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: Confirmation of Chief of Carruthers Clan Carruthers As we announced last week, after a gap of 210 "entitled to be years (and after 12 long years ofresearch, hard work recognised in the and waiting) Clan Camrthers has a chief, Dr Simon name, style and title Peter Carruthers, who now becomes known as of 'Simon Peter 'Caruthers of Holmains'. Carruthers of Simon Peter Cam.rthers'(known as Peter) claim Holmains, Chief o to chiefship has been upheld by the Lord Lyon King the Name and Arms of Arms, the head of the Lyon Court, which is the of Carruthers"' and supreme heraldic authority for Scotland ard Scots maintained, ratified living overseas. and confimed "the As readers will know, a Scottish chief is a he- plain undifferenced reditary titie and is conferred by confirmation ofthe Arms of Camrthers right to bear the clan's or family's chiefly Arms. To of Holmains origi- do so, the Lord Lyon must be satisfied that the peti- naliy matriculated c. tioner is the rightful heir ofthe last recognised chief 1612". and bearer ofthe chiefly Arms. This Decision followed nearly 20 months ofpro- AIter much consideration, the Lord Lyon was ceedings before the Lord Lyon, including two hear- satisfied, and in a decision issued on 19 August 2019 ings of the Lyon Court in Edinburgh, as the second and published on 9 September 2019, he found Peter - Continued on page 7 Page ? Beth's Newfangled Fanily Tree Secfion A October 2Ot9 Letter from your edilor., This time, our Guest Editor is Thomas R. Freeman. Jr.. Heraldic Artist Tom NEVER has bad hair days! is name was lan. He lay face down where he sat. Some were covered in blood while oth- near the top of a sma1l rise toward ers appeared to simply have lain down to take a nap. the east end of a great field. It was But none were moving and he understood enough to co1d...enough to make his body ache but not enough know he needed to find his way back to the fighting. to bring him to frr11 wakefulness. The wind was moan- His father and brothers might need him and his strong ing low over the ground and, from the sound, it sense ofpersonal honor allowed him no other course seemed the earth must be hurting, too of action. He was a young lad, maybe thirteen, maybe The staffhe had canied as his only weapon was younger, but stoutly built and old enough to swear nowhere to be seen, but there were weapons scat- an oath offealty to his Chief. Old enough that, when tered about, enough to fiI1 his needs. He stood on the call to arms came, he would not be left behind shaky legs and, taking a few steps down the hil1, when his father and brothers headed to battle. reached out his hand to grasp the hilt of a dirk that yet He didn't know it but one ofthose brothers lay nearby. As with many of his kin. he had never a horse was now dead, crushed under the weight of held such a weapon and his hand marveled at the feel as it charged when the fighting had moved away, leav- of it, well worn and much used. Its edge, though ing him suddenly exposed, alone and an easy target. chipped and notched, was still sharp, the blade Now, he too lay twisted on the cold, hard gror-urd, straight. The fact that it remained unclaimed on the his spear broken beneath him as he fell. field reminded him that the dirk's former owner would gusts The wind that had come in all day, now never hold it again. Now was his turn to wield it as blew steady from the north, bringing the rain that best he could or die honorably in the trying. had threatened off and on since dawn. It was icy He remembered what his father had told him as and stinging where it spattered against exposed skin they prepared to leave that very morning: Ifyou get a.nd, at last, it was enough to bring young Ian around. lost in the fighting, look to the Chief's banner. Ifyou At first, he didn't remember where he was or _cannot find it raised above the melee, it may be that what he was doing. He did krow that his head ached we have lost the day. Then you must mn home and as ifhis uncle had used it as an anvil to bend hot iron. tell your mother and all the others who await our His hand went to his right temple and came away red retum. and dirry. Rising to a sitting position, he looked about Ian ptrode to the top of the highest ground him and, in a rush, knew exactly where he was and nearbv and tumed his saze to the farthest borders of exactly what he had been doing. Bodies of men lav al1 about the small hillock Continued on page I 3 Beth's Newfangled Fanily Tree