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 :::► Dictionary of Meaning www.mauspfeil.net ◄:::
It wears the tartan of the Scottish clan Clan Murray of Atholl and has as its cap badge the clan arms approved by the Duke, which it wears along with a sprig of juniper, which is the clan's plant.
Image:Murray of Atholl.jpg thumb100pxThe Atholl Highlanders cap badge and tartan The '''Atholl Highlanders''' is a British regiment.
Today, the Atholl Highlanders is a purely ceremonial regiment, of approximately 125 men, including two bagpipes pipe bands; one of these is resident with the regiment at Blair Atholl, while the other is the Duke of Atholl's 'Unit in the Colonies' and is resident in Stone Mountain, Georgia (U.S. State) Georgia, USA.
www.mauspfeil.net /Atholl_Highlanders.html   (461 words)

  
 Books, Romance, & More! Author Rebecca Brandewyne's Ravenscroft Castle - The Courtyard.
In Scotland, except for that of the Atholl branch of the Clan Murray, the tartans of both clans are red and black.
In Ireland, the Clans Murray, Murphy, and Murphree all have their own individual coats of arms, with those of the Wexford and Muskerry Murphys being different from each other, as well.
In Scotland, the Mores/Moores are a sept of the Clan Leslie, and the Muirs are a sept of the Clan Campbell.
www.brandewyne.com /castle/04_courtyard.html   (461 words)

  
 Murray Coat of Arms
Family Ties of Roy Harold Murray by Miriam Clouds Murray, Golden Clan: the Murrays, the McDonnells, and the Irish American Aristocracy by John Corry.
In Newfoundland, James Murray was in possession of property and was a fisherman of St. John's in 1784.
This practice, which often included paying homage to the Clan Chief at important events was effective in building respect, devotion and familiarity between different families within the same clan.
www.houseofnames.com /xq/asp.c/qx/murray-coat-arms.htm   (461 words)

  
 Opening Day Recordings
Murray Schafer has won national and international acclaim not only for his achievement as a composer but also as an educator, environmentalist, literary scholar, visual artist and provocateur.
Throughout the week each group will make its own masks and costumes, learn the clan chants and dances and listen to the clan myths, in preparation for the final day when they will all assemble to enact the ritual of which each clan has prepared a portion.
This is BY FAR the most attractive presentation of Schafer's music to date.
www.openingday.com /catalogue/9307.html   (1827 words)

  
 I1153: Donald MURRAY ( - )
Donald MacKinnon and Alick Morrison, THE MACLEODS--THE GENEALOGY OF A CLAN, Section II, Edinburgh, The Clan MacLeod Society, 1968, p.
www.macleodgenealogy.org /ACMS/D0046/I1153.html   (1827 words)

  
 Murray Coat of Arms
In Newfoundland, James Murray was in possession of property and was a fisherman of St. John's in 1784.
The members of the current generation of the Murray family have inherited a name that was first used hundreds of years ago by the people of the ancient Scottish tribe called the Picts.
The Murray family lived in the county of Moray in the northeast of Scotland.
www.houseofnames.com /xq/asp.c/qx/murray-coat-arms.htm   (1108 words)

  
 Murray Coat of Arms, Family Crest
In Newfoundland, James Murray was in possession of property and was a fisherman of St. John's in 1784.
Some of the first settlers of this name or some of its variants were: Andrew, Anne, Archibald, Bernard, Catherine, Charles, Daniel, Denis, Edward, George, Henry, Hugh, James, John, Martin, Michael, Patrick, Peter, Robert, Thomas and William Murray who all arrived in Philadelphia between 1800 and 1870.
This practice, which often included paying homage to the Clan Chief at important events was effective in building respect, devotion and familiarity between different families within the same clan.
www.houseofnames.com /xq/asp/sID./s.Murray/qx/coatofarms_details.htm   (1108 words)

  
 famous Murrays
George Iain Murray, 10th Duke of Atholl was one of Scotland's richest landowners, chief of the ancient Murray clan.
George Iain Murray, the 10th Duke of Atholl, known variously as one of Scotland's richest landowners, the chief of the ancient Murray clan, the commander of Britain's only private army and one of the nation's most eligible bachelors, died Tuesday at a hospital in Perth, Scotland.
Murray was the PRCA/Resistol overall and bareback riding rookie of the year in 1988 and dominated the sport throughout his stellar career with countless cowboy records.
murraysonline.tripod.com /id11.html   (4128 words)

