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Clan Munro Australia + Clan Munro Australia Newsletter of the Clan Munro (Association) Australia Volume 4 Issue 2 August 2007 Have you visited our Website at http://clanmunroaustralia.org/cmaau.html ? Chat This Month Congratulations to our Bet & I are not long back from our trip to a very wet Scotland and we did enjoy Chief, Hector, his family and ourselves in spite of the weather. One very bright ray of sunshine was the Clan all of the Clan Munro Munro Gathering – everyone who was there just had to have enjoyed themselves and (Association) committee for we might have won some new members into the bargain. I will say no more, just have organising a truly wonderful a look at the photos and Ray Munro’s Gathering Report. 70th Anniversary Gathering We did have a disappointment in that a couple of people contacted me to let me know The Clan Munro that they could not get onto our website. On our return, I contacted Peter Tibbett to (Association) New Zealand find out what had happened. Peter tells me that our site as well as others that he runs, held a joint Ceilidh with Clan had been hacked into and all but a couple were not recoverable – including ours. This Campbell. It was a great was devastating for Peter as he puts his heart & soul into the websites. However, the success and in spite of a good news is that Peter is now rebuilding our site and it should be up and running freezing cold wild windy very soon. rainy winter afternoon, there was a good attendance I hope those of you who receive the Sydney Morning Herald were as observant as and all went very well. Graham Gates who sent me a copy showing that one of our well known members had received an Order of Australia Medal in the Queen’s Birthday Honours. Check that Chat ……………..………Page 1 out in our congratulations section. Welcome ………..….….....Page 1 The Gathering……….... Page 2 In this newsletter we have the story of Mary Jane Munro and Imlay McLaren. This is Mary Jane Munro & from Mary Lidbetter who is the genealogist & historian of the Shoalhaven Munros. Imlay McLaren …….....Page 4 Mary & others like Jillian Oppenheimer, who has written books on the history of both Hellen Munro……….…..Page 5 sides of her family, do a wonderful job of keeping their family history alive. If any Congratulations………...Page 6 others have family history stories that they would like to share, please contact me so Combined Clans Picnic...Page 6 that we can get them into print. Anyone but a Munro!! ..Page 6 Anzac Day……………….Page 6 How observant are you? As a result of our “Can we Help” section in the April issue I Can you help? .........……Page 8 received an email from a lady from America to say that she had just received our Membership……………..Page 8 newsletter and was amazed to see that the query above hers was from an Australian looking for the same family. If you did not pick that, what is your excuse? Mine is Next Newsletter that I insert these queries as I get them and the first went in in December and the In our last newsletter I second in February – had I typed them in one after the other I probably would have promised the couple of stories noticed! noted below but I had to move them to the next issue to make way for the Gathering report. Welcome To Our New Members So your ancestors spoke Gaelic and they emigrated to the American Southern States? In the next issue you will read Not really a new member but we welcome back Patricia Cotter & her husband Ken, how they influenced black who is a new member. We had hoped to meet up with Patricia and Ken in Inverness Gospel music. but we were late in returning North & missed them by a day. Unfortunately their Just in time for Burns Night, schedule did not allow them to attend the Gathering. we will have the “true” story of the haggis. There should have been another couple of names to report but I have not been able to And there will be more! contact them since returning home. So if Darren Webster from Darwin or Robyn Munro from Tasmania just happen to read this, please contact me Don Clan Munro Australia Newsletter No 15 1 th Clan Munro International Gathering, 29 July, 2007 As Ray Munro had given us reports on two previous gatherings I asked him to do this one for us. He has not disappointed and has once again produced an excellent report. It is interesting to note that Ray signed up for the Munro DNA Project, joining up with the three other members who have done so. For those of us who have come up against that brick wall, the project offers a chance to find our long lost cousins. We will