Clan Lockhart Newsletter

Castle & Key

Vol 6. No.3 - Newsletter of the Clan Lockhart - Summer 1999 Castle & Key

President's Message

Hope this newsletter finds everyone really enjoying the summer months. Here on the east coast it has been a bit warm. If you get a chance, you might attend a Celtic Festival this summer. (Check url under Upcoming Games in this issue). They are entertaining, one can learn a lot about one's heritage, there is great food, and wonderful gifts to purchase. I will be hosting the Clan Lockhart tent at the Alexandria Games the weekend of July 24th and 25th, held at the Episcopal High School in Alexandria, VA. Check www.alex.org/homepages/vsg for information. Hope to see you there!

The Clan Lockhart Annual Meeting will be the second Saturday in Oct. and once again will be at the games in Annapolis, MD. A mailing will be sent to members prior to Oct. And don't forget, this will be when a name is picked for the clan mascot. Get your suggestions sent in to me!!

Dolly Baker

News of Members and Announcements

Welcome to our 8 new members this quarter !!!

Dianna Lockhart Stokes - Bandera, TX
oldest Lockhart ancester: Gilead Lockhart b.abt 1825. Married Permelia Lott

Christian Walter Carleen and wife, Phyllis - Joppa, MD
ancestor: Thomas Lockhart b.Scotland, married Cathreen McCully b. Ireland

Robert Colbey, Jr - Lockport, NY
ancestor: James McFiggan married Jean Lockhart

Richmond Albert Mitchell and wife, Sandra - Palm Desert, CA
ancestor: Lockhart b.Bimley, Ont, Canada married George Helson

Roy E. Lockhart,II and wife, Gina Marie -Schaumburg, IL
ancestor: John Lockhart b.abt 1835 married Mary S. Dora

William Patrick Lockhart and wife, Sylvia Ann - East Lansing, MI
ancestor: James Othello Lockhart b. maybe Arkansas married Pauline

Mark Wayne Lockhart and wife, Jan - Longview, TX
ancestor: John Lockhart b.1800 Londonderry, Ire. married 1829 in AL. Emily Rolfe Brame

Kevin Lockhart McNiff - San Francisco, CA
ancestor: George Lockhart b.abt 1865 married Florence

Thanks to Don and Suzanne Lynd who donated a copy of their Family Genealogy book to the Clan. All of our volumes come to the annual meeting and as we get items duplicated, they will be available in the Lending Library for reference.

Lending Library

Requests for articles and books can be sent to Hollie Lockhart-Amos. You MUST be a member of Clan Lockhart to use the Library

Genealogy

Jacki L. Riffey our genealogy complier.

I am not sure what the needs of clan members are with genealogy, but know that many of you joined the clan to find out more on your family lines. I can off you a printout of what I have on your line, if you would like. I am constantly adding new information that is gathered from multiple sources, but much is non-documented sources. I appreciated those of you who have much more experience in genealogy research than i do. Although I try my best to serve the clan, I still learn new things everyday, and often find myself overwhelmed by the number of Lockhart's out there!

Please let me know if you would like a printout of your line. It takes me about 5 minutes to generate. I can send it easily by EMail (but it may be large) or can send it by mail if you prefer.

Thanks for everyone's help and support....
Jacki Riffey

Computer Corner

Some internet sites worth checking out:

Games Update

Jim and Deanna Dodd hosted the Clan Lockhart tent at the Potomac Celtic Festival in Leesburg, VA the weekend of June 12 and 13. This festival attracts a very large crowd, an average of 18,000 people per weekend. We were hoping to meet many new Lockharts, however, we only had two new families sign in: Mr. and Mrs. Michael Hart of Lynchburg, Va and Mike and Phyllis Hart of Leesburg. Their ancestor's name is spelled Lockheart. We also had two visitors who were close friends with Lockharts, and they took information to pass on to them.

