Okay so I LOVE Scottish culture and I want to base my persona off my roots: Clan Cameron and Clan/Family MacBeth (Of the same).
But I also want to be more then that and be into the Crusades, and I was thinking my Lawrence roots too (Yeep same Lawrences as T.E. Lawrence and the Lawrences of Ashton Hall).

And the Lawrence's would work for the Crusades cause our family founder, Robert Lawrence or Robert de Lancaster, supposedly an illegitimate son of possibly a stewart of somewhere (or Lancaster father hence De Lancaster) and awesome mythologically descendant of the Roman General Agricola, fought in the Crusades under Richard the LionHeart and knighted for heroics at the Siege of Acre.

My current Persona is Ewen Cameron of Callart and Lundavra (My Cameron tribe), but its kinda a mouthful to me and I kinda want another name then Ewen.

But in a way I kinda want to show all my family roots.. (But impossible since the Lawrences were English and the others being Scottish). So which one would you all suggest? Scottish or English? and if possibly what name?

THANKS!

PS- My friends think I should stay with my mundane name: Evan, cause they like calling me just that.

From what little I have read of the histories of the Clans, As a Macbeth you could have served in the earlier Crusades but the clan was absorbed into others by the late Middle Ages. The cmerons as far as I can find did not really come into existance until the later Medeival period so could have served in later Eastern European Crusades.

As far as joining both English and Scots, the English very frequently held lands in Scotland and visa-versa Depending on who was the King in England. Is there any evidence of the Lawrences holding lands in Scotl;and and if so where? There might be cross-over there. And as this is a Creative historical group, just showing probability is usually enough.

Good Luck

Geirfold halvblindi Kolbeinson wrote:


Thanks man! Yea the MacBeth "Family" as I call us since there was hardly anyone of the name throughout Scotland for the longest time (I once read there was no more then sixty at a time of the name) you might also find under the names McBee, Beaton etc.

The Cameron's history traces back to the 1400's if I remember correctly though I did find something on them about the battle of bannockburn I believe it was, but anyways no one knows their origins either the followers of a Danish prince who came to help in the restoration of.. ah can't remember! or a Caledoni clan.

But they do hold the MacMartins as one of their tribes which is one of the oldest and has some Celtic myths (Though practically everyone from Scotland or Ireland has some mythical or legendary ancestry) about it. Not to mention some other tribes.

I've been checking up on the Lawrences it seems they really only held Ashton Hall sadly, I would've liked to mix but oh well.

Well anyways thanks!