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Barclay Broadside VOLUME 30, NO. 2 SPRING 2010 Annual Meeting Scheduled for August INSIDE THIS ISSUE: President’s 2 Column Membership, 3 Scholarship & The 2010 annual general meeting of Clan Barclay International will be held during the 26th an- DNA Project nual Scottish Festival and Highland Games sponsored by the Amherst Museum, in Amherst, New Updates York, on Saturday, 21 August. The event will be held from 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. Admission is $10.00 for adults; children 14 years of age or under are free. Parking is free. Clan Barclay is the Barclay News 4 honored clan. Regional News 4-7 Northeast Regional Commissioner Bruce Barclay and his wife Audrey are our hosts for the event and have arranged for a block of rooms at the Clarion Hotel Williamsville, 6700 Transit Road, Barclay 8-9 Williamsville, New York, conveniently near the Buffalo airport if you will be flying in for the Branches games. Reservations for Friday and Saturday night (20 and 21 August) are open through Tuesday, 20 July at a cost of $79.99 per night (single or double occupancy) for a nonsmoking king bed Alben W. 10- room, or $89.99 for a nonsmoking room with two queen beds. You can make your reservation by Barkley Revis- 11 calling 716-634-7500. The block of 10 rooms is under the name ―Clan Barclay‖ and the group ited number is 101320. Contact Us 12 In addition, plans are underway for the annual Barclay Bash to be held on Saturday evening. In order to plan for the weekend, please contact Bruce Barclay and copy Carolyn Barkley to let them know that you will be attending and how many family members will be attending with you. (You can follow the links here if you get the newsletter via email, or phone numbers are on the last page of this issue.) The agenda for the annual meeting will include the report of the Nominating Committee with re- gard to the slate of officers for the 2011/12 term. The slate is provided for your review here as required by the Clan Barclay By-Laws: President Heath W. Barkley Vice-President Ralph L. Barclay Secretary-Treasurer Carolyn L. Barkley Upon approval of the slate by those attending the meeting, ballots will be distributed to the mem- bership in October. This information is also available on the clan’s website. We look forward to seeing as many members as possible and hope to meet some new Barclay/ Barkleys as well. P A G E 2 President’s Column I visited Scotland Linda and I made a trip Barclay stronghold during from May 5 to June 8 to Ayrshire, on a very the twelfth and thirteenth and I spent part of wet day, to Kilbirnie centuries. It is also where this time as usual - Castle to retake photo- William Wallace and his delving into Barclay graphs of my ancestral men killed the entire Eng- history, home which is in a very lish garrison and dumped One of my tasks was ruinous condition. This their bodies into the dun- to visit Luthrie Kirk castle was where Sir geon which would become in Fife where the Walter Barclay of the known as ―Wallace’s Lar- original ornate fif- Towie line in the thir- der.‖ Very little is left of teenth-century tomb- teenth century became the original castle, but the stone of Sir David Lord of Kilbirnie dungeon can still be seen. Barclay of Luthrie is through his marriage to a Apart from all of that, it is on view in the kirk Crawford. It is a wonder- always good to return to my entrance. [See the article on Sir ful feeling for me to native land and visit my David in the Winter 2010 issue of touch these ancient mother, who is 93, as well The Broadside.] This I did and stones. as some of the family. was welcomed by the minister and After Kilbirnie, we made For aye, Andy a few of his parishioners. The the short journey to ATTENTION stone is there, but there is very Ardrossan Castle on the READERS: little visible trace of the carving. coast. This castle was a Emailed and online versions of the Broadside now feature hyperlinks Clan Barclay Name Tags taking you directly to Want to look sharp at games and festivals in linked web 2010? Order a Clan Barclay pages or email name tag. When ordering, please provide your name, addresses. Just mailing address and tele- Control + click phone number, as well as what you would like to have printed (up to 3 lines). Send your check and ordering information to : The cost is $10.00, includ- Carolyn Barkley RR 1 Box 710 ing postage and handling. Roseland, VA 22967 BARCLAY BROADSIDE VOLUME 30, NO. 2 P