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I got this letter in...
DAVID RORER
February 16, 2015
Alastair Mclntyre Electric Scotland 167 Raleigh St Chatham, Ontario N7M
2NA Canada
Alastair:
On the enclosed CD, with the rather pretentious label of "Clans of the
Brea d’Albane, a collection of Scottish Histories,” you will find a
series of documents that I think will make an excellent addition to the
Electric Scotland Website. As the label indicates, these are histories
of the Clan Macnab, the Dewars of St. Fillian and the Clan Macnish of
Bredalbane. MacNab, Dewar and Mcnishe each have separate folders. Within
each folder, the number at the beginning of each individual file name
indicates the order in which the documents are meant to be read.
Some of the Macnish documents are in PDF format the rest are in
Microsoft Word .doc format. These are not copies of the original
documents but my own versions, based on the originals. To aid the
reader, footnotes and annotations have been added, to explain the
historical context of events and the meaning of words with which the
average reader may be unfamiliar.
This collection of documents represents nearly two decades of effort,
which began as a project to share the, then out of print, history of the
Clan MacNab with my own family. I started by turning that brief history
into a Word document, then, to add to that outline, I began searching
out other published sources and the project eventually grew to the
comprehensive set of histories which you will find on the CD.
Unfortunately the entire project came to an end when the owners of the
two Clan MacNab websites turned out to be total ####'s.... and I cut off all
contact with them. I also came to the realization that much of the Clan
MacNab history was fraudulent, as was set out by the Rev. William A.
Gilles in his book “In Famed Breadalbane”. The whole sordid story is set
out in the file 001 .A Resignation in the Clan Macnab folder.
You have my permission to post as much or as little of the enclosed
material on Electric Scotland in the form presented on the CD or
modified however you see fit — I hope you will publish it all - and you
may assign credit, also as you see fit.
If you do decide to upload any of this material to the Electric Scotland
website please let me know — you can contact me at the e-mail address at
David Rorer
David Rorer
Former Clan Macnab Clan Society Historian (Resigned)
And thus I now make
available the documents David sent in by compiling each of the three
collections into its own pdf file...
Clan
MacNab
The Dewars of St. Fillan
Clan Nish or MacNIshe
DAVID RORER
March 31, 2019
Alastair McIntire
Electric Scotland
167 Raleigh St
Chatham, Ontario
N7M 2N4
Canada
Alastair:
Some years ago, when I submitted the CD tided “Clans of the Brea
d’Albane, a collection of Scottish Histories” I had no idea whether or
not you would accept it as suitable for uploading to Electric Scotland
and it was a very pleasant surprise to learn that it was. The first
iteration was pretty rough but it was later replaced with a cleaner
version and a number of people, who found it on Electric Scodand,
reached out with complements on the work.
At the time I had meant to step away from any further involvement with
the Clan MacNab and Scottish history as my interactions with several
individuals associated with the clan society, had left a rather bad
taste. Since then, however, the clan society has been revitali2ed with
different leaders, Jamie MacNab of Macnab is now chief, after the
passing of his father James Charles MacNab of MacNab and the Clan now
has a Facebook page, on which I have been active.
The positive feedback, given me by a number of people has prompted a
review of die documents making up Clans of the Brea d’Alban and I have
made a number of changes, adding new material and reorganizing the
documents so there are fewer individual ones.
In addition to the clan histories I have also formatted “Legends of the
Black Watch”, as a word document adding illustrations and background,
explaining the context of the stories. My thought being that though the
stories are fiction, they are based on real events and persons, which
most modern day readers would be unaware of. All the chapters are in a
single Word document, instead of as the version currently on Electric
Scotland, which is partly text (the first two chapters) the rest as PDF
files.
There is a well-known connection between the Black Watch and the Clan
MacNab. The regiment is associated with Perthshire, one of the officers
appointed at its founding was the son of the then Chief of Clan MacNab,
the Black Watch and MacNab tartans are identical except for the colors.
You have my permission to post as much or as little of the enclosed
material on Electric Scotland in the form presented on the enclosed or
modified however you see fit —I hope you will publish it all - and you
may assign credit, also as you see fit.
If you do decide to upload any of this material to the Electric Scotland
website please let me know - you can contact me at the e-mail address at
the bottom of this page
dsbrorer@fuse.net
Sincerely,
David Rorer
Former Clan Macnab Clan Society Historian (Resigned)
Files are first in MS Word format and then
pdf files...
0.Read Me First.docx
01lntroduction.docx
02.Clans of the Brea
dAlban.docx
03.The Last Lairds
of Macnab.docx
04.The Clan
Macnab History part one.docx
05.The Clan
Macnab History part two.docx
06.The
Clan Macnab History part three.docx
07.The
Clan Macnab History part four.docx
08.The Dewars of St
Fillan.docx
09.Macnab-MacDougall.docx
10.Macnab - Macnish
Feud.docx
11.History of Clan
Macneish.docx
12.MacGregors and
Campbells.docx
15.Scots Law.docx
16.The Highland Clans.docx
19Legends of The
Black Watch.docx
21.MacNish title &
forward.pdf
22.MacNish Contents.pdf
23.MacNish ChaptIpdf
24.MacNish ChaptII.pdf
25.MacNish Chapt III.pdf
26.MacNish Chapt IV.pdf
27.MacNish chaptV.pdf
28.MacNish Chapt VI.pdf
29.MacNish Index.pdf
Bredalbane Papers.pdf
perthshireinbygoOOdrumuoft.pdf
blackbookoftaymoOOinneuoft.pdf
lairdsofglenlyonOOcampuoft.pdf
lastlairdofmacnab by
frasier.pdf
clanmacnabshortshist.pdf |
