note other location Ben Lomand, Aberfyle, Oban and Loch Etive, Loch Linnhe.

Topographic map showing Tyndrum on the Perth (Yellow) and Argyll (pink) border. Note Ben Lui, Elen Orchy, River Orchy, Len Lea. Breadlebane stretches west to east. More. Lochcarn head.

1565 Queen Mary Stewart marries Henry Stewart, Lord Darnley, Duke of Albany, at Holyrood Palace in Edinburgh (TG30-101) Tytler’s Britannica  Map of 1902 Edinburgh, with Holyrood Palace in the center, Queens Park on the South, Abbey Hill.

1567 – 4^th time Heir presumptive of Duke of Chatellerault. James Hamilton, 1^st Earl of Arran (1475–1529), married firstly Beatrix Drummond, secondly in 1490 Elizabeth Home by whom he had two daughters; he divorced Elizabeth in 1513. He married thirdly in 1516, Janet Bethune, daughter of Sir David Bethune, 1^st of Creich and Janet Duddlingston, by whom he had three children including his heir, James Hamilton, Duke of Châtellerault, 2nd Earl of Arran (c.1516- 22 January 1575), heir presumptive to the Kingdom of Scotland (2 July 1536 – 22 May 1540), (April 1541- 8 December 1542), (14 December 1542 – 19 June 1566), (29 July 1567 – 22 January 1575); Regent of Scotland (1542–1554)). 1^st Earl of Arran’s and Beatrix had a Daughter, Margaret Hamilton, married to Andrew Stewart Lord Evandale and Ochiltree, parents of Andrew Stewart 2^nd Lord Ochiltree And Henry Stewart Lord Methven.

1567 – James VI Stuart crowned King of Scotland at Stirling.

House of Stuart, James Charles, William, Mary, Anne,  Stirling in the center of the map. Other location, Kilsyth, Falkirk, Linlithgow, Dunfermline. Clans are Hamilton, Macgregor, Graham, Kinross.

1693 History of the Scots Guards (1642–1804) the regiment took part in another bloody engagement, the Battle of Landen. Wikipedia.

1763 – Philip Charles Durham, born, Scottish Royal Navy Admiral (d. 1845)

1896 William Cameron Menzies (July 29, 1896 – March 5, 1957) was an American film production designer (a job title he invented)^[1] and art director. The Scots pronounced the name ‘Min-gus’, as mentioned in the movie Floating castle (1953). rather than ‘min-zees’ as on TCM Menzies (Mingus) was born in New Haven, Connecticut to Scots immigrant parents, Charles A. and Helen originally from Aberfeldy, Scotland. He studied at Yale and the University of Edinburgh, and after serving in the US Army during World War I he attended the Art Students League of New York. (clans Cameron and Menzies [Min-gus]). Academy Awards for Best Art Direction or Production designer. Bulldog Drummond, Foreign Correspondent, Gone With the Wind,, The Pride of the Yankees, For Whom the Bell Tolls.

1932 – Great Depression: in Washington, D.C., troops disperse the last of the “Bonus Army” of Great War (later World War 1) veterans. The Scots commanders were Douglas MacArthur, George Smith Patton (Scots).

1938 Little Miss Broadway released. The second musical number is Auld Lang Syne, lyrics by Robert Burns. Ambassador Shirley Temple is the orphan star, Senator George Murphy is the Nephew owning a third of a hotel in Manhattan’s posh district, Jimmy Durante is a bandleader. Barber shop On the Bonnie Banks of Loch Loman, tap, musical. The director Irving Cummings, adopted the Scottish stage name.

1953 November 11. Commemorative 3 cent Stamp for Veteran’s day 1953. “Gen. George S. Patton, Jr.” was a graduate of West Point who saw service in the tank corps in France in the Great War. Patton wore (among other things) ivory -handled Colt 45 caliber pistols and proposed armored weapons and mobile tactics. During World War II, Patton was in the 1942 invasion of North Africa and in the 1943 invasion of Sicily. In 1944-1945, after the Normandy invasion, Patton’s Third Army swept across France and into Germany and halted the German counterattack in the Battle of the Bulge. usstampgallery.com

According to Patton’s biographer, Martin Blumenson, a Robert (surname unknown) left Scotland for unknown reaso Robert married the daughter of Hugh Mercer, surgeon general to General Washington. ns. [As if long winters, bare rocks, scrub trees, religious persecution were little enough reasons, The timing of the year 1771 indicates the Robert was caught in the Scottish clearances enforced by England after the ’45.] Robert assumed his mother’s maiden name of Patton, and began his new life in America by signing a deed of land in Fredericksburg, Virginia, in 1771. Robert married the daughter of Hugh Mercer, surgeon general to General Washington. Scots were always ready for a fight. The rest is Patton’s history as we know it. Reference: PATTON, the man behind the legend, 1885-1945 by Martin Blumenson, author of “The Patton Papers”. Questions regarding Gen. G.S. Patton Jr., Lt. Col. John L. Patton, boards.ancestry.com

2005 Molly Lenore Choate marries Garrett Scott Summers in Salt Lake City. Clans Sinclair, Somerville, Spreull, Seton, Lennox, Leslie, Keith, Know, Kennedy, Huntley, Hunter, Hepburn, Hay, Graham, Gordon, Gifford, Fraser.

2008 Zoe Elizabeth Nielsen born. Many great grand daughter of James Hamilton, 1^st Earl of Arran, Lords Ochiltree and Methven, and niece of Duke of Chatellerault, through Mary Elizabeth Choate (nee Simmons). Clans McPherson, Armstrong, Hunter, Cochrane, Methven, Lockhart, Stewart