The Annual Gathering of

The Clan Chattan Association

1st – 3rd    August 2019

The Annual General Meeting

The Lochardil House Hotel

Inverness

Thursday 1st August 2019

4pm: Gather together. Tea or coffee, meet the Clan

5pm: The AGM of the Clan Chattan Association

6pm: Pre-Dinner Gathering

7pm: Clan Chattan Association Dinner, 2 courses and Coffee

Entertainment 

£35.00 per person

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Friday 2nd and Saturday 3rd August

The Highland Field Sports

Moy

The Clan Tent

Relax and enjoy some Highland hospitality in the Clan Tent. Browse through some of the past journals and visit the museum or take a walk up to the Lachlan Mackintosh memorial and enjoy the view.

The Clan Tent will be open

Friday 2nd August     10am – 5pm

Saturday 3rd August   10 am – 2pm

Please note that there is an entry fee for the Field Sports (cash only) There is no charge for car parking

More Photos of the Culloden Memorial Service April 13th 2019

Piper at the Cairn 2019

On a Beautiful Sunny April 13th we took part in the Annual Culloden Memorial Service.

Interesting Events in 2019 –

Friday April 12^th 2019 –

AHCS CULLODEN WEEKEND LECTURE

Glen Mhor Hotel: 7-17 Ness Bank, Inverness IV2 4SG          Phone: 01463 234308

THE JACOBITE ARMY REVEALED – What they really looked like 

by Jenn Scott author of Better is the Proud Plaid.

Lecture starts at 7.30 p.m.  Arrive from 7.00 p.m. for tea or coffee and a chat.

Ticket price: £10

Please email Anne Maclean of Dochgarroch, Secretary

Association of Highland Clans and Societies (AHCS)

 At  highlandclans@aol.com to book giving her the names of all in your party.  

Jenn will tell us about the weapons, clothing and accoutrements of the army of Charles Edward Stuart.  She will cut through some of the myths and give us a picture of what the army wore and fought with throughout the campaign leading up to Culloden.

“Jenn Scott is an historian, researcher, and writer based in Edinburgh where she works as Secretary and Archivist for the Stewart Society. Jenn is a re-enactor primarily of the 18th century and the late 15th century.

She is interested in the period from the Wars of the Roses to the Jacobite Risings, and is actively involved in the interpretation, promotion and protection of Scottish battlefields as a trustee of the Scottish Battlefield Trust. She has spent over 20 years developing her understanding and knowledge of the clothes and material culture of the past. Jenn studied politics at the University of Edinburgh and has an MA in Heritage from University of Surrey. “

Copies of Jenn’s book will be available to purchase at the event.  Price £15.95.

www.highlandclans.org

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Saturday April 13^th 2019

The Battle of Culloden Memorial Service

Culloden Battlefield. Visitors Centre.

Gather with fellow Clan Chattan folk at the Culloden Battlefield Visitors Centre at 10.30am ready to march to the Memorial Cairn. The Gaelic Society of Inverness proceed with the Service of Commemoration. This event has grown over the years and has become a very colourful and yet emotional event.

Tercentenary Commemoration of the Battle of Glenshiel – Weekend, 7^th to 9^th June 2019.

The AHCS, in conjunction with the Clan MacKenzie Society and the 1745 Association, has been working towards a commemoration of the Batle of Glenshiel on the above dates. 

The programme is to foster the Kinship, Friendship and Fellowship of the Clan system.

Friday 7^th Day.  Under the auspeces of the 1745 Association you have the opportunity to visit Moy and Culloden by coach to visit the Moy lands and see the site of the Battle of Moy, and to tour Culloden. You will have a knowledgeable guide on your coach who will be with you throughout the day.  All expenses are included apart from the cost of lunch which can be purchased at the Culloden centre.

Friday 7^th Evening.  A short programme of talks and  lectures at the Craigmonie Hotel to set the scene for your visit to the Battle site at Kintail on the following day.

