The Family History of Lord Phelan MacGregor

Truth be known, Phelan MacGregor's ancestors were actually Saxons from middle Germany, and his original family surname was in fact Parkhurst.  A scroll which Phelan possesses states that the surname Parkhurst was first recorded in the Doomsday Scrolls in about the year 380 A.D.       The scroll goes on to say that in the middle 500's, the Saxons (and the Parkhursts with them) were invited into England by the Britons to help repel an early Danish invasion.  They were successful, but the Saxons enjoyed England so much that they subsequently drove the Britons out of England and into Wales and Cornwall.  The Saxons would rule England for the next 600 years.       However, the Britons eventually rallied, and in 1066, under Harold, the Norman invasion from France and the British victory at Hastings re-established Norman rule in England and forced vanquished Saxons to forfeit their lands.  In 1070, Duke William devastated the remaining Saxon armies in the North.       Some of the Parkhurst's remained in England, including a Fleetwood Parkhurst who became High Sheriff of Worchester Shire in the 13th Century.  However, by the end of that century almost all of the Saxons, including the Parkhursts, migrated North into Scotland.       Once in Scotland, most of the Parkhursts moved into the Highlands and were taken in by the MacGregor clan.  Over the next few centuries, the remaining Parkhursts prospered and assumed the clan name MacGregor out of loyalty to the folk who had shown them such kindness and kinship.       Phelan MacGregor decided that his family owed a debt not only to the MacGregor clan, but to the crown of Scotland.  At the beginning of this year of our Lord, 1562, Phelan MacGregor swore his loyalty to Her Majesty, Mary Queen of Scots, and became a member of Her Majesties Royal Guard.  The Captain of the guard recognized the stout heart and fierce loyalty of this new guardsman, and the same year made Phelan the Corporal of the Guard.