Confederation of Clan Chattan: Minor Septs, Kith & Kin (1898) - Searchable PDF & Surname Index

Trace Your Scottish Highland Ancestors Across the Sixteen Septs & Allied Families of the Clan Chattan Confederation

First published in Glasgow in 1898 at the request of the Clan Chattan Association by the celebrated Highland antiquarian and parliamentarian Charles Fraser-Mackintosh of Drummond, LL.D., F.S.A. Scot. (1828–1901), An Account of the Confederation of Clan Chattan; Its Kith and Kin (also titled Minor Septs of Clan Chattan) is the definitive primary-source history of the families who marched under the banner of the Captain of Clan Chattan. Drawing directly from private charter chests, sasines, feu contracts, wadset rights, marriage settlements, and estate rent rolls across Inverness-shire, Nairnshire, Moray, Aberdeenshire, and Perthshire, this volume bridges the notorious gaps in 16th- to 19th-century Scottish Highland parish registers.

What's Inside This Enhanced Fairbairn's Crests Digital Edition:

• Complete 241-Page Restored Archival Volume: Includes 4 pages of newly written Fairbairn's Crests Front Matter (Pages i–iv), all 229 retained historical pages of the 1898 first edition (xix + 203 printed pages plus unnumbered plates), and a newly compiled 8-page Back-of-Book Alphabetical Surname & Place Index.
• Pure-White (#FFFFFF) Archival Page Restoration: All 35 non-content scan artifacts (dark binding wrappers, library barcode sheets, and blank flyleaves) and institutional library stamps have been stripped, and every historical page has been digitally whitened to a crisp, high-contrast pure white (#FFFFFF) background for effortless reading and printing.
• 8 Full-Color Clan Tartan Plates & 56+ Historical Illustrations: Preserves the 8 full-color tartan plates (Mackintosh, MacGillivray, Macbean, Macqueen, Shaw, Davidson, Macintyre, and Farquharson), heraldic coats of arms for each chieftain, Highland estate photographs, Culloden relics, and R. R. McIan clan figures.
• 3 Rare Clan Chattan Bond Facsimiles & Verbatim Rent Rolls: Features full transcripts and manuscript facsimiles of the historic 1609 Bond of Union, the 1664 Bond of Maintenance, and the 1756 Deed of Consent, alongside the complete 1803 Dunmaglass Estate Rent Roll (naming 71 tenants across Easter Aberchalder, Dunmaglass, Inverairnie, Easter & Wester Gask, Faillie, and Lairgs), the 1811 Corrybrough Rent Roll, and the 1898 List of Subscribers worldwide.
• Every-Word Searchable OCR + Interactive Bookmarks: Search any surname, Gaelic patronymic, farmstead, or parish instantly using Ctrl+F (Windows) or Cmd+F (Mac), or navigate directly via the interactive PDF Bookmarks sidebar and our newly appended Alphabetical Surname & Place Index.

Historical & Regional Overview

Unlike single-surname clans, the Confederation of Clan Chattan united two distinct groups under the leadership of the Chief of Mackintosh: blood-related cadets descended from the Chief's own house (Fuil 'ic an Toisich, including the Shaws of Rothiemurchus and Tordarroch, the Farquharsons of Braemar and Deeside, the Mackintoshes of Dalmunzie, the MacOmies of Glenshee, and the Toshachs of Monzievaird and Glentilt) and associated tribes who voluntarily took protection and manrent from the 13th to the 16th centuries. Fraser-Mackintosh provides generation-by-generation pedigrees of the MacGillivrays of Dunmaglass, Dalcrombie, Aberchalder, and Lairgs; the Macbeans (Clan Vean) of Kinchyle, Drummond, Daars, Faillie, and Tomatin; the Macphails (MacFalls) of Inverairnie; and the Macqueens (Clan Revan) of Corrybrough, Pollochaig, Clune, and Strathnoon.

Subsequent chapters trace the Shaws (Clan Ay) of Rothiemurchus, Tordarroch, Dell, Dalnavert, Kinrara, Crathinard, and the Black Isle (where they used the surname M'Ay or Mackay); the Clarks (Clan Chlerich) and their kinship with the learned Irish O'Clerys; the Gows / Smiths (Sliochd a' Ghobha Chrom), followers of Henry of the Wynd from the 1396 battle on the North Inch of Perth; the Davidsons (Clan Dhai) of Invernahaven, Cantray, and Tulloch; the Macleans of the North (Clan Thearlaich) of Urquhart and Dochgarroch; the Macintyres of Badenoch (Clan an t-Saoir); the Clan Tarrill; the MacAndrews (Clan Gillandrish); the minor septs of Vic Gories, Clan Dhu of Strathnairn, Sliochd Gillie Vor Mac Aonas, and Clan Finlay Cheir; the Farquharsons (Clan Fionlay) of Invercauld, Inverey, Monaltrie, Whitehouse, Haughton, Allargue, Breda, and Finzean; and the "Kith and Kin" families of Cattanach, Crerar, Gillespie, Gillies, Noble, MacHardy, MacOmie, Toshach, and MacGlashan.

