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Hi Gary, thanks for the reply about Robert Colquhoun. I knew most of the info you told me but, I wonder how he fits in with the Colquhoun's family tree. I was looking at the Clan Colquhoun page (one of them, there's quite a few), and I could'nt find him. I suppose not all the children were mentioned, unless he was illegitimate and took his father's name. You never know. Some people don't like to include illegitimate children in the family trees.
I wanted to know who his father was. The Colquhoun family has a very interesting history. I got my info from Ancestry.com. I recently canceled my subscription due to financial troubles, so I had to cut that out of the budget.
Some of the submitters on the ancestry.com site, well, it looks to me like some had "padded" their pedigrees by dropping in some very notable people. I wouldn't have had any doubts and probably would've been quite impressed until one of them mentioned king arthur, then I sighed loudly and had to sit back. This weird info was on the Brisbin side or one of the other families I descend from.
Another family line had William Wallace as an ancestor.
I was impressed until I saw that the submitter had actually put Isabel de France as one of his wives. I just looked at the computer in shock and then thought, uh, someone has been watching Braveheart one too many times. They should know better than to take Hollywood's take on history as gospel. Another person had added someone who was a Celtic God, Bran the Blessed. I'm not really saying that Bran had never existed, maybe he did,not as a deity, but as a great chieftain or something. Bran the Blessed is a mythical/historical feature in Welsh/British history and mythology.
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