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I read about this website on another list and found it more than worthy of
passing along.
There is a digitized version of "A History of the County of Antigonish, Nova
Scotia" by Duncan Joseph Rankin. It is located on http:www.ourroots.ca/
On the left side of the home screen is a place to search for the online book.
Just type in the title and the chapters will be listed in the Table of
Contents.
Click on Chapter 7 entitled "Genealogies of the Clan Chisholm". It details
the emigration of Chisholms in Scotland to Nova Scotia and is totally awesome.
I'll be printing out a copy of this chapter for sure.
Check out the genealogies of other families from that area - they are listed
in the Table of Contents.
I'll be checking this site for other digitized books as well.
Happy hunting,
Carol Kennedy
List Administrator
Denise... I've posted your message on CHISHOLM(a)rootsweb.com mailing list to
see what information might be available for you.
In my database, I have a Roderick (Rory) Chisholm, b. 10 Oct. 1809. Grand
Parents: John Chisholm, b. 1760 in Loch Ness, Scotland, m. Unknown. Father: John
Chisholm, b. 1770, Lochaber, Scotland, m. Mary Livingston, b. 1779. He died in
Antigonish, Nova Scotia, date unknown. John and Mary were married 1796 in
Pictou, Nova Scotia by Rev. James MacGregor.
John Chishom, b. 1790 is in my direct line. I have no further info on
Roderick, but perhaps someone in the Chisholm group may be able to help you.
If you would like to join the Chisholm group at Rootsweb, just let me know.
Carol Kennedy
Chisholm List Administrator @ Rootsweb
<< I am trying to find more information on the Chisholm family from
Antigonish, Nova Scotia. My direct ancestor was Roderick Ban 1816 - married to
Catherine Grant. Goes from Chisholms to MacDonalds to Gillis, lots of info. I'd
love to hear from you.
Best wishes,
Denise
petmolly(a)yahoo.com >>
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Surnames: Chisholm
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Does anyone have any information on this Chisholm? Was he the son of..brother of..Fortune Chisholm? Looking for a connection between John H., Fortune, and Philip Chisholm..all in that area between 1840-1850..Thanks, Donna
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Gill could certianly be a short cut of Gillington. Gillis ...maybe. I have seen it shown that Nicholas Gillingtine came from England. I have also seen it stated that Gillingtine is a form of Gullitine which is French. The name Gillingtine is well researched...check that board.
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What about "Gill" or "Gillis"..could they be a form of Gillington..is the name FRENCH? Donna
Here is what I have on the origin of CHISHOLM:
Chisholm means in old Beornician the "waterside meadow good for producing
chesse". It's a place in the Roxburghshire parish of Roberton, and became a
feudal barony. The family who held the Chisholm took their from it, and
Alexander of Chisholm witnessed a charter as earl as 1248/49. The Chisholm
coat-of-arms has borne a boar's head since at least 1292, and shews the
family to have been connected at the dawn of heraldry with that great group
of Border families, including the Gordons, Elphinstones, Nisbets, Rollos,
and Trotters, who also bore boar's heads. This group centered on the
Swintons of the Ilk, who bore the Boar par excellence, and who were almost
certainly the leading branch, to survive the Norman Conquest, of the male
line of the old Anglo-Saxxon dynasts who held Bamburgh and Edinburgh and
had ruled all Beonicia from the Tyne to the Forth from 878 until 1018.
Certainly the mediaeval Chisholm lairds' lands of Paxton in Berwickshire
lie very near Swinton itself.
The Chisholms came to the Highlands, where they became known as an
Siosalach, when Robert Chisholm of this Ilk succeeded his maternal
grandfather, Sir Robert Lauder of the Bass, as royal Constable of Castle
Urquhart on Loch Ness in 1359. This castle is the key to Inverness and the
Great Glen, and the laird of Chisholm soon became the Sheriff of Inverness
and Justiciar of the North. He inherited from his Launder grandfather lands
in Moray near Elgin and Nairn, and the Chisholm focus of interest shifted
to the North. The estate near Elgin was called Quarrelwood, doubtless from
having hardwoods that provided the crssbow arrows called quarlles. The
estate near Nairn was Cantry, which passed through his daughter to the
Roses of Kilravock and thenced (doubtless through another lady) to the old
local family of Dallas (descended from William de Rypely): who incorporated
the Chisholm boar's head with the Moray stars in their own arms. It is
perhaps interesting to note that the heads of the two allied families
appear as The XChisholm and as The Dallas of Cantray in the Inverness burgh
records of the 17th century.
Robert Chisholm of that Ilk, Justiciar of the North, had a younger son who
contiued the line of Chishollm on the Border, and who also was ancestor of
the Chisholm of Cromlix in Perthshire, the branch to which belonged three
strongly anti-Reformation bishops in the 16th century.
It was Robert Chisholm of that Ilk's eldest son Alexander, however, who
established the Chisholms in what was to become Clan Country. He acquired
estates in five conties, including Erchless and part o Strathglass in
Inverness-shire, through his marriage to Margaret, daughter of Wiland of
the Aird. It isn't known how she came to inherit the Inverness-shire lands,
but it was presumably through a descendent from the family called du Bois
or Wood who in turn had got them with an heiress of the great Scoto-Norman
house o Bisset, founders of Beauly Priory; from whom the Chisholms'
neighbours in the Aird, the Frasers of Lovat, had also inherited the wide
lands on which they still live.
The Chisholms nearly came into the vast earldom of Caithness as well, for
Margaret of the Aird's brother claimed it but then resigned it in 1375
their mother Maud had been the eldest daughter and co-heiress of Malise,
last of aceint Celtic dynasts who were Earls of Strathern "by the
indulgence of God" and who was also (through a Norse heiress descended from
the Pargon god-kings in Scandinavia) Earl of Caithness and Jarl of Orkney.
Earl Malise's wife had been a daughter of the fifth Earl of Ross (by a
sister of heroic King Robert Bruce), and this may perhaps account for the
Chisholms also coming into possession of Comar in the earldom of Ross,
which established them thoroughly in Strathglass. These lands were erected
into the Barony of Comar-more for the then Chisholm lands in 1538, but had
to be sold together with Erchless Castle and the other Chisholm lands in
1937. The Clan Chisholm Society, however, has recovered the cheifs' modest
house of Comar in Strathglass.
By the 17th century, the cheif had come to be known as The Chisholm. In
fact, a number of chiefs of other names have also been styled "The" at
various perioda, and some still are, but the Chisholms managed a way that
reflects much credit on their one-upmanship to get it put around in
Edwardian Catholic circles that "there were but three persons in the world
entitled to be call "The"---The King, The Pope, and The Chisholm". In
modern Protestant circles the saying is sometimes varied to "The Queen, The
Devil, and The Chisholm".
Excert from "The Highland Clans", Sir Iain Monccreiffe of That Ilk and
David Hicks
@1967
> [Original Message]
> From: D Wynn <onewynnway(a)sbcglobal.net>
> To: <CHISHOLM-L(a)rootsweb.com>
> Date: 7/6/2006 2:52:58 PM
> Subject: Origin of name.
>
> Does anyone have a article on the orgin of the Chisholm name?
> Sincerely,
> Dennis wynn
>
> Dennis Ray Wynn b.4 Oct. 1939
> onewynnway(a)sbcglobal.net
>
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There are and hve been several Gillington Chisholm/Chisum. The name Gillington comes from the madien name of a John Chisum's wife Ellenor/Ellender/Eleanor Gillintine/Gillentine, who was the daughter of one Nicholas Gillentine. Eleanor was born ca 1716 in Va. Concerning Edgar Martin...don't have a clue