Mathesons to gather at Edinburgh Tattoo
One performance of next year’s Edinburgh Tattoo will feature Clan Matheson. Check out our events page for details.
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Scotland
A further WW1 mystery solved
Thanks to the sleuthing efforts of Zelda Matheson, and the resources of the Westport Genealogy and History Group, another mystery has been solved. I couldn’t work out why T A Mathieson was commemorated on the Granity war memorial on the West Coast, yet I could find out nothing about him on the Cenotaph database or
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War and the Scottish ancestral homeland
War is tragic and the First World War was especially so, but it had an interesting outcome in connecting New Zealanders of Scottish descent with their ancestral homeland. A new article on this website links to a researcher’s blog post on this topic, and uses one example of this ‘roots tourism’ that was generated by WW1.
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Mathesons from around the world meet in Scotland
Five members of the New Zealand branch of the Clan Matheson Society attended the 2014 international gathering in Scotland. You can read about the event here.
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International newsletter now available
You can catch up with news from branches of the Clan Matheson Society around the world, in the 2014 international newsletter. Members of the Clan Matheson Society in New Zealand have just received their copies by email.
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160th anniversary of the arrival of the first Waipu settlers
During the 1850s about 900 Highland Scots settled at Waipu, north of Auckland in New Zealand, a district that to this day is very proud of its Scottish origins. Many had earlier tried to establish a Gaelic-speaking Highlanders’ settlement in Nova Scotia, which today is part of Canada. Their later move to warmer climes in
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When is Tartan Day?
There’s a new post about Tartan Day on this website. Some interesting facts: New Zealanders and Australians celebrate this differently from the rest of the world, and Tartan Day didn’t originate in Scotland. In fact it’s not very ancient at all, though it does recall ancient traditions.
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Where Mathesons lived in Great Britain, then and now
Check out maps of where Mathesons lived in Great Britain in the late 19th century and at the very end of the 20th, in this new article on the clan website.
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Grand pageant commemorates Scottish migration
The epic migration of Scottish Highlanders to Waipu in Northland is an important part of the family history of a number of Mathesons in New Zealand. This story is being kept alive by the community in the area settled by the Highlanders, and the 2013 Waipu Grand Pageant was an important contribution to that effort. The
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