November 6 – 1429 Coronation of Henry VI, King of England.

Henry VI.

1479 James Hamilton, 1st Lord Hamilton (c. 1415–1479), died,

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a Scottish nobleman son of James Hamilton of Cadzow, 5th Laird of Cadzow. James was born at Cadzow Castle, South Lanarkshire. James first appears on record on a charter of 1426, granting him the rights to the lands of Dalserf, which had been alienated by his father. James Hamilton was connected with the powerful House of Douglas:

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James’ mother was a daughter of the Douglas Lord of Dalkeith, and also through his marriage in 1439/1440 with Lady Euphemia Graham, the youthful widow of Archibald Douglas, 5th Earl of Douglas and daughter of Euphemia Stewart, Countess of Strathearn. Hamilton became stepfather to the young William 6th Earl of Douglas, William with his brother David Douglas, both who would be murdered in November 1440 at the ‘Black Dinner’ at Edinburgh Castle in the presence of James II Stewart King of Scots. Furthermore James, was the stepfather of Margaret Douglas, known as the “Fair Maid of Galloway”, who was to marry her cousins William Douglas, 8th Earl of Douglas, and James Douglas, 9th Earl of Douglas. Hamilton married first, Lady Euphemia Graham, daughter of Patrick Graham, de jure Earl of Strathearn and Euphemia Stewart, Countess of Strathearn and widow of Archibald Douglas, 5th Earl of Douglas. James had, by Euphemia, a daughter: Elizabeth Hamilton (c. 1442 – c. 1517), who married David Lindsay, 1st Duke of Montrose. James Hamilton’s second wife was Princess Mary Stewart of Scotland, daughter of James II Stewart King of Scotland, and widow of Thomas Boyd, Earl of Arran, and sister to James III King. By Princess Mary, Hamilton had three children: Elizabeth Stewart – married Matthew Stewart, 2nd Earl of Lennox. Mary’s descendants included James I of England & VI of Scotland. James Hamilton, 1st Earl of Arran natural children included Sir Patrick Hamilton of Kincavil, father of Master Patrick Hamilton, burnt for heresy in 1528 and a Protestant martyr.

William Douglas is murdered at Stirling – 1452. In 1452 James II invites William, 8th Earl of Douglas, to Stirling Castle. James demands that Douglas end an alliance with the MacDonalds. In the argument that follows Douglas is stabbed to death. Video: A history of Scotland: Language is Power.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/scotland/history/the_stewarts/william_douglas_is_murdered_at_stirling/

1506 Andrew Barton, in reprisal for the seizure of his father’s ship in 1476 by the Flemish, received a royal commission on 6 November 1506 from King James 4th against the Portuguese, and was said to have preyed on their commerce in the English Channel. Barton’s commission against the Portuguese is often called a letter of marque, but it was in fact a “letter of reprisal”, a different sort of document, which remained in use in Scotland long after other countries had abandoned it. Whereas a letter of marque authorized action against the king’s enemies during wartime, a letter of reprisal was issued to a man who had been individually wronged by foreign governments – typically when they failed to bring their own pirates to justice for an attack. The offended skipper was authorized to forcibly seize ships and goods from the offending country as compensation, even in peacetime, until such time as their court system did him justice. In this way, the Barton family were at war with Portugal for almost a century (c. 1470-1563), eventually subcontracting an entire fleet of privateers under their letter of reprisal. This ancient practice continued until the start of the eighteenth century. There was with a quasi-national conflict against Hamburg in the 1630s, and Jacobite privateers continued to fight under letters of reprisal issued by James VII against the Prince of Orange during the years of peace in 1697-1702.

The U.S. Constitution Article One Section Eight, authorizes Congress ‘To declare War, grant Letters of Marque and Reprisal.’

1632 Swedish King Gustavus Adolphus died. Gustav II Adolf (born 9 December 1594, died 6 November 1632, O.S.) has been widely known in English by his Latinized name Gustavus Adolphus Magnus and variously in historical writings also as Gustavus, or Gustavus the Great, or Gustav Adolph the Great, (Swedish: Gustav Adolf den store, a formal distinction passed by the Swedish Parliament in 1634). He was King of Sweden (1611–1632) and founder of the Swedish Empire (or Stormaktstiden – “the era of great power”) at the beginning of the Golden Age of Sweden. Thirty years war: Battle of Lützen is fought, the Swedes are victorious but the King of Sweden, Gustavus Adolphus dies in the battle.

The Battle of Lützen by Carl Wahlbom shows the death of King Gustavus Adolphus on 16 November 1632. Colonel Hugh Cochrane was an officer (scot mercenary) in this King’s army, with his brother. Another brother William becomes Earl of Dundonald after the Restoration.

