June 11 circa 50 Saint Barnabas the Apostle.   These apostles were referred throughout Christian Scotland. Statutes of the Scottish Church 1225-1559 Being a Translation, Volume 54 p 78. ‘Nota Bene. These days ought to be solemnly observed with an obligation of resting from servile work every year by clergy and people.’   Also Church of the Holy Trinity & St Barnabas in Paisley, of the Anglican Communion. A lame man walks at Tomb of St. Barnabus, at Monastery of Saint Barnabus the Apostle near Salamis, Famagusta, North Cyprus.

1183 Young Prince Henry, Henry the Young King, of England, died of dysentery near Limoges on 11 June. Limoges is a city and commune, the capital of the Haute-Vienne department and the administrative capital of the Limousine region in west-central France. House of Plantagenet.

1314 Edward, King of England, summoned whole army of his kingdom to meet at Berwick, to invade Scotland and relieve Stirling castle before the Feast of St. John the Baptist (June 24th). Edward’s army included 100,000 men, with 40,000 cavalry and 50,000 archers. Bruce mustered forces in Torwood near Stirling, with 40,000 men, and 500 cavalry. Tytler’s Britannica.

1285 map showing Berwick to the southeast on the North Sea, to Stirling in the northwest corner on the Forth river near the mouth of the Firth of Forth. Note Bannockburn nearby, and Falkirk, Edinburg, Dunbar in Lothian on the way of Edward’s army from Berwick.

1457 Andrew Stewart granted the title Lord Avandale. When Andrew’s grandfather the Duke of Albany was executed by the vengeful King James I in 1425, his father James Mor Stewart, James the Fat, fled Scotland and took refuge in Ireland. Andrew Stewart was the youngest of approximately seven children. In 1460 Andrew was appointed Chancellor by King James II of Scotland who died later that year. Andrew then served as governor of Stirling Castle and as an ambassador and diplomat, taking a leading role in the negotiations which led to the marriage of James III and Margaret of Denmark in 1469. In 1471 Andrew was granted the rents of the Earldom of Lennox for life. “Stewart, Andrew (d.1488)”. Dictionary of National Biography, 1885–1900 . London: Smith, Elder & Co. 1900 map of Lanark with the Avon river valley in the middle flowing into the River Clyde. Avondale includes Strathaven. The map also shows Stirling to the north, with major locations, Glasgow, Hamilton, Blantyre, Airdrie, Dunbarton, Falkirk, Bannockburn, Carbuke, Carstairs, Wilson, Fals of Clyde,

1488 James IV King Scots begins reign.

1488 Battle of Sauchie burn, Stirling Scotland.         James III dies   http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Sauchieburn. In 1488 the Clan Montgomery burned down the Clan Cunningham’s Kerelaw Castle.

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The two clans had been on opposing sides at the Battle of Sauchieburn, with Hugh Montgomery among the victorious rebels and Alexander Cunningham, 1st Earl of Glencairn slain with the defeated James III. Clan Sempill Sir Thomas Sempill fell leading the clan in support of King James III of Scotland at the Battle of Sauchieburn in June 1488. His only son, John Sempill, inherited his estates. John was made Lord Sempill during the reign of King James IV of Scotland.

1560 Mary of Guise (1538–1542) Queen regent dies (or on the 10th)

1607 Mr. William Row was put to the horn, and on the 11th of June [1607] following, he and Mr. Henry Livingstone the moderator were summoned before the council, to answer for their proceedings at the synod above-mentioned. William was a son of Mr. John Row minister at Perth, who gave him a very liberal education under his own eye. Row was settled minister at Strathmiglo, in the shire of Fyfe, about the year 1600, and continued there for several years. William was one of those ministers who refused to give public thanks for the king’s [James 6th] deliverance from his danger in Gowrie’s conspiracy (5 August 1600), until the truth of that conspiracy was made to appear. When challenged for disbelieving the truth of that conspiracy, William told the King’s Council, That one reason of his hesitation was, That one Henderson, who was said to have confessed that Gowrie hired him [Henderson] to kill the king [James 6th], and to have been found armed in his majesty’s chamber for that purpose, was, not only suffered to live, but rewarded; whereas, said [William], “if I had seen the king’s life in hazard, and not ventured my life to rescue him, I think, I deserved not to live.”