Saturday 8^th Day.  You will leave Inverness by coach from the Mercure Hotel for Kintail where a guided tour of Eilean Donan Castle is booked for you, you will have the opportunity to enjoy the beautiful setting, tea toom and shop at the Castle and also to take time to view the exclusive exhibition by the NTS archaeolgist in the nearby Dornie Hall where there will also be rolling talks on the history of the Battle.  Your coach will again be accompanied by a knowledgeable guide for the journey. 

In the afternoon you will be taken by coach to the Battle Site where you will commemorate the 300^th Anniversary of the Battle of Glenshiel, after which you will return to Inverness by coach.

All expenses are included apart from lunch which can be purchased in the Castle tea rooms.

Saturday 8^th Evening.  Come to socialise at the Clan MacKenzie ceilidh in the Mercure Hotel where you can catch up with friends old and new.

Sunday 9^th Day.  Kirkin o’ the Tartans service and a chance to say your farewells.

(Book with Jenn Scott at glenshiel1719@gmail.com and tell her if you have paid by BACS

Or send the booking form with your cheque to- Jenn Scott, The Stewart Society, 53, George St.,

Edinburgh, EH2 2HT)

PLEASE NOTE: It will not be possible to take part in our event without travelling with us from Inverness to Kintail by our organised coaches.  At the Battle Site we have obtained special parking permission for the coaches.  The National Trust and authorities have indicated that there WILL BE NO other parking opportunities available in the area. Also as attendance numbers will be limited YOU MUST BOOK if you intend to come to the ceremony. We cannot guarantee your attendance or safety otherwise.  We have the responsibility for a maximum of 200 people attending, the site is on a very busy road with no on-site parking and as your safety is of paramount importance we do need to know who is attending and the only way to do that is for you to book a place.

We are very pleased to have been successful in receiving a grant from Visit Scotland under their Clan Event Fund to help allay costs.  Our thanks to the National Trust for Scotland for access to the site.

For more information and booking forms e-mail Anne Maclean at highlandclans@aol.com

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Saturday 21^st July 2019

Inverness Highland Games – The Inverness Highland Games will take place at Bught Park Inverness on Saturday 21st July 2018. http://www.invernesshighlandgames.com/

There is a Clan Tent where you will be able to meet various Clans including The Clan Chattan Association.

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The Annual Gathering of

The Clan Chattan Association

1st – 3rd    August 2019

The Annual General Meeting

The Lochardil House Hotel

Inverness

Thursday 1st August 2019

4pm: Gather together. Tea or coffee, meet the Clan

5pm: The AGM of the Clan Chattan Association

6pm: Pre-Dinner Gathering

7pm: Clan Chattan Association Dinner, 2 courses and Coffee

£35.00 per person

For more information go to www.clanchattan.org.uk click into the shop.

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Friday 2nd and Saturday 3rd August

The Highland Field Sports     Moy

The Clan Tent will be open

Friday 2nd August     10am – 5pm

Saturday 3rd August   10 am – 2pm

Please note that there is an entry fee for the Field Sports (cash only) There is no charge for car parking

Saturday 7^th September 2019

The Braemar Gathering

The Braemar Gathering has been running in its present form since 1832. It is regularly attended by members of the Royal Family. For more information www.braemargathering.org

There is an Overseas Visitors Tent where there are various Clans and Societies represented including The Clan Chattan Association.

 

 

This is just a selection of events that will be happening throughout 2019.

To keep up to date with The Clan Chattan Association events go to

www.clanchattan.org.uk click into News and Events

 

 

New member first impressions Clan Chattan Association Gathering 2018

In 2017 I first became aware of the Clan Chattan Association. Visiting friends near Forres we visited a bookshop with a 2^nd hand section on Scottish history. The first thing I picked up was a copy of the Clan Chattan Journal and the opening article by Br Pascal Downs OSB was about my own family, the Macphails. For the first time I saw an account in writing of something I’d only heard about as a child. Namely that we couldn’t go back beyond 1746 because our direct ancestor, a young boy called James Macphail, was found orphaned at the Battle of Culloden. I bought that copy (Vol X11 – No 2 2008) and several others and read about the Association. It spurred me on and  I contacted  Denise and Donald McIntosh and was told about the Clan Chattan Gathering the following August 2018.  My youngest daughter, Emily, offered to accompany me to the meeting.