  
 Clan MURRAY
Eight score Murrays were included in the holocaust, only one of those within the kirk escaping by the compassion of a Drummond clansman outside, who was his relation, and who, for his kindness, had to flee from the wrath of his own clansmen to Ireland for a time.
Sir David Murray, 6th of Tullibardine had ten sons: William succeeded as 7th Laird; and Patrick was ancestor of the Earls of Dysart, the Murray baronets of Ochtertyre and the Earls of Mansfield (whose family seat is Scone Pal ace).
The great family of Murray or Moray (occasionally in old deeds Murref) is supposed to have descended from Freskine (or Friskin), a Fleming, who settled in Scotland in the reign of David I (1122-1153), and acquired from that monarch the lands of Strathbroch in Linlithgowshire, and of Duffis in Moray.
www.electricscotland.com /webclans/m/murray2.html   (4128 words)

  
 Clan MURRAY
Eight score Murrays were included in the holocaust, only one of those within the kirk escaping by the compassion of a Drummond clansman outside, who was his relation, and who, for his kindness, had to flee from the wrath of his own clansmen to Ireland for a time.
Sir David Murray, 6th of Tullibardine had ten sons: William succeeded as 7th Laird; and Patrick was ancestor of the Earls of Dysart, the Murray baronets of Ochtertyre and the Earls of Mansfield (whose family seat is Scone Pal ace).
The great family of Murray or Moray (occasionally in old deeds Murref) is supposed to have descended from Freskine (or Friskin), a Fleming, who settled in Scotland in the reign of David I (1122-1153), and acquired from that monarch the lands of Strathbroch in Linlithgowshire, and of Duffis in Moray.
www.electricscotland.com /webclans/m/murray2.html   (4538 words)

  
 What About Bob? - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Murray plays Bob Wiley, a multiphobic psychiatric patient who follows his successful psychiatrist Dr. Leo Marvin, played by Dreyfuss, on vacation.
When the unstable yet affable Bob befriends the other members of the Marvin clan it slowly drives Leo insane.
is a 1991 comedy movie directed by Frank Oz which stars Bill Murray and Richard Dreyfuss.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/What_About_Bob?   (205 words)

  
 THE CONWAY FAMILY TREE & CLAN McKAY
The Mac Kay clan was originally known as the clan Morgan and the clan Aoidh.
Alexander McKay was born in 1777 in Dornock, Scotland and married Katherine Murray on Jan.16,1806.They had two sons, Thomas and Donald.
This homestead is still in the McKay family and has had at least 6 generations living on it.
www.thefamilyofjohnandannieconway.net   (205 words)

  
 Clan Crest Badges page ten
The seat of the chiefs of Clan Murray, Dukes of Atholl is Blair Castle in Perthshire.
However, considering the Highland clan alone, in the seventeenth century the chief was Earl of Atholl, later to be created Marquis of Atholl in 1676, whose son was created Duke of Atholl and made a Knight of the Thistle by Queen Anne.
The clan is descended from the ancient Earls of Lennox, and is noted for its members who performed brilliantly in military service.
www.scottishcrofters.com /clan_crest_badges_page_ten.htm   (205 words)

  
 Graeme Mackenzie - brief biography
Graeme Murray Mackenzie was born in 1951 in London, and was educated at The Leys School, from whence he won a scholarship in 1969 to study history at Emmanuel College in the University of Cambridge.
In 1993 Graeme was appointed Curator of the Clan MacMillan Centre in Renfrewshire, with a particular brief to organise the collection and publication of information on the clan's history and genealogy.
All enquiries regarding Clan MacMillan and the ancestry of individual M'millans.
www.clanmacmillan.org /Graeme.htm   (609 words)

  
 Cambridge Ritualists
Among the biographical data that reveal trends, Cornford married into the Darwin clan, and Murray married a titled Lady whose family owned Castle Howard; Arnold J. Toynbee married Murray’s daughter.
Murray's bibliography is the largest section; it reflects his work with the League of Nations Union and his Liberal politics.
Responds to Harrison’s question posed to Murray in a 1914 letter regarding “why Woman is a dream and a terror to man and not the other way around?” Male judgement and the thwarting of women artists’ needs have created problems of language, style, energy, survival, and contact with herself.
web.uflib.ufl.edu /cm/history/CambridgeRitualists.html   (609 words)

  
 New Murray Clan Society Open Forum Page
Patrick Murray came from County Armagh in Ireland and brought his wife Anne (Reynolds) Murray with him along with his children: Thomas, William, James, etc---he is buried in StBridgets graveyard in Trout River NY located just over the border from Canada and a stones throw from the Customs station at the border.
The most famous family members are the textbook writer Lindley Murray (1745-1826, largest-selling author in the world in the first half of the 19th century) and his mother Mary Lindley Murray, the legendary heroine of the Battle of Manhattan in the Revolution.
lady murrays are welcome to join in and may do so by having their father or a brother provide a sample for testing.
www.clanmurray.org /guestbook.html   (6045 words)

