Vice President INTERNATIONAL: Colin McInnes
Colin McInnes is a retired Teachers’ Professional Association Official
and former Primary School Teacher in the north of England. Colin was born in
Washington, Country Durham, near the ancestral home of George Washington’s
family.
Colin and his wife, Norma, a retired tax officer with the Inland Revenue Service, moved to Pitlochry in Perthshire in 1990. After the visit of the American Clan MacInnes group in 1997 where he met them at the Glenfinnan Gathering, Colin joined the Clan Society in Scotland at its inception in 1998, immediately taking on the position of Membership Secretary and Treasurer for the UK.
Colin’s ancestors originated in the Parish of Lismore and Appin (Ballachulish and Glencoe) where both g.g.grandparents, Duncan McInnes and Agnes McColl were born about 1792. They subsequently moved down to the Stirling area where g.grandfather Donald was born. Donald crossed the border of England about 1855 where he was employed as a shepherd on a farm belonging to the Strathmore Estates from Glamis near Forfar in Scotland.
In 1865 Donald married a fellow Scot, Margaret Smith, from Kelso in the Border region, at Gateshead (near Newcastle- on-Tyne). Thus Colin’s line developed in the northeast of England. It must have been the Scottish blood in his veins that persuaded Colin to return to his roots when he retired in 1990!
Most of Colin’s time is taken up with Clan MacInnes affairs and both his and Norma’s family tree searches. Colin and Norma are active in their Church.