great to have you join us –                                

John/Ian Moffat (274)

Mark Muffett (275)  – who is also in the DNA research group.and especially interested in E Anglia.

Gavin Moffat (277)

VELKOMMEN/VALKOMMEN !

Congratulations to

Berit Monn-Iversen (276)

Mia Javerling (278), Leif Tomas Javerling

+Colin Moffat + Jeff Benson for linking up these

Scandinavian-Scottish branches on our Family Tree.

Several new members are planning to visit Scotland also

to attend the AGM

We look forward to hearing more  soon!

Clan Members :

Please note 2012 AGM CLAN MOFFAT UK

at Moffat  Scotland Saturday June 16 2012-

Please note: dinner evening 6.45  for 7 pm Buccleuch Arms, Moffat 16 June.

Contact Bunty Davies, Secretary, to book, A.S.A.P.

more details to be given later on ths web site

Now have itinerary for ClanMoffat.Org Gathering/AGM in Virginia -

if interested contact  betty.telford@nordicski.co.uk or see below  & ClanMoffat.Org web site, Gatherings.

There is very favourable group booking rate at Hyatt House, Airport North, Sterling.

Brief details: Meet & Greet Thursday August 30th 2012

Friday 31st AGM/Wine & Virginia Countryside Tour. Barbeque.

Saturday l September full day at Scottish Games. Clan Moffat one of the Honored Clans.

Evening entertainment, history symposium.

Sunday Open day + choice of venues (Scottish Games/Washington DC tour,/Smithsonian Flight Museum,/Manassas/Sully Plantation tours).

Sunday evening closing event with silent auction & AGM dinner at Hyatt Hotel.

contact – e mail :  ccb1014@aol.com 

I am so sorry about this Mia and it is something we discuss from time to time. I know that Banks add charges and only last week we were looking into ways of avoiding the problem.  I hcve queried this with ny husband (who is a retired Bank Manager and who himself uses PayPal for purchases from time to time! ) and Gordon Crammond (our Treasurer) and I am passing your e mail on to Gordon immediately.

Best wishes Betty (web site Admin.)

PLEASE NOTE MY NEW E MAIL ADDRESS FOR

Clan Moffat contact:  betty.telford@nordicski.co.uk

Another superb Moffat piper! – see Gavin’s

colourful web site: http://www.mountedpiper.com

Angela has been globe-trotting and sent some information gleaned and pictures  taken while on travels from hometown (Lowestoft, Suffolk UK).  Kranji and Changi were  two of the notorious WW2 Prisoner of War camps about which much has been written and filmed and which featured in the late Ronald Searle’s series of  drawings.

 (Photographs were taken in Singapore & Australia

Anyone wishing to research  these Moffat names further will find  more information on an internet search

Betty (telfordBM@yahoo.co.uk) will be pleased to assist or put you in touch with Angela.

 There is a great deal of data available on Australian post-war emigration , passengers, lists of convict ships:    easily found on the net, including lists for the ship “MOFFAT” .

http://www.convictrecords.com.au/convicts/ship-name/moffatt

ISTG (Immigrant Ship Transcribers’ Guild) is also a very valuable web site for historical passenger lists.

Our thanks to Angela for her pictures and messages, which are much appreciated.

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ANGELA VISITING THE ATHERTON TABLE LANDS, QLD.

KRANJI, SINGAPORE

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I thought you might be interested to hear of some Moffat sightings I have found while I have been lucky enough to be living in Singapore for a year.

“There is a W.G.Moffat on the War Memorial at Kranji, 3 Moffats on the Tolga High School Roll of Honour Queensland, and Moffat Street in Cairns. 

There is also a Moffat listed on the index of transported prisoners at the Hyde Park Barracks Museum, Sydney for stealing tea.

Please pass on my thanks and regards to all for their hard work maintaining the site & group,

I will try to get to one of the Gatherings one August”

NOTE : 2012 AGM for ClanMoffat UK change of date :

Moffat June 16 (this year only)  -

brought forward due  to ClanMoffat.Org AGM to be held in Virginia August 2012

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I spoke too soon, we had 2 shakes at 7pm 4.2 & 11pm 4.3  last night. Both were centered across the peninsular south from Lyttelton at Port Levy. It  is a sunny morning here, though a cold wind at present. I’m away to tennis so I can take off any frustrations on the poor ball.  ooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo

I have performed,  annually,  at two private Clubs in Portman Square,  to address the haggis and recite chunks of Tam o’  Shanter,  and to play  the  pipes while standing on  a beautiful Robert Adam staircase”.

A memorable beginning to 2012.

Greetings to all Clan Members

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PHOTOGRAPH  -

Courtesy ClanMoffat.Org Newsletter –

we send our thanks.

Hansard Entry For Jack Moffat’s Death

Jack Moffat Death Report

click on report to read details.

Lieut.  Jack Moffatt,  R.A.M.C., T.A.,  killed by explosive while on duty with Home Guard, WW2.

Chair ,with inscription , in his memory.

Close Up of Chair Dedication

Jack Moffat In Home Guard Uniform

 Rod. Moffatt, Clan Member, (72)

has extensively researched his Moffatt ancestors and has sent us photographs illustrating some of their history.  Much of the research he did was at the City of London’s extensive Guildhall Library

MOFFATT FAMILY :  Thames  Lightermen and Watermen, London.

Researching genealogy in Southern England one comes to realise what a huge source of employment there was in the London Thames / Docklands area, especially among the respected Watermen and Lightermen group of workers, this was a living that was often very family orientated.
There is much detail available on the internet covering this part of London’s history and the following is an example of one of the web sites:
http://www.parishregister.com/gallery.asp
One can see a picture of the interesting Almshouses in Penge (South London) in which Rod’s family once lived. Sadly these almshouses were sold for re-development into private apartments. The residents were rehoused in a greener area outside London which some may have considered a  pleasant alternative.

Photograph: Ernest Frederick Moffatt

Joseph Frederick Moffat

Ernest Joseph Frederick Moffatt, grandfather to Rod. Moffatt,born 1881 at Russell Place, Poplar, London (m. M Hawkins), Christened: 29 Jun 1883, All Saints Poplar.He was a Waterman and Lighterman on the river Thames all his life. d.  Jun 1926 in St Andrews hospital,Bromley London.Photograph taken on his wedding day by Wiffen Photographer of Poplar.

Photograph: Frederick William Moffatt, great grandfather.
Born: Jan 1858, Laurel Cottages Hammersmith
Bap:  April 1863 St. Georges Chapel, Old Brentford, Middx. (m D. Dixon)
Waterman and Lighterman, also he had a Newsagent’s shop
and was joint Master of a Pleasure craft on the River Thames.
Later he was a Mason at Brentford. d. Mar 1934 at the Watermens & Lightermens Almshouses, Penge. 

Photograph taken by family member at Brentford.

Frederick William Moffat

PLEASE NOTE change of e mail address  (due to scammers using  my yahoo one in March)

now:

betty.telford@nordicski.co.uk, or

telfordBM@gmail.com