October 20-846 sometime in 846. Rollo ROGNVALDSSON born Maer, Nord-Trondelag, Norway. Baptised Robert and so sometimes numbered Robert I. Evidence that the Clan Jardine, a lowland Scottish clan, were of Norse extraction that migrated to Normandy with a warrior named Rollo prior to 1066.

Rollo on the Six Dukes statue in Falaise town square.

1016 (or 1018) – sometime in 1018. Battle of Carham, Clan Keith the Barony of Keith, Humbie, East Lothian, said to have been granted by the king to Marbhachir Chamius for his valour. Symeon of Durham, in the ‘Historia Regum’ (History of the Kings) entry for 1018, writes:

“A great battle between the Scots and Angles was fought at Carrum [Carham] between Huctred [Uhtred], son of Waldef [Waltheof], earl of the Northumbrians, and Malcolm [Malcolm II], son of Cyneth [Kenneth II], king of the Scots, with whom there was in the battle Eugenius [Owen] the Bald, king of the men of Clyde [Strathclyde].”

In Symeon’s ‘Historia Ecclesiae Dunelmensis’ (History of the Church of Durham) appears the passage:

“In the year of our Lord’s incarnation ten hundred and eighteen, while Cnut ruled the kingdom of the Angles, a comet appeared for thirty nights to the people of Northumbria, a terrible presage of the calamity by which that province was about to be desolated. For, shortly afterwards, (that is, after thirty days,) nearly the whole population, from the river Tees to the Tweed, and their borders, were cut off in a conflict in which they were engaged with a countless multitude of Scots at Carrun [Carham].”

The Battle of Carham – 1016. Malcolm II, King of Alba, defeats the Northumbrians at the Battle of Carham. Malcolm then annexed Lothian from England extending Scotland’s territories further. He ruled until his death in 1034. Video: Scotland’s History Top 10: Episode 2. http://www.bbc.co.uk/scotland/history/scotland_united/the_battle_of_carham/

The area in red diagonal stripes is Northumbria, England. Carham is a village in Northumbria, just 3 miles west of Coldstream, on the River Tweed (which forms part of the border between Scotland and England.) Notice the proximity to Flodden Field. Carham is the site of 2 battles, In 833 the Danes routed the English, Leland wrote (translator not listed)

In the 33rd year of Ecbright the Danes arrived at Lindisfarne and fought with the English at Carham where Eleven Bishops and two English Countes were slayne, and a great number of people.

In 1016 or 1018 the Battle of Carham between the Kingdom of Scotland and the Northumbrians resulted in a Scottish victory.

1264 Gilbert de Clare, 6th Earl of Hertford, 7th Earl of Gloucester and his associates were excommunicated by Pope Clement IV, and his lands placed under an interdict. The 7th Earl’s son, also Gilbert, Earl of Hertford and Gloucester (1291–1314) succeeded to his father’s titles and was killed at the Battle of Bannockburn.

1533 – Robert third Lord Sempill, the “Great Lord” (d. 1572), who received,

20 October 1533, charter as governor of the King’s castle of Douglas, and was a Catholic supporter of Mary Queen of Scots and Lord Darnley. (Clan Sempill) Robert de Semple witnessed a charter to Paisley Abbey in around 1246. Later as the chamberlain of Renfrew he witnessed a charter of the Earl of Lennox.

Lennox Motto: I’LL DEFEND.        Chief: Edward Lennox of that Ilk Crest: Two broadswords in saltire behind a swan’s head and neck all Proper.

Map showing Paisley and Renfrew.

1581 RUTHVEN, WILLIAM, fourth Lord Ruthven and first Earl of Gowrie (1541?–1584), Provost and Lieutenant of Perth, Lord High Treasurer, the lands and barony of Gowrie belonging to the monastery of Scone were erected into an earldom, and bestowed on him by charter under the great seal (Reg. Mag. Sig. Scot. 1580–93, No. 258).

1713 – Archibald Pitcairne, Scottish physician died (b. 1652).

