Taken Into A Clan?

[connor1985]

my father and i have started to look into our family history (at least on his side of the family) and combined with my mothers i am 25%irish 25%dutch and 50%german. all i know for certine is my grandmothers relitives were O'Cunnerns from ireland but i don't know for sure if there was really a clan or not. does anyone have any idea??? if not as a side note can you be taken in and prehapes join a clan? i know it wouldn't be by blood but sometimes faith and love is thicker then blood. just a question.

[Dogshirt]

When I joined Clan Gordon, I was asked if I liked Scotch. Yes! I replied. "Go over to the clan tent and we'll sign you up." I've been a Gordon ever since.

[sisterknight]

as you can see my clan is campbell but there are 87 different septs!!!if you really want the list i'll let you have it!!

[Mailagnas maqqas Dunaidonas]

I would make an educated guess that O'Cunnern is a variant spelling for O'Connor, which is one of the great Irish clans. A google search for O'Connor Clan should yield considerable information.

[connor1985]

hey i'll take a look at any list you have to offer. as far as the O'Connor thing i'm not sure. connor isn't my name i just used it becuase i liked it. you know from highlander the movie. anyway i'm just wondering about all this but having a bigger family (even if i never see them) would be kinda cool. thanks for the info if you have any more please tell me

[sisterknight]

connor be careful what you asked for!!!!


campbell arthur bannatyne burnes burness burnett burns caddell
cadell calder cattell connochie conochie denoon denune
gibbon gibson harres harris hastings hawes hawson isaac
isaacs iverson kellar keller kissack kissock lorne louden
loudon loudoun lowden lowdon mac artair mac arthur
mac carter mac colm mac colmbe mac conachie mac conchie
mac connechy mac conochie mac dermid mac dermott mac diarmid
mac eller mac elvie mac ever mac gibbon mac gubbin mac isaac
mac iver mac ivor mac keller mac kelvie mac kerlie mac kessack
mac kessock mac kissock mac laws mac lehose mac nichol
mac nocaird mac onachie mac oran mac owen mac phedran mac phun
mac tause mac tavish mac thomas mac ure moore muir orr pinkerton
taweson tawesson thomas thomason thompson thomson torrie
torry and last but not least ure!!!!!


now i need a drink

[connor1985]

thats a list of all the clans? i thought there were more but i wasn't sure. thanks for the list hopefully i'll get some time to look some of them up and get information on them. i love history in case you were wondering. thanks again.

[sisterknight]

no man!!!that's the list of septs associated tp the campbell clan!!!!if you want clans,there's not enough whiskey to get me to do that one!!!

[connor1985]

oh... good god i guess the scots loved to have their own little clans to do with as they saw fit. of course thats not really any different then what we do today putting different lables on different people. oh well by the time i find them all i'll be drunk in my grave.

[sisterknight]

well i don't know about dead...but definately feeling no pain!!!

clans were never little but smaller families(septs) did swear to abide by the laws of the stronger and larger and the larger ones in turn swore to protect them...that was not too bad, but alliances could change alot and so could having lots of daughters to marry into better situations for the septs.

if you really want to go nuts there is also cadet lines coming from both clans and septs!!!!now you figure them out and you will be dead

[Nancy-Raven]

I think you should look in your family history a little bit more and be carefull.What exactly do you want ?Have you try to see if you can get help from an aunt or a cousin.Sometimes they can tell a lot about family.You can try to search your roots ,a lot a web site about genealogy and many forum where you can ask questions.But the real question is what is your goal , joining a clan???

[Donajhi]

I do hope you have not given up on finding your roots.
You ask about being taken into a clan.
Yes, most clans are happy you wish to display their tartan.
Diana Gabaldon was taken into Clan Henderson and wears our
tartan proudly. As an elder I would welcome you and your
family if you wish.