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Are Gunns a clan 2? Chief implications
Real Clan Gunn Chief - John Gunn in Durness
Clan Gunn Chief - descent from Donald Crotach Gunn 6th Mackeamish
Clan Gunn Chief - Braehour line
The new 3rd Clan Gunn 'Chief' line
Clan Gunn Family Convention / Derbhfine 2015
The non-existent Clan Gunn crest badge and motto
On the non-existent Gunn ‘Chiefs’ between the Orkneys and before Gunn coroner (for Orkney 'Gunns' see the next column)
Braemore and MacRob / Robson Gunns; Chief? Chieftain?
Gunn (MacHamish) Mckaimish line was never Gunn 'Chief'
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On the correct spelling of Gunn Mckaimish / Mckeamuish (not Gunn MacHamish)
Alexander Gunn of Killearnan - new Gunn Mckaimish document 1652
The big Gunn legal battle of the 1670s
Badenloch Estate 1738; Alexander Gunn of Badenloch and later Wester Helmsdale 'Chief' of the Clan Gunn (in Sutherland)
Alexander Gunn of Badenloch later Wester Helmsdale NOT chief of the Clan Gunn
Gunn MacHamish / Mckaimish line not being Chief; more
How the Mckaimish line was manipulated into being viewed as Chief
Chief of the Clan Gunn by the Rev. Dr. Miller, C.I.E. Principal of Madras Theological College.
Gunn 'Chief' / Mckaimish; potential lines
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Gunn 'Chief' / Mckaimish lines 1; Esther
Esther Gunn, Part Two
Gunn 'Chief' / Mckaimish lines 2; Kinbrace
Gunn 'Chief' / Mackaimish lines 3; Hector Gunn
Gunn 'Chief' / Mckaimish lines 4; Gunn of Corrish
Osclay Clan Gunn 'Chief' link
Aeneas Gunn Edinburgh Family trees 1868 / 1870
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Aeneas Gunn family trees 1868 / 1870 - introduction
Aeneas James Gunn (Australia) discussion of the Edinburgh trees
Clan Gunn 'Chiefs'
Robert Gunn son of the Gunn coroner
Gunns of Watten / Hastigrow; more from Robert Gunn
John Gunn of Navidale c.1615-c.1660
George Gunn of Corrish
William 'beag / bheg' Gunn
Donald ‘the Scholar’ Gunn / Adam 'Mulbuie' Gunn line, being the second son of William ‘bheg’ / ‘beag’ Gunn
William in Achanaichan / Achaneccan line being the 2nd son of Donald the Scholar
Lord Lyon on the early history of Clan Gunn 'chiefs'
Lord Lyon 2011 interlocutor in the petition of Michael James Gunn
Clan Gunn Family Convention / Derbhfine petition 2012 - and its rejection
Gunn Scottish history
Gunn origin; a draft Chapter One
Clan Gunn has no Orkney origin
On Saint Donan / Saint Donnan and on Kildonan having nothing to do with him
What is a clan? / Are Gunns a clan?
Real origin of the Clan Gunn
Orkney issues (including the non-existent 'Clan Gunn Chief' Ottar and Snaekollr who stayed in Norway)
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Pytheas of Massilia, Ptolemy, Clan Gunn and the Orkney Islands origin myth
Why Gunns are not of Norse / Orkney descent
Saint Magnus and Saint Rognvald / Ronald
Who was before 'crowner / coroner' Gunn? And is it crowner or coroner?
The two soldiers on one horse story; a coroner Gunn myth (or a Gunn - Keith battle myth if you prefer)
The Macdonalds of Sleat and a Gunn coroner link
A Gun / Gunn Braemore story, perhaps from the late 1400s
Helen Gunn of Braemore; myth
Inverness early 1700s
Jacobite rebellions. Culloden.
