Macduff Monuments. A tour of key Scottish locations from Duff/Macduff history.
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- Опубліковано 22 кві 2020
- A short film shot over two days in August 2019 visiting Scottish historical sites intimately connected with Duff/Macduff clan history. Pipe music "Road to Garelochhead" played by Ian Philp. Film for educational use only.
I'm descended from William Duff of Braco, first Earl Fife through his daughter Isabelle who married Alexander MacIntosh of Blervie and came to America sometime after selling Blervie Castle. Thanks for explaining how we ended up in the Branff area from where the MacDuff castle was located. Wow at 22:10, you showed the plaque with William Duff's arms. Fascinating-thanks for posting! ❤
Thank you for posting. Shaw MacDuff was my twenty fourth great Scottish grandfather. I did not even know that I had Scottish and Duff blood in me until I was 67, after 35 years of researching my ancestory. God bless you, Sally in Texas
Thank you so very much for sharing this my grandmother her name was Ada Catherine Duff I never knew my grandmother's family history until now I know my grandpa history his last name is Campbell I have Scottish blood on both sides my Duff side and Campbell side😊
Thanks for sharing so much. My name is Michael Duff, son of Bruce Blair Duff son of John Duff IV born in Montreal CA his father was born I Edinburgh Scotland. There are also a good amount of Ross' in our family history. Love learning more always. Thanks for sharing you knowledge
Hi Michael. Are you still in Canada? I think most of the Canadian Duffs came originally from Perthshire but I'm still investigating.
@Roderick Macduff no sorry, I am the second generation born in the US and I live in the great state of Texas, kind of the Scotland of the US... kinda a member state, kinda wanting its independence back...etc...lol. I can't track my family Scotland so much. I know my grate grand dad had been in the black watch in ww1 and had terrible wounds. I also know (or was told) we were MacDuff and the dropped the "Mac" when they immigrated to Canada.
Hello Roderick, this is Robert Earl Duff from Kentucky USA saying thanks! I enjoyed this video and I’ll be viewing more of your videos soon. Have a great 2022 Sir!
Hello Robert. Thanks for your comment. Do you have a family tree on Ancestry? I wonder where your Duff kin came from?
Thank you. I'm from across the pond, and know little of Scottish history. Visiting would be lovely, but with the state of the world, I don't know when that could be. I'm glad I get to see video.
Thanks so much for this video. I stumbled across this while looking for a whisky that my ancestors may have a hand in, but found something more important, and also whisky my ancestors may have had a hand in! I'll make it there one day.
So good Roderick thank you from Ivar
Glad you enjoyed it :)
My lineage has a number of Duffs/MacDuffs. Always wondered about the names. Thank you for the clarification.
Hi Roderick. My mom's clan is MacDuff, through the Shearer family from Alves, which is east of Elgin and straight north of Dufftown. Ever hear of that name? From what I read, they are a sept of Clan MacDuff. I also found Abernathys on both sides of my family and traced them back to Hugh, Orm and Gillemichael MacDuff, because the name changes from Abernathy to MacDuff, when you trace them back. Also interesting to know the first chief of Clan MacKintosh was Shaw "MacIntoisch" MacDuff. Cheers!
Hello, Yes the MacKintoshes are indeed quite closely related to Macduffs. The Y-DNA shows that we share a common male ancestor some way back. And the Abernethys are Macduffs too as mentioned in the section on the Tower of Abernethy. I'm familiar with the name Shearer but didn't know that they came from near Elgin. Elgin has strong connections with the Duffs of Duff house and they owned much land in that area. Regards Rod
Great Video, Thank you.
Glad you enjoyed it. I was lucky to get around all of these places during my visit to Scotland.
Thanks cuz, excellent video
Thank you so much for this Roderick! My mother is a Duff and I truly enjoyed watching. Thanks for your time!!!
No worries Mary. I made it for Duffs and McDuffs who might not have the opportunity to visit these special places.
