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Subject: [DNA-R1B1C7] The Dialog needs a little spark
Date: Sun, 29 Jun 2008 11:50:42 EDT



The Dialog needs a little spark, lets talk some history or maybe a Legend or
two . I don't like lull's, numbers alone don't have 'the needed romance The
Ewing legend is interesting..
Gene Ashley
_THE EWING FAMILY TREE_ (http://mcrosieworks.bravepages.com/ewingpage.html)
The Ewings are well represented by the Eagle wing Clan


THE LEGEND
According to legend handed down through countless Ewing generations, the
Ewing name came about as follows: In pre-Christian times, a group of Celts
settled along the eastern shores of Loch Lomond in Scotland and became shepherds.
Their peaceful settlement was plagued by the depredations of a huge eagle
that stole their sheep. Finally an infant child was taken by the eagle. The
eagle's nest was in a precarious position under the overhang of a steep cliff,
and one of the shepherds was lowered by rope to attempt to kill this bird that
had caused them such injury. Unable to hoist the whole of the eagle's corpse
back to the clifftop, the shepherd brought back with him one of the eagle's
wings to prove that his mission had been accomplished successfully. This group
of Celtic shepherds began to call themselves the Eagle Wing Clan. This clan
name was shortened to E-Wing and finally to Ewing. For scholarly research
into the origin of the Ewing name, please visit the _CLAN EWING in AMERICA _
(http://members.xoom.com/ClanEwing/ClanEwing.htm) web site. EWING COAT OF ARMS
Courtesy of Robert H. Johnson and Clan Ewing in America
Our Clan Ewing for many years has been erroneously identified with other
Scottish clans, especially the Highland clan, Clan Ewen or Clan MacEwen
(MacEwan). And yet Clan Ewing is a Lowland clan distinct and separate, found with the
name EWING in place and the Ewing Arms with its motto, AUDACITER, present a
hundred or more years before the first of the dispersed Clan Ewen came down
from the Highlands to settle in the area around Loch Lomond and Stirling
Castle, that very castle near which the first documented member of my Ewing line
was born and lived for a great deal of his life. There are numerous studies by
scholars who prove the case for the distinction of Clan Ewing from the
Highland clans, but one I would recommend is CLAN EWING OF SCOTLAND by Dr. Elbert
W.R. Ewing. This volume gives a most detailed discussion of not only the
origins of Clan Ewing but also very early history of Scotland as a whole.
STIRLING CASTLE and the lowlands surrounding it and Loch Lomond are the
ancestral home of Clan Ewing. The castle and its environs are also the setting
for several famous battles, not the least The Battle of Stirling Bridge fought
by William Wallace (Braveheart of the movie) and the decisive later battle
fought by Robert the Bruce. Two excellent sites which focus on Castle Stirling
and its history are _Stirling Castle _
(http://www.stirling.co.uk/visit/stircast.htm) and _Stirling, Scotland's Historic Centre _
(http://www.users.zetnet.co.uk/glove/stirling.htm) .
These arms could then be inherited by successive descendants. The arms never
applied to the family at large, however--only to direct descendants.
The lion on the coat of arms is an indicator of royalty. The earliest
attested british arms were the 3 lions of the Plantagenets. Welsh
royal/princely lines used the lion. So did Scottish descendants of Erc mac
Eochaid
Munremur of the Dalriadic Scots and Irish descendants of Niall of the Nine
Hostages as seen in Moncreiffe's Lyon tree in his The Highland Clans.

For some reason the Rampant Lion was the coat of Arms choice.All over
Britain I listed a only a few here
_Surnames Beginning with the Letter O_
(_http://www.luz-herald.net/free/BURKE_S/SURNAMES_BEGINNING_WITH_THE15.HTM_
(http://www.luz-herald.net/free/BURKE_S/SURNAMES_BEGINNING_WITH_THE15.HTM) )
McGuinness is a lot like my recorded direct descendent Ashley Coat of Arms
_Crocker ~ Ashley - Person Page 12_
(http://www.tracycrocker.com/p12.htm#i371)
The parentage and early life of Joseph and Abraham Ashley, the first of this
line of Ashley's to settle in the Old Colony
McGuinness Registration of Arms_
(
_http://mcguinnessfamily.org/registration-of-arms.htm_
(http://mcguinnessfamily.org/registration-of-arms.htm) )

_www.houseofnames.com/xq/asp.c/qx/ashley-coat-arm_
(_http://www.houseofnames.com/xq/asp.c/qx/ashley-coat-arm_
(http://www.houseofnames.com/xq/asp.c/qx/ashley-coat-arm) ) ...


NAME: O'NEILL
BLAZON: Argent two lions rampant combatant gules supporting a dexter
hand couped at the wrist of the last, in chief three estoils of the
second, in base waves of the sea therein naiant a salmon all proper.
CREST: None recorded.
MOTTO: None recorded.

NAME: O'NOLAN
BLAZON: Argent on a cross gules a lion passant between four martlets
of the first, in each quarter a sword erect of the second.
CREST: A martlet argent.
MOTTO: None recorded.


NAME: O'QUINLAN
BLAZON: Per pale ermine and or two lions rampant combatant between
in chief a mullet surmounted of a crescent and in base a dexter hand
couped at the wrist and erect all gules.
CREST: None recorded.
MOTTO: None recorded.






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