P.109 Biographia Scoticana: OR, A

 BRIEF HISTORICAL ACCOUNT

OF THE 

LIVES, CHARACTERS, and MEMORABLE
 TRANSACTIONS of the most eminent 

SCOTS WORTHIES, Noblemen, Gentlemen, Ministers, and others: From Mr. Patrick Hamilton, who was born about the year of our Lord 1503, and suffered martyrdom at St. Andrews, Feb. 1527, to Mr. James Renwick, who was executed in the Grass-market of Edinburgh Feb. 17, 1688. Together with a succinct Account of the Lives of other seven eminent Divines, and Sir Robert Hamilton of Preston, who died about, or shortly after the Revolution. as also, An Appendix, containing a short historical Hint of the wicked Lives and miserable Deaths of some of the most remarkable apostates and bloody persecutors in Scotland from the Reformation to the Revolution. Collected from historical Records, Biographical Accounts, and other authenticated Writings:—The whole including a Period of near Two Hundred Years. By John Howie – 178181 p. 109 Earl of Gowrie was located on the East Coast of Scotland. This is a medieval map.

1662 Act of Parliament. Andrew Millar 4th, (uncle and brother to Robert Millar the 1st) deprived of his charge at Dailly, for refusing to recognize the episcopate—-yet he was still in Dailly on 17 December 1663. He compounded his offence by baptizing the child of a neighboring minister, and was fined 4,000 marks—-but he got the penalty reduced by half. YYMA 55

1700 Isthmus in the Plantations between Pacific and Atlantic oceans. Thus ended the attempt of Darien, an enterprise splendid in itself, but injudicious, because far beyond the force of the adventurous little nation by which it was undertaken. Paterson survived the disaster, and, even when all was over, endeavored to revive the scheme, by allowing the English  three-fourths in a new Stock Company of Scotland. But national animosities were too high to suffer his proposal to be listened to. He died at an advanced age, poor and neglected. (The Isthmus of Darien (later Panama) was unsettled because it was infected with Yellow Fever water born microbes, which killed off the settlers. An ugly way to go. Prevention and cure had to wait two centuries until Pasteur’s discovery of the microbial theory of disease, in the 1850’s, and Colonel Walter Reed’s clinical proof of the fever’s transfer to humans by mosquitoes, and not human interaction, in 1900. Defeat Mosquitoes, and defeat the Yellow Jack.)

Paterson Crest: A dexter hand issuing out of a cloud holding a branch of laurel, all Proper Motto: HUC TENDIMUS OMNES
[“We all strive for this”]

1727 Germany. George (later styled 1st), King of Scots and England died, age 68, 13th year of reign. Buried in Hanover. Tytler’s Britannica.

1755 Battle of Monongahela River – Braddock’s Defeat, Fort Duquesne on the Ohio, western Pennsylvania Colony. The French and Indian War also known as the Seven Year War (1757 to 1762). after a council of war several of the wagons were returned to Fort Cumberland as too cumbersome for the country.

1776 On June 11, 1776, The Second Continental Congress appointed a “Committee of Five”, consisting of John Adams of Massachusetts, Benjamin Franklin of Pennsylvania, Franklin nickel stamp.

Thomas Jefferson of Virginia, Robert R. Livingston (clan Livingstone) of New York, and Roger Sherman of Connecticut, to draft a declaration about the political events of separation.

John Trumbull’s painting is often identified as the signing of the Declaration, but it actually shows the drafting committee presenting its work to the Congress. Yale University Art Gallery. The painting is replicated on the door of the Senate wing of the U.S. Capitol Washington District of Columbia. A funny anecdote follows. After searching for the painting’s location between 1974 and 1976, John Choate located the original as being in the collection of the Yale Art Gallery. Choate brought his family on a special trip to New England, in 1976, to see the painting, and was surprised (disappointed? Exasperated?) to learn it was on tour around the country for the bicentennial, and wasn’t in New Haven at all. A few years later, upon its returned, it was observed in the original location. John Trumbull had willed his art to Yale and is buried under the floor of the art gallery.

1780 Admiral Geary (British fleet) captured 12 French merchant ships. Tytler’s Britannica

1793 William Robertson (historian)   a Scottish historian died. Minister of religion, and Principal of the University of Edinburgh. “The thirty years during which [he] presided over the University perhaps represent the highest point in its history.” Andrew Millar VI, London Bookseller. YYMA 64     The British Museum possesses the correspondence between Millar and various authors and the Society for the Encouragement of Learning; he published the histories of [William] Robertson and [David] Hume, and Hume often took pen in hand to grumble.

1856 Departed from Iowa City, are Emigrants from Ships, Enoch Train and S. Curling, which sailed from England, through Boston. Daniel D. McArthur captain. Wikipedia. The Boston Daily Atlas, June 7, 1852. LAUNCH OF THE ENOCH TRAIN, THE LARGEST CLIPPER SHIP IN THE WORLD. — Since the launch of the Vermont, seventy-four, we have not seen so many people assembled to view a ship, as were present at the launching of this magnificent clipper, on Saturday afternoon. She was gaily decorated with flags, and looked beautifully. Precisely at twenty minutes past one, the last block was cut away, and slowly she glided along the ways into the seam saluted with cheers upon cheers. Bowing obeisance to the spectators on the shore, she went gracefully about twice her length, and grounded, but was towed off next tide, and now lies at Lombard’s wharf, East Boston, where she will be rigged with dispatch, and then load for San Francisco.

