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Robert the Bruce Battle of Bannockburn letter discovered
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| 1st June 2013
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Posted on 06/01/2013 9:46:34 AM PDT by the scotsman
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Thanks the scotsman. Seems like a good topic for the weekly ping to Digest members, since I think I forgot last weekend.
To all -- please ping me to other topics which are appropriate for the GGG list. |
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posted on
06/01/2013 9:49:21 AM PDT
by
SunkenCiv
(Romney would have been worse, if you're a dumb ass.)
To: the scotsman
To: the scotsman
I am named after Robert the Bruce.
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posted on
06/01/2013 9:52:05 AM PDT
by
Lurker
(Violence is rarely the answer. But when it is it is the only answer.)
To: the scotsman
This is really a tremendous discovery!
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posted on
06/01/2013 9:57:39 AM PDT
by
Beowulf9
To: the scotsman
You don’t find letters from the 1300’s everyday
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posted on
06/01/2013 10:04:12 AM PDT
by
GeronL
(http://asspos.blogspot.com)
To: the scotsman
Robert the Bruce. True King of Scotland.
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posted on
06/01/2013 10:04:32 AM PDT
by
Beowulf9
To: GeronL
There was a news article recently about a letter being delivered 70 years after it was mailed. But a letter showing up after 700 years is unimaginable.
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posted on
06/01/2013 10:06:59 AM PDT
by
meatloaf
To: the scotsman
I am a direct descendant of The Clan Ross and Hugh MacTaggart, 5th Earl of Ross. The Clan Ross fought beside Robert the Bruce at the Battle of Bannockburn. Hugh MacTaggart 5th Earl (de) Ross was killed at the Battle of Halidon Hill in 1333.
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posted on
06/01/2013 10:19:07 AM PDT
by
mardi59
(IMPEACH OBAMA NOW!!!!!)
To: Beowulf9
And I am one of his direct descendants! We actually traced it through our Scottish side. But that’s nothing. I’m related to Hugh Hefner, too. (sarcasm intended)
To: mardi59; the scotsman; SunkenCiv
My heritage goes back through Duncan the First and beyond. I am very proud of the heroes in my lineage!
Thanks for posting this. It is quite interesting.
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posted on
06/01/2013 10:47:14 AM PDT
by
Monkey Face
(Life is hard. It's harder if you're stupid. ~~ John Wayne)
To: Monkey Face
AFAIK, the only Duncan I’ve got in my past is the donuts. ;’)
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posted on
06/01/2013 10:49:47 AM PDT
by
SunkenCiv
(Romney would have been worse, if you're a dumb ass.)
To: Lurker
So, you are . . . Robert or Bruce??? Or both??? ;-)
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posted on
06/01/2013 10:51:24 AM PDT
by
RetiredArmy
(1 Cor 15: 50-54 & 1 Thess 4: 13-17. That about covers it.)
To: Monkey Face
I’m descended from the Good Sir James Douglas.
To: RetiredArmy
Sort of like Mott the hoople.
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posted on
06/01/2013 10:57:21 AM PDT
by
central_va
(I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
To: SunkenCiv
LOL!
I had a Duncan great-grandmother and married a Duncan, so I’ve got it bad! ;o]
Different lines, I’m sure.
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posted on
06/01/2013 11:00:05 AM PDT
by
Monkey Face
(Life is hard. It's harder if you're stupid. ~~ John Wayne)
To: Black Agnes
I will have to get back into my genealogy and find the links; once you get to the Royalty, it’s a little difficult to keep the lines straight as there was so much inter-marrying and incest.
It has been a while since I worked on it, so it will be like new again!
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posted on
06/01/2013 11:01:50 AM PDT
by
Monkey Face
(Life is hard. It's harder if you're stupid. ~~ John Wayne)
To: mardi59
I'm kinda of sorta related. Some of my ancient kin were peasants who belonged to the land and the land belonged to the Barons, it's a nice way of saying slaves. A number of them later were in various British prisons at various times and opted to go to the colony of Virginia and later Georgia instead of the gallows and I'm descended in roundabout ways from the survivors.
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posted on
06/01/2013 11:08:13 AM PDT
by
fella
("As it was before Noah, so shall it be again,")
To: Monkey Face
Hey, if no one ever married a distant cousin, no one (even in the non-Moslem world) would ever *get* married. :’) I’ve never found any ancestral doubling, but I haven’t looked that hard, some lines only go back 12 or 14 generations.
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posted on
06/01/2013 11:11:50 AM PDT
by
SunkenCiv
(Romney would have been worse, if you're a dumb ass.)
To: fella
I don’t know of anyone in this country who didn’t have a slave of some kind in his background. Maybe an indentured servant, maybe a slave, maybe a paid lackey, but it was common at one time as a way to pay debts.
I’m proud of my indentured servant forefather...swept overboard off the Mayflower during a storm and was rescued when the ship wallowed again. He was 17.
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posted on
06/01/2013 11:12:51 AM PDT
by
Monkey Face
(Life is hard. It's harder if you're stupid. ~~ John Wayne)
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