We want to than Don and Suzanne Lynd who generously watched the tent for us for a couple of hours on Saturday so we could check out the other participants. There were a total of 61 tents and about 40 vendors; continual competitions on the athletic field; several parades; and special entertainment at five different stages....Tommy Makem, Tannahill Weavers, Celtic Thunder, Clandestine, IONA, Ed Miller (originally from Edinburgh, now residing in Austin, Texas), Nolwenn Monjarret, Karen Ashbrook and Paul Oorts, Bagpipes and Beyond, Elke Baker, Darcy Nair Bond, the Poor Clares, the Irish Breakfast Band, MoonFire, as well as twenty-seven others! Definitely something for everyone.

There was a Ceili held Saturday evening at Caradoc Hall, where one could learn several Irish and Scottish dances. It looked like everyone was having a wonderful time.

Jim became expecially excited when he saw his name...Dodd...listed at two nearby tents; Clan Little and Clan Scott. The only place he had previously found a connection for his name was in Wales. Both of these tents had information on the Border Reivers and Dodd was listed as one of the known families to have participated in reiving. Jim immediately got the book The Steel Bonnets by George MacDonald Fraser, from the local library. About half-way through the book, disapoointment started setting in. It seems the Dodds were English! He may have to start tracking another branch of his family!!

Items of Interest

A Trip to Scotland (without haggis, golf or sorry to say, the Lee Castle) by Chris Carleen

Phylilis and I have always enjoyed Scottish festivals and, as our 10th wedding anniversary approached, we hatched a plan to visit our ancestral homeland. neither of us had even been outside of the country but thought a trip to an English speaking country was the best place to start. We both have mixed lineage but have a Scottish connection; Phyllis a Ross and I a Lockhart, both a generation or three back.

our journey stared on May 12th, 1999 from Baltimore, MD, arriving in Glasgow after a brief stop in Iceland. Then it was 1,500 self driving miles thoughout Scotland, eight different places to stay, all fine, most of them wonderful, and ending in Edinburgh, we flew home on May 26th full of wonderful memories, with over 600 photographs and dozens of new friends.

In general, after arrival in Glasgow, we drove up north to the northen Highlands, then dwon the east coast to Edinburgh. more specifically, we started with two days in Glasgow, then on to Fort William, two days in Talisker Bay on Skye, one day in Melvich in the far north coast, two days in Birsay on the Orkney Islands (awesome), then down the east coast to Inverness for two days, then Perth for one and finally in Edinburgh for the last two days.

Throughout the trip we met the most friendly people (especially in pubs), saw the most beautiful scenery (Glen Coe, loch Shiel, Talisker Bay, old castles aplenty, green hills with sheep, falls of Measach, Smoo Cave, more green hills with sheep, old Man of Hoy, Brough of Birsay, hills outside of Pitlochry, the river Tay), ate the best food (black pudding, smoked fish, fresh seafood, steak & ale pie) and drank the best beer (real ales everywhere) and whisky (at Talisker, Highland Park and Edradour) in our lives. We did fear for our lives more than once on the one lane roads, driving on the other side of the road, in the other side of the car, shifting with the other hand, with all manner of strange and amusing traffic signs. It was more than a little disconcerting to see signs like "On coming traffic in the middle of the road". We had more than our share of sheep in the road as well (they don't stick to the green hills. :-)

Highly recommended places to stay:

The Town House (NOT the Town House Hotel!!) (West End guest house with very accomodating staff and wonderful breakfasts), Glasgow
Talisker House (guest house, w/fabulous dinner available), Talisker, Skye.
Fiddler's Green Link's House (B&B, complete with welcoming german shepherds), Birsay, Orkney.
Ballathie House Hotel (spiffy hotel with excellent meals, expensive but worth it) Stanley, Perthshire.
Ashlyn Guest House (guest house with easy access to all main attractions), Edinburgh.

Must Sees:

Glasgow Cathedral, Tomb of the Eagles, the Italian Chapel, Skara Brae, & stone circles, Orkney
All the obvious: Loch Lomond, Lock Ness, Culloden, Stirling Castle, Edinburgh Castle, the Royal Mile, etc. -- you just have to.. and it's fun (was that perhaps a Nessie sighting??)

We could tell long stories about each place we stayed up will save that for a later date. We hope that is enough to say that we are struggling with where to stay for longer periods of time next time we go. Each turn of the road, each door we opened, each place we hesitated to enter, we were rewarded with a magnificant find of food, friendly people and welcoming hospitality. Never judge a book by it's cover.

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