1661 the birth of Charles II of Spain, as Habsburg King of Spain and the ruler of large parts of Italy, the Spanish territories in the Southern Low Countries, and Spain’s overseas Empire, stretching from the Americas to the Spanish East Indies. a new conflict over the inheritance of the Spanish Empire (the most important unsolved question of European politics) would soon embroil France and the Grand Alliance in Louis XIV’s final conflict – the War of the Spanish Succession.

1724 Sometime in November. Robert Miller (II of St. Quivox) came late to matrimony as well as to the ministry. In November, 1724, he married Helen, daughter of

Tibbermore Church. www.scotlandschurchestrust.org.uk

David Meldrum (1659-1741), who at the time of the marriage was the minister at Tibbermore in the Presbytery of Perth, but whose first charge after taking a Masters of Arts at Edinburgh had been Mauchline in Kyle where he married a daughter of Ayr’s deputy sheriff (Crichton). YYMA 81

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The Rev. Mr. Meldrum’s tenure at Mauchline was terminated by the reinstatement of the former minister—-William and Mary, under an Act of Parliament of 1690, restored to their former charges ‘all these Presbiteruan ministers yet alive who were thrust from their charges since the first day of January 1661.’ he served for an interval as chaplain of the Edinburgh Tolbooth, then was called to Tibbermore in 1694 and remained until his death at the end of 1741, aged about eighty-two. His latter years must have been afflicted by senility; the Tibbermore parish records minute prolonged efforts to get him to vacate and yield the keys of a manse that had become ruinous.

1750 Flora MacDonald (emigrated to America after failure of Jacobite rising) (1722 – 4 March 1790), married. Jacobite heroine. On 6 November 1750, at the age of 28, she married Allan MacDonald of Kingsburgh, a captain in the army and the eldest son of Alexander MacDonald VI. The couple lived at Flodigarry on the Isle of Skye where they subsequently parented five sons and two daughters. Upon the death of Allan MacDonald’s father in 1772, the family moved into the MacDonald family estate at Kingsburgh. In 1774, they emigrated to North Carolina. During the American War of Independence Captain MacDonald served the British government in the 84th Regiment of Foot (Royal Highland Emigrants).  Isle of Skye from 300 miles high. Commander Chris Hadfield a Canadian flight engineer on the International Space Station, February 2013. www.visitscotland.com/

Isle of Skye map in comparison. Note Macdonald family locations.

1860 Abraham Lincoln elected President. His military leaders and Generals were of Scots descent.

Lincoln 16 cent stamp 1938.

1886 Gustav Gerson Kahn born Coblenz Germany, died Oct 8 1941. Songrwriters Hall of Fame 1951. Came to Chicago, had the gift of poetry, and wrote the words of the songs you’ve sung over and over, such as Carolina in the Morning (1922), Makin’ Whoopee (1928), It Had to Be ye (1924) , Dream a Little Dream of Me (1931), On the Alamo (1922) and San Francisco (1936). Two of Kahn’s songs were performed by Gretchen Ann Luther at the Gamma Phi Beta sorority in Norman Oklahoma at the University of Oklahoma, in 1964, to wit Toot, Toot, Tootsie Goo’ Bye! (Toot Toot Tootsie Don’t Cry, The Choo Choo Train that takes me, Away from you, don’t know how sad it makes me, 1922), and Yes Sir That’s My Baby (1925),   She was so entertaining, that John Choate, born 60 years later, bought her act (clans Cochrane, Stewart, Hunter, Meldrum, Lockhart). Coblenz is on the Rhine, opposite France and was the staging area for the French nobility fleeing the French Revolution from 1789 to 1795, according to Thomas Carlyle’s History of the French Revolution.  DORIS DAY (Doris Mary Ann Kappelhoff) in STRAW HAT from the movie I’ll See ye In My Dreams 1951, reprise by Gretchen Luther 1964.

1888 Presidential Election. Benjamin Harrison and Levi P. Morton. Harrison’s spouses were Caroline Scot and Mary Scot Lord. Son of John Scott Harrison and Elizabeth Ramsey (Ramsey clan). Caroilne Scot was the daughter of John Witherspoon Scott (jan 22 1800 = Nov 29 1892) Presbyterian minister and Yale College graduate.

1900 Presidential Election. William McKinley and Theodore Roosevelt.

McKinley’s portrait.

