Records of the Clan and Name of Fergusson, Ferguson and Fergus Quotes

“On a summer morning, Lockhart was sure to be found in dressing gown and cap, always chosen by his wife with a view to the picturesque, sitting or walking up and down, writing materials and the terrors of the forthcoming Blackwood before him, Johnny, his first born, then a beautiful fair-haired boy, never left his side, urging him to romp, and never in vain. Through the lattice of the bay window, Sophia was always to be seen, and always ready to relieve the author when the parent was overpowered by the importunities of the child. A dog or two of the pepper and mustard kind, however, were useful in performing the welcome duty, and undertook to distract the boy not unwillingly by an invitation to scamper. Many a pungent page of sound scholarship was put forth under such influences.”
― Robert Ferguson, Records of the Clan and Name of Fergusson, Ferguson and Fergus

“The arrival on the Scottish shores of the real King Fergus — Fergus Mor MacEarca — took place in the year 498 A.D. He was the true first of the long line of Scottish kings,”
― James Ferguson, Records of the Clan and Name of Fergusson, Ferguson and Fergus

“that the first substantial settlement of the pure Scottish race in Scotland was led by a Fergus who was of royal blood, and whose house had for generations enjoyed regal dignity in Ireland, and was destined to produce, in St. Columba, the founder of the Celtic Church of Scotland.”
― James Ferguson, Records of the Clan and Name of Fergusson, Ferguson and Fergus

“Tradition has it that the clan and name of Fergusson or Ferguson is among the very oldest of the Highland septs, and that in conformity with the name the race”
― James Ferguson, Records of the Clan and Name of Fergusson, Ferguson and Fergus