'Clan' Gunn
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    • Contents and Introduction
    • 1. (Clan) Gunn origin
    • 2. (Clan) Gunn Orkney Islands origin myth
    • 3. Mythical (Clan) Gunn Chiefs
    • 4. Why (Clan) Gunn is not a Clan
    • 5. The Gunn USA 'Westford Knight' myth
    • 6. St Donan / Donnan and his non-links to Kildonan
    • 7. Gunn / Keith / Mackay myths
    • 8. Coroner (crowner) Gunn of Caithness
    • 9. (Clan) Gunn family trees
    • 10.1 On the use of 'MacHamish'
    • 10.2.a.1 - 14 generations of MacHamish Gunns
    • 10.2.a.2 - Brief lives of 14 MacHamish generations
    • 10.3 Senior MacHamish Gunns of Killernan, Borrobol, Navidale and Kinbrace
    • 10.3 - Biographies of 11 MacHamish generations
    • 10.4 The senior living MacHamish lines
    • 11. MacRob / Braemore Gunns, Jacobites, Clearances, Emigration, Gunn tartan, crest badge, motto septs...
    • 12. Conclusion
    • Appendix 1 - Summary of the senior MacHamish Gunns ('Clan Gunn Chief' line)
    • Appendix 2 - The triple MacHamish descent from Coroner Gunn of he Osclay Gunns
    • Appendix 3 - The invention of a Clan Gunn Chief in 1802/3
    • Appendix 4 - On why the Gunn Orkney islands origin myth might have started
    • Appendix 5 - Thomas Smibert on Gunn origin, MacHamish, Keiths / Caith confusion and more
    • Appendix 6 - 'Helen (Gunn) of Braemore' - a very silly Victorian poem
    • Appendix 7 - on the flawed invention of a Clan Gunn Chief in 2015
    • Bibliography of 'The Gunns: History, Myths and Genealogy
  • 'Clan' Gunn Blog
  • 'Clan' Gunn Chief issues
    • The Senior MacHamish Gunns / (the ‘Clan Gunn Chief’ line)
    • On 'Never Chief' William Gunn
    • MacHamish Gunn Part 1
    • MacHamish Gunn Part 2
    • John MacHamish Gunn in Navidale, perhaps of Killernan – one of the mythical Gunn Chief line
    • 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 >
      • 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 >
      • 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 >
      • 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 >
      • The Gunns: HIstory, Myths and genealogy, paperback
      • 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 >
        • 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' >
        • 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 >
        • 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

'Key issues for a Clan Gunn history' - access

26/9/2014

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I thought people might like to know that copies of Key issues for a Clan Gunn history can be accessed at  - the British Library; the National Library of Scotland; the Department of History's library in the School of History, Classics and Archaeology, University of Edinburgh; Wick Library; Caithness Family History Society's library; Timespan Museum's reference collection (Helmsdale); the Genealogical Society of Queensland; the Society of Australian Genealogists (New South Wales) and at the Genealogical Society of Victoria.

I will place further copies next year. I am very aware that Canada and the USA require texts in institutions similar to the above.
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Clan Gunn patronymics

22/9/2014

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Clan Gunn patronymics

Patronymics 
Many Scottish surnames originated in patronymics, whereby a son’s surname derived from the father’s forename, e.g. John Donaldson’s son might be Peter Johnson, whose son might be Magnus Peterson, and so on. Patronymics present something of a challenge for the family historian in that the surname changed with each successive generation.  This practice died out in Lowland Scotland after the 15th century, as patronymic surnames became permanent family names. It persisted, however, in the Highlands & Islands well into the 18th century...[1]


[1] From Scotlands People http://www.scotlandspeople.gov.uk/Content/Help/index.aspx?r=551&560 accessed 1 May 2014

We are meant to believe - according to Clan Gunn mythic history beloved by Clan Gunn Societies - that the surname Gunn originated from the Orkneys in the early 1200s and the surname directly flowed from one man when, according to the above, fixed patronymics basically did not exist in the Highlands and Islands till the 1700s.  Lord Lyon also states 'surnames were generally adopted in Scotland in the 17th century'  ('Coat of Arms and Crest Badges booklet' 2012).

The only sensible logic for the surname Gunn is that presented by Smibert. The  Clan Gunn Orkney origin non-link I have dealt with often on this site.
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Considering 'By Poetic Authority; The Rhetoric of Panegyric in Gaelic Poetry of Scotland to c. 1700' by Dr Pia Coira

22/9/2014

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This is a fascinating book. I note pages 151-182 where Dr Coira discusses the poetry attached to Clann Leoid (MacLeods of Lewis, Dunvegan etc.) including their royal  Norwegian links. She makes clear in the book the importance of the poetry - seemingly all major families had 'poets' to write about them. The absence of Clan Gunn poems provides further support for the idea of the unimportance of the Clan Gunn when compared with the many other clans she discusses...


Dr Pia Coira has worked as a Teaching Fellow and as a  Research Fellow at the University of Aberdeen.

