Hi, nice to hear from you.
I dont know if I agree or disagree with your theory, as I don't understand the scottish clan system.
Would you be prepared to enlighten me and explain. ie What exactly is a sept ? and how does it fit in with a clan. If it is correct that the Williamson family or name was a clan in it's own right, then how could it be a sept of another ?.
Another few paragraphs from the said Williamson chart.
The family name Williamson is believed to has descended from the Strathclyde Britons. This ancient founding race of the north were a mixture of Gaelic/Celts whose original territories ranged from Lancashire in the south, northward to the south bank of the river Clyde in Scotland.
Tracing it’s ancient development, the name Williamson was found in Peebles. This family was a recognised border clan with it’s on chief and acknowledged by Scottish Parliament. In the 12th & 13th centuries their influence on border life was great, and they had territories at Hutchinfield, and Balgray moving north to Banniskirk in Caithness. Meanwhile they branched south to Melbeck Hall in Cumberland, New Hall in the same county to Keswick, Durham, Yorkshire and Northumberland.
By the year 1000AD, border life was in turmoil. In 46, 6 chiefs from the Scottish side and six from the English side met at Carlisle nd produced a set of laws governing all the border clans.. These were unlike any laws prevailing in England or Scotland, or for that matter, any where else in the world. It then goes o to give some examples of such laws.
The document goes on to state that in 1603, the unified English and Scottish crowns under James 1 dispersed these unruly border clans, clans which had served loyally in defence of each side. The unification of he governments was threatened and it was imperative that the old ‘border code’ should be broken up. Hence the Border Clans were banished to England, Northern Scotland and to Ireland. Some were outlawed directly to Ireland, the Colonies and the New World.
Many border clans settled in Northern Ireland, transferred between 1650 - 1700 with grants of land provided that they undertook to remain protestant. Hence they became known as the ‘Underakers’.
The Scottish Williamson Coat of Arms is or was as I understand I, was the same as that displayed on my site profile, apart from there was no crescents, these I believe were added to the Irish side and depicted their agreement to the protestant rule.
By the way, I have three of these Williamson family origin documents, the Scottish, the English and the Irish.
Stuart