June 8 1333 King Edward III orders the capture of the Isle of Man from the Scots. Nearly 7 centuries later, Edward’s descendants, James Austin Choate preaches in the Jersey Islands, Elder Eric Choate preaches in England, Sisters Amy Marie Choate-Nielsen and Edna Beth Choate (nee Petersen) preach in London and the Midlands.

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1444 The grandson of the 1st Lord Erskine, another Sir Robert, passed the estate of Garscadden to Patrick Galbraith, his armour-bearer. Sir Robert that obtained Garscadden in 1369 – was recognized as the heir to the earldom in 1395

http://www.templum.freeserve.co.uk/history/families/erskine.htm

1492 Elizabeth Woodville died Elizabeth Wydeville, Elizabeth Widvile (c. 1437 – 8 June 1492) was Queen consort of Edward IV, King of England, from 1464 until his death in 1483. Her first husband, Sir John Grey of Groby was killed at the Second Battle of St Albans. As the daughter of Richard Woodville, 1st Earl Rivers, she was the first commoner to marry an English sovereign. It was because of this that Edward’s former staunch ally Richard Neville, 16th Earl of Warwick, known to history as “The Kingmaker” switched his allegiance to the House of Lancaster. Elizabeth Woodville.

1517 Brave French knight, the (TG25-380) Chevalier De la Bastie, favorite of Albany, ambushed by Sir David Home of Wedderburn. Antoine d’Arcy, was called the White Knight, (Chevalier Blanc), from his white clothes, white armour, or a white scarf worn as the favour of Anne of Brittany. Antoine came to Scotland for the tournaments of James IV and the king’s marriage to Margaret Tudor in 1502, and he was a friend of John Stewart, Duke of Albany. Albany

1537 Madeleine of Valois (1537) wrote to her father King Francis I of France from Edinburgh on 8 June 1537 saying that she was better and her symptoms had diminished.

1650 Parliament did, by their act dated June 8th, 1650, unanimously ratify the act dated December 20th, 1648, did, “as an acknowledgment for [Mr. George Gillespie, son of John Gillespie, minister of the gospel at Kirkaldy], faithfulness in all the public employments entrusted to him by this church, both at home and abroad, his faithful labors and indefatigable diligence in all the exercises of his ministerial calling, for his master’s service, and his learned writings published to the world, in which rare and profitable employments, both for church and state, he truly spent himself, and closed his days,—ordain, That the sum of one thousand pounds sterling be given to his widow and children, &c.” 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. 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 – 1781

1714 Electress Sophia of Hanover (a granddaughter of James I) dies. By Act of Settlement 1700 and 1701 she and her Protestant heirs were settled the succession to the English throne. The act was later extended to Scotland, as a result of the Treaty of Union (Article II), enacted in the Acts of Union 1707. Wikipedia.

1758 Battle of Louisburg   Louisbourg, present-day Nova Scotia, then the French province of Ile-Royale. Seige begins. Thomas Cochrane, the 6th Earl (died 1737). Thomas was the son of William Cochrane (died 1717), second son of the aforementioned William Cochrane, Lord Cochrane (died 1679), eldest son of the 1st Earl. He was succeeded by his son William Cochrane, the 7th Earl (died 1758). He fought in the Seven Years’ War and was killed at the Battle of Louisburg in 1758. Choates from Ipswich, Salem and throughout Massachusetts Colony attend the Louisbourg siege.

1768 Andrew Millar VI, London Bookseller died. Millar financed Johnson’s Dictionary beginning in 1755, and on Millar the work of seeing that book through the press mainly fell. In 1755 Millar published the first edition of the Mitchell Map. He also published the histories of Robertson and Hume. Millar’s apprentice, Thomas Becket (or Beckett), was one of the parties involved in the copyright lawsuit of Donaldson v Beckett. Wikipedia In 1758, Millar accepted as an apprentice a boy from Bristol, Thomas Cadell; in 1765 Millar made Cadell a partner. Two years later, Millar turned over the business to Cadell and retired to Kew Green, where Millar died 8 June 1768 and was buried in Kew Gardens. YYMA 64

1905 William C. Dunbar, (b Oct 1823 Scotland -d 08 Jun 1905 Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah) who was quite popular with his acting and comic songs. Dunbar served as the president of the French Mission (1854–56) in The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints’. After earlier tragedy, Dunbar remarried and had thirteen children. Dunbar launched the Salt Lake Herald. Talented among the Salt Lake Saints, as a gifted comedian, singer and bagpipe player until his death in 1905. Dunbar’s obituary summarized his great life, “ever true to the faith he embraced as a young man.” HISTORY SCOTLAND – MAGAZINE

1940 England held a day of Thanksgiving and Prayer for the Miracle of Dunkirk. ‘A flotilla of 900 naval and civilian craft, under RAF protection, managed to rescue 338,226 people from the French port.