have an update on that project soon. My wife, Helen, and I planned to attend the gathering The first activity for me was the Malt Whisky Tasting and which would occupy two days plus travelling time. This Nosing conducted by representatives of the Glen Ord blew out to eight weeks in the UK and Europe via Hong Distillery in the Castle dining room. I tried all six single Kong. After spending time in London and Cumbria we malts plus a couple of additional Taliskers, my favourite. made our way to the Isle of Skye via Oban on the west Next was a visit to the Golden Eagle display in the coast of Scotland. courtyard to renew our acquaintance with the Munro On the Isle of Skye we stayed, as on previous crest. occasions, at Viewfield House a Manor House owned by In the Castle ballroom we were entertained by George the MacDonalds and which operates as an hotel in the W MacPherson, a Story Teller from the Isle of Skye. warmer months. The proprietor, Hugh MacDonald, is a Among other stories George gave an account of how the friend of our Chief Hector and other members of the Munro Clan originated. During the day lunch boxes were Munro family. After five days relaxing on Skye we available to all from the Marquee. Over lunch we were ventured East toward Inverness and the Gathering. able to enjoy the Ceilidh arranged by Sarah We arrived at the Novar Estate where we were to stay at Munro. Performances went for Ardtalla during the Gathering. about four hours and included the On arrival we promptly pipes, clarsach, fiddle and got lost in this accordion as well as Gaelic magnificent estate of singing and dancing. The some 20,000 acres. Kiltearn Fiddlers and Feis Rois We were found by Trail Musicians featured as well as our own Elizabeth Erica Munro-Ferguson Munro Young, who gave an exhibition of highland who guided us to dancing. Elizabeth is President of the Scottish Dancing Ardtalla and explained Association of Australia; is a highland dance teacher and that the building was originally stables built by General has travelled to Scotland on many occasions as a judge Sir Hector Munro in 1770 upon his return from India at highland gatherings. See the article “The Things We where he was the ninth Commander in Chief. Do” in Issue 11, April 2006 of our newsletter Over the years the building fell into disrepair and During the afternoon a shuttle bus ran between the recently has been transformed into a beautiful lodge Castle and the Storehouse of Foulis for those wishing to operated by Ronald and Erica Munro-Ferguson and visit the Clan Munro Exhibition. Of great popular interest used mainly for corporate events, weddings and other was the Chainsaw Sculpture demonstration using timber gatherings. The Estate offers hunting, fishing, tennis from the great storm of 2006 in the Castle arboretum. court and even a croquet lawn in the adjacent walled I next visit the DNA desk in the Castle to sign up to have garden. Guests are welcomed to use all facilities and myself tested in the near future. This, I feel is a explore the State on foot or bicycle. worthwhile cause and I am quite excited about the Saturday evening, the 28th July, was the night of the outcome. Association dinner. The grounds and gardens were During the day the children were entertained with a opened at 1800 hrs. to the 360 guests and drinks were jumping castle and merry-go-round as well as a mini consumed whilst taking in the picturesque walled Highland Games organised by Hector's daughter. Also gardens next to Ardtalla and the courtyard of Ardtalla during the afternoon the Saltire Society re-enacted the itself. We were greeted by the pipes of Douglas Kane. Clan's history. At 1900hrs we were greeted in the dinner Marquee by Set out in the Castle Front Hall was a display on the part Ronald Munro-Ferguson. Guests from all over the world, played by President James Monroe in the abolition of including a large contingent from France, enjoyed an slavery. excellent buffet dinner and mixed well. Australia was Late in the afternoon we were sadly farewelled by the represented by eighteen vociferous people who pipes. thoroughly enjoyed themselves. Our Clan Chief, Hector, Footnote: After the Gathering we toured Russia and gave his usual informative speech after dinner. If there Scandinavia. During our stay in Oslo we visited a was an award for the most unusual sporran it would museum of historic Norwegian national dress. We were have gone to the skunk pelts worn by two Americans told that when Sweden was at odds with Norway, from Texas.
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