 Moray each year. Information regarding the  Murray AGM and other Clan events can be Murray Clan  Murrie found in the quarterly Society Society  Murry newsletter, the Aitionn, and at our  Neaves website: www.clanmurray.org.  Piper Chief of the Murray Clan is His  Pyper Grace, Bruce G.R. Murray, 12th Duke Histories  Smail of Atholl. The present Duke holds  Smale numerous subsidiary titles. These  Small include: Lord Murray of Tullibardine  Smeal (1604); Earl of Atholl (1629); Earl of  Spalding Tullibardine (1629 and 1676); History of the Murray Clan Marquis of Atholl (created 1676); Society of North America Viscount of Balquhidder (1676); Lord Murray, Balvenie and Gask (1676); Horace Murray and Harrell Murray and Earl of Strathtay and Strathardle III founded the Murray Clan Society (1703). All of the titles belong in the of North America in 1969 at the peerage of Scotland. Grandfather Mountain Highland The Canadian and US Lieutenants Games in to the Chief are Stanley B Fleming Linville, North and (position vacant), respectively. Carolina. From those humble Society patrons are: Margaret Y beginnings the Murray, Dowager Duchess of Atholl; Murray Clan Michael BJ Murray, Marquis of Society has Tullibardine; Alexander DM Murray, History of the Murrays grown to 9th Earl of Mansfield; Anne Murray, The Murrays trace their heritage nearly 500 Dowager Countess of Dunsmore; back to the 12th Century and take members, Malcolm K Murray, 12th Earl of their name from the great province of coming from Dunmore; Robert FA Erskine-Murray, Heraldic Arms of the Moray, once a local kingdom. It was most Provinces 15th Lord Elibank; and William GSH Murray Clan Society during this time that the Flemish lords and States in Drummond-Moray, 22nd of crossed the North Sea and Canada and the US. The Society holds Abercairny. established themselves in the Scottish its Annual General Meeting (AGM) at Rev 1/20 realm. Among them was Freskin, son a different Scottish festival/game of Ollec. Either Freskin or his son scattered branches of the name— Prior to 1703 the Murray chiefs William intermarried with the ancient from Sutherland and Murray itself— were the Earls of Atholl. They have royal house of Moray. The senior line through Perthshire and Stirlingshire been the Dukes of Atholl since then. of the Murrays took the surname of to Annandale, and the borders. By the For a time in the 18th Century the Sutherland and became Earls of sixteenth century, the Murrays of Murray Dukes of Atholl were also Sutherland in 1235. Tullibardine in Strathearn had Sovereign Lords of the Isle of Man, with their own coinage and Thereafter, the chiefs of the assumed the leadership of the parliament: The House of Keys. The Murrays were the Lords of Petty in Murrays. Bands of Association 1st Duke’s younger son, Lord George Moray, who also became Lords of formally confirmed this in 1586 and Murray, was the courageous Jacobite Bothwell in Clydesdale before 1253. 1589. Lairds from all over Scotland general responsible for the An heir of this line, Sir Andrew Murray recognized the supremacy of the line highlander’s astonishing successes was the brilliant young general who, of Sir John Murray. throughout the 1745 uprising. along with William Wallace, led the Sir John became the 1st Earl of Scots in 1297 in their first uprising Tullibardine in 1606. Thus, the The Murray Clan plant badges are against the English conquerors. He Tullibardine hegemony was firmly the juniper (aitionn) for Atholl and the was mortally wounded while winning established between the Murrays. butcher’s broom (gaigbhealaidh), for his famous victory at Stirling Bridge. nd Murray. The crest badges are the th The 2 Earl of Tullibardine His son, Sir Andrew Murray, 4 Lord married Lady Dorothea Stewart, Peacock, Mermaid, and Demi-Savage. of Bothwell, 3rd Regent of Scotland, heiress of the Earls of Atholl in 1629 Pipe music of the Murray Clan is married Christian Bruce, a sister of and Marquises from 1676. To their the “Atholl Highlander.” King Robert the Bruce. He was medieval peacock’s head crest captured at Roxburgh early in 1333 There are a number of Murray (motto: Praite—ready), they added and was a prisoner in England at the tartans, but only four are generally the mermaid (motto: Tout Prêt—quite time of the battle of Halidon Hill. He available today: Murray of Atholl ready), as Lords of Balquidder; and in obtained his freedom in time to march (ancient) Murray of Atholl (modern), the 17th Century they took the demi- Murray of Elibank, and Murray of to the relief of his wife, who was savage holding a sword and a key Tullibardine. bravely defending Kildrummy Castle. commemorating the capture of the Sir Andrew commenced with last Lord of the Isles by the 1st Currently recognized names and unabated spirit to struggle in the Stewart Earl of Atholl in 1475; hence, families of the Murray Clan are: cause of independence and died in the motto: Furth, Fortune, and Fill the  1338. The last Murray Lord of Balneaves Fetters—go forth against your  Bothwell died in 1360 of the plague. Dinsmore enemies, have good fortune, and  Dunsmore The chiefship of the Murrays fell return with hostages and booty.  Fleming into doubt amongst the various