1. Clan MacAulay, spelt Macaulay or Macauley is a Scottish clan.
17 Facts About Clan MacAulay
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Clan MacAulay has been considered a "Highland clan" by writers and has been linked by various historians to the original Earls of Lennox and in later times to Clan Gregor.
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The chiefs of Clan MacAulay were styled Laird of Ardincaple.
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Irish families of MacAulays with no connection with Clan MacAulay are the McAuleys of County Offaly and County Westmeath, the McAuleys in Ulster, and the "MacAuleys of the Glens".
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The seat of Clan MacAulay was located at Ardincaple, which is situated on the shores of the Gare Loch in what is the village of Rhu and town of Helensburgh.
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Several historians have stated that the first Laird of Ardincaple to take the surname Clan MacAulay was Alexander de Ardincaple, son of this Aulay de Ardincaple.
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Around the end of the 16th century Clan MacAulay Gregor were in constant disputes and were at times outlawed.
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Clan MacAulay was to answer for not "rising ye fray" and pursuing the outlawed clan Gregor in the Lennox.
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Clan MacAulay built the first parish kirk a year later and provided land for the kirk, minster's manse, and garden.
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In 1997 Iain McMillian MacAulay was made interim leader, or clan commander.
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In 1999 MacAulay intended to petition the Lord Lyon King of Arms to be recognised as chief but was challenged by Iain Davidson MacAulay, originally a native of Helensburgh who claimed a direct bloodline to the chiefs of the clan.
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Clan MacAulay ruled that a petitioner without a genealogical link to a past chief would have to rule as Commander of the Clan for ten years before being considered for recognition as a chief.
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On 7 August 2011, the Clan MacAulay Association elected Hector MacAulay as "Chief of the Clan MacAulay Association", at the association's AGM.
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The Clan MacAulay Gathering of 2017 took place again in County Antrim, Northern Ireland and was attend by nearly 200 from throughout the world.
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The next Clan MacAulay Gathering will take place in Aviemore, Scotland from 5 to 8 September 2019.
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Clan MacAulay: This is a shortened version of the tartan published by Logan and is first found in the 1881 work by M'Intyre North, who had copied Logan's thread counts.
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Clan MacAulay's son had 11 grand children and many grand children.