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
College of Arms Much has been bandied about with regards the Jurisdiction of the College of Arms in London and that of the Lyon Court in Edinburgh. We have touched on the Lyon Court in the past and today we look at the English equivalent: the College of Arms. Needless to say they do not… Continue reading Clan Carruthers: The College of Arms
Carruthers and Irvings As our close neighbours and sometime allies the Irvings/Irvines, have worked, fought and lived closely with our family for many hundreds of years and like the Carruthers, were great supporters of Robert the Bruce. As is the case with many border families, marriges have occured between both of our clans e.g. In 1634… Continue reading Clan Carruthers: The Border Reiver Clan of Irving of Bonshaw
When sleuthing in genealogical terms, accuracy is all important. The road that is followed is full of twists and turns and more importantly, dead ends. For this reason it is important that evidence is in place before assumptions are made. Here is one such detective story from Gary Carruthers - Genealogist with Clan Carruthers Society… Continue reading Clan Carruthers: Sir Thomas Randolf. A Genealogists Tale
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.
The Victoria Cross is the highest decoration for valour in the British armed forces. It is awarded for extreme bravery in the face of the enemy and therefore is a highly prestigious medal, all of the recipients of which are well documented by the British Government. It was instituted in 1856 by Queen Victoria at… Continue reading Clan Carruthers: The Victoria Cross and James C Carruthers
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
Thomas Blake Glover, born in Fraserborough in Aberedeenshire, arrived in Nagasaki in 1859 aged 21, 50 years after the last Carruthers chief died and at the latter stages of the Tokugawa Shogunate. He went on to provide technical knowledge and expertise in shipbuilding and mining. He ordered three warships from his home in Aberdeen which… Continue reading Clan Carruthers: Order of the Scottish Samurai
Violet Carruthers, Companion of the Order of Honour Violet Carruthers, CH (1872 – 1959) was a writer, social reformer, campaigner, politician and administrator. In 1915, Violet Markham married Lieutenant-Colonel James Carruthers of the Royal Artillery. She accompanied her husband to Cologne when he was stationed there as chief demobilisation officer for the British Army of the Rhine, following the… Continue reading Clan Carruthers: Violet Carruthers, CH.
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