1803 – The United States Senate ratifies the Louisiana Purchase. Gowrie Iowa is a county formed from the purchase and named for the barony in Perth Scotland. Aberdeen South Dakota, Aberdeen Montana, are named for Aberdeen Scotland. Ayr North Dakota, Ayr Nebraska, named for Ayr Scotland. Berwick Iowa, Berwick Missouri, Berwick North Dakota, named for Berwick Scotland. Elgin Kansas, Elgin Iowa, Elgin Minnesota, Elgin Nebraska, Elgin Oklahoma named for Elgin Scotland. Hamilton Colorado, Hamilton Iowa, Hamilton Kansas, Hamilton Minnesota, Hamilton Missouri, Hamilton Montana, are named for Hamilton Scotland. Guthrie Iowa, Guthrie Oklahoma named for Guthrie Oklahoma. States include Montana, North and South Dakota, Minnesota, Wyoming, Nebraska, Iowa, Missouri, Kansas, Colorado, Oklahoma, Arkansas, Louisiana, Texas.

Scots names are throughout the United States.

1827 Bay of Navarino. The fleets of Britain, France, and Russia defeat the Turks.

1830 Joseph Smith the Prophet, at Fayette, New York. (clans Huntley, Hamilton, Mackenzie, Mack of Inverness, Malcolm King of Scots), Doctrine and Covenants 32. Sometime in October. Great interest and desires were felt by the elders respecting the Lamanites, of whose predicted blessings the Church had learned from the Book of Mormon.

1942 started training for Operation Frankton, the December 1942 raid by canoe-borne British commandos on shipping in Bay of Biscay port of Bordeaux Harbour. October 20

Royal Navy submarine HMS Tuna (N94) left from Holy Loch in Scotland. Admiral Louis Mountbatten, the commander of Combined Operations, deemed the raid “the most courageous and imaginative of all the raids ever carried out by the men of Combined Operations.” Two of ten survived the raid. Lieutenant J. W. Mackinnon and Sergeant S. Wallace did not.

1983 Mickey’s Christmas Carol world premiere released. American animated fantasy short produced by Walt Disney Productions directed and produced by Burny Mattinson. An adaptation of Charles Dickens’ 1843 A Christmas Carol with Mickey Mouse as Bob Cratchit and Scrooge McDuck (fictional clan McDuck) as his namesake and inspiration, Ebeneezer Scrooge.

The film was also the last time in which Clarence Nash voiced Donald Duck.

1987 President Howard W. Hunter, Acting President of the Council of the Twelve, was honored on October 20 by the Clan Hunter of Scotland.

The honor came in recognition of President Hunter’s “inestimable contributions … to the work of genealogy and the advancement of family life,” according to Charles Hunter, clan administrator. Mr. Hunter is the heir who will become hereditary World Chief of Clan Hunter and the thirtieth Laird of Hunterston, ancestral home of the clan. President Hunter was also cited for “his great example of humanitarian service and love for all mankind.” Charles Hunter referred to him as “one of the noblest scions of a noble race, and one of the greatest Hunters of them all.”

The clan’s presentation, made at a Salt Lake City luncheon, also commemorated President Hunter’s eightieth birthday, which was November 14. Elder David B. Haight of the Council of the Twelve conducted the luncheon Elder Bernard P. Brockbank, emeritus member of the First Quorum of the Seventy and president of the Church’s first mission in Scotland, was also present.

Mr. Hunter presented President Hunter with a framed certificate recognizing him as a life member of the Clan Hunter and signed by The Much Honored Neil Avlmer Hunter, The Hunter, Chief of the Clan.

President Hunter was also presented a tartan and a framed silk-screen print of a painting of Hunterston Castle, which is located on the west coast of Scotland.

Responding, President Hunter said that although he had never lived in Scotland, “Many of us feel that it is our homeland.” His grandfather emigrated from Scotland in 1860.

Hunterston castle 1906

http://www.scotlandinoils.com/clan/Clan-Hunter.html

2006 Trump 101: The Way to Success

Donald John Trump, Sr. (clans MacQueen, Macaulay, MacLeod, of Aberdeenshire and Outer Hebrides), (born June 14, 1946). His mother was Mary Anne MacLeod, (born May 10, 1912,– died August 7, 2000), who was married in 1936. Mary Anne was born at Tong, Stornoway, on the Isle of Lewis, off th e coast of Scotland, United Kingdom.

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