Marion County, South Carolina Deeds contributed by Jo Church Dickerson, added August 7, 2004.
	New obituaries contributed by Helen Moody, Mary Lewis and Joyce Braswell, added July 4, 2004.
	Recent updates to the Researher's Guestbook posted as of July 3, 2004.
	Carmichael Genealogy Photo Album added November 2, 2003.

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"The four young women who shared Mary Stuart’s Christian name, her childhood and her years in Scotland, act like a chorus in her wake and nowhere more so than in the popular ballad sometimes known as "The Queen’s Maries" or "The Ballad of Mary Hamilton".

Carmichaels everywhere know and cherish the song and respond with enthusiasm to its presentation beit to Scottish folk concerts in Britain or by Margaret Carmichael [Alexander Lyle] at Stone Mountain Games, Atlanta. The ballad has become our theme song’ emphasizing our antiquity and placing us within the current public perception of the core of Scottishness in a way no amount of other historical family achievements have been able to.

There is much confusion surrounding the ballad and the identity of the Queen’s Maries and indeed the incident related in the ballad, the execution of a lady-in-waiting for the murder of her child by the king refers to the court of Peter the Great in Russia not to the history of Mary Stuart’s [better known as Mary, Queen of Scots] court in Scotland.

That one of the four young women who shared Mary’s Christian name, her childhood and above all her years in Scotland was Mary Beaton and that another was Mary Seton causes no confusion but of the other four Maries; Mary Fleming and Mary Livingstone are more commonly associated with the Queen than the Mary Hamilton and Mary Carmichael of the song.

Mary Carmichael was the second daughter of the four girls and three boys fathered by Sir John Carmichael. Sir John was a man of much eminence and great loyalty to Queen Mary, who constituted him warden of the middle marches when still a young man, in which office he did great service to his country suppressing insurrections on the borders. Mary married John Lord Holyroodhouse.

Although it is undoubtedly true that the four Maries most associated with Queen Mary were Mary Beaton, Mary Seton, Mary Fleming and Mary Livingstone, one can be assured that the services of Lord Hamilton and Sir John Carmichael to the Queen were such that she would welcome the inclusion of Mary Hamilton and Mary Carmichael in this popular and famous ballad some four centuries later."

Richard Carmichael of Carmichael, Baron of Carmichael, County of Lanark, 30^th Chief of the name and arms of Carmichael .

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