{"product_id":"genealogical-history-of-the-earldom-of-sutherland-1813-sir-robert-gordon-searchable-indexed-pdf","title":"Genealogical History of the Earldom of Sutherland (1813) – Sir Robert Gordon – Searchable \u0026 Indexed PDF","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"fairbairns-product-description\"\u003e\n  \u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eUncover over five centuries of Northern Scottish clan warfare, royal charters, marriage contracts, and noble pedigrees in the definitive primary chronicle of the Scottish Highlands.\u003c\/strong\u003e Written up to the year 1630 by \u003cstrong\u003eSir Robert Gordon of Gordonstoun, Baronet\u003c\/strong\u003e (1580–1656)—fourth son of Alexander, Earl of Sutherland, and Tutor of Dunrobin—and continued to 1651 by \u003cstrong\u003eGilbert Gordon of Sallagh\u003c\/strong\u003e, \u003cem\u003eA Genealogical History of the Earldom of Sutherland\u003c\/em\u003e was published in Edinburgh in 1813 directly from the original seventeenth-century manuscript preserved at Dunrobin Castle.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n  \u003cp\u003eThis \u003cstrong\u003eFairbairn's Crests Restored Digital Edition\u003c\/strong\u003e transforms the monumental 1813 folio into a crystal-clear, high-contrast research volume. Every retained historical page has been digitally cleaned and whitened to a pure white (\u003ccode\u003e#FFFFFF\u003c\/code\u003e) background with crisp dark typography, stripped of blank leaves and digitizer watermarks, and enhanced with a newly compiled \u003cstrong\u003e10-page Automated Alphabetical Surname \u0026amp; Parish Index\u003c\/strong\u003e covering \u003cstrong\u003e302 family and clan groups\u003c\/strong\u003e and \u003cstrong\u003e145 parishes, castles, kirks, battles, and regiments\u003c\/strong\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n  \u003ch3\u003eWhy This 1813 Volume Is Essential for Scottish Family Historians\u003c\/h3\u003e\n  \u003cul\u003e\n    \u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eAuthenticated Highland \u0026amp; Lowland Pedigrees:\u003c\/strong\u003e Traces the ancient Pictish and Norse earls of Cattey, the twelfth-century charters of Freskin de Moravia and Hugh Freskin, the comital house of Sutherland, and the rise of the Gordons of Huntly, Sutherland, Gordonstoun, Embo, Auchindoun, Gight, Rothiemay, and Lochinvar (Viscounts Kenmure).\u003c\/li\u003e\n    \u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eClan Feuds, Bonds of Manrent \u0026amp; Charters:\u003c\/strong\u003e Preserves primary accounts of marriages, wadsets,feuds, and pitched clan battles across Sutherland, Strathnaver, Caithness, Ross, Moray, and Aberdeenshire—including the Mackays of Strathnaver (Lords Reay), Sinclairs (Earls of Caithness, Murkle, Mey, and Dunbeath), Munros of Foulis, Rosses of Balnagown, Gunns (Clangun), MacLeods of Assynt and Lewis, Mackenzies of Kintail and Seaforth, Murrays of Aberscross and Skelbo, Grays of Skibo, and Dunbars.\u003c\/li\u003e\n    \u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eWars of the Three Kingdoms \u0026amp; Continental Service (1630–1651):\u003c\/strong\u003e Documents the Scottish officers who fought under Gustavus Adolphus in Germany (including Colonel William Gunn at Nördlingen and Wittstock, and Colonel John Gordon at Eger) as well as the campaigns of the Marquis of Montrose at Auldearn, Alford, Kilsyth, and his final defeat at Carbisdale in 1650.