MARCH 2 – 672 Chad Bishop of Lichfield Missionary feast day.

1316 King Robert II Stewart born Paisley, Renfrewshire. (1390) son of Marjorie Bruce, daughter of Robert I Bruce of Scotland and wife of Walter Stewart, the sixth High Steward of Scotland, was out riding near the abbey. Heavily pregnant at the time, she fell from her horse and was taken to Paisley Abbey where she gave birth to King Robert II. However, Marjorie Bruce died and is buried at the Abbey.

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In the abbey itself there are signs which indicate that Marjorie’s baby was cut out of her womb, a caesarean delivery long before anaesthesia was available. Robert Miller of Port Glasgow and Paisley minister 400 years later, 1672-1752

 Robert I the Good (Robert a Bruis). 1316 – Marjorie Bruce, daughter of Robert I of Scotland (b. 1296) died.

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Horse riding falls and broken necks, such as Marjorie Stewart (nee Bruce) have been made the topic of legend and movies.

First Edition Cover. Fictional, Gone With the Wind (novel and movie), has a sub plot of “Bonnie Blue,” in reference to the Bonnie Blue Flag of the Confederacy. Bonnie Blue is 4 years auld daughter of Rhett and Scarlett, rides a horse sidesaddle, and dies when her pony misses a jump, trips, and throws her.

Anna and the King of Siam movie, plot in the 1860s. Widow Anna’s son dies in a horse fall. The Kralahome comes to Anna and reads a proclamation from the King granting the child royal funeral honours. Deb Kerr is in the Movie as Anna.

Superman IX. Christopher Reeve (1952-2004), actor, was a quadriplegic from a broken neck in 1995, and a fall from his horse while riding cross-country in a 3-day event. Reeve previously flew to Glasgow and saw theatrical productions throughout Scotland. Eventually ulcers became infected and he died.

King Alexander III of Scotland, 19 March 1286, when Alexander and his horse went off the road in the dark, and fell over a cliff.

William 3rd of England, 2nd of Scotland, died in 1702 from injuries received after his horse tripped on a molehill.

John Dunbar, Earl of Moray (d. 1390) a Scottish nobleman. died at York from wounds received from the Earl of Nottingham during a tournament, falling off his horse.

 

  1. Never happened in Scotland. July went from the 5th month in 1599 to the 7th month in 1600.

1619 – Anne of Denmark, died, queen consort of Scotland, England, and Ireland as the wife of James VI and I (b. 1574)

1622 Earthquake. Doctrine and Covenants 43_25 How oft have I called upon ye by the mouth of my servants, and by the ministering of angels, and by mine own voice, and by the voice of earthquakes and would have saved ye with an everlasting salvation, but ye would not!

1625 James Hamilton, 2nd Marquess of Hamilton 4th Earl of Arran died. Spouse Lady Ann Cunningham

 2nd Marquess of Hamilton 4th Earl of Arran In 1608 he was created Lord Aberbrothwick.

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1705 – William Murray, 1st Earl of Mansfield, born, Scottish judge and politician, avoids clearances (d. 1793)

1709, Robert Miller of Glasgow and Paisley, was translated to the First Charge of Abbey at Paisley. The church there, dedicated to St. Mirin and built over the saint’s tomb, had been a place of pilgrimage from very early times; the name Paisley is a corruption of YYMA59 ‘basilica.’ In 1163, Walter FitzAlan, the first High Steward of Scotland, had founded at Renfrew a Cluniac Priory with monks from Much Wenlock in his native Shropshire; in 1169 he transferred the community to Paisley and granted them St. Mirin’s church. Other saints especially revered there were St. Mary, St. James the patron of Renfrew, and St. Milburga of Much Wenlock.

In earlier centuries, Paisley Abbey had been the church of the Stewarts. Here lie buried Marjorie, daughter of Robert I the Bruce and mother of Robert II Stewart, the queens of Roberts II and III; and possibly Robert III himself.

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In 1561, after an onslaught by the Reformers, the abbey’s transeptual tower fell, destroying much of the choir; following the time of the Reformation only the nave and one chapel were maintained. The present church is largely a 20th century structure, but very early sculptures showing scenes from the life of St. Mirin are mounted in the wall below the northeast window.

Robert Miller, son of Andrew IV of Dailly and Neilston, born in 1672, took his M.A. at Glasgow and was recorded among its donors in 1697, the year he was called to the church at Port Glasgow: sea-going ships could come no further up the Clyde until completion of the deepened channel in 1768. The Commissioners for the Plantation of Kirks had disjoined the parish from Kilmalcolm the year before Robert came – 1696.

Family histories and locations of ancient shires

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 did occur in Scotland, as 1751 had 365 days. The world’s oldest lunar “calendar” is in an Aberdeenshire field.

1793 Sam Houston (Scots) (March 2, 1793 – July 26, 1863)

President of Texas 1836-38 and 1841-44. his great-great grandfather Sir John Houston, who built a family estate in Scotland in the late 17th century.

Texas Centennial Issue of 1936~ Sam Houston ~~ The Alamo ~ Stephen F. Austin ~

 

1808 – The inaugural meeting of the Wernerian Natural History Society, a former Scottish learned society, is held in Edinburgh.

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

32nd    form of 16 pages printed. Somewhere in Mormon

1836 siege at The Alamo Mission San Antonio, Texas Republic (February 23 – March 6, 1836) ends at the Battle of the Alamo on March 6 with list of Scots defenders. Restored in 1847 by Colonel James Harvey Ralston.

Alamo Plaza in the 1860s

1849 sometime in this year. Frederic Gardner noted on the voyage of the James Pennell, “I believe altogether there are about 250 souls, probably one hundred or more of whom are from Scotland. But all are filled with the spirit of the gospel, and working in harmony with each other.” John Penman remembered, “Myself, wife, and three children bid adieu to dear auld Scotland and cast our lot with [The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints] and to make a home with that peculiar people in the desert wilds of North America.” During the latter half of the nineteenth century, the Scots gathered as individuals and families by the hundreds and thousands to make a desert blossom as a rose.

1882 Queen Victoria (clans Stewart, Drummond, Bruce, Douglas)  narrowly escapes assassination when a man shoots at her as she boards a train in Windsor.

1969 The Anglo-French built ‘Concorde’, the world’s first supersonic airliner, makes its maiden flight.  the name Concorde is from the French word concorde (IPA: [kɔ̃kɔʁd]), which has an English equivalent, concord. Both words mean agreement, harmony or union. The name was officially changed to Concord by Harold Macmillan in response to a perceived slight by Charles de Gaulle. At the French roll-out in Toulouse in late 1967, the British Government Minister for Technology, Tony Benn, announced that he would change the spelling back to Concorde. This created a nationalist uproar that died down when Benn stated that the suffixed “e” represented “Excellence, England, Europe and Entent (Cordial)”. In his memoirs, he recounts a tale of a letter from an irate Scotsman claiming: “[Y]ou talk about ‘E’ for England, but part of it is made in Scotland.” Given Scotland’s contribution of providing the nose cone for the aircraft, Benn replied, “[I]t was also ‘E’ for ‘Écosse’ (the French name for Scotland) – and I might have added ‘e’ for extravagance and ‘e’ for escalation as well! Wikipedia

1977 James Turner Nielsen’s birthday.

2012 Humor. INCREASE the life o yer carpets by rollin’ them up ane keepin’ them in the attic or garage.

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