In the interim Emily had moved from the south of England to Edinburgh and we decided to spend a week in the highlands doing family history before and after the Gathering. We went initially to Oban to visit Ardchattan and Eriska where earlier pre1291 generations of Macphails had lived and then via the Great Glen to the MacPhail area south of Inverness and Moy, including Dunlicity church to see the plaque put up in 2000 commemorating the Macphails of Inverarnie. 

We then attended the AGM and Dinner at Lochardill House Hotel and met many new people. We were made so welcome by Donald and Denise McIntosh and introduced to John Mackfall whose table we joined and where we also met other Mcfalls and Glen Cook from the USA. Everyone was so helpful and to my amazement we realised John Mackfall and I had grown up in the same village in N.Yorkshire and he being much younger than me had known my brother Richard at school. What a small world. 

Next day we attended the Field Fair at Moy Hall and met more members in the Clan Tent. We were delighted to visit the Mackintosh Museum at Moy Hall and also to buy many books about Clan Chattan and related subjects as well as John Mackfalls book The Clan Phail. The History of a people.

Anne Fraser Macquarrie gave me a great boost as she took our family’s details and offered to look up the parents of James Macphail in the archives.

A week later she emailed me her findings. Wonderful news for us as she had found where they were married and that they had another child, Margaret after James. This was a real breakthrough. The next day we went to Culloden and in the family history section and also in the book “No Quarter given “. We think we have established that James’ father John MacPhail was not killed but surrendered after Culloden and was transported to north America. This all has to be followed up now in the USA. We were staying in Nairn where my great, great grandfather John Sinclair MacPhail was buried and over the next 2 days visited Forres, Findhorn and Elgin where they had ministered to the people as Free Chrurch ministers.  On our last day we went to Pluscarden Abbey where Simeon Ross Macphail, brother to John Sinclair, had written the definitive history of Pluscarden still quoted today. A History of the Religious House of Pluscarden (Edinburgh 1881)

We can not attend the 2019 Gathering as we will be away in the Solomon Islands, in the Western Pacific where we used to live but we hope to attend the autumn meeting in Edinburgh and look forward to that meeting.

Christine Rutherford Chisholm

The Annual Gathering of The Clan Chattan Association

                                   1st-3rd  August 2019

The Clan Chattan Association Dinner

Thursday 1st August 2019

Lochardil House Hotel, Inverness 

• 4pm: Refreshments
• 5pm: The Clan Chattan Association Annual General Meeting
• 6pm: Join us for the pre- dinner gathering
• 7pm: The Dinner – 2 courses and coffee

£35 per person     Now available to book online in the website shop

The Clan Tent at the Highland Field Sports – Moy Estate

Friday 2nd and Saturday 3rd August

The Clan tent will be open to all visitors 

Friday 2nd August   10am – 5pm

Saturday 3rd August  10am – 2pm

Please note that when contacting the Association by Post please use the following address.

The Clan Chattan Association

36 Rullion Road

Penicuik

EH26 9HX

Scotland

 

We no longer are using the old PO Box system. Thank you

The Touch Not Magazine is the annual publication for the Clan Chattan Association.

It includes articles of historic note as well as members’ news.

So now is the time to get your article in print. Tell us about your recent trip to Scotland or the family re-union. Have you been researching your ancestors, why not get it printed and tell others about your experience with researching. Or have you been researching a particular Clan Associated event and feel that you could write about it, we want to hear from you.

It need not be a long article but should, if possible, come with a few photos or illustrations.

If you want any more information just e-mail Donald McIntosh at clanchattanassociation@btinternet.com

Or post to

36 Rullion Road

Penicuik

EH26 9HX

Scotland

Thank you in advance

Donald