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2009 Year of Homecoming ~ Edinburgh Scotland July 25-26, 2009

Plans are now made and we have reserved spaces of double en-suite rooms at Edinburgh University B&B and St Andrews University B&B. If you are interested in going with us, we need to hear from you. These rooms are filling up fast and space will be hard to find later on. We are taking reservations now, send in your check for $805 USD for a double room in Edinburgh University B&B for 3 nights; July 24, 25, & 26, and the next 4 nights, July 27, 28, 29 and 30 in St Andrews University B&B. The cost for the group bus is $160 USD per person. These are the only expenses except for your airfare, dinners and any other items or souvenirs.

Our Clan Wardlaw will be there for the parade and also will have a clan booth where we will be displaying our banner, tartan items for sale, books, etc. We hope you will join us in this celebration!
THERE ARE NOW 21 OF US SIGNED UP FOR THE TRIP!
After Edinburgh we will be having a Clan Wardlaw Gathering at Pitreavie Castle! Then 2 days of a Wardlaw Scotland Tour!
For right now we need to know who is seriously interested in going by reserving your rooms and sending in your lodging and transportation costs.

Email us at our NEW email address:   clanwardlaw@yahoo.com

If you are in the UK we have a Scotland bank account, you may send in your cheque in pounds, email for more info. We have an address in Scotland where your cheque in pounds can be deposited in our Bank of Scotland account. For money conversions go to this easy site:  www.dollars2pounds.com  For more info on the Year of Homecoming:  www.clangathering.org , click on 'Homecoming webpage' link.

Anyone can pay with PayPal. Pay to: clanwardlaw@yahoo.com

News of the big "Year of Homecoming in Scotland - 2009",
go to their website,
www.homecomingscotland.com for news of all the events.

 


DUNEDIN HIGHLAND GAMES!

DUNEDIN, FLORIDA APRIL 4th! CLAN WARDLAW HAD A BOOTH HERE, MANY MEMBERS WERE IN ATTENDANCE, PLEASE JOIN US HERE NOW FOR SOME GREAT PICTURES!

 
  

We had many helpers manning our beautiful Clan Wardlaw Tent! Julie Wardlaw, Bill Wardlaw, Foster Wardlaw, Diane Wardlaw


The Clan Wardlaw Tent
Treasurer Diane Wardlaw, Vice-President Foster Wardlaw and President, Bill Wardlaw
 
  
Foster Wardlaw, his daughter Jenny and son-in-law Jordan, their daughter Suzi, and Foster's wife Julie

 Diane, her granddaughter Sunny, and daughter Georgia
Clan Wardlaw in the Parade, Foster and Bill carrying the banner, Diane flying the flag!
 
  
Clan Member Jean Coker joined us, and Member Fred O'Hern and his wife were there but got away before we could get a picture!!

Clan Member Luellen Sutton and her husband joined the festivities!
 Our Clan Wardlaw mascot Suzi in her Wardlaw Tartan sash! Foster's granddaughter.


Go to www.dunedinhighlandgames.com for more info, maps, etc.

On eBay there was a CD version of "Genealogy of the Wardlaw Family" up for auction. I bought this one and another one like it. I'll have these for sale if you are interested.




 

NEW
 I thought this was a really interesting item that Mr. Kennedy wrote me about. Just wanted to share this with everyone. We are not selling this item, we are just showing this to you and letting you know about it. This is a painting of Mrs. Wardlaw of Netherbeath that is going up for auction soon. We are being given an opportunity to purchase this prior to the auction if anyone is interested. In my next book "Ancestral Earth - Part Three" there is a very large chapter on the Wardlaws in Netherbeath. I have recently discovered a book that gives much more info than I had before of Wardlaws being in all these Beath areas for many generations.

This is just FYI if you are interested in purchasing this painting before the auction begins.

"The portrait is signed by David Martin 1788 PPW.  Some investigation discloses that Martin was named "Painter Prince of Wales" in 1786.  He also did the portrait of Ben Franklin that hangs in the US National gallery.  The dimensions of portrait are as follows: frame 30"x35"  inside 23"x29". On the back of the painting is a statement that it was on loan to the Royal Scottish Acad. in 1933. Also purchased along with portrait was 12   1790 George III Irish Chippendale chairs. The reason that I contacted you after seeing your website, was I thought that a member of the clan might be interested in purchasing before it goes to auction at Bonhams.  It would save commissions, shipping etc.  My contact with Bonhams is Mr. Andrew Mckenzie.    Thank you for your response,   George Kennedy, Jr.
I believe that the estimate at auction would be between 12,000 and 15,000 pounds.  This would be $15,000 to 18,000.   If anyone is interested in purchasing the portrait they could contact me at my e-mail  gck1@bellsouth.net or gck0@bellsouth.net , mailing address George C. Kennedy, Jr., Attorney at Law, P. O. Box 392, Greenville, GA. 30222 or phone (cell) best, 770-301-2822.   The scheduled auction is April 19, 2009.  I will be shipping circa April 1, 2009.  Should you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact.  George Kennedy, Jr."


 


OCTOBER 2008 WAS OUR FOUR-YEAR ANNIVERSARY! THANKS TO ALL WHO HAVE JOINED!
~ Dues are due January of each year. Please send in your renewal now for 2009. Thank you! ~
We are now into our FIFTH YEAR! Stay with us!

Our fourth Clan Wardlaw Journal newsletter, 'Wardlaw Ivermair' has now gone out! 8 beautiful pages of news, with color pictures! Our latest achievements, news of the Wardlaw Tartan and much much more! Members will get our newsletters regularly, so sign up now! Dues are only $20 USD per year. Don't miss it! Lots of news!


  Mark sent me this really cool picture of him in his full Scottish outfit! Wow!

He writes:

"We're busy with activities with the St. Andrews Society.  I joined the color guard and we recently completed the Scottish Walk in Alexandria, VA, (see pic) and we have the Burns Night Supper coming up.  The majority of the guard are from the MacKenzie Clan, so we wear their tartan.  I hope to get the Wardlaw kilt this year."


See next box for his company.


   We now have our first sponsor/advertiser! Our own member #63, Mark Wardlaw, has a remodeling business in Bowie, Maryland.
This is a great way to get your advertising word out and have a nice advertising tax deduction at the same time. Your ad will run on our website as well as in our newsletters.
Cost for an ad is $50, payable to the CWA. Money will help further our ability to offer you more activities in the future, such as we have done in the past with our tartan and coat-of-arms. We are now able to have a booth in local Highland Games across the country. We have a nice large banner with our logo, tartan and arms. Local members in each area are encouraged to get involved with their highland games and participate in our booth.
Thanks, Mark! You can visit Mark at his website: www.bnvhome.com
Thanks to Mark Wardlaw, too, for taking our Wardlaw Tartan to the 'Kirkin' o' the Tartans' at the Washington National Cathedral in Wash., DC April 19, 2008.
He said that our Wardlaw Tartan is now blessed and that the ceremony was beautiful! There were some 60-75 clans represented! The St. Andrews Society's own Pipe & Drum Corps was perfect! Maybe next year many of our members can plan on attending this wonderful ceremony!
 




We now have 118 members and climbing! Don't miss out! Join today!
Thanks to all our new members who have joined since the mailing of our last 'Wardlaw Ivermair' newsletter! We welcome all of you and know you will enjoy being a part of this exciting lifelong venture!

We also have a NEW email address:  
clanwardlaw@yahoo.com

My own new email address is:  dianewardlaw7@yahoo.com
This new website started this day, October 30th, 2008 and I'll be adding to it often, so bookmark the page and visit often!

Site updated 5/27/2009