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Don't downgrade yourself Millers were very, very important & necessary people in ye olde days!

I haven't watched last night's prog. yet, but I did video it. I notice it is part 1 of 3, so maybe they'll go into more detail.

I continue to read with interest this thread - I'm learning alot - thank you!

I used to be a member of the English Civil War Society, but never really got into the detailed history of the time - it's never too late!


(Royalist at heart, but CI had to go!)

Miller in scotland does not mean someone who used to grind corn to make bread as far as I know.
I read this in a 'find your clan' type booklet once. Apparently some time the very distant past (12 th century or something) the MacFarlanes were responsible for a massacre of another clan and as punishment were banned from using the name MacFarlane. hence some took to using the name Miller...

Sounds good but I suspect very few Millers in Scotland can claim ancestry from this even if it is true.

Far less boring than claiming descent from one who owned a Windmill though

Yes this is a good thread, very informative and entertaining too at times

*I used to be a member of the English Civil War Society*

One of the things I'd love to do is join the Sealed Knot... unfortunately high costs and an annoying lack of parliamentarian regiments have thus far stopped me.

I'm sure I used to have some neighbours who were members of some such society. Certainly one would occasionally espy them wandering about in Breastplates and roundhead helmets

Oho!

One of my ancestors invented the windpump (Horsey Mill being one that he built) - "we that have anything to do with wind are great people" - I said that

Another Parliamentarian, eh? Which regiment? I was a "camp follower" in Weldons (handing out water & plasters). My daughter worked on the canons for a little while - the usual thing for a female: cleaning , but she was only 9!!

The ECWS originally broke from the Sealed Knot to become more authentic, although now I notice the SK have really improved.

It can be expensive &, unfortunately, you have to be reasonably fit

No regiment yet, but one day, oh yes... there isn't a regiment at all in Wiltshire as far as I can tell which is a reet bugger... 'Course if I was in Scotland I'd be with Colonel Farqhuarson's bunch like a shot, as I have been reliably informed that the regiment does exist in re-enactment circles.

When and if I finally do join I want to be a musketeer, but I'll go for pikeman at a pinch.

As for the fitness I do live role-play so while I'm a long way off yet I am getting there!

You don't have to live where the regiment is based. Weldons was based in Essex, but I lived in London/Northants. H'ever, I suppose it curtails any social activity outside of re-enactment weekends.

sounds like I'm doing a PR job for them ... & I'm not getting paid for it

I fired a musket once & fully intended to go into that using a smaller one for women, but that's when I began to have hand/arm probs (won't talk about that here) so had to give it all up. The pikeblock can be pretty nasty!!! Just don't get put at the front - you'd be in the middle in a press

Anyhow, gotta go. Thanks for talking to me - I'll keep a look out here.
I was just talking to someone else about a couple of experiences with the ECWS (My Journal - Pancake Day, last entry!)

Charles was winning until Scotland got involved. They basically got the biggest field army of the whole war and stabbed him right in the back of his main power base. Then he got the MacDonnel clan to invade from Ulster (ironically its probably fear of the MacDonnels that turned the Scots against him in the first place), where they joined up with the Marquis of Montrose and proceeded to start a Scottish Civil War.

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they fell out because Charles I convinced the Scots to start the 2nd Civil War by invading England to restore him to the throne by promising to make the official church Presbyterian

it was only after this that Cromwell changed his mind to support executing Charles I

Like I said, I couldn't remember a lot of it...

Anybody see the Cromwell programme on Saturday?