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The Clan Pringle Association
A registered Scottish charity: SC043865
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About Us
Welcome to the Clan Pringle Association Website!
The surname Pringle is one of the oldest place-names from the Scottish Borders. Pringles have lived in the Gala Water area of the Scottish Borders since the Dark Ages and the surname was first recorded in the reign of King Alexander III of Scots in the mid-13th century. It is a Scottish place-name and is derived from the name of our original homestead “Hoppringill” in the Parish of Stow of Wedale. If you are a Pringle you are welcome to join our Clan Association which was constituted in 2012, to come along and meet us at our clan gatherings and you are also welcome to join our Pringle DNA project. If you are interested in Pringle genealogy, please visit our Genealogy Resources Page.
Zoom Meetings
Our most recent CPA Zoom Meeting was held on 12th November 2022, see the CPA Newsletter for more details and for the date of the next meeting.
CPA Newsletter Issue 12 – January 2023The Clan Pringle Association Newsletter is now available for download:
- CPA Newsletter Issue 1 – April 2020
- CPA Newsletter Issue 2 – July 2020
- CPA Newsletter Issue 3 – October 2020
- CPA Newsletter Issue 4 – January 2021
- CPA Newsletter Issue 5 – April 2021
- CPA Newsletter Issue 6 – July 2021
- CPA Newsletter Issue 7 – October 2021
- CPA Newsletter Issue 8 – January 2022
- CPA Newsletter Issue 9 – April 2022
- CPA Newsletter Issue 10 – July 2022
- CPA Newsletter Issue 11 – October 2022
- CPA Newsletter Issue 12 – January 2023
- Next Issue: April 2023.
Share your story in the next issue of the Pringle Quarterly Newsletter:
- You have a story to tell; how you found a family contact, a fun incident, a surprise find?
- A unique Pringle man/woman – their noted accomplishments, good character, scandal?
- Tell us about your primary interest in the overall Pringle story?
- Offer ideas or suggestions about how to prevail with ancestry research?
- You’ve got a question – perhaps some other Pringle reader has the answer?
Please submit your article (500 words or less) by the 13th April, as a word document to the email below.
OBJECTIVES:
To raise the public profile of the clan and highlight the honour of the Pringle name.
To promote Pringle history and to correct the errors of previous historians.
To protect and preserve the historical sites that have been the home to Pringles throughout history.
To conduct Pringle genealogical research and DNA research.
To include the worldwide Pringle diaspora in the Clan Pringle Association.
To provide a forum through which Pringles can contact and communicate with each other.
MISSION STATEMENT:
“To connect our family worldwide; to share, research and preserve its history.”
Pringle built heritage:
Buckholm Tower is yet to be stabilized and is still suffering damage from the weather.
Support Us
The Pringle Charity Fund:
The Clan Pringle Association met the charity test and achieved charitable status in 2013, under the Charities and Trustee Investment (Scotland) Act 2005, and was entered into the Scottish Charity Register. The Clan Pringle Association charity is regulated by the Office of the Scottish Charity Regulator (OSCR).
To make a charitable donation to the Clan Pringle Association, please send a donation via PayPal to our Treasurer at:
Our charitable aims and objectives are:
Your charity’s registered name is: The Clan Pringle Association
Your charity number is: SC043865
Your charity was registered on: 18 March 2013
Your principal contact address is: Torwoodlee, Galashiels, Scotland, TD1 1TZ
Your charitable purposes are: G – the advancement of the arts, heritage, culture or science
Your charitable objectives are: To preserve the Pringle family’s traditions, sites, artifacts and records and to study its history, culture and relationships with other Scottish families and similar organisations by scientific, genealogical, archaeological and other research and make the results publically available to interested parties. The work to advance the knowledge of Scotland’s culture and heritage will be disseminated as widely as possible.
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