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Welcome To Our Scottish Heritage Page. The background on this page is Robertson Red (1831
Logan) Tartan in honor of my mother's family. My great-grandmother was Minnie Estelle
Robertson of Buckingham County, Virginia. Her great-grandfather was Hugh Robertson who was
from Scotland. We can trace our lineage back well beyond Duncan I, the King of Scotland who is
the Duncan whose children Clan Donnachaidh (Gaelic meaning literally Duncan's children) are
decendants. This is the same Duncan who was killed by MacBeth of Shakespeare fame. (Although
hewas killed in battle with MacBeth's forces in reality and not at all like the way Shakespeare
portrayed it.) I am the 33rd great-grandson of Duncan I. The ancestors of the Robertsons were
known by the Romans as the Kaledonioi, and fought in the battle of Mons Graupius against the
Romans in the year 84 A.D. It was my ancestor, Kenneth McAlpine who united the Picts and the
Scots in 843 A.D. and is considered the Founder Of Scotland!
If you mouse over the Robertson clansman badge you will see that it changes to the Gordon
clansman badge. The Todd family is a part of the House of Gordon. My 3rd great-grandfather,
John Sutherland Cairnes Todd was born in Glasgow, Scotland. His family had recently moved
there from Aberdeen. It seems the family went back and forth between Aberdeen and Glasgow.
So far we have only traced our Todd ancestors to James Tod (Todd) who was born about 1720 in
Glasgow. The family story behind the Todd name is that our ancestor was a Gordon who was sly
and crafty like a fox and was called "the tod" which is a male fox. It most likely isn't true, but it
makes a good story. It is interesting to note that the Gordon slogan was not Bydand at that time,
but Animo Non Astutia, meaning By Courage Not Craft ... could be that a crafty Gordon would
earn the handle of The Tod for being sly like a fox.
