CLAN CARRUTHERS SOCIETY (INTERNATIONAL) Founded on a Royal Charter to Holmains, 1755.
Official Home of the Scottish Border Clan and Family of Carruthers. Honorary President: Dr Peter Carruthers of Holmains, Clan Chief
Our research has always led back to the Brythonic language and Cumbric dialect of ancient Welsh as being the language of our forebears, melding progressively into the language of Scots and our own dialect of 'Southern/Border Scots'. An excellent piece appeared of late in one of Scotland's premier newspapers, The Scotsman which was written by… Continue reading CLAN CARRUTHERS: The language of our ancestors.
Map from: Nature & Leslie et al EuroGeographics, March 2015 Below is a precursor study, which in part links in with the latest research published under : What is Brythonic? Did the Picts speak it? Britain’s native Celtic language explained, coming next. But first: In late December 2021, an article was published by Journalist Paul Runcorn… Continue reading CLAN CARRUTHERS: Migration into Scotland transformed our DNA and language
It was once said that the first proper depiction of the seraphim crest was when it was painted by the heraldic artist A G Law Sampson on the matriculation of the arms of CARRUTHERS of Dormont in 1913. In fact our own heraldist, Mr Anthony Maxwell, once believed the same, until evidence was proven otherwise.… Continue reading CLAN CARRUTHERS: When was the seraphim on our Chief’s arms first used?
People ask us why we don’t post genealogy on our pages, the simple reason is that there are those who chose to misuse people's family lines and join the dots for their own ends. As such we prefer to keep our maps closerr top home, and in part that is what membership of our society… Continue reading CLAN CARRUTHERS: Another link to Mouswald, a brief summary.
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