Amazing video, thank you! It answered me many questions. I'm so proud of my Macduff roots. My family tree is featured in the book of the Duffs (vol. II p.441) published in 1914. I've been to Edinburgh once, but I definitely need to go back to Scotland and take the Macduff tour.
Interesting, so you are descended from James Duff land surveyor of Dundee? Is your surname Duff or is that through a female line?
@@roderickmacduff795 Yep, James Duff. My surname is Duff as well through my paternal grandmother.
Mark Duff.....ancestors since 1740s in New world...Virginia & Kentucky...
Thank you Roderick, being a very long distant relative, i enjoyed your video.
Glad you enjoyed it. Are you in the USA? I think there are more McDuffs in America than anywhere else.
Thanks for your time in doing this. I greatly enjoyed learning more on my clan.
Visiting Scotland gave me the opportunity to make the video which I'd been hoping to do for some time.
My grandmothers family were very proud Duffs, coming to the US about 1825. We settled in Indiana Terr (currently North-West Virginia) and have a US line of doctors, lawyers, and corporate executives in our Duff line. The Duff uncle I was named after is remember today (Memorial Day) having 29 missions as B-17 tail gunner bombing the daylights out of Germany, so you might say the Duff line has paid back the bombing at least thirty-fold. Several generations of Duff women in the family are concert pianists and school/math teachers. Listening to my grandmother, Ive picked up the responsibility of carrying on with the Duff line, gathering US members together at Highland games under the Clan MacDuff Society of America - from WV to Florida. Can you PM me via messenger please ? Thank you for your time, work, and expense putting this great video together. I will put a link to it on our FB page for Deep South clan Macduff.
Good to hear from you and pleased to know that the Duffs are thriving in Indiana and West Virginia. I have quite a few Duff & Macduff trees on Ancestry using the same username as on UA-cam.
I wish I had seen this before I went to Scotland to see where my Duff ancestors came from....I did go to Duff House and MacDuff Cross, but there was a bull in the field so I could not sit upon or touch MacDuff cross, but I did have my picture taken in front of it!
Oh dear, that's bad luck about the bull. He must have been on the other side of the hill when I visited. We're lucky that all these clan monuments are in pleasant locations :)
Thank you for this piece of history. It's apart of my family history. My maiden name is Creich.
Hello, cousin! I am descended from the Duffs in Banffshire. I live in North Carolina, USA.
Cool. I have quite a few Duff family trees on Ancestry which include Banff Duffs. Are you on Ancestry? Regards Rod
I can see your Ancestry tree and I've messaged you on Ancestry
@@roderickmacduff795 - responded!
My Duff family is from John Fyffe 1760 Perth -1833 Dundee. I have not been able to research farther back unfortunately.
I fell in love. I'm Duff of Dutchess county NY USA. I shall do my best... And trust in me, my best is damn good.
I'm a MacIntosh (Clan Chatham) which I think descends from the Macduff.
Yes indeed in fact the Y-DNA off many Duffs, MacDuffs and Macintoshes is almost identical.
Thank you so much for your time and energy, I really enjoyed this video ! I might be a descendant of clan MacDuff, but I don't know how to know for sure. I'm from Bretagne (France) where my family has been established for at least a century or two. I have no idea how to start my genealogy research journey, but I am fairly sure it will lead me to Scotland, given my name and where I live... Do you have any advice on starting it ?
I use Ancestry.com a lot for my research. Also Scotlandspeople.gov.uk when I want to find specific Scottish birth, death or marriage certificates. The best thing is always to grow your tree from the present time back in time, bit by bit.
Direct descendant of Alexander Russell, who sold the land that Duff House is built on to his cousin William Duff. His sister Eleanor Duff married into the "Green" family. The Red Greens were actually Lamonts. James Lamont was a survivor of the massacre of Dunoon that changed his surname to Green. His son William married Eleanor Duff and their son Robert Duff Green was one of the largest landholders in Colonial Virginia.
My husbands uncle lived in edenboro"sp" for several years reserching and said they were decended from Macduffs thru the Bradley family. Don't know if true!
