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Hello Posted by Stuart Bennett on 28 August 2012 Thankyou for your message of encouragement. We enjoy to showcase our costumes and tell folk all the history of our ancient past. It gives people something of substance in our fast-pace of life of today and children need to know that you can do other things instead of all the technology getting in the way.We hope to see you again somewhere on our travels. Posted by Ed & Sandy on 28 August 2012 Meeting you. Hi Uncle Ed and Aunty Sandy, Hamish here, just wanted to say a big thank you for allowing Mummy and Daddy to take my photograph standing with you both. It will add so much to the story of my Highland visit. Just to confirm that you will be in my next book, Diary of a westie, book four. I will put a photograph for you on your E-mail address. I can not remember if I asked you if you look at Facebook but if you would like to see me just put in Sir Hamish McTavish into search. Kind Regards Hammy. Posted by Sir Hamish McTavish on 15 May 2012 Dear Sir Hamish: It was a pleasure to have met you at Eilean Donan Castle recently.Thankyou for including us in your next book and we hope it will bring some excitement and interest to your readers.Best Wishes for the future and carry on the good work. Posted by Battlefield Highland on 17 May 2012 Thanks Uncle Ed, do try and take a look on my Facebook as you will see a link to my book with a beautiful picture of you both in there. I tried to send you one but it bounce back. If ever you are down in Northumberland drop in to see us. Kind Regrds Sir Hamish ww.blurb.com/bookstore Posted by Sir Hamish McTavish on 20 June 2012 Ketcherside Name My 5th Great Grand Father Thomas Ketcherside was a Highlander from the Edinburgho area, he fought with the coward Bonnie Prince Charles, and was told either get on the ship going to the New World or face the Chopping Block so thankfully he chose the Ship. My question is do you know the appropreate color and style of his qilts, that he would have worn in the 1730 - 1745 ! we have approximatly 7000 cousins and I would love to have this so I can show our family part of our Heritage. Thank you for your assistance Michael (Ketcherside) Tucker Sr. Posted by Michael (Ketcherside) Tucker on 11 September 2010 The origin of the name Ketcherside is Germanic meaning "free man" it could also be spelt Catcherside & many such spellings are common.There was a Thomas Ketcherside who went to the U.S.A before the American Revolution who was a preacher. Another preacher I came across was Carl Ketcherside of St.Louis 1908-1989. Something of interest was Donald Ketcherside mentioned his grandmother (Fannie Farmer) was a Cherokee Indian. Maybe some of this will ring a bell to you. Regarding the tartan worn by your family, people wore what they could dye their cloth with in whatever region they happened to be living in. In other words which plants, flowers or roots were in the area. Therefore it was just to what you prefered to wear & what design you desired was the way of life before the actual start of naming the tartans in the mid 1800`s. The military were the first to start the clan tartans so that all the regiment were in the same colour & design.The Victorians made it all very popular & therefore everyone started to name all the new tartans by their clan.Basically it is all a very new idea...Clansmen wore a mixture of colours & styles if you look at a picture of the Battle of Culloden for instance, you will see how varied they all were at the time.Hope this has been of some help to you. Posted by battlefield highland on 13 September 2010 |   |
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