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.
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Amen to that. However I do believe that the Stewart clans were a bit over productive. So many kings. My Black Knight married the widow of James the 6th or 7th, the king of Scotland. That was after said King was eliminated. Don’t know if the widow arranged that or not. I still have some digging to do. If I keep going back on the long line of Stewarts of course it begins with Robert the Bruce. Doesn’t all families in Scotland begin with RtB? Ha.
“We’re trying to forget”
LOL! No kidding.
Whenever I hear that woman’s voice, I cringe.
She’s now on some pro-abortion commercial talking about “this is the most difficult choice a woman and her family has to face.”
Right, Hillary. It was probably never difficult for you, if you ever even found yourself in that situation.
Back in the day, wasn’t it a hanging offense to be of Clan MacDougall in the western US due to automatic assumption of cattle rustling and horse thefting?
Pretty much any cattle rustling and horse thievery was only punished if the perps were cauight in Flagrante Delicto, which was about a day's ride out of Tucson.
I’ve have gone back to the 1300’s on FamilySearch. One ancestor was so connected to the Knights Templar that he died in prison and lost land in Sherwood Forest.
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