YULE, or ZUILL, a surname, originally given to mark the day of birth, the word in Scotland meaning Christmas.The clan Buchanan, recognize as belonging to branches, persons of this name, and also that of Risk, the latter from the place of residence, Risk, (a bare knoll,) of Drymen. It was celebrated in much the same way as it was across Catholic Europe, with games, gifts and feasts. Prior to the Reformation of 1560, Christmas in Scotland was called Yule, and also Yhoill or Yuil. It's also a time to celebrate with family and friends, and share the spirit of giving during the holidays. Up Helly Aa is one of the famous festivals in Scotland. Daft Friday — The Start of Yule in Scotland. This records the death of: Robert Yule, husband of Irene Elliott, died result of an accident on Sept 14th 1942, age 38 yrs. Today is Daft Friday, two Fridays before Christmas Day, and traditionally the start of Yuletide celebrations in Scotland, stretching through to Hogmanay and the all-important seeing-in of the New Year. Yule Candle.

It is Britain’s biggest fire festival and is organised on the last Tuesday of every January. In the end, the newly revived Stromness Yule Log Pull was a short, but meaningful competition. Yule is a Germanic Winter festival which was celebrated on the Winter solstice and ran for approximately 2 months. It refers to an assortment of fire festivals in Scotland which are annually held at the Shetland Islands in the middle of winter to mark the end of the Yule season. Following the Reformation, however, these traditional celebrations became frowned upon. In Shetland it was traditional to break a decorated shortbread cake over the head of a new bride on the threshold of her new home. It was often coloured red, green or blue and decorated with sprigs of holly or some other evergreen. In modern times, this holiday has been reformulated by Christians and renamed Christmastide. Meanwhile, in October 1911 Lord Pentland, Secretary of State for Scotland and a progressive member of the Liberal government, arranged Yule’s appointment to the staff of Register House. It first appears in the forms ‘zoill’ in the 14th century and ‘yuill’ in the 15th century with Yule later becoming standard.

The Lowland Scots celebrated the feast of the birth of Christ as ‘Yule’, the use of which has since declined in English but which is still the common name in Scots. Although most of the elements of this holiday were absorbed into Christmas traditions, many neopagans and Wiccans have resurrected the holiday.

The custom of eating shortbread at New Year has its origins in the ancient pagan Yule Cakes which symbolised the sun. Hopefully the yule log pull will become an annual tradition once again. This was an ornamental candle of great size, once widely used at Yule throughout Britain, Ireland and Scandinavia. In Scotland it is still traditionally offered to … Charles W Yule and fellow lodgers at no. Yule Ancestry, Glasgow, Scotland This evening, I am posting information on Yule family history, as sourced from a memorial at Mearns Cemetery, Glasgow. I'll be in bed on Yule E'en When Faither Christmas comes. Yule, the winter solstice, is a time of great symbolism and power.It marks the return of the sun, when the days finally begin to get a little longer. Unique Cottages | Electric Scotland's Classified Directory YULE By J K Annand. 6 Golf Place, St Andrews, recorded in the 1911 Census National Records of Scotland, 1911 Census, 453/5, p.9. I'm gaun to hing a stockin up, I'll borrow my big brither's, It's bigger nor my sister's ane And strang-er nor my mither's.

Daft Friday 1743 has been a day that has stretched for me.