June 2004 Edition Presidents message: Tartan day festival 2004 was once again a lot Dear kith and Kin of fun. Clan Muirhead was once again represented by our VP and myself. Turn out It is with great sadness that must inform the was a wee light but all who attended had a Clan that Dr. James Muirhead Gould good time. This year as last, Clan Muirhead Distinguished Founding Member and Council Represented Clan Hunter and The Tartans Elder of the Muirhead Clan Society past away Authority at our table. We were able to help this quarter. He will be greatly missed in our several members of the general public find council. information on their families as well as share Tartan information with them. Our next Sandy, his wife, asked if she could continue in events for this year are as follows: his place on council until the next elections and I have so appointed her to that position. 26 June 10, Tacoma Highland Games Our hearts and prayers are with the Gould Frontier Park 217th & Meridian East family at this sorrowful time. A card and Graham, Washington letter of condolences was sent to the Gould Contact Information: Brian Nelson (253) family by myself on behalf of the Clan. I have 761-1397 also asked our Clan piper to Pipe, Flowers of 720 S Proctor Street Tacoma WA 98405 the Forest, Amazing Grace and Farwell to Muirhead’s. in James memory. Email: [email protected] Web Site: http://www.tacomagames.org/ James will now join our other members in Honored Memoriam. 30, 31 & August 1 "They Are Not Gone From Us, Those Who Are Pacific Northwest Scottish Highland Games Remembered" AUXILIO DEI & Clan Gathering King County Fairgrounds 45224 – 284th Avenue SE Enumclaw, WA Contact Information: (206) 522-2541 . PO Box 75685 Seattle, WA 98175-0685 Email: [email protected] Web Site: http://www.sshga.org/ In Memoriam… Dr. James S. Muirhead-Gould, 69 of Canton, Ohio passed away quietly on Sunday, May 9, 2004. Born on March 5, 1935 in Berlin, Germany, he was the son of the late Gerard and Grace (Riseley) Muirhead-Gould. He grew up in Surrey, England and later moved to Montreal. He received his B.S. Degree at McGill University and his Ph D. at the University of Ottawa. He taught chemistry and physics at Walsh University for 29 years. He will be remembered as a brilliant man with a gentle spirit who cherished his wife and children and who loved nature. As a passionate educator, he was highly dedicated to his students. As a member of St. Michael's Catholic Church for 25 years, James was a lector and served on the Liturgy Committee. He is survived by his wife, Sandra of the home, his son John Steuart of Columbus, his daughter Sara Elizabeth of In Memoriam… Columbus, brother and sister-in-law, Andrew and Barbara Muirhead-Gould of Toronto, Ontario, Regret to inform the membership of the nephew and niece, Stephen Muirhead-Gould death of Mr Gavin Vernon, of West and Jennifer Warren, father-in-law and mother- Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. in-law, Paul and Joyce Theken of Canton, brother-in law, Mark Theken of Canton, brother- You may recall that in the last edition of the in-law and sister-in-law, Paul Andrew and Beki 'Dair Roun', I reported that I'd visited with Theken of Canton and nephew and niece, Gavin during the Golden Wedding Andrew and Averel Theken. anniversary celebration of my sister, Betty, and her husband, Andrew Whitelaw, in late Any addressee wishing to make a contribution is February of this year. asked to contact Raymond L. Morehead, president of the Muirhead Clan Society so that Mr Vernon fell ill a few days later and the Muirhead Clan Society can make a single succumbed in March; he was in his late contribution to the fund. sev enties. 6522 194th Avenue E, Gavin was one of the four Scottish students Bonney Lake, Washington, 98390 who, on Christmas Eve, 1950, slipped into [Tel: 253 863 0640] or by e-mail to him at Westminster Abbey and removed the Stone [email protected]. of Destiny from beneath the coronation throne and took it back to Scotland whence it James was "a good and kind person "according had been seized by Edward I, the 'Hammer to his friend, Mike Stewart, who passed the of the Scots' in 1296. information regarding James's untimely death. James's ancestry was in a direct line back to Sir Andy, a lay minister at the Presbyterian William Muirhead, the first Laird of Lauchope. Church of West Vancouver, conducted the memorial service for his friend and and James's funeral in Canton was very well done fellow native Scotsman. but sad, with several hundred of