 

1913 Scotsman Calvin L. Rampton, 6 Nov 1913, Bountiful, Davis Utah, Baptized on his eighth birthday 1921, Died 29 September 2007. served as Utah’s governor for three consecutive terms (1964-1976),80 CONVEYANCE & CONTRIBUTION: MORMON SCOTS GATHER TO AN AMERICAN ZION, History Scotland magazine – Vol.5.4 – July/August 2005

1918 Finctional birth of the son to fictional Uncle Charles Ranier (Ronald Colman, clan Fraser) and Paula (Greer Garson) in a December 17 1942 war time movie set in post Great War England.

Poster of Random Harvest. A rare production number of Greer Garson featured as dancing and singing in a Scottish kilt, brogue, humor, and Pipers. Available on YouTube.

Wikipedia. While working as a clerk at the British Steamship Company in the City of London, Colman joined the London Scottish Regiment in 1909 as a Territorial Army soldier, and on being mobilised on the outbreak of World War I, crossed the English Channel to France in September 1914 to take part in the fighting on the Western Front. On 31 October 1914, at the Battle of Messines,[4] Colman was seriously wounded by shrapnel in his ankle, which gave him a limp that he would attempt to hide throughout the rest of his acting career. As a consequence, he was invalided out of the British Army in 1915.

1928 Herbert Hoover elected President of the United States. Not a Veteran, Hoover’s permitting the rout of the Bonus Army in July 1932, set up the loss of the Republican party’s influence for generations.

1941 To Be or Not to Be ( released 1942) movie production began. American comedy directed by Ernst Lubitsch, about a troupe of actors in Nazi-occupied Warsaw Poland who use their abilities at disguise and acting to fool the occupying troops. Fictional Characters include General Armstrong and Major Cunningham for the Royal Air Force.

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The last scene shows the fictional Polish refugees parchuting into Scotland. Carole Lombard (Jane Alice Peters) starred in her last film, and one of her most successful. Lombard’s last poster. Lombard died in a plane crash outside Las Vegas, during a war bond tour.

1946 john choate born (clans Stewart, Lockhart, Meldrum, Cochrane, Hunter).

Clans Montgomery, Gordon and Livingston on the left, Armstrong, MacPherson, and Fraser on the right. Circa 2012, Virginia.

1953 Jessie May Thompson born.

1961 Tracy Young Cannon died 23 jul 1879- 6 nov 1961. Poet for Come Rejoice 9, God of Power God of Right 20, Praise the Lord with Heart and Voice 73, The Lord be with Us 161, Come Let Us Sing an Evening Hymn 167, Jesus Mighty King in Zion 234, How Beautiful thy Temples Lord 288

1956 Presidential Election, Eisenhower and Nixon.

1973 Pioneer 10 becomes the first man-made object to Image Jupiter beginning November 6, 1973, at a range of 25 million km, and a total of more than 500 images were transmitted. The Outer Space Panel chaired by American space scientist James A. Van Allen, previously at the Carneige Institute (Scot philanthropist) worked out the scientific rationale for exploring the outer planets.  An artist’s concept of the Pioneer 10 Jupiter encounter

1973 Zoe McLellan (born November 6, 1974 in La Jolla, California) is an American actress who is mostly recognized for her roles as Petty Officer Jennifer Coates on JAG and as Lisa George on ABC’s Dirty Sexy Money.

1984 Ronald Reagan (clan Wilson) February 6, 1911 – June 5, 2004) elected 40th President 1981-89: His great grandfather, John Wilson, emigrated to North America from Paisley in 1832.  2nd great grandparents Daniel Blue (1797 ) and Cathaie McFarlain (1918) of Kilcalmonell Argyll, Scotland, and John Wilson (1812) of Paisley, Renfrew, Scotland.

1984 presidential electoral votes by state. Reagan (red) won every state except for Mondale’s home state of Minnesota (and Washington, D.C.)

2000 George W. Bush (clan McLeland) 43rd President 2001-09: election. Yale College. His great-great-great-great grandmother, Catherine Walker (nee McLelland), was Scot.

 

  1. Humor. Tam well to do, passed on. At the viewing, Tam’s solicitor stood by, observing Tam’s fancy casket and the long reception line of well wishers and business associates. When the minister came over, the question was whispered in the solicitor’s ear, ‘Hae much deed Tam leave?’ To which was replied, ‘Why,’ (surprised at the question) the Solicitor went on, ‘He left all of it.’

 

2012 Willard Mitt Romney (Clans Campbell and Ferguson) enjoys support of 48 percent of the electorate, fulfilling Isaiah 48;5  ‘I have even from the beginning declared it to thee; before it came to pass I shewed it thee: lest thou shouldest say, Mine idol hath done them, and my graven image, and my molten image, hath commanded them.’ See also 1 Nephi 20:5. See http://soundcloud.com/romneyrock.

 

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