Concerning Helmsdale c. late 1840s
On early Gunn character
Highland Clearances, Gunns and Kildonan
Ulbster Estate evictions
On Scottish clan re-invention in the 18th and 19th centuries
The last woman to be hanged in Edinburgh
Gunn other history
On a Gunn helping 'discover' North America - 'Sir James Gunn of Clyth Crowner of Caithness' and the 'Westford knight' myth
Isobel Gunn 1780? - 7 November 1861; pioneer feminist. Orkneys, Canada
Hon. Donald Gunn, Canada 1797-1878
Gunn, Ronald Campbell (1801-1881), botanist in Tasmania Australia
Ned Kelly (Australian bushranger) and the Gunns
S. M. Bruce, Australian Prime Minister, was a Braehour Gunn
John Gunn (1884-1959); Labor Party Premier of South Australia
Gunns Tasmania, Australia (company)
David John Gunn 1887-1955 New Zealand
Dr. Elizabeth Catherine Gunn 1879-1963, New Zealand
Gunn genealogy
Scotlands People 'The official Scottish genealogy resource'
Concerning Septs
John - son (3rd?) of Gunn coroner
Cattaig / Cataich Gunn Family tree (from John, perhaps 3rd son of Gun coroner)
Henry, (youngest?) son of the Gunn coroner
Some Scottish Old Parish Records
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Gun (Gunn) Braehour / Halkirk Baptism OPR 1777
Some further Gunn Old Parish Records (Baptism )
And yet more Gunn OPR
Gunn OPR 4
Gunn OPR 5
Gunn OPR 6
Gunn OPR 7
Gunn OPR 8
Directory to Noblemen and Gentlemen's Seats, Villages etc. etc In Scotland
Balnakeil Old Cemetery, Durness; John Gunn, Land Steward of Durness
Scottish burial grounds
John Gun, Master of the Charity School, Kildonan 1743
Gunn statistics; the 1881 British Census
Henderson Gunn DNA link
Papers On Sutherland Estate Management 1802-1816
McElgunns / Gunns of Killyfoyle Northern Ireland
Frank Gunn Quebec City chandler / coal merchant; Fermanagh Eniskillen
Gunns ; Victorian War (Australia) Heritage Inventory
William Gunn KIA 24 November 1915 at Gallipoli - ANZAC
Culture and sport
William Gunn 1795-1867, bagpipe maker, composer, publisher Glasgow. Composer of 'The Gunns' Salute''?
Literature
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'Fairy-Tale'; a poem by G. K. Chesterton
'The Curse of the Gunns', a poem by Thomas Gunn (1873-1950)
Emily Dickinson and her Gunn connection
On Gunn writers
Neil M. Gunn 1891-1973
Kirsty Gunn - the great New Zealand author - on growing up with the bagpipes
Margaret Laurence, Canadian author of 'The Diviners'
Alastair Gunn 'The Advent Killer'
'The Boys of Gunn Island' by Alfred Judd
Victor Gunn; crime writer
Jenny Gunn - Cricket
Gunn tartan / Scottish Commonwealth Games tartan - 2006
Other
Key Texts
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Key Issues for a Clan Gunn history by Alastair Gunn
Thomas Sinclair 'The Gunns' and Mark Rugg Gunn 'Clan Gunn'
Thomas Sinclair; Supplements to his history of the Clan Gunn
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Thomas Sinclair Supplement 1; 2. 12. 1902
Thomas Sinclair Supplement 2; 9. 12. 1902
Thomas Sinclair Supplement 3; 16. 12. 1902
Thomas Sinclair Supplement 4; 23. 12. 1902
Thomas Sinclair Supplement 5; 30. 12. 1902
Thomas Sinclair Supplement 6; 6.1.1903
Thomas Sinclair Supplement 7; 13.1.1903
Thomas Sinclair Supplement 8; 20.1.1903
Thomas Sinclair Supplement 9; 27.1.1903
Thomas Sinclair Supplement 10; 3.2.1903
Thomas Sinclair Supplement 11; 10.2.1903
Thomas Sinclair Supplement 12; 17.2.1903
Thomas Sinclair Supplement 13; 24.2.1903
Thomas Sinclair Supplement 14; 3.3.1903
