Scottish Clans?

Question

Do the old Scottish clans still have any impacts on Scotland today? Does Scotland still have Lairds or Chiefs? I found various clan pages on the 'net but I didn't find any who are still living on the old clan lands in Scotland. Is this a completely banished Scottish custom as a result of Culloden and the Jacobite Rising?

I'd appreciate any thoughts or comments from the Scottish!

Answer 1

The Clans still exist, as do the Clan Chieftains.

I am a member of the Murray Clan and our Chieftain is the Duke of Athol who has the only private army in the U.K.

Answer 2

The clan system in Scotland exists in name and memory only now. They were originally groups organised and ruled by local chiefs under a feudal system mainly in the Highlands. They lived by crofting/subsistence farming, cattle trading and occasional reiving. After the union of the crowns they were always under pressure and threat from the crown and the increasingly anglicised lowlands, who saw them as wild and uncontrollable barbarians.

The Rob Roy legend is based on factual accounts of dealings of the gaelic speaking Highlanders with the centralised government in Edinburgh. The greatly exaggerated account of the atrocity at Glencoe is an indication of the attitude towards the clan system.

The last straw was the rising of certain clan chiefs for the Jacobite (King James line) Charles Edward Stewart in the '45 rebellion. after Culloden the culture of the clans was proscribed and their chiefs disinherited of their lands.

The clearances dispossessed the clan people of their lands for sheep and cattle and southron magnates took over. The 'children of the mist' were scattered to the four corners of the globe. The modern clan culture was reinvented by Sir Walter Scott as a client and tourist culture for the English aristocracy-

A Brigadoon-type souvenir culture depicted and celebrated on tins of shortbread and faux tartans and 'Highland Games'

What became of the Native American tribes btw??

Answer 3

that's in basic terms yet another be conscious for kin or tribe, and is going back to the days whilst Scotland became into in actuality tribal. contributors of a prolonged kin would be suitable by skill of blood, or not - it is why some clans have daughter branches with thoroughly different names - yet in concept that's a suitable . In prepare it consisted of all human beings who lived on the prolonged kin's land or had allegiance to the supervisor. One occasion of it is that my very own surname is that of a Scottish prolonged kin as i'm descended from one, yet there are those with many different surnames who're entitled to positioned on the comparable tartan. Scottish clans are additionally formally regarded, in the event that they have a first-rate, by skill of the Lord Lyon, who's to blame for concerns of heraldry in Scotland.

Answer 4

Hi, well I'm Scottish, and I can tell you I've never come across a living Laird or Chief! Hehe.



There's a strong sense of family though, like the Mackays, or the MacDonalds. Because I come from a small community, everyone knows everyone else.



I can't really explain it, but basically it's more of a traditional thing.



Hope this helps lol!