Founded on the Royal Charter to John Carruthers 12th of Holmains, 1755 and his Marriage Contract of 1762, our Society was officially set up in 2017.
Historical and genealogical works on Carruthers had begun in Scotland in the mid to late 1800’s and early 1900’s by both members of the family and others with an interest in the same. These were based on documentations and proofs going back to the 11th century .
These efforts were built on, Â culminating in a bringing together of likeminded individuals in 2007 to have a Carruthers Chief officially confirmed.
On 19 August 2019, Dr Simon Peter Carruthers of Holmains was confirmed by the Lord Lyon King of Arms, Edinburgh, Scotland as Chief of the Name and Arms of Carruthers
This in turn raised Carruthers to official status rather than remaining armigerous and again allows us to be represented on the Standing Council of Scottish Chiefs in Edinburgh
Having succeeded in the legal recognition of a Clan Chief by the Lord Lyon in 2019, we are authorised by the Chief to represent the Carruthers family worldwide.
We hope you will continue to support us in our endeavours to  maintain our Carruthers heritage and history with dignity, transparency and honour.
*The Arms above are the recognised Arms of the Chief of the Clan and Family of Carruthers. Scottish arms belong to an individual not a family. They are registered to his name and only he can bear the.The Arms are reproduced here with his kind permission.
*The official Carruthers Tartan was commissioned and registered with the Scottish Register of Tartans by Dr George Carruthers, a clan armiger and Shennachie to the Chief, in 2017. The copyright was gifted to the Chief who accepted it on behalf of the Clan on its adoption as the official clan/family tartan in 2019.
Extremely interesting read. My mother was Carruthers and my father an Elliott.
Come and join us
Hello, Thank you for all the work for Clan Carruthers. My great grandfather was George Frederick Carruthers, descendant of Frederick Fraser Carruthers and Georgiana Barnes.(great great grandparents)
Frederick Fraser and Georgiana had 3 children and lived in Toronto.
I have a number of letters from George Frederick and other papers, including a very old drawing of the family home in Holmians. Also, I believe a brother of Frederick Fraser, ?John? got into some kind of legal difficulties and there are a few very old papers describing this.
I am not sure what to do with all these artifacts, but I thought you might be interested in them.
Thank you for this post & replies. Would love to see the drawing of “the family home in Holmians”. Interesting pronunciation of Rydderch in Welsh – many spellings of CARRUTHERS on early American documents are both CARRIDERS & CRIDDERS. Probably the way people pronounced their name then and so officials spelled it that way.
I have sent a photo of the drawing to the society.
Can you send it to clancarrutherssociety@gmail.com
We never received it sadly
I sent a photo last week
Please send me the email I need to use
Dear Georgina
If this is the hand drawn plans of what looks like kirkwood, I did receive it, I’m sorry, it was in my spam folder but did pass it on.
I’ll do a blog on it. This is great, anything else let me know.
G
Hello, I just read the posted chapter
of Arthur Stanley Carruthers’ book on Holmains.
I understand the Kirkwood reference a lot better.
I guess like all old families, there were lots of ups and downs.
My great great great grandfather, John Carruthers married Mary Anne Moore, -( who was Irish) and went off to India for the East India company.
I have his lettered petitioning for a leave, and there was some scandal regarding Sadlers Wells which, I think was mixed up with the Moore family. There is sort of a warrant, on very old parchment, which I don’t understand.
Many of the Holmains line sought their fortune in India. Can you send us copies of these documents and we will try to put a blog post together on your ancestry which I’m guessing you have done
Thank you for your interest. It will take a while to get them together and copy. The legal document is huge.
It’s a good story, and we only have fragments, it is a blessing that we don’t have the crazy legal system they had!
Received with thanks
Hi Marshall
The pic of the Holmains home is on the site on pieces referring to Holmains. Regards the name, the variations in spelling as you rightly said, occurred due to pronunciation and misrepresentation by officials. As Annandale was Brythonic during the time of Rydderch, Cumbric, a dialect of ancient Celt was spoken. It seems that modern Welsh still pronounced Rydderch as Ruthers. This was picked up by one of the family who is Welsh and a Welsh speaker. All interesting stuff