MACQUARRIE CLAN.

Putaruru Press, Volume VII, Issue 320, 24 December 1929, Page 8

MACQUARRIE CLAN.

PROPOSED REUNION. If your name happens to be MaeQuarrie or MacWharrie, MacGuire, MacWhirr or Mac Corrie, you are asked to rally round at once in response to this clarion call which has just been made in an advertisement. Clan MacQuarrie. Proposed reunion. MacWharrie Wharry, Wharrie MacQuaire, Macuire, MacGuire, MacWhirr, Mac Corrie., please write box.

Those hearing these or similar names should get out their kilts and plaid tartan and sporrans, tune op the old bagpipes and practise the Highland fling again in the back garden, in readiness for the first meeting of an old clan in a new way. For after many years families that are perhaps far flung now, are coming together once more to talk over far off things and battles of long ago. Inquiry into the story of the vanished clan of the Mac Quarries revealed recently that their’s is an ancient and honourable history. Their name comes from the Gaelic word “ Guaire,” which means “ Noble.” They have a war c\y which is “ An T-Arm Breac Dearg,” and means “ The army of the checkered Ted,” a reference to their red and green tartan. John MacQuarrie, of Ulva, is the first on record, dying about 1473. Lachlan, the last of the MacQuarrie chiefs, died in 1818 without any sons, so that his line is extinct. He was proprietor of Ulva at the time of the visit of Hr. Johnson and Boswell in 1773.

But where have the other members of the clan gone since those romantic days when it flourished in the north 7 gone as far as London. In the hope Some off them, it was found, have of helping the regathering of the clan a reporter rang up one whose name seemed to indicate that he ought to be a member. "An T.Arm Breac Dearg,” he said, thinking that the ■old war cry would forge a link of friendship at once. i “What 7” asked the startled voic* at the other end of the telephojpjfe The cry was repeated. “ I’m stfgpp but we only speak English here,’J®H| the voice. “ Don’t you rememhfejgjSjjj army of the checkered red ? ” next question asked. “ YggpSjflHl have got the wrong number voice, still a little startle<U|j||pißj{i But there are many inon* ll*eQa*rfies, and perhaps wheijSMjpp,_;S§jj|#bth3 appeal the lost clan to Sourish more stMUßOppp' than iinthe days of rag Bift’ of the leaders.