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Hi Stefan,

> I was wondering: what family relations are mentioned in Taliaferro's
> Donald Duck stories? I can think of two:

Another interesting one is that Taliaferro never actually said whose
grandmother Grandma is -- Donald's or Huey, Dewey and Louie's.

> - According to Don Rosa, Scrooge's father lived in Scotland until his
> death, but the mansion in the Taliaferro strip doesn't look like
> Scrooge's father's home in any of the Rosa stories, and doesn't seem to
> be located in Scotland either. Additionally, Taliaferro tells us that
> Scrooge's father had a lot of money (enough to fill up a treasure chest
> that he could bury), whereas Rosa tells us that he was constantly broke.

Well, Rosa also tells us that the biggest treasure in the world was buried
underneath the McDuck castle and that Scrooge's father found this treasure.

And I get the impression that Scrooge supported his family in Scotland for
latter fifteen or twenty years or Fergus's life. He could easily have put
away some savings from that.

> - In the story "The Old Castle's Secret" we learn that the McDuck family
> used to live in a castle in Scotland. But it doesn't tell when they
> moved away from the castle -- they might have moved from that castle
> several centuries ago. So there's no contradiction with that story. Is
> there any other Barks story mentioning Scotland?

Oh yes. I think there are several, but the first one I recall without
looking it up is US29, "Hound of the Whiskervilles".

> Note that even if it says that Scrooge's father was living in Scotland
> at some point, it doesn't automatically mean that he was living there
> *for his whole life* -- he might have moved at a later point. Is there
> any non-Rosa story (apart from the Taliaferro strip) telling whether he
> was rich or poor?

Yup, I seem to recall Scrooge telling about his poor family in US21, ?King
of the Golden River?.

Olaf

(PS -- Happy Holidays to everybody!)

Regarding Larry Giver's question, of "whether England and Scotland were united
in 1564...-they were NOT. They were united in 1707. However,-that doesn't
mean that a Scotsman couldn't have served in the English navy.

Scrooge also mentioned that his father wore a miner's cap. But, maybe he was a
fetishist?

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> Stefan Persson asked about Barks stories besides "The Old Castle's Secret"
> that mentions Scotland. Olaf Solstrand remembered "The Hound of the
> Whiskervilles" (US29) and also Scrooge recalling his childhood in "The
> Golden River" (US22).
> In addition, "The Horseradish Story" (US3) begins by introducing
Scrooge's
> ancestor Captain Seafoam McDuck in Scotland. And "The Heirloom Watch"
> (US10) mentions Scrooge's great uncle Quagmire McDuck, and Scrooge goes to
> Scotland to claim uncle Quagmire's estate.
> The story "Back to Long Ago" (US16) has Scrooge and Donald in past
lives
> as Matey McDuck and Bosn Pintail serving in the British navy at the time
> (1564) of Queen Elizabeth I. Was England and Scotland sufficiently unified
> at that time so that a Scottish McDuck could be in the British
> navy? Scotland is not mentioned in this story. Barks wrote this story
> when past life regression was a very popular topic.
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