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Clan Hall Society was founded in Pikeville, KY. in August 1993 with 23 charter members. Atlas D. Hall, FSA Scot, was the first President and served until his death in November 2006. John Hall became the 2nd President for Clan Hall from 2006 to June 2024.
There were also large numbers of Clan Hall over the border in England, in what is modern-day Northumberland, where the Hall name remains common. As recounted in the song "The Death of Parcy Reed", members of Clan Hall betrayed and stand idly by as the Laird of Troughend, Parcy Reed, was murdered by the Crosier Clan. This betrayal added to their ...
Female clan chiefs, chieftains, or the wives of clan chiefs normally wear a tartan sash pinned at their left shoulder. Today, Scottish crest badges are commonly used by members of Scottish clans. However, much like clan tartans , Scottish crest badges do not have a long history, and owe much to Victorian era romanticism , and the dress of the ...
'Mad' Jack Hall (John Hall; also known as Crazy Jack Hall) (1672 – 13 July 1716) was an English Jacobite leader and property owner and a Justice of Peace in Northumberland. [1] He was a member of Clan Hall , a Border Reiver clan of Norman descent and owned the Otterburn Tower in Redesdale , Northumberland; [ 2 ] his initials are still carved ...
The Chen Clan Ancestral Hall or Chen Clan Academy is an academic temple in Guangzhou, China, built by the 72 Chen clans for their juniors' accommodation and preparation for the imperial examinations in 1894 during the Qing dynasty. [1] Later it was changed to be the Chen Clan's Industry College, and then middle schools afterward.
Moy Hall near the village of Moy, south of Inverness, is the home of the chiefs of the Clan Mackintosh, a Highland Scottish clan. The current Moy Hall, built 1955-57 The Moy Hall built in about 1800, extended with tower and wings in about 1870 and demolished in the 1950s
Cyrus Hall McCormick Sr., founder of the McCormick business dynasty. Robert McCormick Jr. (1780–1846) was an American inventor who lived in rural Virginia. [1] His maternal grandparents were Scottish immigrants, George Sanderson and Catharine (née Ross) Sanderson, and paternal grandparents were Thomas (1702–1762) and Elizabeth (née Carruth) McCormick, Presbyterian immigrants born in ...
The Khoo Kongsi is a clan association of the Leong San Tong (Dragon Mountain Hall) clan, whose forefathers came from XinAn Village, Haicang District, Xiamen Municipal in Fujian province and were of Hoklo descent. [1] The Khoos were among the wealthy Straits Chinese traders of 17th century Malacca and early Penang. In the 19th century, the clan ...