Quote Originally Posted by Jock Scot View Post
Not many locals on show!
This was held exactly where the BBC Media Centre stands in White City. I believe that the London Scottish were involved, and that people were recruited from as far away as Chiswick.



At this time that strange anomoly existed where the London Scottish, Gaelic Society of London/Comunn Gàidhlig Lunnainn, etc, consisted of people educated privately and expensively in England's best boarding schools and English universities who lived in England. (This also went for many "Irish" Gaelic societies)

Below is a photo of my actual Great Great Great Grandfather, William Gill, born in Aberdour, 23rd December 1843. I think you'll find the actual reality was nearer to this, crippled by hard work, nae' kilts, standing in the doorway of his hovel with his water trough outside. He spoke Gamrie, (pronounced Gee-a-ree), Gaelic. This has since died out, suffocated by the idealised, homogenised Highlands and Islands style Gaelic foisted on the area by non-Gaelic speaking Government ministers who would have probably loved the Heilan' Village at White City, London.

He married Ann Fowlie in Church of Aberdour, 8th december 1866. On the marriage certificate, William Gill is listed as a farm servant, address, Boghead of Hythie. His father Samuel is listed as a farmer. Ann Fowlie is listed as a kitchen maid, her father William's occupation is given as crofter. William Gill was well known in the area as the caretaker of the Mormond White Stag, a giant chalk figure of a horned deer cut into the hillside at Strichen. Like all the males in the family, he was also an ardent member of the Horseman's Word.