A G E 3 Membership, Scholarship & Fund DNA Project Update As of the printing of this issue 79 members (73 memberships) renewals or new memberships have been received. In addi- The Scholarship Fund currently totals $1,503.00 with $295.00 tion, there are 10 lifetime, honorary, or complimentary mem- in donations to date during the renewal process. Thanks go to berships for a total of 89 members. Cheryl Knighton for her donation when renewing her mem- Only three memberships were not renewed for 2010. bership. Welcome to the following returning members: The DNA Project currently has 34 members. For more infor- mation about participation in the project, see item under Bar- Herbert & Rebecca Barkley of Columbia, South Carolina clay News on page four. Gerald J. Barclay of Muscatine, Iowa Join Clan Barclay on Facebook Photograph by Janey Brewen. Janey by Photograph Ralph Barclay (guess which one!) talking with Geoffrey Chaboude (Clan Lindsay) and Jim Brewen (Clan Buchanan) while attending the Missouri Tartan Days in St. Charles, Missouri, on April 3rd. See Ralph’s complete Plains Region Report on page six. P A G E 4 Barclay News Clan Barclay DNA Project Results for all project members (by kit number, not by name) are available on a public website www.familytreedna.com/public/clanbarclayproject. Please contact Carolyn Barkley, Genealogist and Project Administrator, if you would like to contact a specific project member. Please include the kit number in your request for contact information. Thinking of Taking a Trip? Andy and Linda Barclay are independent travel agents. Working for Pulaski Tickets and Tours out of New York, they are fully licensed and accredited. If you would like to check out their website, please go to www.pulaskitravel.com/lbarclay. Interested in a Cruise? East of the Hebrides Entertainments invites you to join them on their 16th Annual Scotland Goes to Sea Cruise. This cruise has for fifteen years occurred in the Caribbean, but from January 5-15, 2011, a ten-day cruise to celebrate the music, humor, dance, heritage and fun of Scotland while cruising the Mexican Riviera is being offered. An information brochure can be found on the East of Hebrides web- site or by calling Bill Reid at 610-825-7268. Pacific Region News We have just returned from our annual trek to Scotland. We had a wonderful time visiting relatives and doing a wee bit of sight-seeing. We had good weather for the most part (after all, it is Scot- land!). A few rain drops here and there, but not enough to stop us. Andy left two weeks before me and encountered the wrath of the Iceland volcano. He eventually flew from Frankfort to Birming- ham and the next morning, rented a car and drove 300 miles north to Scotland. We are looking forward to the games in Pleasanton on Labor Day weekend and invite all to come and join us. It looks as if these games will be our only event this year, as the economy has taken a toll on the games venues in our area. Yours aye, Andy and Linda BARCLAY BROADSIDE VOLUME 30, NO. 2 P A G E 5 Appalachian Region News On June 5th and 6th of 2010, Clan Barclay International was in attendance at the Glasgow Highland Games near Glasgow, Kentucky. The weather on Saturday was very hot, but Sun- day was much nicer. The crowds on both days were better than last year. One of our newer members, Clayton Little, was there, but he was manning a tent for Clan Little, so he spent his time there. We were visited by another prospective member, Doug Irwin. His mother is a Barclay. I was hoping to sign him up there, but he decided to take the application home. One of the Clan Donald members, who was set up next to us, has a co-worker who is a Barclay, so he decided to take a membership packet home to him. I thanked him for looking out for his friend. Other than that, I had a good time visiting with friends, old and new. This year, the chief of the games was Kenneth Trist Urquhart of Urquhart, Chief of Clan Urquhart. The chief and his wife visited our tent for a short period. He related to us that they were invited to tour Towie Barclay Castle by the owner’s brother. They reported that the owner had done the clan proud with its restoration. One a more solemn note, a patron of highland games in the southeast, Mad Mac MacDougald, passed away in January at his home in Florida. Mad Max was best known for his outrageous dress as either a pirate, Viking, or some other highland marauder. Though he looked like a beast on the outside, he was a teddy bear on the inside.