'It was intimat that the people keip not

Yule bot work their ordinairie work under

all highest censour of the Session'

(Elgin Kirk Session records, 24 December 1648)

After the Reformation in the late 1500's, the whole religious atmosphere in Scotland changed severely. There are a number of notices in the various church (kirk) records against those who persisted in observing the old YULE Festival.

1574 Aberdeen Kirk Session summons people before them for 'playing, dancing and singing filthy carols on Yule Day'

1582 In Glasgow five people are changed with 'observing the day called Yule'

1597 At St. Andrews baker is reported for "keeping ZWIL (Yule) in his house, the same being full of lichtis and mony in cumpany, hymself, cryit with lowd voice, superstitious, "Zwill, Zwill, Zwill"'.

1617 James VI decrees that Christmas should be observed in Scotland as it is in England, but the Scots denounce this as a return to the ancient Saturnalia.

1638 General Assembly calls for abolition of Yule holiday.

1642 As Yule falls on a Sunday, Aberdeen ministers preach against "all merriness, play and pastimne," On Monday the bellringer goes through the town ordering shops to open and men to go to work. Students seize the bell and the townsfolk celebrate as usual.

1645 general Assembly decides that since the people cannot hold Christmas without retaining Yule practice, both should be abolished.

Christmas became a church celebration. Shops and offices were open Christmas Day until the 1930's before it became a legal holiday in Scotland. The Yule Festival moved to the end of the month and became Hogmanay.

US Journal of the House of Representatives

Feb. 19, 1844: Mr. LEWIS presented a petition of William D. And Julia ACKEN, residents of the State of Alabama, praying for a pension.

Dec. 19, 1845 Mr. YANCEY presented the petition of William D. And Julia ACKEN - heretofore presented February 19, 1944: which was refereed to the committee on naval Affairs.

Jan. 8 1847 Ordered, that said memorial and petition be refereed to the Committee on commerce. By Mr. STANTON; the petition of William D. and Julia ACKEN, heirs-at-law of William YOOL: deceased - heretofore presented February 19, 1844: which was refereed to the Committee on Naval affairs.

(Does anyone have a connection?)

DATA: from the PENNY Family File, A.F.H.S.

John PENNY, son of Robert and Isabella (COOPER) PENNY was born 13 November 1847, Tyrie. He married Isabella Mundie on 31 December 1872. Isabella was the daughter of Charles and Jane (YULE) MUNDIE died 30 November 1887 aged 42 at 23a Marschal Street, Peterhead.

Elizabeth PENNY, daughter of William and Mary (ELRICK) PENNY, born 8 August, Old Deer was married Mains of Pitfour on 18 December 1873 to Alexander YULE, seaman, Merchant Service, 8 Crooked Lane, Peterhead.

Barbara Linklater PENNIE: Parents James and Elizabeth (FRASER) PENNIE born 18 July 1882, North Blackwater, St. Fergus, died 11 September 1932 at 14 York Street, Peterhead, the home of her brother-in-law James YULE. In 1914, at the time of her mother's death, Barbara was living at 20 Hamilton Place, Aberdeen.

Lumsden of the Guides:

His life in India on expedition to Cabul in 1842 - letters to the family.

The book is a sketch of the life of Sir Harry LUMSDEN together with some anecdotes specially recorded for the late Colonel Sir Henry YULE, R.E. (preface)

On page 269 - 1862 Sir Salar Jung:" On arriving at Hyderabad Lumsden met with a cordial welcome from all. Sir George YULE, the Resident and Sir Salar Jung, the Prime Minister, were both most friendly in their greeting."

It appears that by 1853 the British subsidiary force had been reduced to one regiment of cavalry, 5000 infantry, with due proportion of artillery. In 1860 the Hyderabad Contingent was reduced to a force of less than four field batteries of artillery, 2000 cavalry, and 5000 infantry. The notations seemed to be for having the payment to cost of the administration of the province to be paid for by the Indian Government since the government of Nizam had fallen into arrears to the amount of 800,000 pounds sterling

1915 Dumbartonshire men in the list of causalities.

Mr. and Mrs. YUILLE, 1 Beechwood Terrace, here, have received information that their son, Sergeant William YUILLE, Royal Engineers, was killed by shell fire in France on 7th October. A comrade in a letter states that the fatal wound was received when Sergeant YUILLE, along with two sappers, was proceeding to a new position captured from the Germans, that same day. Deceased's lieutenant writes that he had been his senior corporal and was promoted to acting-sergeant a few weeks ago. He was a fine worker and a brave man. He also stated that he had been recommended for distinction a few weeks ago for coolness and good work under fire. Sergeant YUILLE joined the colours on the first day of August 1914, and had been in France for about fifteen months, being in the heaviest engagements during this time. On 29th November, last year he received a bullet through his right lung, and after treatment in France was home on furlough. In May of this year, he was again slightly wounded. Prior to the war he worked as an apprentice plater in the Leven shipyard.

