United Kingdom Rury's
Early records of the Rury's in the United Kingdom.
Irish HistoryBaile Rury is said to have died around the time of Christ. Which makes him the oldest known Rury. He was immortalized by William Butler Yeats in the poem Baile and Aillinn. William Butler Yeats (1865-1939), Irish poet lived in London and in Sligo (northern Ireland), where many of his poems are set. Yeates was fascinated by Irish legend and the occult and in the poem we find the source of the legend. "They have heaped the stones above his grave In Muirthemne, and over it In changeless Ogham letters writ Baile, that was of Rury's seed." Ogham is an alphabetic system of inscribed notches used to write Old Irish, chiefly on the edges of memorial stones, from the fifth to the early seventh century. This may be just a fictionalized character (just happens to use a fairly rare name), but it is nice to think our name may be this old. Sligo is a municipal borough of northern Ireland on Sligo Bay, an inlet of the Atlantic Ocean. There are megalithic ruins nearby which is the possible location of this poem. Scottish History
Book: Clans, Septs & Regements of The Scottish Highlands Although the MacRuairi lands passed into the hands of the McDonald clan, the MacRuairi (McRury) name is still represented by a considerable number of clansman in the land of our sires. They call themselves the McRurys. McRury is therefore the oldest Clan name in Uist, as a sept, they haven't retrieved their fallen fortunes of their house, but they have at least succeeded in preserving the name from being lost, and they have done nothing to tarnish that name, or the fair fame of MacRuairi of Garmoran and the North Isles.
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descent of this clan (Ranald) is from John, Lord of the Isles, who married
Ami, daughter and heiress of Ruarai' (Rory or Roderic)
of the Isles, a collateral branch of the Mac Donalds, about 1337. From
Raonal, the issue of this marriage, arose the generic appellation, Clan
Ranald, and from Aluinn (beautiful), his son, is derived the patronymic
of the chief, Mac Mhic Allan.
From the time of Ruarai', who was chief in the early part of the fifteenth century, the clan became distinguished in the transactions of the country, and arose in importance, as the elder branch, from a series of reverses, consequent on their collisions with government, were depressed, until at last they were so reduced, that Clan Ranald, as the nearest branch, was, by a modification of the Tanis law, acknowledged chief about 1530; and the abilities of his successors enabled them long to contend for possion of the dignity, when the others had acquired means to resume their former position. The hereditary honour of Captain of Clan Ranald could never be disputed, which not only referred to his own dependants, but denoted his rank among all who claimed descent from Ranald of the Isles. The Galley Conjectural Tree, 7th Century to 15th Century Somerled - Local King of Argyle, King of the South Isles
from 1156 was killed in 1164. Septs under McDonald Clan McRorie Other Rury's from Scotland extracted from various documents, but not directly connected: Make Rori, Thomas, father The Surnames of Scotland by George F. Black, PH.D., 1946, Page: 562-563
include MACRORYVICEANVAN, 1718, not a surname,=Mac Ruairidh mhic Iain bhain. Modern ScotlandCharles L. Rury's daughter, Dr. Donna Smith, spent the summer of 1992 in Europe, England and Scotland and she tells us, that the McRury name is still well represented in Scotland. |
One of the largest traces of the Rury history comes from the descendants of
Reginald, Lord of the Isles, from whom are descended the clans MacDonald
and MacRurie.
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