  
 Genealogy - Murray
The Murray clan hit their peak in 1703 when they were created the Dukes of Atholl, and it was the 1st Duke's youngest son, George, who commanded Bonnie Prince Charlie's Jacobite army in the rising of 1745.
It was a battle which Murray, had Charles taken his advice, would simply have avoided.
No Scottish child's upbringing could be complete without regular supplies of "Murray Mints, Murray Mints, too good to hurry mints".
www.firstfoot.com /geneolagy/murray.htm   (6045 words)

  
 Amazon.co.uk: Video: The Irish R.M. - Series 2
Cadogan (Anna Manahan), and the irrepressible Flurry Knox (Bryan Murray).
This is not always an easy role, especially when there are people like Flurry Knox eager to lead him astray and locals like the Foley clan intent on staying on the wrong side of the law.
Shot entirely on location in the beautiful and dramatic Irish countryside, The Irish RM also stars Bryan Murray, Doran Godwin, Faith Brook, Lise-Ann McLaughlin, Anna Manahan and Brendan Conroy.
www.amazon.co.uk /exec/obidos/ASIN/B00004CYJO   (6045 words)

  
 Clan Stirling Online! Research Library Article
This nobleman married Catherine, daughter of his uncle, Lord William Murray (who became Lord Nairne by marrying the heiress of that family), by whom he had two sons and two daughters.
Sir William (the fourth in descent from the first Sir William of Duntreath), who was killed at the battle of Flodden, with James IV., and the flower of the Scottish nobility and gentry, had been appointed steward of Menteith, and constable of the castle of Doune.
His representative in the sixth generation, Sir William of Darnchester, who, at Prince Henry’s baptism, had been knighted during his father’s lifetime, was eminent as a lawyer; and, in 1609, was appointed a senator of the College of Justice, and, afterwards, a member of the Privy Council and Vice-Chancellor.
www.clanstirling.org /Main/lib/research/OldCountyFamiliesofStirlin.html   (6045 words)

  
 Scottish clan tartans (MacQueen - Wallace)
John, 1st Earl of Atholl of the Murray branch, obtained the title in 1629, and the earldom of Tullibardine was conferred on his uncle, Sir Patrick Murray.
William, 2nd Earl of Sutherland, fought for Robert the Bruce at Bannockburn, and his son Kenneth, 3rd Earl, was killed at the Battle of Halidon Hill in 1333.
William Urquhart, Sheriff of Cromarty at the beginning of the 14th ct., married a daughter of Hugh, Earl of Ross.
www.clothing.mysterious-scotland.com /tartan/tartan3.html   (6045 words)

  
 ATHOLL - LoveToKnow Article on ATHOLL
He was a supporter of William and the volution in 1688, taking the oaths in September 1689, but was able to prevent the majority of his clan, during his fathers sence, from joining Dundee under the command of his brother roes.
The earidom thus,ssed to the Murray line, and John Murray, their only son 1642), was accordingly acknowledged as earl of Atholl (the t of the Murrays) in.
he JOHN MURRAY, 2nd earl and 1st marquess of Atholl (163 II 703), fu n of the 1st earl and of Jean, daughter of Sir Duncan Campbell of Glenorchy, was born on the 2nd of May 1631.
51.1911encyclopedia.org /A/AT/ATHOLL.htm   (6045 words)

  
 Les Murray - A Brief Biography
In 1957 Murray went to the University of Sydney to study modern languages.
His focus on the poor and dispossessed, his love of the land and his sense of its spiritual value, the importance of the clan in his writing (some of his best poems are about his family), all these are elements which link his work with Aboriginal culture.
It was originally published in the Encyclopedia of World Biography (New York: McGraw Hill, 1992) and is reproduced here in an updated form.
www.lesmurray.org /bio.htm   (6045 words)

  
 ANCIENT MURRAY GENEALOGY
The Chief of the Clan Murray Society is
A125.2.3.1.3_DOUGLAS STUART MURRAY (REV.) BORN 28 May 1853, died 19 March 1920; married 22 April 1879 to Harriet Georgina Isobel Bridgeman and had issue:
Alexander married first Jean, daughter of Colin Mackenzie, earl of Seaforth; secondly Jean, daughter of Sir Robert Innes of Innes; thirdly Margaret, daughter of James Stewart, (Earl of Moray); and fourthly Margaret, daughter of William, Lord Forbes.
groups.msn.com /ANCIENTMURRAYGENEALOGY/murrayoftullibardinatholl.msnw   (6045 words)