Surnames & Families Indexed in This Volume:

Abel, Adam, Alexander, Alisdair, Allister, Andrew, Armstrong, Astley, Ayson, Baillie, Bain, Barrett, Barron, Benedict, Bickers, Blair, Blanckley, Boetius, Braco, Brooks, Brown, Burgess, Calder, Cameron, Campbell, Carmichael, Carnegie, Cattanach, Cawdor, Chalmers, Chambers, Chisholm, Chlerich, Clark, Clarke, Clarkson, Cleary, Clerk, Clunes, Coghlan, Colquhoun, Comyn, Cowan, Crerar, Cumming, Cunningham, Cunynghame, Cuthbert, Dallas, Dalrymple, Dauncey, Davidson, Davison, Dean, Diamond, Douglas, Douglass, Drew, Drummond, Duff, Dunbar, Eden, Ego, Esson, Farquhar, Farquharson, Forbes, Foulis, Fowler, Fraser, Friseal, Garden, Garrioch, Gillanders, Gillandrish, Gillespie, Gillies, Gillony, Gilstrap, Gordon, Gorrie, Gories, Gourlay, Gow, Gowie, Graham, Grant, Gray, Gray-Buchanan, Grevel, Haraldi, Holland, Home, Hood, Howard, Hunter, Innes, Irving, Jackson, Jeffreys, Johnston, Kalder, Kar, Kemball, Kerr, Kissen, Lamond, Leslie, Leyden, Lindsay, Loban, Lockhart, Long-Morris, Lumsden, MacAllister, MacAndrew, MacAonas, MacArthur, Macaulay, MacBain, Macbean, MacBean, MacBeath, MacCarday, MacCardney, MacCartney, MacChlerich, MacCleirigh, MacCombie, MacComie, MacConchie, MacCrimmon, MacCulloch, Macdonald, MacDonald, Macdougall, MacEwen, MacFall, MacGeachy, MacGillandrish, MacGillivour, MacGillivray, Macgillivray, MacGlashan, MacGregor, MacHardy, MacHomie, MacInnes,osh, Macintyre, MacIntyre, Mackay, Mackenzie, MacKerracher, Mackinnon, Mackintosh, Maclean, Macleod, Macneill, MacOmie, Macphail, MacPhail, Macpherson, Macqueen, MacRae, MacRae-Gilstrap, MacTavish, Macvean, MacVurrich, MacWilliam, Makallister, Makfersone, Makherald, Makpharlane, Maitland, Malkin, Maxwell, M'Arthur, M'Ay, M'Bean, M'Beath, M'Cay, M'Conchie, M'Culloch, M'Donald, M'Ewen, M'Faill, M'Fall, McGillivray, M'Gillivour, M'Gillivray, M'Gregor, M'Intosh, M'Kenzie, M'Kintosh, M'Kquyne, M'Lean, M'Phail, M'Pherson, M'Queen, M'Quhyne, M'Tavish, M'Vean, Menzies, Michie, Milne, Monipennie, Moore, Morris, Munro, Murdoch, Murray, Nesbitt, Noble, Norie, O'Chlery, O'Cleirigh, O'Clery, O'Donnel, Ogilvie, O'Reilly, Orelli, O'Shaughnessy, Paterson, Patten, Petrie, Ponsonby, Potter, Ramsay, Ramsden, Rattray, Reach, Reay, Reid, Reoch, Ridley, Robertson, Rose, Ross, Rutherford, Ruthven, Scott, Senior, Shaw, Shaw-Mackenzie, Shepherd, Sibbald, Sinclair, Small, Smith, Sobieski, Sopper, Spence, Stewart, Strachan, Stuart, Sutherland, Syme, Symson, Tarill, Tarrall, Tarrell, Tarrill, Thomas, Thoms, Tosh, Toshach, Trotter, Urquhart, Wade, Walcott, Watson, Watsone, Wight, Wright, Wynd, Yule.

