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
Since their beginnings in the south of Annandale in the West March of what is now Dumfriesshire, our family has played a role in many spheres of life and in many countries. We are represented in all strata of society, from generals, to politicians, to athletes, investors and artists. However, very occasionally, a story unfolds… Continue reading Clan Carruthers: The Mexican Revolution, our vital role.
The Carolinas are now inclusive of the US states of North Carolina and South Carolina when considered collectively. They are bordered by Virginia to the north, Tennessee to the west, and Georgia to the southwest. The Atlantic Ocean acts as their eastern border. The Carolinas were once known as the Province of Carolina during the colonial period in American… Continue reading Clan Carruthers: The Clan and the Carolinas.
The earliest documented reference to a Scottish ship sailing to North America has been discovered by a local researcher at Aberdeen City & Aberdeenshire Archives. Thomas Brochard, an Honorary Research Fellow at the University of Aberdeen, made the amazing find while he was reading a late sixteenth century Council Register when he noticed an entry… Continue reading Clan Carruthers : First Scottish Ship to America and our links with Aberdeen.
Despite an ocean separating their ancestral homelands, Scottish immigrants and Native Americans encountered each other frequently on America’s wild frontier, fighting, trading and even living together. Both cultures were treated as tribal societies and driven from their lands by British authorities, aggressively seeking power and financial gain and who would later romanticise the very ways of… Continue reading Clan Carruthers: The Scots and the North American Indian.
It is a pleasure for our Clan Society to officially represent all Carruthers and derivations of the same from wherever they may hail, this includes that of Crothers. As the derivations came about through misspelling of the original root name Carruthers, they are many and varied but all distincly remain accepted as part of the… Continue reading Clan Carruthers: Scatman Crothers
It is obvious that the Scots/Ulster Scots played an important role in the American War of Independence and then in the birth of America as we know it. Many of these were Border Scots, running from the post-reiver persecution initiated by James IV to clean up the bad lands of the Anglo-Scottish border of his newly… Continue reading Clan Carruthers: Carruthers and the American Revolution
Carruthers, like many families and clans with descendants located around the world, is represented by a diverse population of those bearing our name. One of the most famous of which is George Robert Carruthers, an African-American Scientist and inventor of some renown. George was born in Cincinnati, Ohio in 1939, being the eldest of 4… Continue reading Clan Carruthers: George R. Carruthers
Carruthers have succeeded in their chosen careers world wide, and we would like to introduce another. John Carruthers guitar and bass luthier, repairer and restorationist of great fame having worked for such individuals as Frank Zappa, Jimi Hendrix and many more. For all you guitarists out there, here is one you have to try. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L3pNe1rXO84… Continue reading Clan Carruthers: John Carruthers: Great guitars, for great guitarists.
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