Hiya! Just for info, your Jane's father was William Clazie in the 1901 census.
http://automatedgenealogy.com/census/ViewFrame.jsp?id=53754&highlight=25
Thanks - yes, I have that, and the 1891.
(free access to 1901 and 1911 Canadian censuses, but a lousy search engine"
http://automated genealogy.com
Indeed - but it's better than the search engine on the Canada Library web site for the 1871 and 1881 census
http://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/census/index-e.htmlHe was born 11 Feb 1847 in Scotland -- so he isn't one of this particular clan
There is no such clan - it's a very common misconception that everyone in Scotland belongs to a clan.
The clans were a social feature of the Highlands only, and the majority of Scots lived in the Lowlands. Until at least the 17th century most Lowland Scots probably thought of Highlanders as dangerous savages, and would have been shocked to the core by any suggestion that they had anything to do with any clan.
Things have become more blurred in recent years, with families who originally had nothing to do with the Highlands setting up clan societies and becoming members of the Standing Council of Scottish Chiefs
http://www.clanchiefs.org/ - for example Scott and Elliot(t), which are Border families with no Highland roots at all, and Hamilton and Guthrie which are out-and-out Lowland families.
In my tree I have so far found 207 direct ancestors (assuming no errors
), every single one of whom was born and (with one exception still living in Scotland) died in Scotland, with 75 different surnames. Of these only 11 people have what I would regard as clan surnames (Forbes, Grant, Mackenzie, MacKie, MacPherson, MacVey, MacWilliam, Stewart/Stuart), the closest to me being a Leslie great-great-grandmother.
There are also 52 with 18 surnames listed at
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Scottish_clans as 'Lowland and Border clans', including Guthrie, Hogg, Leslie, Lindsay, Scott and Wallace. I am sure that we could argue till the cows come home which surnames are and which are not Highland clan surnames (the Wikipedia lists doesn't mention McVey or McWilliam in either category, for instance) and I don't regard Wikipedia as authoritative, but I hope I have managed to demonstrate that it is possible to be 100% Scottish without having a close, or indeed any, connection to any clan.