his colleagues, relatives and neighbors attending the mass. -Clan Elder David Grossett -From submissions by Clan Elder David Grossett and Member Sandra Muirhead-Gould Clan Elder, David Grossett Lord Murray reluctantly agreed that the rebel forces should return to Scotland and regroup; Came across this miniature of John Grosett they were subsequently annihilated during, and Muirhead Esq. by Henry Spicer, c 1790 - for after, the Battle of Culloden Muir in 1746. sale for £3000 by Portrait Miniatures, P.O. Box 14, Bourton-on-the Water, Cheltenham GL54 Interestingly, directly opposing Bonnie Prince 2YR Phone: 044 [0]1451 810684 Charlie's army in that battle, serving as an aide to the Earl of Ancram that day, was John Grosett He married, by contract, Lady Jane Murray, Muirhead's uncle, Captain Alexander Grosett, of daughter of the 35d Duke and Duchess of Logie, and a member of the 14th Regiment of Atholl. His father was James Grosett, 3rd son Foot - now known as the Prince of Wales's Own. of Archibald Grosett and Euphemia Muirhead. He was reputedly slain by a captured rebel I've asked them to send a copy of a history that whose 'life he had spared'. goes with the enamel. The poor captain's pistol fell from its holster while Might be an item to put in the 'Dair Roun' he was mounted on his charger. The rebel ingrate, instead of returning the pistol, which had fell at his feet, killed the captain with a shot to the chest. There is an engraving called "Rebell Gratitude" which portrays the event. It was drawn by the government of the day - in 1747, in an effort to lay the blame for the slaughter on the ingrate rebel and not on the Duke of Cumberland's order to brutally crush the Jacobites. Another, more believable account, states that it was on the day after the battle, that the captain was riding around the battlefield and encountered a subaltern with a detail of men. Grosett asked the young officer what his duties were and was informed that they were bayonetting any rebel that they found alive. The captain, noting a slight movement from one From the email David sent: of the apparently dead rebels, ordered the lieutenant to have the rebel bayonetted. Was delighted to find your web site with a The rebel, sensing that the jig was up, pulled a photograph of an enamel of John Grosett pistol from under his plaid and slew the captain. Muirhead, Esq. c. 1790., as he figures fairly Captain Grosett was one of only two officers in prominently in the history of the Scottish family the Hanoverian forces at the battle to die. The of the Muirheads of Lauchope and Bredisholm, other was a younger brother of the Earl of in Lanarkshire. Ancram, whose descendant serves today as the shadow foreign minister in the British The Muirheads are one of the most ancient Government. Scottish families. Incidentally, it turned out that he was a "dirty old John was a laird of the Bredisholm estate and man" who was sentenced for attempting to was married, by contract, to Lady Jane subvert the morals of young lads in London, all Murray, a daughter of the 3rd Duke and the while holding the office as a Chairman of a Duchess of Atholl. Her grandfather, Lord Committee for the Suppression of Vice at .St George Murray, served as Prince Charles Martin's-in-the-Field. Eduard Stuart's military commander who led the Jacobites on their march on London in He lived in Hanover Square much of the time. 1745. He served a prison sentence and was then re- arrested in Dover on a simliar charge and fled to Failing to attract support in England in their Paris, France, to escape another trial and prison attempt to return King James II , the Young sentence and died there in 1736. Pretender's father, to the British throne, Represent the Clan It's the convener's responsibility to see that the clan is represented during Clan activities A convener represents the clan at a Scottish or such as the Clan Parade. Most of the time, Celtic festival. They schedule participation of the this can be as simple as setting a time for Clan with the sponsors of the event, coordinate everyone to meet before the scheduled attendance at the event with other members of activity. At times, it may require finding a the Clan and oversee Clan participation during volunteer participant for specific events (such the event. As a Convener you are the official as an entry in the parade of Clans). These extension of the Clan Society at and for a events are a great opportunity to get the specific event and/or festival, promoting family and all kith and kin involved.