Section A October 2OL9 Page 3 {" CATEIOPEII AT GEAMAil PARK 8600 s. llERIDlAll 5T. IitDtAitrPoLtS, lll Clan Home Society (International) Cordially invites membership inquiries from all HOME, HUME & Allied Families. President Rodney Green 317 Oak Ridge Drive Moody, AL 35004 205-368-5286 lawn mower39 1 @gmai l. com The Triumphant Return of the UK's Insect-Eating, Bog-Loving, Rad- Looking Great Sundew Plant Jessical Leigh Hester, Atlas Obscura, Subscribe for FREE Joshua Styles doesn't exactly take pleasure in declining. Through his conservation organization, the finding flies and spiders roaming around his home in Norlh West Rare Plant Initiative. Styles is partnering northwest England, but he does find them useful. with other natue groups around Greater Manches- Their fate, he says, is "unfortunate." When Styles ter-including the Lancashire Mldlife Trust, Chester spots an insect, he ki1ls it, Zoo, and more--{o cul- dismembers it, and feeds it tivate and reintroduce to one ofthe numerous cax- them into parcels of nivorous plant cuttings he's land that are becoming nufturing in his garden. "I boggy again. wouldn't normally do it," According to the Styles says. "But without Risley Moss nature re- animal tissue to digest, they serve, in Cheshire, 94 just don't grow, and even- percent of the lowland tually will die without it." bogs in the U.K. have Styles wants these in- been devastated or sect-eating plants to take badiy damaged by root in the lands where they large-scale, mecha- once flourished. Many car- nized peat harvesting. nivorous plants, including Peat has long been the great sundew also used for fuel aad agri- known as the English sun- culture in Europe, but dew, Drosera anglica- because the harvest used to be much more com- releases greenhouse mon across Britain. Then gases and marks the many of the peat bogs landscape, several where they lived, lr'hich are places, including Ire- rich with decaying plant land and the U.K., matter, were drained and have pledged to phase harvested. Now, Styles the practice and' says, that species-a pink-haired punk ofthe carnivo- wherg possible, ,.rtor" tt . uolll rous plant world-- -clusters in fewer places in England. Before he transplants them to the bog, Styles The U.K.'s National Biodiversity Network's digital cultivates the plants in little containers in his garden. atlas notes its endangered status, and the IUCN Red Risley Moss was once one of those scarred List has described it as "near threatened," adding that places. Peat was harvested there from 1872 to 1928. existing populations are fragmented, and marry are Continued on page 17 Beth s Newfangled Fanily Tree Section A Oclober 2Ot9 Poge 5 CI,an- SEewarrt Ssue,w tn- Arn-enr:ea,fi.ws, tt 5or(c)(5) Not For ProfitOrganizatton dedicated to the o presewation of Scottish Hentaqe andHistovy andthe t o shannq of the StewaYts' port in it. o o D 3 o u3 o o- E= 5 o|l 3 !l!i o A a. !, . o The Stewart dynasty descended from King Robert I's daughter and her husband, Walter to the Steward. Despite early unrest and weak government caused by several Stewart kings suc- o ceeding as minors, the dynasty flourished for over three centuries. { During this time, Scotland moved forurard to become a modern and prosperous nation. rlAI Stewart monarchs such as King James lV and Vl were Renaissance patrons of artistic, scien- aa. political endeavour, sponsoring figures including the poet, Rob- o tific, commercial, religious and I ert Henryson, and humanist, George Buchanan. (o Also of significance was the arrival in the mid-sixteenth century of the Reformation move- v ment, bringing about the replacement of Catholic Mary Queen of Scots by her son King James Vl. England and Scotland - and later C' It was through the Stewart dynasty that the two thrones of E governments - came to be united. the 3 The 'Marriage of the Thistle and the Rose'took place at Stirling Castle in 1503 between qt King James lV and Princess Margaret Tudor, daughter of King Henry Vll of England. E This union of the Scottish and English Royal families eventually led in 1603 to the succes- ql sion of a Stewart (now with a change of spelling) to the throne of England. o E CSSA is represented at approximately 4o Scottish/Celtic events around the coun- c try each year. We are always looking for folks with our passion to volunteer to start E o more. o We also have a presence on the Internet \4'ith a website, <clansstewart.org> (of- !l ficial) and a Facebook page listed as CIan Stewart Society in Americc (unofficial).