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Carruthers of the Scottish Lowlands

Carruthers of the Scottish Lowlands

Looking east across Nithsdale to the Lowther Hills – from Cairnkinna in the Scaur hills.

The Scottish Lowlands, south Scotland

Although not officially a geographical area of the country, in normal usage is generally meant to include those parts of Scotland not referred to as the Highlands.

I n the Lowlands, you must visit Loch Lomond, the largest in Scotland. Surrounded by hills and…

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Robert Carruthers one of the first students at Ruskin College, Oxford

Robert Carruthers one of the first students at Ruskin College, Oxford

Back row, from the left: (unsigned), Edward Traynor, Robert Search, Robert Carruthers, Leonard Cotton, (unsigned), (unsigned), Bertram Wilson, E W Light. Centre row: Levi Simms, A C Fairweather, Patrick B Stark, Dennis Hird, Frank Merry, (unsigned), Joseph Heywood. Front row: E Bruce Forrest, T Wallace, Jas Gorman, A R Perriman. (Photo: Ruskin College)

Americans Charles Beard and Walter…

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Silver Spring Church

Silver Spring Church

The first service of this congregation, then called The People over the Susquehanna, was held in 1734.  The next year a small log church was erected adjoininng the cemetery.  It was the first meeting house west of the Susquehanna River and north of York County.  Some of the tombstones that can be seen in the cemetery today, date back to this period.  The Church was later…

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A Clash of Cultures...Carruthers in the Arizona Indian Wars

A Clash of Cultures…Carruthers in the Arizona Indian Wars

Occupied from 1862 to 1894 — this fort was the center of military operations during the Apache War When the United States acquired the area from Mexico, they inherited a corridor that became nationally prominent as the Southern Overland Mail Road, connecting the eastern U.S. to California. Unfortunately, Apache Pass lay in the heart of Apacheria. Because there was a fairly reliable water source…

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The Highlander immigrants who helped build America

The Highlander immigrants who helped build America

The Highlands of Scotland proved to be a natural recruiting ground for emigrants that were to help build North America during the 18th and 19th centuries. Many Highlanders left Scotland in the 18th century. The breakdown of Highland society and culture created bleak prospects on home soil for ordinary folk while the revered fighting powers of the clans made their men sought after recruits for…

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Kerr, Washington Caruthers

  Washington Caruthers Kerr, geologist, was born in eastern Guilford County in the Alamance Creek–Alamance Church region. His Scotch-Irish parents were William M. Kerr, a small farmer, and Euphence B. Doak, who reportedly possessed unusual mechanical talent. When “W. C.” was a small child, the family moved to the Haw River area in western Orange County, which in 1849 became the eastern…

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Clan Carruthers: Dana Caruthers Norton, FSA Scot.

Clan Carruthers: Dana Caruthers Norton, FSA Scot.

We have pleasure in announcing that Mrs Dana Caruthers Norton was elected as a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland at their AGM on St Andrews Night, the 30th of November 2019. This entitles her to use the post-nominal FSA Scot.

Dana was accepted for her strong background in Genealogy and Carruthers history in the United States of America and its link to Scotland and its…

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Carruthers and the History of Cumberland University TN. Part 3

Carruthers and the History of Cumberland University TN. Part 3

1860 D.K.E. Club Autograph Book Lebanon, Tennessee

Abram Caruthers was born Jan 14, 1803 in Lebanon Wilson Co. Tennessee and died May 5, 1862 in Marietta Georgia. Caruthers Hall, built in 1877, was named for him. The Caruthers Literary Society also takes his name. “His influence for good was widespread, deep and permanent.” In 1845, when a great fire swept through Pittsburgh,…

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Carruthers and the History of Cumberland University TN. Part 2

Carruthers and the History of Cumberland University TN. Part 2

A single generation passed under the hard conditions of life in the wilderness was enough to weld together into one people the representatives of these numerous and widely different races . . . one in speech, thought, and character. . . . They had lost all sympathy with Europe and things European; they had become as emphatically products native to the soil as were the tough and supple hickories…

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James Carruthers, in Raffles, died 10th Dec 1805, aged 62 yrs Setting the record straight on Headstone Symbols and Meanings.

James Carruthers, in Raffles, died 10th Dec 1805, aged 62 yrs Setting the record straight on Headstone Symbols and Meanings.

This is NOT the headstone of the family below. It is a random photo. (If you right click on the photo and hit search google you will see just how many times the LLC has used this same photo. 9 times)

It was brought to my attention once again that that there has been misinformation posted on ‘  Ancient and Honorable Carruthers Clan Int Society LLC ‘ facebook page. This photo you see…

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Carruthers and the History of Cumberland University TN. Part 1

Carruthers and the History of Cumberland University TN. Part 1

Let me set the stage for one of the most prominent Carruthers family in Cumberland Tennessee. I have put this little story together to let you know just how much our Carruthers Family has and continues to do for the United States of America.

Captain Charles Campbell, and a number of hunters, made an exploring tour upon the western waters. Passing Powell’s Valley, he gave the name ‘Cumberland’…

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RAMMERSCALES

There is no direct evidence of exactly when the house was built and it can only be guessed from the style and materials that it was probably somewhere about 1760. The early history of the House and lands of Rammerscales is lost in the turbulent years of the 15th century when Border raids and forays made difficult the keeping of records of family life. In those years Rammerscales formed…

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Scottish influence in American Culture: Enlightened Education and Democracy

Scottish influence in American Culture: Enlightened Education and Democracy

Scotland in the 18th century/Image from: http://www.ltscotland.org.uk/scottishenlightenment/introduction.asp In the history of America’s birth, the names of James Madison, Thomas Jefferson and Alexander Hamilton, Honorable William Findley, along with other founding fathers, are shining stars. Nonetheless, few Americans today would recognize the extraordinary influence on those “fathers” by such…

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Chasing Your Own Tail

Chasing Your Own Tail

Yes the first names are great as they help distinguish the individual in records and make identification easier–usually. One should not assume that there are no contemporaries with the exact same unusual name as often names of this type are passed down from one generation to the other and I’m sure every family has one or two. Or the same names that have been passed down generation after…

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HOW I CAME TO BE SCOTS-IRISH

HOW I CAME TO BE SCOTS-IRISH

As the war went on and they faced the British at Cowpens, Kings Mountain and a generation later in New Orleans, these mountain men with their precision rifles gave fearful account of their fighting prowess. They made up a good part of the Pennsylvania Line on whom Washington could rely more than on any other regiments in the Continental Army.  For Americans whose roots are deep in Appalachian…

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Border-Reivers-The-Clay-Biggin & Border-Reivers-Pele-Tower-as-a-Refuge

Border-Marches-of-England-and-Scotland.

To the left is a little map of the Border Marches on each side of the English Scottish Border from the Solway Firth in the west to the North Sea in the east. This is the area that dominated the national history of England and Scotland from the thirteenth to the seventeenth centuries.  These Marches were the haunt of the Border Reivers for centuries and I…