Thomas Sinclair Supplement 15; 12.3.1903
Thomas Sinclair Supplement 16
Thomas Sinclair Supplement 17; 31.3.1903
Thomas Sinclair Supplement 18; 14.4.1903
Thomas Sinclair Supplement 19; 21.4.1903
Thomas Sinclair Supplement 20; 28.4.1903
Thomas Sinclair Supplement 21; 5.5.1903
Thomas Sinclair Supplement 22; 12.5.1903
Thomas Sinclair Supplement 23; 19.5.1903
Thomas Sinclair Supplement 24; 24.5.1903
Thomas Sinclair Supplement 25; 2.6.1903
Thomas Sinclair Supplement 26;9.6.1903
Thomas Sinclair Supplement 27; 16.6.1903
Thomas Sinclair Supplement 28; 23.6.1903
Thomas Sinclair Supplement 29; 30.6.1903
The Gunns by Robert R Gunn (USA) 1925
Scotland and Beyond; the Families of Donald Gunn (Tormsdale) and John Gunn (Dalnaha, Strathmore and Braehour)
'Ministers and Men in the Far North' by the Rev. Alexander Auld
Further texts of relevance to Gunn history
Sage's Gunn history
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Sage's Gunn History manuscript 1
Sage's Gunn History manuscript 2
Sage's Gunn History manuscript 3
Sage's Gunn History manuscript 4
Sage's Gunn History manuscript 5
Sage's Gunn History manuscript 6
Sage's Gunn History manuscript 7
On the Sage Gunn manuscript
The Gunn Papers; 'The Northern Chronicle'
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The Gunn Papers; 'The Northern Chronicle' 11.1.1911 and 8.2.1911
The Gunn Papers; 'The Northern Chronicle' 1.2.1911
The Gunn Papers; 'The Northern Chronicle' 15. 2.1911
The Gunn Papers; 'The Northern Chronicle' 22. 2.1911
The Gunn Papers; 'The Northern Chronicle' 1.3.1911
The Gunn Papers; 'The Northern Chronicle' 8.3.1911
The Gunn Papers; 'The Northern Chronicle' 15.3.1911
A History of Dirlot Cemetery by Dr. William Gunn
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A History of Dirlot Cemetery (Part 1)
A History of Dirlot Cemetery (Part 2)
A History of Dirlot Cemetery (Part 3; the last)
Caithness (Gunn) Family History by John Henderson W.S.; including Braemore Gunns
From a ‘CGS North America’ member; concerning the Gunn future
Concerning Clan Societies and the Lord Lyon
Clan Gunn Society UK Membership List analysis; 1962-1995
Clan Gunn Society International Gathering 2012
Useful links / Contact form
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'Clan' Gunn Blog
'Clan' Gunn Chief issues
Are Gunns a clan 2? Chief implications
Real Clan Gunn Chief - John Gunn in Durness
Clan Gunn Chief - descent from Donald Crotach Gunn 6th Mackeamish
Clan Gunn Chief - Braehour line
The new 3rd Clan Gunn 'Chief' line
Clan Gunn Family Convention / Derbhfine 2015
The non-existent Clan Gunn crest badge and motto
On the non-existent Gunn ‘Chiefs’ between the Orkneys and before Gunn coroner (for Orkney 'Gunns' see the next column)
Braemore and MacRob / Robson Gunns; Chief? Chieftain?
Gunn (MacHamish) Mckaimish line was never Gunn 'Chief'
>
On the correct spelling of Gunn Mckaimish / Mckeamuish (not Gunn MacHamish)
Alexander Gunn of Killearnan - new Gunn Mckaimish document 1652
The big Gunn legal battle of the 1670s
Badenloch Estate 1738; Alexander Gunn of Badenloch and later Wester Helmsdale 'Chief' of the Clan Gunn (in Sutherland)
Alexander Gunn of Badenloch later Wester Helmsdale NOT chief of the Clan Gunn
Gunn MacHamish / Mckaimish line not being Chief; more
How the Mckaimish line was manipulated into being viewed as Chief
Chief of the Clan Gunn by the Rev. Dr. Miller, C.I.E. Principal of Madras Theological College.