She floats on an even keel, and only draws 10 feet 3 inches water, and this, too, including 3 feet 6 inches depth of keel. No freighting vessel, almost flat on the floor, is more buoyant. After the launch, Mr. D. M’Kay, her builder, entertained a party of gentlemen at his house, in his usual hospitable style. Among those present were Messrs. Enoch and George F. Train, Benj. Bangs, Saml. Bradstreet, T.J. Shelton, W. Davis, Jr., L. M’Kay, Capts. Gifford and Brewer, of this city, Capt. Graham, of . New York, and several others. The Enoch Train sailed from Liverpool to Boston in 1856 with 534 Mormon converts on board. After a 39-day passage across the Atlantic Ocean, the group was the first to push and pull handcarts across the plains to Utah, said James L. Raines, the museum conservator and model builder.

1863 Darien Georgia named for The Darien colony (A Scots colony 1699-1701 between Mexico and Columbia). June 11. Federal troops stationed on St. Simons Island looted and then destroyed Darien Georgia. The burning was carried out by the 54th Massachusetts Volunteers under the command of a reluctant Colonel Robert Gould Shaw (who would later call the raid a “Satanic Action”) and the 2nd South Carolina Volunteers under the command of Colonel James Montgomery. The 54th was featured in the 1989 Academy Award winning film Glory starring Matthew Broderick as Col. Shaw,

Poster. The town of Darien (originally known as New Inverness) was founded in January 1736 by Scottish Highlanders recruited by James Oglethorpe to act as settler-soldiers protecting the frontiers of Georgia from the Spanish in Florida, the French in the Alabama basin and their Indian allies.

 

1871 Capture of the Korean forts, June 11, 1871. Alexander McKenzie (born 1837) was a United States Navy Boatswain’s Mate who received the Medal of Honor during the Korean Expedition. On board the U.S.S. Colorado during the capture.

1940 Tuesday 11th. Raritan New Jersey. Georgia. Alabama. Texas. Fort Douglas Utah. ‘Their Finest Hour, The Fall of France, Back to France.’ Generations of Government gun control and gun bans had disarmed the homefronts of Poles, and disarmed the homefronts of neutral Belgians and Dutch, and disarmed the homefronts of French, Scots, and English. Relying, as their governments promised and they falsely supposed on their police and armies. All were to pay very dearly for such short sightedness, under rape, riot, and ruin. Terrible and crushing evils would be unleashed on a defenseless, helpless and self unarmed populace. The shock of Nazi blitzkrieg devastated Poland, Belgium, Netherlands, Luxembourg, and France. Next up was Great Britain. Churchill (clan Montgomery) wrote –

  • ‘By June 11, a dozen British merchant ships moved in the [Gravesend] bay and anchored, and loading from lighters began.’ [of rifles, ammo, machine guns, field guns, from America’s Great War stores.]

Backstory, the British evacuation of Dunkirk (May June 1940) and other evacuations from Brest, Cherbourg, St. Malo, and St. Nazaire, left all their guns and equipment on the beaches of France. The United States sold a half million rifles and more to restock and rearm Scotland and England against a threatened Nazi invasion upcoming in the Battle of Britain (June to November 1940). The American people, many of Scots descent, had their own guns and ammo, so the Government could spare 600 freight car loads for a dozen merchant ships to fill. No gun bans in America. The ownership was guaranteed by the Second Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. 

1959 James Hugh Calum Laurie born. Laurie’s parents, who were of Scottish descent, attended St. Columba’s Presbyterian Church of England. He sings and plays piano, guitar, drums, harmonica and saxophone. On 23 May 2007, Laurie received his award as an Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE), Tomorrowland. Hugh Laurie stars. The Laurie Clan lived in Dumfries and Galloway.

2015 http://www.deseretnews.com/lds-churc-news

Elder Holland visits Scotland and England. Accompanied by Elder José A. Teixeira of the Seventy and president of the Europe Area of the Church, and Elder Clifford T. Herbertson, an Area Seventy, Elder Holland presided over a priesthood leadership conference and met with missionaries in the Scotland Edinburgh Mission.

Among other activities, Elder Holland, Elder Teixeira, Elder Patrick Kearon of the Seventy and first counselor in the Europe Area presidency, and Elder Herbertson met with missionaries in the England Birmingham Mission on June 11.

On the evening of June 11, Elder Holland spoke at a devotional for young single adults in the Harris Manchester College Chapel at Oxford.

Elder Holland’s eldest son, Matthew S. Holland, who is president of Utah Valley University, was in Great Britain on university business and delivered a lecture at Oxford University on June 11 on the subject of Abraham Lincoln’s leadership qualities.

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