Parishes, Townships & Settlements Indexed:

Aberarder, Aberchalder, Aberchirder, Aberdeen, Aberdeenshire, Abergeldie, Aboyne, Achlaschoile, Achlaschylie, Achloddan, Achnabat, Achnabechan, Achnahatnich, Aldourie, Alford, Allargue, Altyre, Alvie, Appin, Arbroath, Ardclach, Ardersier, Ardverikie, Argyll, Arisaig, Arkindithe, Assynt, Athole, Auchindown, Auchindrane, Auldcastlehill, Auldearn, Aviemore, Avoch, Badenoch, Ballachroan, Ballindoun, Ballintruan, Balloch, Ballochbuie, Balmacaan, Balmoral, Balnagask, Balnagown, Balnain, Balnalish, Balnespick, Balnoidan, Balphadrick, Balranald, Banchar, Banchory, Banffshire, Barevan, Barra,Beandachar, Benbecula, Benchar, Ben Cruachan, Birse, Black Isle, Bochruben, Boleskine, Bona, Borlum, Brackley, Bracklie, Braemar, Braxfield, Breadalbane, Breakachy, Breda, Brightmony, Brin, Brouchdearg, Bught, Bunachton, Cabrach, Caithness, Calder, Cambusmore, Campbeltown, Cantray, Castle Downie, Castlehill, Castle Spiridan, Castle Spiritan, Castle Stuart, Cawdor, Chanonry of Ross, Clatt, Clune, Clunes, Cluny, Coldrach, Colonsay, Comar, Connage, Corgarff, Corrybrough, Corryvreckan, Coull, Craigfield, Crandard, Crathie, Crathiecroy, Crathinard, Croachy, Cromarty, Croy, Culcabock, Culclachie, Culduthel, Culloden, Daars, Dalarossie, Dalcrombie, Dalcross Castle, Daldownie, Dallanach, Dalmagarry, Dalmunzie, Dalnacrask, Dalnaglar, Dalnavert, Dalziel, Dargai, Daviot, Davoch Garioch, Deeside, Degnish, Dell, Delmigavie, Delnahatnich, Dirnanean, Dochfour, Dochgarroch, Donegal, Dores, Dornoch, Draikies, Drumashie, Drumdevan, Druminord, Drummond, Duart, Dulsie, Dunachton, Dunain, Dundee, Dunfermline, Dunkeld, Dunlichity, Dunmaglass, Duntelchaig, Durris, Edinburgh, Edzell, Elgin, Elrig, Erchite, Essich, Eyre, Faillie, Farr, Farraline, Findhorn, Fingask, Finzean, Forfar, Forres, Fortrose, Fort-William, Gairloch, Gask, Gaskmore, Geddes, Georgia, Glasgow, Glenelg, Glenfeshie, Glengairn, Glenisla, Glenkirk, Glenmazeran, Glenmuick, Gleno, Glen Roy, Glenshee, Glen Spean, Glentilt, Gortuleg, Greenock, Harlaw, Harris, Haughton, Holme, Inchaffray, Inverairnie, Invercauld, Invereshie, Inverey, Inverfarigaig, Invergordon, Inverie, Inverlochie, Invernahaven, Inverness, Iona, Islay, Jamaica, Keig, Kellachie, Keppoch, Kerdale, Kilbarron Castle, Kilchrist, Kildrummie, Kilfinichen, Killiecrankie, Kilmonivaig, Kilmuir, Kilravock, Kiltarlity, Kincardine, Kinchyle, Kingussie, Kininvie, Kinlochlaggan, Kinnethmont, Kinrara, Kintyre, Kirkhill, Kirriemuir, Knappach, Knocknagail, Laggan, Lairgs, Largs, Latheron, Leith, Leochel, Letterchullin, Leys, Lochaber, Lochalsh, Loch-an-Eilean Castle, Loch Laggan, Lochmaddy, Loch Ness, Lumphanan, Luss, Mar Lodge, Midmar, Moidart, Monaltrie, Montcoffer, Monzievaird, Moray, Morclune, Moril, Moy, Moy Hall, Muirtown, Mull, Nairn, Nairnshire, Newhall, North Inch of Perth, North Uist, Nunton, Ohio, Paisley, Perth, Perthshire, Petty, Phones, Pinkie, Pitgoun, Pitmain, Pittenzie, Pollochaig, Portree, Preston, Raasay, Rafford, Raigbeg, Raigmore, Rait, Rannoch, Redcastle, Rosemarkie, Ross-shire, Rothiemurchus, Ruthven, Shalvanach, Skellater, Skibo Castle, Skye, Sleat, South Uist, Strathardle, Strath Avon, Strathbogie, Strathdearn, Strathdee, Strathdon, Stratherrick, Strathmashie, Strathnairn, Strathnoon, Strone, Struy, Suddie, Sutherland, Tain, Tarland, Tarradale, Termit, Tomatin, Torcastle, Tordarroch, Tough, Trotternish, Tullich, Tulligermont, Tulloch, Tullochgrue, Urlarust, Urquhart, Urquhill, Waternish, Whitehouse.