First grandson born this morning
Posted: Tue Nov 07, 2023 9:02 am
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.
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.
