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Many Ancestry researchers have discovered previously unknown links with societies such as Freemasonry and The Royal Arch. However, those connections have never really been secret. They have merely been in a parallel world side-lined as ‘understood.’ Many members of the Masonic Orders are often unaware of their ancestral links to freemasonry..

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Robert Low was a life member of The Freemasons, and progress through The Royal Arch and Knights Templar. Our research through lineage and ancestral links have uncovered connections dating back more than 300 years.

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Robert and Trevor  joined the Masonic order.  Father James, and uncles Robert and William were Freemasons in Dunfermline, Fifeshire   Well aware of his family’s Masonic connections,  Robert was as an Entrant to Lodge St. Maures, Kilmer’s, 1398 in Ayrshire, becoming a Life Member in 1992, before moving from the Province as Worshipful Senior Warden in 2005. 

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In 1992, he was regularly introduced as a Master Mason in Good Standing on the floor of Lodge Acacia 832 in Bamberg, Germany.

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He then became a Life Member of Stewarton Royal Arch 867 in 1998, before joining Ayr Preceptory and Priory 11, becoming a Life Member in 1999, and then was elected as Venerable Preceptor in 2002. Following his move to Whithorn in 2005, Robert affiliated to Lodge Leucophibia 602 and was elected Right Worshipful Master for three consecutive years, 2007, 2008 and 2009.

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It was not until 2019 that an historical connection with the Knights Templar came to light following research into lost titles bestowed on family members during the last 300 years.

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It was already known that Sir William Sinclair, 3rd Earl of Orkney was the designer and builder of Roslyn Chapel, and reputedly had long connections with the Knights Templar. An application of conveyance to Robert Low was granted on July 4, 2019,  to recover the Barony of Waterbeach with Denny in the County of Cambridge, England. As it turned out there were papers and routes  to 5 ancient Manors. 

 

Current historical research is showing that the small Denny Abbey was within the site of Ely Abbey, and was one of the last three Knight Commanderies to be seceded to the Crown by various religious orders between 1100 and 1350.​ The old templar title for the Barony of Denny, was re-instated to an individual who was invested as Venerable Preceptor of the Order.