Need some clan help and clarification

[Downix]

It may be that the vendor was refering to the fact that Clan Gunn has no chief, and without a chief there is no clan, strictly speaking.

By that measure, Stewart of Appin would also be turned the nose up at, being that our Chiefdom is handled by another Stewart line entirely.

[gilmore]

By that measure, Stewart of Appin would also be turned the nose up at, being that our Chiefdom is handled by another Stewart line entirely.

It's not a matter of turning up noses, but of facts, of historical events and their consequences.

From what little I know of Stewart of Appin, the chiefship is not "handled by" the Stewarts of Ardsheal but was inherited by them in the late 18th century when the Appin family became extinct. There is therefore, a chief, even one born with the same surname.

(It not only happens from time to time that the chiefship of a clan is inherited by a cadet branch, but sometimes that branch may have at the time another surname. When that occurs, the new chief changes his surname to that of the clan.)

[Downix]

It's not a matter of turning up noses, but of facts, of historical events and their consequences.

From what little I know of Stewart of Appin, the chiefship is not "handled by" the Stewarts of Ardsheal but was inherited by them in the late 18th century when the Appin family became extinct. There is therefore, a chief, even one born with the same surname.

(It not only happens from time to time that the chiefship of a clan is inherited by a cadet branch, but sometimes that branch may have at the time another surname. When that occurs, the new chief changes his surname to that of the clan.)

You know I really do need to get the lineage from my aunt sometime....