Evidences of the Chiefship of Clann-Ghilleain (1895) - Searchable PDF & Surname Index

Definitive 1895 Archival Proof of the Hereditary Chiefship, Septs, Royal Charters & Pedigrees of Clan MacLean (Clann-Ghilleain)

Originally printed in Glasgow in August 1895 by Maclure, MacDonald & Co., Ornamental Printers to the Queen, Professor John Patterson MacLean's An Examination into the Evidences of the Chiefship of Clann-Ghilleain is one of the rarest and most intensely documented primary source monographs ever published on Clan MacLean (Clann-Ghilleain). Written as a sequel to the author's landmark History of the Clan MacLean (1889) and dedicated to Colonel Sir Fitzroy Donald MacLean, 10th Baronet of Duart, Morvern, and Brolas, this volume marshals medieval Gaelic manuscripts, Privy Council registers, Great Seal precepts, and Acts of the Parliaments of Scotland to prove the seniority of the House of Duart over the House of Lochbuy and map the exact genealogical relationships among the principal MacLean cadet branches.

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

• Complete 39-Page Archival Digital Volume: Includes 4 pages of newly compiled Fairbairn's Crests Front Matter (Pages i–iv), all 25 original 1895 pages, and a newly compiled 10-page Comprehensive Back-of-Book Surname & Place Index (Pages 30–39).
• Pure White (#FFFFFF) Archival Restoration: Every page of the original 1895 Glasgow imprint has been professionally cleaned and whitened to a crisp, pure white (#FFFFFF) background with high-contrast dark ink—completely free of yellowed paper tones, scanner edge shadows, handwritten shelfmarks, and institutional library stamps.
• Every-Word Searchable OCR Layer & PDF Bookmarks: Search instantly using Ctrl+F (Windows) or Cmd+F (Mac) across all historical surname variants (MacLean, Maclaine, M'Lean, M'Layne, M'Clayne, M'Clane, M'Gilleon, MacGillian) and navigate effortlessly via hierarchical PDF bookmarks.
• Exact Page-Offset Navigation Guide: Includes a Researcher's Guide explaining the exact page conversion formula (Merged PDF Page = Original Printed Page + 3) and 12 documented Highland spelling variations so you never miss an ancestral reference.
• Deterministic Back-of-Book Surname & Place Index: Features Part A (Alphabetical Index of Surnames, Clan Septs, Progenitors & Historical Individuals) and Part B (Index of Parishes, Castles, Estates, Islands, Battles & Manuscripts) citing both Original 1895 Printed Pages and Merged PDF Pages.

Historical & Regional Overview

In January 1895, when John MacLean, Vice-President of the Clan MacLean Association in Glasgow, invited Murdoch Gillian Maclaine of Lochbuy to become a member and permit the Lochbuy coat-of-arms to appear alongside other cadet bearings on the Association's diploma, Lochbuy refused—signing himself "Maclaine of Lochbuie, Chief of the Clan" and claiming descent from an elder brother of the Duart line. Drawing on his personal inspection of every charter in the charter-room of Lochbuy House and the ancient stone vaults at Laggan Burying Ground on the Isle of Mull in June and July 1887, Professor J. P. MacLean—supported by Gaelic scholar Rev. Alexander MacLean-Sinclair in the Glasgow Herald—systematically dismantled the claims of Lochbuy and his pseudonymous advocate "Historicus" in the Glasgow Herald and Oban Times.

For genealogists researching ancestors in the Isle of Mull, Morvern, Ardgour, Coll, Tiree, Kingerloch, Muck, Borreray, Urquhart, Dochgarroch, and Strathglass (Kilmorack and Kiltarlity), this work is packed with primary genealogical proofs. It reproduces the ancient Gaelic pedigree of Lachlan Lubanach (5th Chief and 1st of Duart, eldest son of John Dubh) from the Manuscript of 1450 and Manuscript of 1467 edited by Historiographer Royal Dr. William Forbes Skene; cites the October 1496 legitimation of Lauchlan M'Gilleon in the Registrum Secreti Sigilli (vol. i, fol. 29); proves from the Ardgour MS. and a 1780 Kingerloch charter-room letter that Charles of Ardmeanan (founder of the House of Urquhart) was actually the eldest son of Hector Reaganach; and documents Clan MacLean's hereditary command at Harlaw (1411), Inverlochy (1431 & 1645), Bloody Bay (1482), Flodden (1513), Glenlivat (1594), Inverkeithing (1651), Knockbreck & Killiecrankie (1689), and Sheriffmuir (1715).

Surnames, Septs, Progenitors & Historical Individuals Indexed in This Volume:

