Looking for my clan

[Lianachan]

Originally Posted by Polwarth

According to tourist sites there are Farrs and Farr Bay in a few places, including Caithness, Invernessshire and Sutherland.

Pfft, tourist sites. Farr, Caithness is Farr, Sutherland. It's the beach at Bettyhil. Farr, Invernesshire, is near Moy, and I'm not aware of any others in the Highlands off the top of my head. Farr, without further details, usually means Farr, Sutherland - just like Newcastle without further details usually means Newcastle-Upon-Tyne, and not any of the other Newcastles in England.

[Croi Sasanach]

Originally Posted by Lianachan

just like Newcastle without further details usually means Newcastle-Upon-Tyne, and not any of the other Newcastles in England.

Or Australia, America etc

[Lianachan]

Originally Posted by Croi Sasanach

Or Australia, America etc

Indeed, though I think locality is bound to factor. Perth, for example, is a town on the Tay to me, but to a fair dinkum Aussie bloke....

[jafapete]

Ahem, once again, a quick look at National Trust Names (formerly spatial-literacy.org) settles the matter. Farr is "English locational" and there don't really appear to have been any Farrs in Scotland at the time of the 1881 census, unlike South Wales, where there was a big concentration. By 1998 a reasonable number had moved as farr (oops) north as the Lake District.
National Trust Names

Nevermind, boyo, it's still celtic.

[Polwarth]

Ahem
I think I said it was English.... waaaaay back in the second post on this thread

As the OP has not returned and we have been really punny about the thread... I think we should get as farr away as possible from this thread.

[Hugh2]

Originally Posted by Jason Farr

Hi, does anyone know anything about the Farr clan? I am also looking for other Farr's. I am also a Scott clan member, looking for them too!

Jason
USA

Perhaps your distant ancestor was reared in a Scots-Gaelic speaking family in the Scottish county of Sutherland. The 93rd (Sutherland) Highlanders formed the famous Thin Red Line at the battle of Balaclava. Note that there is another Farr in Inverness-shire, just south of Inverness.

Ian Grimble, the author of The World of Rob Donn was born in Hong Kong before moving to England to become a formidable linguist (he learned Scots-Gaelic unlike some better known "Scottish" historians!), historian and broadcaster. He expressed his engagement with the Celtic way of life in The Strathnaver Trilogy.

THE WORLD OF ROB DONN

[ScotSites]

Its amazing how often Hugh2 (Raingeanach?) goes on about Gaelic and yet never once does he appear to use the language... I think that says everything really!