Small world, many of my ancestors were bananas!
Posted on 09/28/2020 12:51:25 PM PDT by SunkenCiv
Genetic markers for the Clan MacDougall... descends from Dougall, King of the Isle of Man and founder of the ancient Scottish Kingdom of the Isles and Lorn. Dougall (c1140-c1207) was the eldest son of Somerled, the ancient warrior sea-king and progenitor of the MacDonald, MacAllister, and MacDougall clans.
Somerled expelled his Scoto-Norse rivals from Argyll, Kintyre and the Isles but was himself a Norseman paternally, having a genetic signature that is more common in Scandinavia than in Scotland.
The first genetic signature for Somerled was discovered and published in 2005 by researchers at the University of Oxford, and since then, the US-based Clan Donald DNA Project has enabled thousands of present-day MacDonalds around the world to trace their ancestry back to their Scottish roots...
At one time, the MacDougalls were one of the most powerful and influential families in Western Scotland. However, their fate was to turn in the early 1300s when the fourth clan chief, Alexander MacDougall, allied the MacDougalls with John Bailliol, in his contest with Robert the Bruce, for the prize of the Scottish Crown...
Several generations later, under the clan leadership of Ewan Gallda MacDougall, much of the MacDougall lands and possessions, including Dunollie Castle near Oban, were restored to the clan. However, over the next few centuries this disruption caused a global dispersal of many MacDougall clansmen and a significant loss of power for the Clan.
(Excerpt) Read more at phys.org ...
Written circa 1950. I love Sci Fi from that era.
Please don’t tell me that there aren’t other FReepers old enough to remember Whitewater?
I researched my ancestors on my Dad’s side and found my first ancestor was an Irish axe murderer in the 12th century. However, he had killed a Norman landlord after arguing about the costs of building a castle for the Normans, so he became a local hero.
we’re trying to forget......
Not as prolific as the khan? Maybe a nicer fella, just popular.
Hmm, read that, thought it was fiction. O well.
It makes a nicer story, anyway. :^)
By the Doobie Brothers?
I remember listening to Harry Truman when I was a kid.
Is that old enough?
My Cavendish ancestors came from the Isle of Man.
No one knows if the so-called Genghis DNA is actually from Genghis, perhaps one day his long-hidden tomb will be found and DNA retrieved. Could be some other Dark Ages east Asian rapist. Niall has a similar physical obscurity, was legendary, but has a large number of lines and people claiming to be his descendants, and the DNA matches up. :^)
Small world, many of my ancestors were bananas!
Doc Smith - Author
At least he wasn’t a horse thief!
Hey, how did you find out about my, I mean, yeah, good point.
I’d love to go far back through my husband’s ancestors to see what other clans are in there. He’s part scottish and looks 100% the part. Looks great in his kilt too!
Same here. If you’ve ever watched/read When Worlds Collide, read After Worlds Collide.
Also, read This Island Earth, which actually explains the title and takes the story much further, without the mutant ant, though it was on the cover of my copy.
“I know that’s Doc Smith, but I suspect that somehow, Heinlein would have approved... :P”
They were buddies.
Robert A. Heinlein reported that Smith had planned a seventh Lensman novel, set after the events described in Children of the Lens, which was unpublishable at that time (the early 1960s).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E._E._Smith
All the comments down the line, I find this fascinating because the McDougall is in my blood line. The Mcdonalds were intermarried from that clan. Intermarriage brought the Stewarts into the clan and a split left James Stewart as Laird of the castle. He was the Black Knight of Lorn, and my direct family line. The old Castle Slaughter (spell?) still stands (barely) on a tiny island near Lorn. The Stewarts scattered to different parts of Scotland since Robert the Bruce. James Stewarts family left Scotland and went to Donnagal Ireland and from there to S.C. in the colonies. My great great grandfather migrated to Tenn. where my Great Grandfather R.W. Stewart became the father of James Garner Stewart, who was the father of H.V. Stewart, my father. My paternal grandmother was a McDonald. Funny how that works out, aye?
Even weirder, I've found that, no matter how far back I've been able to trace the family tree, all of my ancestors have managed to have at least one child. ;^)
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