  
 Clan MURRAY
Eight score Murrays were included in the holocaust, only one of those within the kirk escaping by the compassion of a Drummond clansman outside, who was his relation, and who, for his kindness, had to flee from the wrath of his own clansmen to Ireland for a time.
The great family of Murray or Moray (occasionally in old deeds Murref) is supposed to have descended from Freskine (or Friskin), a Fleming, who settled in Scotland in the reign of David I (1122-1153), and acquired from that monarch the lands of Strathbroch in Linlithgowshire, and of Duffis in Moray.
Sir David Murray, 6th of Tullibardine had ten sons: William succeeded as 7th Laird; and Patrick was ancestor of the Earls of Dysart, the Murray baronets of Ochtertyre and the Earls of Mansfield (whose family seat is Scone Pal ace).
www.electricscotland.com /webclans/m/murray2.html   (6045 words)

  
 Gazetteer for Scotland: Sources
Robertson, James (1939) Chiefs of Clan Donnachaidh 1275-1749 and the Highlanders at Bannockburn.
Adam, Frank and Sir Thomas Innes of Learney (1952) The Clans, Septs and Regiments of the Scottish Highlands.
Way of Plean, George and Romilly Squire (1998) Scottish Clan and Family Encyclopaedia.
www.geo.ed.ac.uk:81 /scotgaz/Sources.html   (5218 words)

  
 Brian Doyle-Murray Unofficial Site - Bio Pictures Photos Movie Film
"Born in Wilmette, IL, Joel is the youngest of the Murray clan and attended Northern Illinois University and Loyola University in Chicago.
"Onstage, Murray was a founding member of the Improv Olympic and worked for several years with the famed Second City in Chicago, as well as the Organic and the Remains Theater.
Brian Doyle-Murray Vital Stats: Birth Name: Brian Murray Born: October 31...
www.fuzzster.com /r/show/se/16724.html   (632 words)

  
 New Murray Clan Society Open Forum Page
Patrick Murray came from County Armagh in Ireland and brought his wife Anne (Reynolds) Murray with him along with his children: Thomas, William, James, etc---he is buried in StBridgets graveyard in Trout River NY located just over the border from Canada and a stones throw from the Customs station at the border.
The most famous family members are the textbook writer Lindley Murray (1745-1826, largest-selling author in the world in the first half of the 19th century) and his mother Mary Lindley Murray, the legendary heroine of the Battle of Manhattan in the Revolution.
lady murrays are welcome to join in and may do so by having their father or a brother provide a sample for testing.
clanmurray.org /guestbook.html   (632 words)

  
 Murray Clan Society Old Open Forum Page
Being the son of an Irish-Protestant minister, I assumed McMurray was a sept of the clan Murray.
The Murrays held title to Ballencrieff off and on untill 1507 when John Murray of Blackbarony was given title to build a manor on the his lands of Ballencrieff.This building now very much in ruin still exists.
Francis Murray was born in 1841 in Scotland.
www.clanmurray.org /murrayof.html   (632 words)

  
 New Murray Clan Society Open Forum Page
Patrick Murray came from County Armagh in Ireland and brought his wife Anne (Reynolds) Murray with him along with his children: Thomas, William, James, etc---he is buried in StBridgets graveyard in Trout River NY located just over the border from Canada and a stones throw from the Customs station at the border.
The most famous family members are the textbook writer Lindley Murray (1745-1826, largest-selling author in the world in the first half of the 19th century) and his mother Mary Lindley Murray, the legendary heroine of the Battle of Manhattan in the Revolution.
His son Henry Murray was born in Liverpool in early 1800s, and Peter may have come from Cumberland, though my branch of the family is reputed to have originated in Scotland.
clanmurray.org /guestbook.html   (6113 words)

  
 Clan MACDONELL OF GLENGARRY
Septs of Clan MacDonell of Glengary: Alexander, Sanderson.
Like the other two great branches of the clan, the MacDonalds of the Isles and of Clanranald, which contest with Glengarry the supreme chiefship of the name, the MacDonells are directly descended from Reginald, the younger son of the famous Somerled, King of the Isles in the twelfth century.
At that time the clan could furnish 800 fighting men, and Glengarry led them throughout the campaign and fought at Sheriffmuir.
www.electricscotland.com /webclans/m/macdonn2.html   (3652 words)

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