Gunn 'Chief' / Mckaimish; potential lines
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Gunn 'Chief' / Mckaimish lines 1; Esther
Esther Gunn, Part Two
Gunn 'Chief' / Mckaimish lines 2; Kinbrace
Gunn 'Chief' / Mackaimish lines 3; Hector Gunn
Gunn 'Chief' / Mckaimish lines 4; Gunn of Corrish
Osclay Clan Gunn 'Chief' link
Aeneas Gunn Edinburgh Family trees 1868 / 1870
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Aeneas Gunn family trees 1868 / 1870 - introduction
Aeneas James Gunn (Australia) discussion of the Edinburgh trees
Clan Gunn 'Chiefs'
Robert Gunn son of the Gunn coroner
Gunns of Watten / Hastigrow; more from Robert Gunn
John Gunn of Navidale c.1615-c.1660
George Gunn of Corrish
William 'beag / bheg' Gunn
Donald ‘the Scholar’ Gunn / Adam 'Mulbuie' Gunn line, being the second son of William ‘bheg’ / ‘beag’ Gunn
William in Achanaichan / Achaneccan line being the 2nd son of Donald the Scholar
Lord Lyon on the early history of Clan Gunn 'chiefs'
Lord Lyon 2011 interlocutor in the petition of Michael James Gunn
Clan Gunn Family Convention / Derbhfine petition 2012 - and its rejection
Gunn Scottish history
Gunn origin; a draft Chapter One
Clan Gunn has no Orkney origin
On Saint Donan / Saint Donnan and on Kildonan having nothing to do with him
What is a clan? / Are Gunns a clan?
Real origin of the Clan Gunn
Orkney issues (including the non-existent 'Clan Gunn Chief' Ottar and Snaekollr who stayed in Norway)
>
Pytheas of Massilia, Ptolemy, Clan Gunn and the Orkney Islands origin myth
Why Gunns are not of Norse / Orkney descent
Saint Magnus and Saint Rognvald / Ronald
Who was before 'crowner / coroner' Gunn? And is it crowner or coroner?
The two soldiers on one horse story; a coroner Gunn myth (or a Gunn - Keith battle myth if you prefer)
The Macdonalds of Sleat and a Gunn coroner link
A Gun / Gunn Braemore story, perhaps from the late 1400s
Helen Gunn of Braemore; myth
Inverness early 1700s
Jacobite rebellions. Culloden.
Concerning Helmsdale c. late 1840s
On early Gunn character
Highland Clearances, Gunns and Kildonan
Ulbster Estate evictions
On Scottish clan re-invention in the 18th and 19th centuries
The last woman to be hanged in Edinburgh
Gunn other history
On a Gunn helping 'discover' North America - 'Sir James Gunn of Clyth Crowner of Caithness' and the 'Westford knight' myth
Isobel Gunn 1780? - 7 November 1861; pioneer feminist. Orkneys, Canada
Hon. Donald Gunn, Canada 1797-1878
Gunn, Ronald Campbell (1801-1881), botanist in Tasmania Australia
Ned Kelly (Australian bushranger) and the Gunns
S. M. Bruce, Australian Prime Minister, was a Braehour Gunn
John Gunn (1884-1959); Labor Party Premier of South Australia
Gunns Tasmania, Australia (company)
David John Gunn 1887-1955 New Zealand
Dr. Elizabeth Catherine Gunn 1879-1963, New Zealand
Gunn genealogy
Scotlands People 'The official Scottish genealogy resource'
Concerning Septs
John - son (3rd?) of Gunn coroner
Cattaig / Cataich Gunn Family tree (from John, perhaps 3rd son of Gun coroner)
Henry, (youngest?) son of the Gunn coroner
Some Scottish Old Parish Records
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Gun (Gunn) Braehour / Halkirk Baptism OPR 1777
Some further Gunn Old Parish Records (Baptism )
And yet more Gunn OPR
Gunn OPR 4
Gunn OPR 5
Gunn OPR 6
Gunn OPR 7
Gunn OPR 8
Directory to Noblemen and Gentlemen's Seats, Villages etc. etc In Scotland
Balnakeil Old Cemetery, Durness; John Gunn, Land Steward of Durness
Scottish burial grounds
John Gun, Master of the Charity School, Kildonan 1743
Gunn statistics; the 1881 British Census
Henderson Gunn DNA link
Papers On Sutherland Estate Management 1802-1816
McElgunns / Gunns of Killyfoyle Northern Ireland
Frank Gunn Quebec City chandler / coal merchant; Fermanagh Eniskillen
Gunns ; Victorian War (Australia) Heritage Inventory
William Gunn KIA 24 November 1915 at Gallipoli - ANZAC
Culture and sport
William Gunn 1795-1867, bagpipe maker, composer, publisher Glasgow. Composer of 'The Gunns' Salute''?
