Unite - What Does our Motto Mean to You

[wulliemcmartin]

to me it means the joining of the original 5 septs, mcmartin being one of them.

It is probably a rallying cry to "unite" us all.

[Cameronian]

The “Sword in the Hand address” (please read in conjunction with Pro rege et patria.. older crest…Cameron History)

The one concern that I hold for any of us who go seek understanding of self through ancestry is the number of corridors which beckon, and the traps we encounter when we enter there.

When proof and fact are unavailable, myth and fantasy arise, the myth usually becomes sufficient when there is no other, but the truth if you seek it brings far more satisfaction.

I am presently working on the Memoirs of Alan Cameron third son of Sir Ewen Cameron of Lochiel. Gentle Lochiel’s uncle who had the management of the Affairs of the Clans at the Jacobite Court towards the end of Queen Anne’s reign. It was he that promoted and presented what was known by the name of the Sword in the Hand Address.

It appears that from letters of his written between 1709 and 1713 he was already actively engaged on behalf of the exiled Stuarts, and, after leaving for France, he was continually employed by James on secret missions to England and Scotland and was chosen to accompany the King when he landed in Scotland during the rising of 1715.

The naming of his approaches to those Jacobites active throughout England and Scotland as ‘The Sword in the Hand’ address may indicate that the use of the older Cameron crest was out and active earlier than thought, it was most certainly still our Clan badge in 1745.

That change was made says it all… I prefer to think it was Gentle Lochiel in exile who passed back this desperate cry to the Clan. Aonaibh Ri Cheile, come together, recognise from whence that strength must come, and bind these Cadet lines together. A more poignant, riveting historical reference could never be found in myth.

[scotsgirltoo]

Family ties, family blood - I'm a second generation Canadian Cameron - the pipes call, I can smell the heather and want to walk the land where thousands of history will soak through my feet.
Judy