Wedding

June 3 1995, Nicole YULE, Donbank, daughter of William and Irene (CLARK) YULE married Neil EMSLIE.

(Photo in the Aberdeen Newspaper June 6th).

Obituary:

Suddenly, but peacefully, at Aberdeen Royal Infirmary, early on June 1, 1995, Edna Amelia CLUBB, aged 76 of 36 Catto Drive, Peterhead, beloved wife of the late Alexander Johnstone YULE, loving mother of Alastair and Morag, mother-in-law of Linda and Robert, a much loved gran and great-gran. Service in Trinity Parish church, St. Peter's St., Peterhead, June 6th 1:30pm.

Doctor, Lawyer, Indian Chief.

From Glasgow and west of Scotland Family History Society Summer 1995 Bulletin

by Bill S. GRIFFITH, Forrester's Beach, N.S.W.

Tinker, tailor, soldier, sailor,

Rich man, poor man, beggerman, thief,

Doctor, lawyer, Indian chief"

So went the counting out rhyme in my childhood. Indian chief was rather an odd one, but you needed something to rhyme with thief. All the others might be found in anyone's ancestry, but I wonder how many there are in Scotland who are descended from and Indian chief? You may be surprised.

My father maintained that we were descended from John ROLFE and POCAHONTAS, the daughter of POWHATAN the chief of the Indian tribe inhabiting the land in Virginia on which the first settled in the early 1600's. We are Australian, with Scots and other ancestry, and I had discounted this story as my research seemed to reveal no hint of such a thing. But my recent delvings show there might be a few Pocahontas descendants around after all, and not only in America.

In 1675 Robert BOLLING of Bristol Parish, Virginia, d. 1709) married Jane ROLFE, daughter of Thomas ROLFE (b. 1615) and granddaughter of John ROLFE and POCAHONTAS, and had a son John b. 1676.

Anne BOLLING & James MURRAY were married in 1742 in Buckingham County, Virginia, and had, among other children, a daughter Anne MURRAY, baptized in Bristol Parish, Prince George County, 30 October 1746.

Now this is where we cross the Atlantic. Anne MURRAY (1746-1777) married Neil Buchanan of Auchentoshan (1737-1777) and had two daughters - Mary who married in 1787 but died without issue, and Anne BUCHANAN who married William CROSS, merchant in Glasgow, on 25 October 1793.

The children of William CROSS and Anne BUCHANAN were-

Anne BOLLING (sometimes recorded as BOLEYN), born 10 Sept. 1794; married Robert YUILLE fifth son of George YUILLE of Darleith, on 14 Aug. 1814 and had ten children.

Lillias bapt. 9 Sept. 1796; died young?

Mary bapt. 9 Feb. 1798; died unmarried.

Marion bapt. 5 July 1800; m. J.W. ALSTON of Stockbridge on 8 Oct. 1822

John who inherited Auchentoshan and assumed the surname CROSS-BUCANAN, bapt. 1 March 1803; m. Jean WARDROP, by whom he had 10 children.

Neil bapt. 29 Dec. 1807

William, of Dennistoun Cross & co. Bapt. 1 March 1809; m.Anna, daughter of John WOOD and Elizabeth DENNISON.

Richard, 92nd Highlanders, bapt. 21 Feb. 1810.

Anyone out there with an Indian chief in the tree?

W.S. GRIFFITH.

Russia

Caledonian Phalanx, Scots in Russia. Published by the National Library of Scotland in 1987.

Photo of monument erected by Robert YUILLE in memory of his wife Martha.

"The mission itself lasted a little more than

twenty years from 1819 until its close in 1840.

One of the original quartet of missionaries,

the Swede Cornelius RAHM, had to return

because of his wife's ill-health; leaving behind

him the Englishman Edward Stallybrass and

the Scots William Swan and Robert YUILLE

with their families. The small town of Selenginsk

lay on the east bank of the river Selenga some

100 miles east of Lake Baikal, and the mission

station was built on the opposite bank. Later,

additional stations were established further to

the north to help the missionaries travel more

easily among the Buriat tribes."

Swan and Stallybrass completed between them

the first translation of the whole Bible into Mongolian.

(Thanks to members of the Aberdeen Family History Society for much of the above data)

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