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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!
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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.
Started by William Douglas. Last reply by William Douglas Jun 23, 2013. 4 Replies 0 Likes
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
Started by DARLENE HUGHES. Last reply by William Douglas Jun 15, 2013. 3 Replies 1 Like
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
Started by William Douglas. Last reply by William Douglas Jan 27, 2013. 11 Replies 0 Likes
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
Started by Francis Douglas. Last reply by Francis Douglas Jul 31, 2012. 5 Replies 1 Like
I will make the trip.Please keep us informedContinue
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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...
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..
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
Not sure where or what I'll be doing in 2014 but at present, this sounds wonderful.
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
Looking forward to it.
Paul Douglas.
There is a possibility we would attend, depending on dates.
The more information you can give about the people you mention, the more chance there is of someone else connecting with your family.
Dates and places of births, deaths and marriages all help to place families.
Professions also help.
'My great-grandmother mother was a Douglas from Montrose' does not give many clues to follow up! But a bit of flesh on the bones makes further research possible. But if we are told who she married, what his profession was and where the children were baptised, then we can get to work.
Maybe it is time to update the information in your profile?
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