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King Robert the Bruce family connections

It’s always exciting in Scottish ancestry to find possible links to royalty and clans. Here are ten notable extended family connections to Robert the Bruce, illustrating the broader network of kinship and alliances that played significant roles in his life and reign: Further reading: Robert the Bruce Wikipedia The Peerage, includes family tree The declaration […]

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Forgotten Faces of History Genealogy

The Scottish-Russians

Scottish Russians are with full (or partial) Scottish ancestry. Scottish migration to Russia occurred primarily during the early-17th-century Polish–Muscovite War (1605–18), Ingrian War (1610–1617) and Thirty Years War (1618–1648). In 1507, four Scottish gunners were sent by King Christian III of Denmark to support Russian-allied forces. During the Polish–Russian War (1605–18), a regiment originally under the command of William Grim whilst on the 1614 siege of the fortress of Bely switched sides, […]