What have you found to be the main difference between MacDuff and Duff family lines ? Where and when did the split happen ?
Almost all Macduff lines have Duffs further back. My 4x gt grandfather was Alex Duff. Back then they switched quite happily between Duff and Macduff. There was no one split as such. It's just in more modern times folk stuck with one or the other. I have quite a few trees with living Duffs and MacDuffs or Macduffs who are sixth cousins...
What I read of the early irish monastic the Weymess caves were used by early Culdees missionary hermits. I wonder if the Culdees learned the pictish language, as they were 200, 400-600ad. The abbots of abernathy where Culdees (an eastern-orthodox irish monastic decentralized sect that predates Roman Catholic by 200 years, direct disciples of Christ and their priests married and passed titles father/son), from what Ive read, in this religious seat of Scotland before St. Andrews (which became the later seat with a new roman catholic lie in the 11th century.
Yes indeed that is what I have read.
Also I can't read your earlier comment with contact request. Please can you repost.
MacBeth....Shakespeare.....3 Witches of Scotland...Lord MacDuff....The Thane of Fife...
I’m an American, Tod McElduff not sure where I should I start. Not know I go much about anything only can assume we are all fighters. If anyone could send me a message of where I can start good, bad, or indifferent.
Greetings from Quebec, Canada!
The last ancestor we were able to trace was from Limerick Ireland, a man named Charles McDuff, born in 1750. We know his father was named Peter McDuff, and his mother Hannah. I'm not certain of the Scottish connection there, though, as I don't think MacDuffs had holdings in Ireland.
Your video was a delight! Hopefully one day I'll come across the homeland and tread upon the same ground as my namesake ancestors.
Peace to you!
Hi Remy - I haven't found Charles McDuff yet. There are certainly plenty of McDuffs in Canada especially French Canadians.
@@roderickmacduff795 For sure! My Uncle who did the genealogy works said the line goes cold after Limerick, Ireland. But I'm not sure if he could access the data from overseas.
Otherwise, as far as French Canadian goes. As far as I know all our French Canadian line can be traced to that one fellow, Charles McDuff. I also suspect that it was from that line that other North American lines spanned, as the trail seems to be Quebec -> Ontario(1840s) -> USA (1870+)
and Quebec -> USA (New England) (1880-1930)
So finding more info about that particular fellow might be able to tie a pretty big chapter of McDuffs / MacDuffs to the homeland. Also, random tidbit, it seems like there's a big possibility that his father was directly from Scotland as he styled his name MacDuff at first, then changed it to McDuff (possibly due to following Catholic faith?) either on arrival in Canada, or right before leaving. Fun stuff, at any rate!
@@remmychevalier2552 ill have to ask my grandmother or mother about his name but i believe we traced it all the way back to charles aswell however when the duffs of my family came here one of them murdered someone in a duel and had to change his name multiple times from mcduff to duffee to duffe back to duff all to escape the law im surprised we were even able to trace it to charles after that guy
@@russia1305 Wow! Whereabouts?
@@remmychevalier2552 well my part of the family was pretty engrosed in the military so we ended up in las vegas doing nuclear bullcrap but i think all this went down somewhere in the virginias and then he ran all the way to nebraska area where he settled down and thats where the majority of them still are
Hi Roderick, do you have an exact address for MacDuff's foley in Scone? I am trying to follow your tour and am struggling to locate this
Same as the exact location of Trochry Castle, please. Thank you
Hello Anna, it's on a hill so no address as such. It's number 4 on the map in this article: www.thecourier.co.uk/fp/lifestyle/outdoors/530679/take-trail-tower/
I live in Scotland
Bonnie Scotland! and no way to get there at the moment...
McIntosh
Yes there's quite a few McIntoshes who are very close Y-DNA matches with Duffs/McDuffs
We are in the U.S. My Great Grandfather was born in Scotland.
@@roderickmacduff795 very helpful thanks!!