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Clan Douglas Gathering - 2014

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Clan Douglas Gathering - 2014

Plans are in hand to hold a Clan Douglas Gathering in Scotland in 2014.

The Gathering will be was held 30th June - 6th July 2014, following the 700th anniversary of the Battle of Bannockburn

A range of activities are proposed. We welcome suggestions as the what and where these might be. Until numbers are known, events and activities cannot be firmed up, but there will include castle visits and opportunities to meet senior Douglas leaders (We have no Chief!).

This group has been established to enable ideas to be discussed, dates to be set, and an organising committee to be established.

So let us know what you think!

Location: Scotland
Members: 62
Latest Activity: Sep 11, 2023

Douglas Clan Gathering in 2014

The Homecoming Scotland 2014 events program will be themed around ancestry and the Scottish Government's Years of Focus (food and drink, active, creative and natural). Making the announcement, Fergus Ewing, MSP, Minister for Enterprise, Energy and Tourism said "In 2014 Scotland will welcome the world as we stage two of the biggest sporting events - The Commonwealth Games and The Ryder Cup. This momentous year also sees Scotland's next year of Homecoming, giving people even more reason to be in Scotland and to extend their stay".

This is an opportunity for Clan Douglas to have a Scottish Gathering - the first ever. It might be an opportunity to launch a Clan Douglas Heritage Trust, to enable us to promote and advance the education of the public in the history, traditions and music of the Clan Douglas. It would seek to preserve and make widely known the enormous contribution that members of the Clan Douglas have made, and are still making, in politics, medicine, literature, music, sport, exploration and other forms of scientific endeavour, military campaigns and many other fields. It would ensure that their achievements are not forgotten, not only through the printed word but also through the preservation of manuscripts, artefacts, buildings and other tangible links. It also promotes the continuing contribution of Douglases in these areas.

Please let me know your views on a Clan Douglas Gathering, and what you would like to see happening at such an event. A daily programme of visits to castles, etc, has now been announced, but we still have to decide what evening events should happen.

2014 is also the anniversary of the Battle of Bannockburn, and the probable date of the referendum on Scottish independece.

Discussion Forum

Clan Heraldry: What you can and can’t wear and display.

Started by William Douglas. Last reply by William Douglas Jun 23, 2013. 4 Replies

Coming to Scotland in 2014? Attending the Clan Gathering? Want to get it right? Well aware that feathers may be ruffled and noses out-jointed, Dr Bruce Durie, Shenachie to the Chief of Durie, offers…Continue

Tags: herladry, gathering

Douglas Clan Gathering 2014

Started by DARLENE HUGHES. Last reply by William Douglas Jun 15, 2013. 3 Replies

William,I think it is a wonderful idea, I am hoping to attend with bells on as we say, The last ones photos looked brilliant thoroughly enjoyed themDarlene Hughes Continue

Where and when?

Started by William Douglas. Last reply by William Douglas Jan 27, 2013. 11 Replies

Stirling Council and partners are building an exciting programme of events as 2014 – the 700th anniversary of the Battle of Bannockburn and Scotland’s second Year of Homecoming - approaches.…Continue

Tags: venue, Bannockburn, Stirling

clan gathering. Dr.Francis Douglas.PhD.

Started by Francis Douglas. Last reply by Francis Douglas Jul 31, 2012. 5 Replies

I will make the trip.Please keep us informedContinue

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Comment by Beryl Turner on March 12, 2012 at 0:26
At this stage I am planning to be there too. Great idea William. I would like to see the DNA project featured. We could have a supply of test kits to sign people up on the spot. I will certainly be willing to organize that assuming I will be there.
Comment by William Douglas on March 10, 2012 at 11:51

Thank you, Kim, for your suggestions for activities.

When would be the best time for you to come?  I think that there might be a repeat of the 2009 Gathering, possibly this time in Stirling, so we could tie in with that.  Or maybe at the same time as the commemoration of the Battle of Bannockburn in 1314, or...

Comment by Kim Douglas-Reid on March 10, 2012 at 9:53

It would be wonderful to have a Clan Douglas Gathering, we were planning on going to Scotland in 2014 - what month do you think the Gathering will be? I'd like to see a battle re-enactment perhaps even a male and female  dressed in the fashion of the day perhaps when the Douglas clan were at their peak..

Comment by Mark Thaddeus Douglas on March 10, 2012 at 1:20

I am interested. 2014 is comfortably far off that I can imagine being able to participate, somehow. Such a trip might be the only time I'd visit Scotland in my life, and I'd likely be the first Douglas from this branch to visit since my Grandfather did in 1918.

M T Douglas

Vancouver, Canada

Comment by Bob Green on March 9, 2012 at 17:21

Not sure where or what I'll be doing in 2014 but at present, this sounds wonderful.

Comment by Mary C. Schott on March 9, 2012 at 4:17
Fantastic !! I can't totally commit at this tim,e but I will certainly be planning with this opportunity in mind. Thank you for coming up with this great idea.
Mary Lawlis Schott
[descendant of Mary Warner Douglas Selts]
Comment by Kenneth David Morton Douglas on March 9, 2012 at 3:52

Hi William. What a tremendous idea. Havn't been home to the UK for 46 years and this would be a real incentive to come home. Especially as I probably  live just about as far away from Scotland as you can get here in New Zealand.

 I would like the event to include genealogy workshops that participants could go to to gain an insight of their particular branch of the Clan, or even find out which branch they belong to!

 Ken Douglas, New Plymouth, New Zealand 

Comment by Todd Douglas on March 9, 2012 at 1:41
Sounds great. I would need to know the particulars to be able to commit.
Comment by Paul Douglas on March 8, 2012 at 23:28

Looking forward to it.

                               Paul Douglas.

Comment by Elizabeth Kidston Davic on March 8, 2012 at 21:01

There is a possibility we would attend, depending on dates.

 

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