Literature
>
'Fairy-Tale'; a poem by G. K. Chesterton
'The Curse of the Gunns', a poem by Thomas Gunn (1873-1950)
Emily Dickinson and her Gunn connection
On Gunn writers
Neil M. Gunn 1891-1973
Kirsty Gunn - the great New Zealand author - on growing up with the bagpipes
Margaret Laurence, Canadian author of 'The Diviners'
Alastair Gunn 'The Advent Killer'
'The Boys of Gunn Island' by Alfred Judd
Victor Gunn; crime writer
Jenny Gunn - Cricket
Gunn tartan / Scottish Commonwealth Games tartan - 2006
Other
Key Texts
>
Key Issues for a Clan Gunn history by Alastair Gunn
Thomas Sinclair 'The Gunns' and Mark Rugg Gunn 'Clan Gunn'
Thomas Sinclair; Supplements to his history of the Clan Gunn
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Thomas Sinclair Supplement 1; 2. 12. 1902
Thomas Sinclair Supplement 2; 9. 12. 1902
Thomas Sinclair Supplement 3; 16. 12. 1902
Thomas Sinclair Supplement 4; 23. 12. 1902
Thomas Sinclair Supplement 5; 30. 12. 1902
Thomas Sinclair Supplement 6; 6.1.1903
Thomas Sinclair Supplement 7; 13.1.1903
Thomas Sinclair Supplement 8; 20.1.1903
Thomas Sinclair Supplement 9; 27.1.1903
Thomas Sinclair Supplement 10; 3.2.1903
Thomas Sinclair Supplement 11; 10.2.1903
Thomas Sinclair Supplement 12; 17.2.1903
Thomas Sinclair Supplement 13; 24.2.1903
Thomas Sinclair Supplement 14; 3.3.1903
Thomas Sinclair Supplement 15; 12.3.1903
Thomas Sinclair Supplement 16
Thomas Sinclair Supplement 17; 31.3.1903
Thomas Sinclair Supplement 18; 14.4.1903
Thomas Sinclair Supplement 19; 21.4.1903
Thomas Sinclair Supplement 20; 28.4.1903
Thomas Sinclair Supplement 21; 5.5.1903
Thomas Sinclair Supplement 22; 12.5.1903
Thomas Sinclair Supplement 23; 19.5.1903
Thomas Sinclair Supplement 24; 24.5.1903
Thomas Sinclair Supplement 25; 2.6.1903
Thomas Sinclair Supplement 26;9.6.1903
Thomas Sinclair Supplement 27; 16.6.1903
Thomas Sinclair Supplement 28; 23.6.1903
Thomas Sinclair Supplement 29; 30.6.1903
The Gunns by Robert R Gunn (USA) 1925
Scotland and Beyond; the Families of Donald Gunn (Tormsdale) and John Gunn (Dalnaha, Strathmore and Braehour)
'Ministers and Men in the Far North' by the Rev. Alexander Auld
Further texts of relevance to Gunn history
Sage's Gunn history
>
Sage's Gunn History manuscript 1
Sage's Gunn History manuscript 2
Sage's Gunn History manuscript 3
Sage's Gunn History manuscript 4
Sage's Gunn History manuscript 5
Sage's Gunn History manuscript 6
Sage's Gunn History manuscript 7
On the Sage Gunn manuscript
The Gunn Papers; 'The Northern Chronicle'
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The Gunn Papers; 'The Northern Chronicle' 11.1.1911 and 8.2.1911
The Gunn Papers; 'The Northern Chronicle' 1.2.1911
The Gunn Papers; 'The Northern Chronicle' 15. 2.1911
The Gunn Papers; 'The Northern Chronicle' 22. 2.1911
The Gunn Papers; 'The Northern Chronicle' 1.3.1911
The Gunn Papers; 'The Northern Chronicle' 8.3.1911
The Gunn Papers; 'The Northern Chronicle' 15.3.1911
A History of Dirlot Cemetery by Dr. William Gunn
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A History of Dirlot Cemetery (Part 1)
A History of Dirlot Cemetery (Part 2)
A History of Dirlot Cemetery (Part 3; the last)
Caithness (Gunn) Family History by John Henderson W.S.; including Braemore Gunns
From a ‘CGS North America’ member; concerning the Gunn future
Concerning Clan Societies and the Lord Lyon
Clan Gunn Society UK Membership List analysis; 1962-1995
Clan Gunn Society International Gathering 2012
Useful links / Contact form
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