seacht Mean Fomhair, De' Mairt( 7 September, Tuesday), or in Scots Gaelic, seachd an t-Sultain, Di-Mairt In 1497 Perkin Warback, pretender to the English throne, landed at Sennen, Cornwall, and raised a Cornish army In 1736 The Porteous Riots against English taxation occurred in Edinburgh. In 1873 Elizabeth Catherine Thomas Carne, Cornish geologist and founder of the Penzance Museum,died. Catchup: Missed a couple days. We had a three day reunion at our place. Ever have a bonfire in the pouring rain? We idi it. Not just once, but twice. I am sure the ancestors faced this problem many times. On the 6th, 1715 the First Jacobite rising began as the standards of James III were raised at the Braes of Mar in Aberdeenshire, Scotland. Also on the 6th in 1994 the prime Minister of the Dublin government met with Sinn Fein President for the first time since the ratification of the Anglo-Irish Treaty in 1922 Submitted by John Laughland