What clan are you in?

I am not not, but my wife and kids are!

I'm not in a clan...my klan is spelled with a "k"...actually several of them.

Akiva

Inappropriate!

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I've three, Henderson, Buchanan and Fraser (too!).

I thought this was going to be a thread about what BWW clique to which we belong.

Updated On: 5/29/06 at 11:42 PM

I'm in the Bruce clan on my mom's side and the Hamilton clan on my dad's side.

Of course, I'm such a mixture of nationalities that Scottish barely even factors into it.

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Clan Mowbray (Moubray)

MacDonald here

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Scottish clans, the pictures are our clan's tartan. I've been reading the Outlander series by Diana Gabaldon and I am jealous of the Frasers.

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Robertson


Morrison


and Brown

A clan is a large family/kinship system from scotland in which weatlhy/powerful families, and those who married into that family group, settled and ruled the country side. A clan hand lands that provided homes and fields to work for tenents and homesteads for family members. Usually there was a castle where the head of the clan and his immediate family lived. This was the focal point for all justice, legal, and large gathering activity was done. Since families married in and out of the acctual name of the clan it is easy to have a different last name from that of your clan. The clans were almost wiped out after the Rising at Culloden in 1745. The names existed, but the power and control of lands was stripped away by the English in the years following the rising. You don't just get into a clan, you are desended from a clan. My family name is no where near MacDonald, but it is traceable back to Clan MacDonald.

Hopefully that made sense, I'm tired and probably babbling.

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Here's the MacShane tartan! I haven't found the Kelley one yet...

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