First grandson born this morning

[Mac66]

Gillies Mac was born this morning at 12:36 am. 8 lbs 9 ozs.

Unusual name. He was named after an ancestor who fought at the battle of Culloden (Scotland) in 1746 on the Jacobite side. We had a painting of that battle (and Gillies doing his thing) in our home and my son said if he ever had a son he would name him Gillies. Our clan was a minor clan allied with Clan Chatten (clan of the cat). Gillies fighting in the MacIntosh battalion killed 14 Hanoverian German mercenaries before being cut down. The King of England at the time was German. Apparently that story impressed my son growing up.

Eventually when our ancestors immigrated first to Canada then the US in the 1860s a Gillies was one of the 5 brothers who came over. They were Gillies, Duncan, William, John and Alexander and they named their sons after their brothers. So many of the names were carried down. My dad was William, one of my uncles John and another Alexander. There hasn't been a Gillies (or Duncan) in my family line for 3 or 4 generations. So kinda cool to resurrect that old name and...of course to be a grandpa.

[Erich]

God bless Gillies with a long and happy life!

[David]

Very big congrats !

[Mac66]

Btw.. Gillies is pronounced Gill ease

[Bogart]

Congratulations

[Mac66]

Because my wife was exposed to covid a week before the baby was born we had to wait 5 days to see him. So we finally got a chance to meet him yesterday.

He likes being in his grandma's arms.



And they are already just calling him Gill or Gilly.

[tom mac]

congrats

[Bmyers]

What a wonderful smile. Congrats