Dr. M. P. Coira, By Poetic Authority; The Rhetoric of Panegyric in Gaelic Poetry of Scotland to c 1700, Dunedin Academic Press, 2012, Edinburgh.
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'What's in a name?': Pedigree and Propaganda in Seventeenth-Century Scotland

22/9/2014

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The below was too nicely phrased to ignore -

Family history remains fantastically popular. A headcount would surely confirm that there are more genealogists than academic scholars afoot in Scotland's repositories and research libraries; and an impressive proportion of the works optimistically classified as 'Scottish history' by the bookshops turns out to be attempts to entice the budding family historian. This should not be entirely surprising, given the commercial capital now invested in Scottish kinship, fictitious and real: both tartan textile manufacturers and heritage tourism, to name just two profitable industries, derive obvious advantages from peddling the notion of meaningful blood ties between the now-scattered members of ancient Scottish dynasties.  But if such activities have formed an important part of the relentless romanticisation of the Scottish past, usually attributed by cynical cultural historians to the effects of nineteenth century Balmorality and the novels of Sir Walter Scott, then it is crucial to note that the desire to trumpet one's own breeding was neither a unique product of that age nor at any time a\ peculiarly Scottish affectation...

(footnotes left out)

Being the opening paragraph on page 147  of  'What's in a name?: Pedigree and Propaganda in Seventeenth-Century Scotland' an essay by David Allen - being Chapter 7 of Edward J Cowan (ed.) and Richard J Finlay (ed.) Scottish History - The Power of the Past, Edinburgh University Press, 2002.

David Allan was then a Lecturer in Scottish History at the Department of Scottish History at the University of St. Andrews.

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Clan Gunn facebook; Clan Gunn Pinterest

19/9/2014

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Clan Gunn facebook; Clan Gunn Pinterest

I have had a Clan Gunn Pinterest small button link on the top right of the each website page here for some time; I have now added a Clan Gunn facebook button link. 

Neither will replace this site, but they can be a bit of fun and are useful for minor additions...
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http://clangunn1.blogspot.co.uk/ goes through 20,000 hits

5/9/2014

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Below is the comment I made on my old blog -

The hits and audience for this blog show something tangible about the Scottish diaspora, especially to those with a Clan Gunn interest. (The 8 June 2014 figures for 17,500 hits are in brackets.) The top five countries are -
  1. USA - 5,371 (4824)
  2. UK - 3938 (3017)
  3. Canada - 3629 (3509)
  4. Australia - 1529 (1322)
  5. Germany - 1158 (963)
The main change is that Canada, which was second, has changed places with the UK.  The USA dominance in Clan Gunn issues is obvious.

I thought I would repeat the entry as the history has significance beyond the old blog;  North American dominance in Clan Gunn matters is obvious. Australia barely rates above Germany....
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  • Home
  • Read The Book Here
    • Contents and Introduction
    • 1. (Clan) Gunn origin
    • 2. (Clan) Gunn Orkney Islands origin myth
    • 3. Mythical (Clan) Gunn Chiefs
    • 4. Why (Clan) Gunn is not a Clan
    • 5. The Gunn USA 'Westford Knight' myth
    • 6. St Donan / Donnan and his non-links to Kildonan
    • 7. Gunn / Keith / Mackay myths
    • 8. Coroner (crowner) Gunn of Caithness
    • 9. (Clan) Gunn family trees
    • 10.1 On the use of 'MacHamish'
    • 10.2.a.1 - 14 generations of MacHamish Gunns
    • 10.2.a.2 - Brief lives of 14 MacHamish generations
    • 10.3 Senior MacHamish Gunns of Killernan, Borrobol, Navidale and Kinbrace
    • 10.3 - Biographies of 11 MacHamish generations
    • 10.4 The senior living MacHamish lines
    • 11. MacRob / Braemore Gunns, Jacobites, Clearances, Emigration, Gunn tartan, crest badge, motto septs...
    • 12. Conclusion
    • Appendix 1 - Summary of the senior MacHamish Gunns ('Clan Gunn Chief' line)
    • Appendix 2 - The triple MacHamish descent from Coroner Gunn of he Osclay Gunns
    • Appendix 3 - The invention of a Clan Gunn Chief in 1802/3
    • Appendix 4 - On why the Gunn Orkney islands origin myth might have started
    • Appendix 5 - Thomas Smibert on Gunn origin, MacHamish, Keiths / Caith confusion and more
    • Appendix 6 - 'Helen (Gunn) of Braemore' - a very silly Victorian poem
    • Appendix 7 - on the flawed invention of a Clan Gunn Chief in 2015
    • Bibliography of 'The Gunns: History, Myths and Genealogy
  • 'Clan' Gunn Blog
  • 'Clan' Gunn Chief issues
    • The Senior MacHamish Gunns / (the ‘Clan Gunn Chief’ line)
    • On 'Never Chief' William Gunn
    • MacHamish Gunn Part 1
    • MacHamish Gunn Part 2
    • John MacHamish Gunn in Navidale, perhaps of Killernan – one of the mythical Gunn Chief line
    • 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 >
      • 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 >
      • 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 >
      • 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 >
      • The Gunns: HIstory, Myths and genealogy, paperback
      • 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 >
        • 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' >
        • 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 >
        • 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
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