#clan cameron

[urbanmechisbestmech]

A Savannah Cameron Moodboard for @is-the-battlemech-cool-or-not

[sanguinarysanguinity]

Random historical note: throughout The Flight of the Heron, Keith Windham (and other Government officers) routinely identify this person or that as Clan Cameron because of their plaid. I assumed this was a goof on Broster’s part, given that clan tartans were a Victorian invention.

But lo, here I am reading John Sibbald Gibson’s Lochiel of the ‘45: 

Such then was Lochiel's regiment which set out from Glenfinnan... It would be to some extent uniformly clad; in the months before the Rising Lochiel had ordered plaids from Glasgow for his men (how we would wish to know what, if any, tartan was specified!)

Perhaps no other Highland clan could be identified the sett of their plaids during the 1745 Rising, but Clan Cameron could! My sincerest apologies, Ms. Broster, for doubting the thoroughness of your research!

[cassidy-tag-hyperfixation]

update I guess??

im going to try and get bag into TAG. My uncle is giving me his thunder bird 1 for christmas and i must be Autistic and knowlegeable on the subject again so i dont look odd when he gives it to me. Ill bring my thunderbird 2 aswell...

I still like trains! I promise. Heres a recent one. Taken on the 13th dec, 2025 at warragul, vic. I love the T class..

i also have been getting really into history..mostly into my family history, as we're scottish.

did you know clan cameron (my clan..) is considered one of the most ancient clans of scotland (dating back to the 1400s reliably but roots go back to the 1000s and even earlier.) and they're said to be "fiercer than fierceness itself." .....woawie.

Anywho, er, I also like collecting vintage things. Reminder if you like thrifting: ALWAYS go after a certain holiday has happened like Christmas, thats when the good stuff is there. Especially the thrift stores that are in a country suburb thats in the middle of nowhere. (that logic may not apply to you specifically, but over here in aus i found 3 pillowpets that I've been looking for my collection, at a random salvos in Lara, Vic.)

[scotlandsladies]

On 27 June 1772, Jean Cameron of Glendessary, a Jacobite heroine, died.

Jean Cameron of Glendessary (c. 1698? - 27 June 1772), the unmarried daughter of Allan Cameron of Glendessary, had an unusual role since she was the de facto head of a cadet family of Lochiel during the rising of ‘45. Indeed, she acted as tacksman and agent for her brother, John Cameron of Glendessary, who had been disabled since childhood. In 1745, the Cameron's of Glendessary followed the clan chief, Donald Cameron of Lochiel; the exact role Jean Cameron played during the rising cannot be completely established. As a tacksman, she had the duty of raising the men of Morvern; she probably led them to her cousin, Alexander Cameron of Dungallon, in Sunart, before the men joined Lochiel’s troop. Jean was seen leading the Cameron's of Sunart to the Raising of the Clans at Glenfinnan on 19 August 1745, and then within Jacobite circles of sociability in Edinburgh when the prince held court.

On February 3rd, 1746 when the Prince’s forces fled, the wounded were left behind and taken prisoner by the Duke of Cumberland, Jean Cameron was among them. Cumberland wrote to the Duke of Newcastle that he had captured “the famous Jenny Cameron” and sent her to Edinburgh. She was released on bail on 15 November 1746. On 27 June 1772, Jean died at her home near Blacklaw Hill in East Kilbride. As might be expected, there is a discrepancy between the real women and their English representation in Hanoverian propaganda, the most distorted being Jean Cameron of Glendessary, familiarly nicknamed Jenny Cameron. [x]

[itsmosblog]

The Scent of Mystery and Intrigue

As I prepare for my double date with Spook, Stripey Drawers and Pigpen, I'm wondering what perfume to wear.  

It turns out, from today's sniff test, that Hawthorn really does smell gorgeous.  It was just that by the time I finally finished the Time Trial (65+mins), the buds at home had gone to sleep, along with Pete and his stopwatch.

So Hawthorn would be a good choice.  Or this yellow thing - Honeysuckle?  It was definately slowing me down on Tuesday night.

While I was sniffing about, I called in to the wee graveyard at Gairlochy. I believe this belongs to the Cameron Clan of Lochiel.  A quick check didn't really tell me about the graveyard, but I found this exotically and passionately written account of a 1937 interview with Sir Cameron of Locheil in The Scots Magazine by Alison Stewart - I suspect she was a Jacobite herself.  It's long, but there are some lovely nuggets within.  I especially liked the reference to the Witch of Moy.

http://www.lochiel.net/archives/arch214.html

Once I get started wandering about, and even though I know Spook is under Princess's car fixing brakes, grit in his eyes, while she is at the Screen Machine cinema, Horizontal is excercising his thumbs playing football, and the dinner is yet to be cooked, I couldn't resist a quick look around the Moy Bridge graveyard - having seen the reference in that link, to Gormshuil - the "Wise Woman of Moy", whom I'd heard off, I just wondered if she might be there.

But no.  It seemed to be the resting place of the MacKinnons.  Perhaps she was a Mackinnon.  I'd also heard that this had been a buriel place for the Monks as they made their pilgrimage to Fort Augustus Abbey, but there was no obvious evidence of that either.  There was a bit of travelling about going on in those late 1800's though.  My  limited history doesn't stretch to understanding the effects on movement of people in the Highlands in the years after the Jacobite Rebellion as the dates here are nearly 30 years later.

Now - must find a suitable scent.

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[highwaychild]

Is it weird that, even though my family's been in Canada since the 1700s, and hell, I've never even been to Scotland, I still sometimes think of Scotland as my "homeland?" And sometimes I catch myself telling people that I'd like to go "back" to Scotland? I swear I don't do it on purpose. I have no idea why I do this.

[lookinlikeawetchickennugget]

Someone asked me about tattoos but the message got deleted soooo Dear anon haha I don't have any tattoos right now but I do plan to get one of a celtic cross with my familys Scottish Clan name written in cursive underneath it (Cameron) and I also want a tattoo of a butterfly to represent "the butterfly project" and my depression that I'm fighting :)xx