Joining A Clan?

[Tommy Hunt]

Here's a lad who is serious about his Hunter clan. 'Venator' is the original spelling for 'Hunter'. Cursum Perficio is our motto: I finish the course.

[Daibhidh O'Baoighill]

I like dandelions... They have teeth.

Thanks for the laugh Ted!

[MacMillan of Rathdown]

"Laird" is what were called those who held their lands from the crown (usually. Sometimes they held them from great nobles.) They were and are more properly called "feudal barons,"

Laird is the colloquial Scots word for any significant landowner, not a landlord (Lord Lyon Sir Thomas Innes of Learney was at pains to point out that a "landlord" was a publican!). Barons, whether or not summoned to Parliament, held their lands directly from the crown. They are, in fact, "tenants in chief" of the Sovereign. Lairds, like Barons, and Earls, etc., generally added the name of their property to their family name-- Romilly Squire of Rubislaw being an excellent example of the practice of the use of a territorial designation by a non-titled noble. David Lumsden became David Lumsden of Cushnie-Lumsden when he acceded to that ancient family barony. Chiefs (and chieftains) generally have territorial designations-- George Macmillan of Macmillan and Knap combines the chiefly designation (Macmillan of Macmillan) along with his territorial designation (Knap)-- which may, or may not, indicate the holding of a barony.

[Prester John]

I'm pretty sure that to join the Robertson Clan, you only need to inform them of your support of Clan Robertson and the chief.

Of course, you could just do what I did - marry one!

[Carolina Kiltman]

I'm pretty sure that to join the Robertson Clan, you only need to inform them of your support of Clan Robertson and the chief.

Of course, you could just do what I did - marry one!

Or pick the right parents! Actually I had a similar discussion with a friend some time back, so I did a bit of informal checking at the Triad games last May and collected a bunch of membership forms, Since I passed them all on I can't remember specifics, but most of them stated something similar to the above. (membership by adoption). However there were two or three out of the dozen or so that demanded proof of not only the name, but a connexion with a specific territory. Here is what MacLaine of Lochbuie has on their web-page after listing some names of "septs". Perhaps you have a NEW variation of one of these names? Or maybe you just love the sound of the bagpipes, and want to be part of a SCOTTISH family! emphasis mine.

[GreenDragon]

It is possible. It requires very secretive selection boards that meet in dark caves. Once you are ACTUALLY a member of a Clan, you will then have to tattoo the Clan's crest onto the bottom of your foot. Then you will take an oath of allegiance, passing along all sorts of tourist shop styled clan t-shirts and framed tartan swatches to your descendants.

I can do all that.

[Geoff Withnell]

Not trying to add any fuel to the fires, but I have for years thought of the USMC as a clan. We are brothers and sisters by blood, even if blood shed, not inherited, we have a tartan, and our clan symbols. And if the Chief (aka the Commandant) were to call us to battle, to battle all of us with the power to respond still in our limbs would go! What say you, follow Xmarks Leathernecks?

Geoff Withnell

[Dirk Skene]

I......Of course, you could just do what I did - marry one!

Way to go

[davedove]

Not trying to add any fuel to the fires, but I have for years thought of the USMC as a clan. We are brothers and sisters by blood, even if blood shed, not inherited, we have a tartan, and our clan symbols. And if the Chief (aka the Commandant) were to call us to battle, to battle all of us with the power to respond still in our limbs would go! What say you, follow Xmarks Leathernecks?

Geoff Withnell

That's not so unusual. When people ask me about my US Army tartan, i tell them it's the only clan I have ever sworn loyalty to. That's really what you did when you signed that line.

[Carolina Kiltman]

That's not so unusual. When people ask me about my US Army tartan, i tell them it's the only clan I have ever sworn loyalty to. That's really what you did when you signed that line.

The term "band of brothers" pretty well sums it up. The same is true of the navy, especially on the small combatants. (DD and DE in my day)