Our Mission
The Clan Donnachaidh* International website has been
created to keep members and friends around the world informed about Clan
programs, events and items of general interest. A list of our Clan
surnames will be found under "Robertson Septs". "Current News" will be
updated on a regular basis.
Alexander Gilbert Haldane
Robertson of Struan
23rd Chief
Please take a moment to read the history of our great clan, considered
by many historians to be one of the oldest in Scotland; visit the scenes
of our Clan territory in Perthshire, jewel of the Scottish Highlands;
check out our DNA project which is connecting us to our
ancestors; and read about our annual pilgrimage from around the world to
our Society's Annual General Meeting in Pitlochry. Then, if you like
what you've seen, click on the Clan Donnachaidh Society Application link
below or on the Society page and follow the directions to join. We'd
like to have you with us!
* Translates from
the Gaelic as ‘Children of Duncan’ and pronounced "
Donna - Key "
Thistle...popular name for many spiny and
usually weedy plants, but especially applied to members of the family
Asteraceae (aster family) that have spiny leaves and often showy heads
of purple, rose, white, or yellow flowers followed by thistledown seeds
(a favorite food of the goldfinch). The Scotch thistle (variously
identified, but most often as Onopordum acanthium, now cultivated
as an ornamental) is the badge of the Scottish Order of the Thistle and
the national emblem of Scotland. The blessed thistle, or
St.-Benedict’s-thistle (Cnicus benedictus, the Carduus
benedictus of Shakespeare’s Much Ado about Nothing, iii:4)
was at one time a heal-all and is still sometimes used medicinally.
The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition.
billrobertson@donnachaidhinternational.com
webmaster@donnachaidhinternational.com last updated: 06/30/2008
