Liz, Clan Lamont has a website at www.scotclans.com/clans/lamont.htm . Hope this helps. If you need any more information let me know. Nancy of Clan Scott -----Original Message----- From: Stuart & Doreen Brown <studor.brown@ns.sympatico.ca> To: SCOTLAND-GENWEB-L@rootsweb.com <SCOTLAND-GENWEB-L@rootsweb.com> Date: Friday, October 22, 1999 6:14 PM Subject: Re: LAMONT Surname ----- Original Message ----- From: Annie and Bill (plus Liam ) Stuart <billannieliam@ozemail.com.au> To: <SCOTLAND-GENWEB-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Friday, October 22, 1999 5:31 PM Subject: Fw: LAMONT Surname > Can anyone help this person? > Thanks > Annie. > ----- Original Message ----- > From: Liz Brown <liz@velocity.net> > To: <billannieliam@ozemail.com.au> > Sent: Friday, 22 October 1999 21:47 > Subject: LAMONT Surname > > > > Hi Annie, > > I found your name on the Rootsweb surname list. I am trying to learn > > how to find info about the clans of Scotland. Let me explain. A cousin > > is interested in family in so far as to tell me that our McCLIMANS line > > came from the clan Lamont many years ago. He said that there was a war > > of some kind, and the clan was nearly wiped out. I have tried to get him > > to tell me where he found this info, and where do I learn more, but he > > hasn't got back to me (and it's been over a year!). Are you familiar > > with the clans? and when they changed the names? Do your Lamont's change > > their name? Have you been able to find info in Scotland? Is this too > > many questions??? > > I hope I am not searching up the wrong tree. Thank you for the time, > > Liz Brown. > > > > > > > ==== SCOTLAND-GENWEB Mailing List ==== > Visit.. ScotlandGenWeb > http://www.rootsweb.com/~sctwgw/ > > ============================== > Free Web space. ANY amount. ANY subject. > RootsWeb's Freepages put you in touch with millions. > http://cgi.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/acctform.cgi > > Hi Liz: I am also a Brown and have done some research into the Lamont Clan. Unfortunately all Browns are not of the Lamont Clan. My particular family comes from Glasgow and may have come from Ayr in some earlier period. About the Lamont Clan I will quote from a reference book I use called "Scots Kith and Kin". "The Clan MacEarcher were the immemorial of their part of Argyllshire, centred on Castle Toward in Cowal. The Chief or his son in the 13th century seemingly acquired a special judicial rank that earned the clan, or its earliest branch, the new name "Law Man" hence Laumon, Lamont and other variations. The clan lost power and territory to the Campbells and other neighbours, through marriages and less gentle means. A Dunoon monument recalls the 1646 massacre of many principal Lamonts on the excuse of their adherence to the Royalist cause. The Chief's seat after became Ardlamont, at the other end of the Kyles of Bute. Many of the Scots who were terrorised by the Campbells and others took other names to protect themselves and became Browns, Blacks etc. A few years ago the present Chief of the Clan Lamont was a Priest in Australia who was not very interested in being Chief. Hope this helps Stuart Livingstone BROWN Nova Scotia, Canada ==== SCOTLAND-GENWEB Mailing List ==== Scottish Universities Their Libraries & Archives http://www.ozemail.com.au/~jimjar/jimjargg.htm ============================== Free Web space. ANY amount. ANY subject. RootsWeb's Freepages put you in touch with millions. http://cgi.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/acctform.cgi