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HANNAY - HANNAH - HANNAThe Clan Hannay Society is one of the longest established of such societies in Scotland and, for the past 40 years, has an annual clan gathering at Sorbie Tower in the Machars of Wigtownshire, which used to be known as "Machars Hannay". The Clan is represented on the council of clan chieftains, and has a registered coat of arms and a clan tartan. (Prof) Dr. David Hannay - Clan Chief. "... a family which has dealt many blows in time of war from Flodden Feild to the gates of Rhodes and for some such service bore heraldic device of a crescent and a fitched cross ..." "... While Robert Bruce was struggling to establish Scottish Independance, Edward Ist of England succeeded in occupying the border regions of Scotland and setting up his nominee John Balloil as King. In order to secure his position and in accordance with feudal customs, and to assert rights as soi distant feudal overlord of Scotland, a title not by conquest but originating from Saxton heptarchy, when the Bretwalds of England was indeed the overlords of southern Scotland, he arranged for the feudal Lords and Chieftans of Scotland to swear allegiance to him at Bewick Castle. In a document called The Ragman Roll (now in the Tower of London) their names were entered. Among them on that August 28, 1296 were a Gilbert de Hannethe and a Gilbert de Annethe of County Wigtown, or as it appears on the roll, as written by the Norman Scribes: "... item a tous - ceans qui cestes verront ou orront Gilbert De Annethe, Gilbert de Hannethe, del counte de Wiggeton ..."These were probably father and son. Among them were the other powerful chiefs of Galloway, the MacDowells and the MacCullochs ..." "...The earliest known Hannay at Sorbie seems to have been Ethe Hannay of Sorbie, pre 1460 - 1485, who was succeeded by Robery Hannay, who acted for his brother-in-law, Quentin Agnew, as sheriff of Wigtownshire in 1498-99, and was certainly a person of considerable importance..." 
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