Origin of the family known as Patience
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Origin of the family known as Patience
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Posted: 26 Oct 2008 1:17AM GMT |
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Surnames: Patience, Mclemand, & Jack
This is from my family history book.
The following paragraphs were copy written from the book "the Charm of Scotland" written by T.H McCullough. It tells us many stories about the family, Patience.
The Black isle village of Avoch (pronounced Och)is the oldest community in Scotland, as well as being on the most attractive. It is less than nine miles from Inverness, the Capital of the Highlands, yet it has no Highland characteristics or traditions. No Gaelic is spoken in the village and nobody has any interest in the language. There is not a piper in the place, and the sound of the Pibroch has no power to thrill. The Kilt and the tartan might as well be proscribed, for they are never worn.
These peculiarities spring from the fact that most of the natives of Avoch bear the names of Patience, Mcleman and Jack, which have no ethnological connection with the Highlands, or Scotland for that matter. The population of the Parish is around 1200, and of that number, there are about 600, Patience’s, 200 Mcleman's and almost as many Jacks. Where there ancestors came from or why they settled in that pretty little port of the Black isle is a mystery, but throughout many generations they have maintained, and even strengthened there racial characteristics.
Mr Robert Reid, who was one of the very few villagers, who didn’t ear the name of one the three dominant families, led me up through the gracious works of Roshaugh to the old church of Scotland, and the burned out mansion in which Sir Alexander MacKenzie the famous explorer of Canada’s North West Territories, spent the last years of his life. In the vestibule of the Kirk, I examined a subscription for the Waterloo Fund, dated October 1815. It bore the names of the most prominent parishioners, and Mr. Reid drew my attention to the fact that there was not as big a proportion of Patience’s as one can find in the Parish today. The reason was the curious one that Patience breed many more sons than daughters.
Another curious feature of that subscription list was the nicknames by which so many of the Patience’s, McLean’s and Jacks were known. They followed the family name, for identification purposes, and I noticed those of ‘Booky’, ‘Cranky’, ‘Muckley’, ‘Bykie’,
‘Havana’, ‘Blakie’, ‘Ban’, and ‘Hunter’. Even more curious was the fact that most of these old nicknames were still in use. There was perhaps, more need of them for the local bank had 100 accounts in the name of Patience, and they were numbered for Identification purposes.
Where did the original Patience’s, Mcleman’s, and Jacks, come from? One theory is that came from Cornwall to fight for the tittles searover and land-grabber many centuries ago. Another theory is that they are decedents of fisherman from the Basque Provinces of Spain. They certainly came into Gaelic Community, for in 1328, the village was a Barony of Auach, the Gaelic spelling of which was abhach. In Gaelic the ‘H’ silences the letter which proceeds it, so Abhach becomes Och.
The following pages contain the direct decedents of Donald & Catherine Patience and their children as were known at the time of printing. There have been seven generations and three hundred and seventy-two descendents.
The following paragraphs were copy written from the book "the Charm of Scotland" written by T.H McCullough. It tells us many stories about the family, Patience.
The Black isle village of Avoch (pronounced Och)is the oldest community in Scotland, as well as being on the most attractive. It is less than nine miles from Inverness, the Capital of the Highlands, yet it has no Highland characteristics or traditions. No Gaelic is spoken in the village and nobody has any interest in the language. There is not a piper in the place, and the sound of the Pibroch has no power to thrill. The Kilt and the tartan might as well be proscribed, for they are never worn.
These peculiarities spring from the fact that most of the natives of Avoch bear the names of Patience, Mcleman and Jack, which have no ethnological connection with the Highlands, or Scotland for that matter. The population of the Parish is around 1200, and of that number, there are about 600, Patience’s, 200 Mcleman's and almost as many Jacks. Where there ancestors came from or why they settled in that pretty little port of the Black isle is a mystery, but throughout many generations they have maintained, and even strengthened there racial characteristics.
Mr Robert Reid, who was one of the very few villagers, who didn’t ear the name of one the three dominant families, led me up through the gracious works of Roshaugh to the old church of Scotland, and the burned out mansion in which Sir Alexander MacKenzie the famous explorer of Canada’s North West Territories, spent the last years of his life. In the vestibule of the Kirk, I examined a subscription for the Waterloo Fund, dated October 1815. It bore the names of the most prominent parishioners, and Mr. Reid drew my attention to the fact that there was not as big a proportion of Patience’s as one can find in the Parish today. The reason was the curious one that Patience breed many more sons than daughters.
Another curious feature of that subscription list was the nicknames by which so many of the Patience’s, McLean’s and Jacks were known. They followed the family name, for identification purposes, and I noticed those of ‘Booky’, ‘Cranky’, ‘Muckley’, ‘Bykie’,
‘Havana’, ‘Blakie’, ‘Ban’, and ‘Hunter’. Even more curious was the fact that most of these old nicknames were still in use. There was perhaps, more need of them for the local bank had 100 accounts in the name of Patience, and they were numbered for Identification purposes.
Where did the original Patience’s, Mcleman’s, and Jacks, come from? One theory is that came from Cornwall to fight for the tittles searover and land-grabber many centuries ago. Another theory is that they are decedents of fisherman from the Basque Provinces of Spain. They certainly came into Gaelic Community, for in 1328, the village was a Barony of Auach, the Gaelic spelling of which was abhach. In Gaelic the ‘H’ silences the letter which proceeds it, so Abhach becomes Och.
The following pages contain the direct decedents of Donald & Catherine Patience and their children as were known at the time of printing. There have been seven generations and three hundred and seventy-two descendents.