A further 220,000 Allied troops were rescued by British ships from Cherbourg, Saint-Malo, Brest, and Saint-Nazaire, bringing the total of Allied troops evacuated to 558,000. However, elements of the British Expeditionary Force had remained behind in an attempt to hold back troops led by General Erwin Rommel.

They included the 51st Highland Division and the 1st Royal Scots, a regular battalion that recruited from Edinburgh and the Lothian’s.

The Royals and soldiers of the 2nd Royal Norfolk were ordered to make a last stand at Le Paradis, close to La Bassée Canal, before being overwhelmed by German army and SS regiments.’

Hundreds of thousands of soldiers were evacuated

Brig Grant, who runs a website dedicated to the 51st Division, said soldiers were left behind to “buy time” for those being evacuated.

He said: “The reason for the 51st Division’s sacrifice – though at the time it was an unknowing sacrifice – was that they were trying to help secure the French defense force and the French army which was being over run by Rommel’s blitzkrieg.”

http://www.bbc.com/news/10180757

1945 Joseph Fielding Smith, 10th President of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints. Descended from Mack of Inverness (clans Huntley, Hamilton, Mackenzie, Mack ), Scotland and Malcolm King of Scots. Called to serve as president of the Salt Lake Temple, a position he held until 1949.

1953, issue of LIFE magazine featured gun camera photos taken by Buzz Aldrin of one of the Russian pilots ejecting from his damaged aircraft. Scots ancestors from Robert Munro included 5th GGF George Munro 7th Laird of Foulis, died 17 Jul 1333 battle of Haldon Hill, Berwick on Tweed, Northumberland

5th GGF Sir Edward Keith 1280 – Kinardinshire, Scotland

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5th GGM Isabel de Synton, Selkirkshire, Scotland

2nd GGF William 6th Thane of Cawdor or Calder 1405 Cawdor Castle. The Spell of Scotland by Keith Clark, 1916 to the Lord Marischall, Boston The Page Company. P.227.

 

1st two men on the moon are Scots descent. http://buzzaldrin.com/the-man/biography/

 

2014 Humor. Perhaps the story began at the battle of Bannockburn, 24 June 1314, when the Scots were on the high ridge overlooking the valley where the English army was strung out, and then embellished by Red Skelton’s Whistling in the Dark in 1941 when Skelton performed the fist fight on radio. Skelton was a 33rd degree Scottish Rite Mason. Or fulfilling Deuteronomy 32 verse 30. But here was how it was related to me by Fillmore, . . .

  The Scots were up on the cliff overlooking the English down below, when the English heard the challenge. ‘Ang-leesh, ye sheep lov’n Cow’ds, sind up yer beest soldier for hand t’ hand fight, if ye dare!’

The English chose their best and he climbed up the cliffs to the top. Immediately the clash of resounding swords was heard below, but in a few moments, silence.

The challenge was renewed from above by the same voice.

‘Ang-leesh, ye ale soused drunk’ds, if that’s the beest ye kin de, ye’d be ashamed. Try agin if ye dare!’

This time the English sent up their next 2 best soldiers, who climbed the cliffs. Immediately the swords clanging above were heard below, but again in a few moments, silence.

‘Ang-leesh, ye rose sniffin’ pan-tee waists, ye not worth fight-in’.

This time the English sent up their next 10 best soldiers, but after a brief noise, silence.

‘Ang-lessh, ye uncir-cumsided Phil-is-tines, is that the beeest ye kin do?’

This time the English sent up their next 50 best soldiers, but after a brief noise, silence.

‘Ang-leesh, I dinnae work up a sweat. Sind up yer beest.’

The English selected another 50 to climb the cliff, but as they were climbing up, one of the previous soldiers who had escaped clammered down the cliff and warned them.

‘Turn back, turn back, it’s a trap. Turn back. There are two of them!’

 

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