Talk:Clan Anderson

Copying from Wikipedia
I have added a Tag above to show that a private website is copying its history page directly from this Wikipedia article.QuintusPetillius (talk) 15:25, 27 July 2013 (UTC)

Copying to Wikipedia?
The whole "origins" section has a very 19th century ring to it. It also presumes a 19th-century native Scottish general/cultural knowledge, as in "However, there is no disputing the intellectual pedigree that his kinfolk subsequently established." In the context of a wiki entry this is a conspicuous non-sequitur: in the context of an 18th or 19th-century essay for something like the Spalding Club or Bannatyne Club series publications, it's a typical sort of statement. The reason it has no citiation, I strongly suspect, is because its original readership needed none. 31.54.229.146 (talk) 01:48, 4 January 2014 (UTC)
 * It is indeed poorly sourced and could do with being re-written. I will see what I can do when I have time.QuintusPetillius (talk) 12:01, 4 January 2014 (UTC)

Clan Ross
Is not the Anderson clan a sept of Clan Ross? This fact does not seem to be mentioned in the article. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 124.176.59.31 (talk) 10:35, 28 June 2010 (UTC)
 * There were Andersons who formed a Sept of Clan Ross in the Highlands. However the actual "Clan Anderson" was a clan of its own right who were based in the Lowlands.mjgm84 (talk) 10:56, 28 June 2010 (UTC)

Plenty of different septs could be called "Anderson" or MacAndrew" so there is no real need to posit an originary "clan" Anderson. Some who took the name probably had to do with Ross, others with Chattan, and others with neither. At the same time, whoever wrote this article makes a ridiculous claim that gille-aindreas should be read gil-leaindreas, and so refers to a "Leandrish" clan, which is a load of leandrish.

If you claim a knowledge of a lowland "clan" Anderson, you should add that to the wiki; I for one would be fascinated to read of such a thing, should it be credible. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Squidface tony (talk • contribs) 03:49, 24 September 2011 (UTC)

This whole article needs a major re-write. Full of weasel words and bad grammar. The last paragraph is particularly awful. The writer has no grasp of the process making a clan chief and no one called Bell will ever be Chief of Clan Anderson (the clue is in the name). I am going to make some edits, but are there no Andersons out there who have some clan knowledge? Kiltpin (talk) 13:31, 10 April 2013 (UTC)


 * Go ahead. Probably better that a none Anderson cleans the article up. Yours ever, Czar Brodie (talk) 11:49, 15 April 2013 (UTC)

Allegiance to the chief of Clan Ross?
Anderson is a sept of Ross, therefore their chief is the chief of Clan Ross, surely? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2001:8003:3597:3400:3D13:9AA0:4AFD:FAB0 (talk) 05:40, 19 August 2018 (UTC)
 * The answer is that the Anderson surname can be considered a sept of several clans as mentioned in the article. Not just Ross. It was a commons surname found all over Scotland, both Lowlands and Highlaands.QuintusPetillius (talk)