Every family has its stories, its history, many many times I have been asked for mine. I have include two stories but I would be so grateful if you would read the first and contact me if you have heard it before so that I can tell my grandpa. My Grandpa Muir is 90 now. These are my legacy from him.
Sadly on the 31st of May 2000 my grandfather passed away. You can read his remarkable story here
Desperately seeking Muirs
The story goes that back in the 17 hundreds my family were smugglers off the coast of Ayrshire.There was a father, and three sons, and they were caught by the excise-men but managed to escape. they met for their finale time on the dunes over looking the sea on a clear, moonlit night and undertook to got there separate ways and never to contact each other again. One went north, another went south,the third went east and the last went west.
As far as I am aware they never
did contact each other again and now when ever my grandpa visits
his daughter in Canada, he sits with the telephone directory open
on his lap at the name Muir, and he wonders...
Have you heard this story before?
We could be distant relatives I would be so grateful if you could pass
this story around who knows you could make an old man very happy.
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Tinto
During the covenantors, a meeting
was taking place on top of Tinto Hill, the faithful were listening
to the meenister when in the distance the Red Coats were spotted.
When they got to the top of the hill not a soul was to be found, the worshippers had gone. But a baby could be heard crying. The Red coats investigated, and sure enough there was a baby left lying, abandoned in the haste of the covenantors' flight.
The Red Coats took the baby to the village but no-one claimed him. The soldiers named the child Tinto after the hill on which he was found. His daughter Sarah Tinto was a my great great( ever so many greats) grandmother.
The Tartan and coats of arms are courtesy of The Clan Muir , though its news to me that Muir is a clan, being a lowland name, and clans are from the highlands, you can find out about the Muir's here.
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