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KING COEL - COEL HEN - THE OLD

KING COEL – COEL HEN – THE OLD

COEL HEN, OLD KING COEL, COEL THE OLD  CARRUTHERS ANCESTOR THROUGH DNA AND GENEALOGY Coel Hen or Coel the Old, the son of Tegfan, was a Celtic ruler who lived around the turn of the fourth and fifth centuries at the time of the departure of the Roman legions from Britain. He imposed his power over a large area of the country, Coel’s territory extended over the whole of the north of England from a…

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CLANCARRUTHERS: Dr William A Caruthers (1802-1846).

A member had cause to visit Savannah in Georgia and came across this very interesting plaque/marker commemerating Dr William Alexander Caruthers (1802-1846), who lived in the area. Interestingly, it seems the marker appeared a few times in the Holywood film, Forrest Gump with Tom Hanks Although his family were of Scottish Border descent, he himself was originally from Rockbridge County,…

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CURLEY CREDEUR - CLAN CARRUTHERS CCIS

CURLEY CREDEUR – CLAN CARRUTHERS CCIS

CURLEY CREDEUR 1947 – 2004    CURLEY J. CREDEUR  was a resident of Port Allen, he died at 8:30 a.m. Sunday, Feb. 1, 2004, at Veterans Affairs Hospital, New Orleans. He was 56 and a native of Opelousas. He was a U.S. Army veteran of the Vietnam War. Interment in Grace Memorial Park, Plaquemine. Survived by his father, Wilbert G. Credeur, Port Allen; a son, Andy John Credeur and his wife, Ashley,…

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CLAN CARRUTHERS CCIS - THE NINE MAIDENS OF DUNDEE

CLAN CARRUTHERS CCIS – THE NINE MAIDENS OF DUNDEE

THE NINE MAIDENS OF DUNDEE   This story begins many, many years ago, in a small Scottish town called Pitempton, near the village of Dundee.Back then, magick was still a very real part of daily life. Faeries roamed the gardens, mermaids frolicked in the seas, and dragons pushed their limits by attempting to rule both the sky and the earth.Magick wasn’t considered out of the ordinary, and therefore…

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Carruthers of New Brunswick Canada

Carruthers of New Brunswick Canada

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Carruthers of New Brunswick Canada

                            CARRUTHERS, ALBERT EMERSON / FRENCH, ELLA MARY

Albert Emerson Carruthers was born 14 June 1923 at or near Kerrobert, Saskatchewan, son to Colin Emerson Carruthers and Alice Agnes Steele, (to whom refer); died 4 December 1996 at Fort Frances, Rainy River District, Ontario. His wife Ella Mary French was…

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Viking Treasure Found in Scotland

Viking Treasure Found in Scotland

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  Viking treasure hoard 1,000 years old discovered in Scotland

  Objects found in Galloway, Carruthersland,  field include a silver brooch from Ireland and silk from around modern-day Istanbul

    The first images have been released of Viking treasure buried in a Scottish field for more than 1,000 years.

The objects were found inside a pot unearthed in Galloway…

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Dublinia

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  Dublinia

  EXPERIENCE VIKING AND MEDIEVAL DUBLIN

   Dublinia is a historical recreation (or living history) museum and visitor attraction in Dublin, Ireland, focusing on the Viking and Medieval history of the city. Dublinia is located in a part of Dublin’s Christ Church Cathedral, known as the Synod hall.

Dublinia features historical reenactment, with actors…

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Bethoc ingen Mail Coluim meic Cinaeda. MacKenneth Heiress of Scone , Princess of Scotland

Bethoc ingen Mail Coluim meic Cinaeda. MacKenneth Heiress of Scone , Princess of Scotland

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  Bethoc ingen Mail Coluim meic Cinaeda. MacKenneth Heiress of Scone , Princess of Scotland

    Bethoc (Beatrix) MacKenneth of Scotland, born 984. She was the daughter of  Malcolm MacKenneth of Alba II and  Aelgifu. 

Notes for Crinan (Grimus) `the Thane’ of Atholl: [Stem of the House of Connor.FTW] 

Crínán of Dunkeld (died 1045) was the lay abbot of the diocese…

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Oswiu, King of Northumbria

Oswiu, King of Northumbria

Oswiu, King of Northumbria

  It just might be one of the great alliances of the age that can be pieced together, and it began with one man’s death. Oswiu, king of Northumbria, was a formidable leader. His reach extended far beyond the once frontier land of the Forth valley. Regimes that came to paramountcy further north and west probably did so, in part, through his backing.

Cenél nGabrain, ‘the…

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Scottish Farmer Discovers 5,000-Year-Old Lost City

  Long before Stonehenge or even the Egyptian pyramids were built, Skara Brae was a thriving village. Step back 5,000 years in time to explore the best-preserved Neolithic settlement in Western Europe.

One day, a farmer on the island of Orkney in Scotland found a large stone that didn’t look like it belonged in its environment. When the…

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Buíochas Altaithe !

To all Clan Carruthers and other variations on that wonderful name:  Sláinte!

  I honestly don’t know where the time goes, if indeed, it “goes” anywhere. The holidays are upon us already, and we haven’t even been able to catch up from our return from Indianapolis and the Scottish Games and Celtic Fair held up there in early October. What a great time, but it caught up with Sharon and I after…

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The Knights Templar and Scotland

The Knights Templar and Scotland

The Knights Templar and Scotland

    An exploration of the history of the Knights Templar of Scotland, and their role as advisers to the country’s early kings. …

An exploration of the history of the Knights Templar of Scotland, and their role as advisers to the country’s early king – by C Robert Ferguson – author of ‘The Knights Templar and Scotland’.

‘The Knights Templar and Scotland’ was…

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History of Scottish Clans The Daily Life Of Clans

History of Scottish Clans The Daily Life Of Clans

History of The Scottish Clans The Daily Life Of Clans

  It would appear, from the public records that exist regarding the Scottish clans, that the only activity in which clansmen engaged was fighting. But that was only one part of the life of clansmen, and is noteworthy simply by virtue of being recorded in public records and history books.

   The people who made up the Scottish Highland clans…

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Carruthers Field; WWI Air Services

Carruthers Field; WWI Air Services

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  Carruthers Field; WWI Air Services

  Carruthers Field : WWI Air Services, Benbrook Texas

Benbrook Field           Carruthers Field                   Camp Taliaferro Field #3

  Benbrook Field, Carruthers Field (Camp Taliaferro Field #3) is a former World War Imilitary airfield, located 0.5…

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Earle Higman Carrothers 1894–1946

Earle Higman Carrothers 1894–1946

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  Earle Higman Carrothers     1894–1946 BIRTH 16 NOV 1894 • London, Ontario, Canada DEATH 28 APR 1946 • Oak Park, Cook, Illinois

  Earle Higman Carrothers was born on November 16, 1894, in London, Ontario, Canada.

His father was Robert Henry Carrothers,  1868 – 1934 and his mother, Caroline Thirza Higman…

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Robert Blake Caruthers (1749-1812)

Robert Blake Caruthers (1749-1812)

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  FAMILY

Carothers Family of Mecklenburg County

John Carothers (1726-1783) was born in Dumfrieshire, Scotland, and was the first in the Mecklenburg line to come to America by way of Northern Ireland about 1745. He married Sarah Neely in 1748. Sarah Neely Carothers (1727-1798) is buried in the Neely…