Achinross (John Achinross), Balloch (Donald Balloch MacDonald), Boswell (James Boswell), Buadan (son of Buadan), Cameron (Clan Cameron), Charles I. (King of Great Britain), Chisholm (The Chisholm of Strathglass), Clann-Ghilleain (Clan Gille-eon, Clan Gillian, Clan Lyne, Mac-Ghilleain, MacGillian), Colbert (Charles Colbert, Marquis Seignelay), Colman (son of Colman), Domlig (son of Domlig), Dugall (Old Dugall), Dundee (John Graham of Claverhouse, Viscount Dundee), Eoghain / Ewen (Mac-Mhic Eoghain of Ardgour), Feradach (son of Feradach), Ferchard (son of Ferchard), Gilleain na Tuaighe (Gillian na Tuigh, Progenitor of Clan MacLean), Gregory (Donald Gregory), Icrath (son of Icrath), James IV. (King of Scots), James VII. & II. (King James), Johnson (Dr. Samuel Johnson), MacDonald / Macdonald (Clan Donald, Donald Macdonald of Moydart, Hugh MacDonald of Sleat, John MacDonald 1st Lord of the Isles, Margaret MacDonald Lady Duart), MacGillian, MacIlleathain (Mac Illeathain, The MacLean), MacIntosh / Mackintosh (Chief of MacIntosh, Mackintosh Shaw), MacKarnig / Mackarnig (Donald MacKarnig, Clan of MacKarnig), MacKenzie / Mackenzie (Alexander MacKenzie, Sir Rory MacKenzie of Coigach), MacKinnon / M'Kynnon (M'Kynnon of Mull), Maclaine / MacLaine of Lochbuy (Capt. Archibald Maclaine, Murdoch Maclaine 17th of Lochbuy, Murdoch Gillian Maclaine of Lochbuy), MacLean / M'Lean / M'Layne / M'Clayne / M'Clane / M'Gilleon (Allan MacLean of West Brighton, Sir Allan MacLean 19th Chief of Duart, Sir Allan MacLean 22nd Chief of Inch Kenneth, Sir Archibald MacLean of Lochbuy, Catherine MacLean of Duchart, Charles MacLean 1st of Urquhart and Ardmeanan, Donald MacLean of Brolas Tutor of MacLean, Col. Sir Fitzroy Donald MacLean 26th Chief and 10th Bart. of Duart, Hector MacLean of Kingerloch, Hector MacLean of Lochbuy, Sir Hector MacLean 18th Chief, Hector Mor MacLean 12th Chief of Dowart, Hector Odhar MacLean 9th Chief, Hector Og MacLean 15th Chief, Hector Reaganach MacLean 1st of Lochbuy, Red Hector MacLean 6th Chief Eachann Ruadh nan Cath, Hugh MacLean of Kingerloch, John MacLean of Grulin, John MacLean Vice-President Clan MacLean Association, Sir John MacLean 20th Chief of Duart, John Dubh MacLean 4th Chief Ian Dubh, John Dubh MacLean of Inverlochy, Johnne M'Clayne of Lochbuy, John Og MacLean 5th of Lochbuy, Prof. John Patterson MacLean J. P. MacLean, John Roy MacLean Johnne Roy M'Clayne, Lachlan MacLean Councillor, Lachlan MacLean of Brolass, Lachlan MacLean of Torloisk, Sir Lachlan MacLean 17th Chief 1st Bart. of Nova Scotia, Lachlan Bronnach MacLean 7th Chief, Lachlan MacLean 10th Chief, Lachlan Catanach MacLean 11th Chief, Lachlan Lubanach MacLean 5th Chief 1st of Duart, Sir Lachlan Mor MacLean 14th Chief, Magnus MacLean M.A. F.R.S.E., Murdoch MacLean 2nd of Lochbuy, Murchadh Gearr MacLean 6th of Lochbuy, Walter MacLean President Clan MacLean Association), MacLean-Sinclair / M'Lean-Sinclair (Rev. Alexander MacLean-Sinclair), MacLeod (Christina MacLeod), Maclure (Maclure, MacDonald & Co.), Maelsig (son of Maelsig), Mar (Alexander Stewart, Earl of Mar), Martin (Martin Martin), Mhurchaidh Ruaidh (Sliochd Mhurchaidh Ruaidh), Monro (Donald Monro, Dean of the Isles), Montrose (James Graham, Marquis of Montrose), Neachtan (son of Neachtan), Neill (son of Neill), Ruingr (son of Ruingr), Seignelay (Marquis Seignelay), Shaw (Mackintosh Shaw), Skene (Dr. William Forbes Skene), Suan (son of Suan).

Parishes, Castles, Estates, Islands & Battles Indexed:

America (United States), Ardgour (MacLean of Ardgour, Mac-Mhic Eoghain), Ardmeanan (Division of Ardmeanan), Ardtornish (Morvern), Argyleshire / Argyllshire, Bloody Bay (Battle of, 1482), Borreray (North Uist), Bothwell Circus (Glasgow), Brolas / Brolass (Barony of Brolas, Isle of Mull), Castle Duart / Dowart / Doward / Duchart (Isle of Mull), Castle of Moy (Lochbuy, Isle of Mull), Castlehill (Inverness-shire), Coll (Isle & House of Coll), Colmkill / Iona (Isle of Iona Tombs), Common Moor of Edinburgh (Boroughmuir), Dochgarroch (Inverness-shire), Drimnacross (Isle of Mull), Drimnin (Morvern), Edinburgh, England, Flodden (Battle of, 1513), Glasgow (Waterloo Rooms), Glenlivat (Battle of, 1594), Greenville (Ohio), Grulin, Harlaw / Harlow (Battle of, 1411), Hebrides / Western Isles (Isles of Scotland), Highlands of Scotland, Inch Kenneth (Isle of Mull), Inverkeithing (Battle of, 1651), Inverlochy (Battles of, 1431 & 1645), Inverness & Inverness-shire, Inverscadell (Ardgour), Killiecrankie (Battle of, 1689), Kilmorack (Parish of, Strathglass), Kiltarlity (Parish of, Strathglass), Kingerloch / Chinnghearloch (Argyll), Kinlochaline (Morvern), Knockbreck (Skirmish of, 1689), Laggan Burying Ground (Isle of Mull), Liverpool, Lochbuy / Lochbuie (Estate & House of Lochbuy, Isle of Mull), Lowlands of Scotland, Morvern (Barony of Morvern), Moydart / Moidart, Muck (Isle of Muck), Mull (Isle of Mull), Nova Scotia (Baronetcy of Nova Scotia), Oban, Ross of Mull, Sheriffmuir (Battle of, 1715), Strathglass (Inverness-shire), Torloisk (Isle of Mull), Urquhart (House of Urquhart, Inverness-shire), West Brighton (England).