Annie Colquhoun McNaught

Annie Colquhoun McNaught is the grandmother of Darlene Parker who hosted our tent at the Greenville Scottish festival this year. Darlene writes:

"We continue to have many Colquhoun and McNaught relatives in Scotland, Canada, and the US. My grandparents immigrated from Glasgow (my grandfather) and from Larkhall (my grandmother) in the early 1920's. However they met each other at St. Andrew's Hall in Detroit, Michigan and married in the US. My grandmother, Annie Colquhoun, was one of eight children, three of which remained in Scotland and never immigrated. We have lot of other info as well. My grandfather died in October, 1984. My grandmother died in April, 2000 at the age of 99 years."

Darlene shared the following correspondence with us between two law offices after Annie's sister died. It was a unique opportunity for her grandmother to write down a family history.

Greenville SC Scottish Games June 6th, 2009

Thanks to Darlene Parker for setting up at these games! That's Darlene on the left; she works for the Greenville Chamber of Commerce.

Darlene brought pictures of her Colquhoun family. See the following post for some history on them:





We had lots of visitors to the Colquhoun tent. This is the 10th Earl of Glasgow, the Right Honourable Patrick Robin Boyle.

Lord Glasgow was very friendly and talked to us for a long time outside our tent.





Brooke Brianne Powers, Miss Capital City Teen 2009.







Lots of kids with "passport" books. It's absolutely necessary to have a crest stamp at festivals that pass out these books. If you don't, you end up writing the name of your clan in these books a few dozen times during the day. I also have a couple of Scottie stamps I add to our crest impression.


Some clan had made up the pin on the little girl above and was passing it out to the kids. It says "Yes I'm Scottish". We were asked several times where they came from but we never did find out (I wanted one, too).







Darlene with her sister Danette:



Most of the vendors are located under this huge tent. Most everyone loves this arrangement because it keeps them out of the direct sunlight and out of the rain.



Caberdancer/Clan MacBubba that produces our t shirts. This event is probably the closest one to their base at Walhalla.



We found out the happy news that Tom Freeman and Beth Gay had just got married just before this weekend! Beth is the editor of Beth's Newfangled Family Tree. You can subscribe the the Family Tree at Electric Scotland.








Other vendors:














Our friend Dennis Kelly from Wingate, NC was there with his Renaissance Iron. I couldn't resist buying a new flag holder he made:












The Greenville Division of the Ancient Order of Hibernians had an impressive display of flags in front of their tent.







The Parade Of Tartans

















And on the field: