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The Armstrong Clan Society Dedicated to the Armstrongs, Crosiers, Fairbairns, Grosiers, Nixons and those interested in these surnames The Armstrong Clan Society offers you One Hundred Thousand Welcomes! |
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The Armstrong Clan Society has been organized to: 1) Seek friendship and unity among Armstrongs and associated families. 2) Provide for the preservation of Armstrong artifacts unique to the family and to maintain a library. 3) Serve as a genealogical and historical recorder of the membership, 4) Provide quarterly news, Armstrong history and genealogy via The Armstrong Chronicles, 5) Establish geographic membership representation. Membership All Armstrongs, Croziers, Fairbairns, Groziers and Nixons, regardless of spelling, and their descendants, are eligible for full membership in The Society. All others interested in furthering the goals of The Society may become associate members. In the United States and Canada, dues are $25 per year, including two adults and all minor children. In all other countries dues are $35 per year, payable in US funds. You can click here to download a membership application. Any questions? Email Peter Armstrong at parmstrong2@sc.rr.com or mail to Peter A. Armstrong 128 Essex Dr Summerville, SC 29485 Lord Lyon, King of Arms, Recognizes an Honorable Company On September 24, 1984 the Lord Lyon, King of Arms granted warrant to the Lyon clerk to matriculate in the Public Register of All Arms and Bearings in Scotland in the name of Armstrong Clan Society, Inc. "acting world-wide and in particular within the United States of America" to further the interests of the Armstrong family. Matriculated in the 8th day of February 1985 in the 110th page of the 62nd volume of the Public Register of All Arms and Bearings in Scotland. |
Armstrong Country, A Psychological Profile By George N. Armstrong Excerpt from The Milnholm Cross and Trust Topics, the newsletter of The Armstrong Trust and re-published in The Armstrong Chronicles, December, 2005 A Way of Life The following historical extracts ate taken from government records. They give a graphic yet poignant example of how the Armstrongs lived and died on their Border homeland. Life revolved around a constant fight for personal and family survival in a hostile and brutal environment. Not just against a neighboring clan's attempts to acquire Armstrong livestock and land, but the political and military objectives of the Border lords, wardens and even the King himself. A "boiling cauldron" of intrigue, clan survival, raiding, warfare, murder, and executions on a grand scale. This was a stage on which the Armstrongs were masters of their reiving trade, even if it cost them the lives of their kinsmen and themselves. It was a way of life in which they had been trained and brought up to excel at for many generations. The fittest and strongest family survived, especially if you had the martial name Armstrong, while the weaker families became subordinate to them as allies (septs of the clan). A Small Sample of Recorded Armstrong Events and Personalities 1493 Archibald Armstrong put to the horn for murder of the Laird of Eildmer. 1501 Armstrongs (seventy in number) summoned to appear at Selkirk for the slaughter of Johnnie Blackburne. The Armstrongs were put to the horn. 1527 Armstrongs and Lyles escape from Newcastle Keep. The Lyles, with outlaws John Armstrong and Roger Armstrong, were later captured and executed at Alnwick and Newcastle. 1528 Many inhabitants of Arthuret and Stubleholme were murdered and their houses burnt by Liddesdale Armstrongs. Dacre, the English warden, was in league with the Armstrongs. 1528 Anton Armstrong of Willieva (a Dacre tenant) committed robberies, murder and sold horses into Scotland, now escaped to Liddesdale. 1530 Johnnie Armstrong, the Laird of Hole House (Gilnockie), and his entourage were hanged at Carlenrig by Scottish King James V, a boy king of 17 or 18 years age. 1531 Ambrose Armstrong of Willieva was 'thrust threw his body' with a spear by John Musgrave of Bewcastle fortress for stealing his horse. Musgrave escaped from the Armstrongs across the drawbridge to his castle. He and his servants shouted 'denials' at the Armstrong pursuers from the castles palisades. 1531 John Armstrong, alias Blak Jok, was executed for theft. 1534 Jenkin, Archibald and Alexander Armstrong of Liddesdale with 20 persons came to Butterburn in England and murdered Christopher Marshall and four other Englishmen. 1536 Symond Armstrong of Whithaugh (Sym the Laird) was denounced as a rebel, hanged, drawn and quartered. 1541 Thomas, Rolland and William Armstrong, sons of David Armstrong, alias the Lady, were killed by the Grahams, neighbors of the Armstrongs, in the Debatable land. 1591 Indicted and outlawed for the murder of John Armstrong alias "Cokespoole" ie. Seven Armstrong outlaws, tenants of Willieva. 1597 Eight Willieva Armstrongs were indicted for the murder of Rinion Armstrong of Askerton who was "executed by the family" because he had been a traitor to them. 1600-01 Alexander Armstrong, alias Sandeis Ringane, and his sons taken and executed for the murder of Sir John Carmichael, the King's Warden. For the same crime, Alexander Armstrong, called Sandy of Rowanburn, was hanged in Edinburgh. An accomplice to this murder Thomas Armstrong "son of Sandeis Ringane" (and brother of Kinmont Willie) was hung in chains at Edinburgh. He was taken to the "mere at croce" where his right hand was struck off from his arm, hanged upon the gibbet, taken to the gallows and his body "hangit in irne chains". 1606 Christie Armstrong, laird of Barngleish (grandson of Johnnie of Gilnockie) was murdered in his tower by Captain John Musgrave, (Land Sergeant of Askerton) with his dagger. His soldiers "gave death blows" to Christie with their swords. 1610 Archibald Armstrong, the last Laird of Mangerton, with twenty four persons "all bodin in feir ow weir, with swordis, gantillatis, plait slevis, and utheris wappinis and jackis, lances, hagbutis and pistol lets" went to his ancestral lands of Grena and Holme, and carried off 250 stacks of corn. Denounced a rebel and put to the horn at Edinburgh. Archibald is said to have been executed in Edinburgh.
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