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The Menzies of Pitfodels branch of the clan were also Jacobites and the family founded the Catholic College of Blairs. [ 6 ] Culdares, near Fortingall , Perthshire, is the site of a castle or old house that was the seat of the Menzies of Culdares branch of the clan.
The Menzies family had moved to Jeparit, a small Wimmera township, in the year before Robert's birth. [2] At the 1891 census, the settlement had a population of just 55 people. [ 7 ] His elder siblings had been born in Ballarat, where his father was a locomotive painter at the Phoenix Foundry .
Part of the Clan Chattan Federation. The chief's family is believed to have moved to New Zealand and the clan became scattered throughout Scotland and the rest of the English-speaking world. [232] Macrae: Crest: A cubit arm grasping a sword all Proper. [233] Motto: Fortitudine [233] [Latin, 'With fortitude'] [233] Plant badge: club moss [37]
Scotland is indebted to the Menzies of Culdares for the introduction of the larch tree which now flourishes all over the Highlands.Menzies of Culdares, "Old Culdares", who had been pardoned for his participation in the 1715 Jacobite rising, brought the first larches from the Austrian Tyrol in 1737 and presented them to the Duke of Atholl.
Menzies is a Scottish surname, with Gaelic forms being Méinnearach and Méinn, and other variant forms being Menigees, Mennes, Mengzes, Menzeys, Mengies, and Minges. [ citation needed ] Derivation and history
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The Earl was involved in promoting royal rule in Perthshire. He became involved in the Campbell family struggle with the MacGregors, and in October 1530 expelled the MacGregors from the house of the Isle of Loch Rannoch. The Earl was also a rival of the Menzies family who held lands in the same region.
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