\u003c\/li\u003e\n    \u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eOriginal Engravings \u0026amp; 1340 Charter Facsimile Preserved:\u003c\/strong\u003e Retains the 1669 copperplate portrait of John, Earl of Sutherland, the 1813 Dunrobin Castle title engraving, the 1639 full-page Armorial Bearings of the Earls of Sutherland (\u003cem\u003e\"Without Feare\"\u003c\/em\u003e), and the folding facsimile of the 1340 Latin indenture with the Bishop of Caithness.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003c\/ul\u003e\n\n  \u003ch3\u003eWhat Is Included in Your Instant Digital Download\u003c\/h3\u003e\n  \u003cul\u003e\n    \u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eComplete 614-Page Restored \u0026amp; Merged PDF (43.6 MB):\u003c\/strong\u003e Single standalone digital volume—no split files or multi-part downloads required.\u003c\/li\u003e\n    \u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePure White (\u003ccode\u003e#FFFFFF\u003c\/code\u003e) High-Contrast 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for Pages 447–572).\u003c\/li\u003e\n    \u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNew Back-of-Book Automated Surname \u0026amp; Place Index (Pages 605–614):\u003c\/strong\u003e Cross-references 302 surnames (with early Scots spelling variants) and 145 parishes, castles, battles, and regiments directly to their exact Printed Page numbers.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003c\/ul\u003e\n\n  \u003ch3\u003eSurnames, Clans \u0026amp; Septs Indexed in This Volume (302 Family Groups)\u003c\/h3\u003e\n  \u003cp style=\"font-size: 0.95em; line-height: 1.6;\"\u003eAberigh (Aberach, Sleaght-ean-Aberigh), Abernethy (Abernethie), Acheson (Atcheson), Adamson, Agnew, Aird, Albany (Stewart), Alexander (Earl of Stirling), Allan (Alane, Allen), Allanson, Anderson, Angus (Douglas), Angusson (MacAngus), Annand (Annandale), Anstruther, Arbuthnot, Armstrong, Arran (Hamilton, Stewart), Assynt (MacLeod of Assint), Atholl (Athole), Aubigny (Stuart), Auchindoun (Gordon), Ayton (Aytoun), Baillie (Bailzie, Baylie, Lamington), Bain (Bane, Banes, Bayne), Baird, Balcanquhall (Balcanquill), Balcomie (Learmonth), Balfour (Burleigh), Ballendalloch (Grant), Balliol (Baliol), Balloch (Ballogh), Balmerino (Elphinstone), Balnagown (Ross), Banff (Ogilvy), Bannatyne, Barclay (Towie), Beaton (Bethune), Bellenden, Berridale (Berriedale, Sinclair, Sutherland), Binning, Bisset, Blackader, Blair, Blantyre, Boece (Boethius), Borthwick, Boswell, Bothwell (Hepburn, Stewart), Bowes, Boyd, Boynton, Brackley (Gordon), Brechin, Brodie, Brown (Broun), Bruce (King Robert Bruce), Buccleuch (Scott), Buchan (Comyn, Stewart, Erskine), Buchanan, Buckingham (Villiers), Burnett, Buy (Bwy), Caddell (Calder, Campbell), Caithness (Catteynes, Sinclair), Callendar (Livingston), Cameron (Clanchamron, Lochiel), Campbell (Argyle, Argyll, Cawdor, Lawers, Glenorchy), Carnegie (Southesk), Carr (Car, Ker, Kerr, Roxburghe, Lothian), Cassillis (Kennedy), Cathcart, Chambers (Chambre, Chalmer), Charteris, Cheyne (Cheyn of Duffus), Chisholm (Chisholme), Clanchattan (Mackintosh, Macpherson), Clangregor (MacGregor), Clangun (Gunn, Robson, MacRob), Clankay, Clankenzie (Mackenzie), Clanlachlan (MacLachlan), Clanronald (MacDonald), Clare, Clerk (Clark), Cluny (Gordon), Clyne (Sutherland), Cochrane, Cockburn (Ormiston), Colquhoun (Luss), Colville, Comyn (Cumming, Badenoch), Connaldagh (MacLeod), Constable, Coupland, Craig (Craigtoun), Cranstoun, Crawford (Lindsay), Crichton (Crighton, Frendret, Frendraught, Sanquhar), Cromarty (Urquhart), Cromwell, Cruner (Keith), Cullace, Cullen, Cunningham (Glencairn), Dalhousie (Ramsay), Dalzell (Carnwath), Darcy, Davidson, Dempster, Deskford (Ogilvy), Dilred (Sutherland, Mackay), Dingwall (Preston), Donaldson, Douglas (Morton, Angus, Queensberry), Dowgare, Drum (Irvine), Drummond (Perth, Madderty), Duffus (Sutherland of Duffus), Dunbar (Dumbar, Westfield, Hempriggs, Kilbuyack, Cumnock, Moyness), Duncan (Duncanson), Dundas, Dunfermline (Seton), Dunreay (Dounray, Mackay), Eglinton (Montgomery), Elgin (Bruce), Elliot, Elphinstone, Embo (Enbo, Gordon of Enbo), Enzie (Gordon), Erroll (Hay), Erskine (Areskine, Mar), Falconer, Farquhar (Farquharson), Fedderat, Felton, Ferguson, Fingask, Fintry (Graham), Fleming (Wigton), Forbes (Pitsligo, Tolquhon), Forrester, Foulis (Fowls, Munro), Fraser (Lovat, Saltoun, Philorth), Frendraught (Crichton), Freshwick (Mowat), Friskin (Freskin de Moravia), Gairloch (Mackenzie), Galloway (Stewart, Gordon), Garioch, Garty (Gartay, Gordon), Gibson, Gifford (Yester), Gight (Gordon), Gilchalm (MacGilchalm, MacLeod of Raasay), Gilleroy (MacGregor), Glamis (Lyon, Kinghorne), Glencairn (Cunningham), Glengarry (MacDonell), Gordon (Gordoun, Huntly, Sutherland, Gordonstoun, Embo, Lochinvar, Aboyne, Haddo, Buckie, Gight, Rothiemay), Gordonstoun, Gorme (MacDonald of Sleat), Gowrie (Ruthven), Graham (Montrose, Fintry, Menteith), Grant (Freuchie, Ballindalloch, Carron), Gray (Skibo, Sordell, Creich, Arboll), Gunn (Gun, Clangun, Killearnan), Gustavus, Guthrie, Hacket, Hacro (Halcro), Haddo (Gordon), Haddington, Haliburton (Pitcur), Hamilton (Abercorn, Arran), Harbister, Hartfell (Johnstone), Hay (Erroll, Kinnoull, Yester), Hempriggs (Dunbar), Henderson, Hepburn (Bothwell), Herries (Maxwell), Home (Hume), Hope, Hotspur (Percy), Houcheonson (MacLeod of Assynt), Howard (Norfolk, Arundel), Huntly (Gordon), Innes (Balvenie), Irvine (Irwin, Drum), Isles (MacDonald), Johnston (Johnstone), Keith (Kaith, Marischal), Kenmure (Keanmore, Gordon of Lochinvar), Kennedy, Kenneth (Kennethson), Ker (Roxburghe), Kilcalmkill (Gordon), Kilravock (Rose), Kincardine, Kinghorne (Lyon), Kinnoull (Hay), Kintail (Mackenzie), Kirkcaldy (Grange), Knox, Laud, Lauderdale (Maitland), Lawers (Campbell), Leicester (Montfort), Leich, Leith, Lennox (Stuart), Leslie (Lesley, Rothes, Leven, Balquhain, Pitcaple), Letterfourie (Gordon), Leven (Leslie), Lilburn, Lindsay (Crawford, Balcarres, Spynie), Linlithgow (Livingston), Livingston (Callendar, Kilsyth), Lochinvar (Gordon), Lockhart, Logan, Lorne (Campbell), Lothian (Kerr), Loudoun (Campbell), Lovat (Fraser), Love, Lumsden, Luss (Colquhoun), Lyon, MacAllister (Mackallister), Macbeth, MacDonald (Sleat, Kintyre, Isles, Glengarry, Clanranald), MacGregor (Clangregor), MacIan (Mack-ean), MacIntosh (Mackintosh, Clanchattan), MacIver (Seill-wick-Iver), Mackames, Mackay (Macky, Lord Reay, Strathnaver, Bighouse, Scourie, Dilred, Aberach), Mackenzie (Clankenzie, Kintail, Seaforth, Pluscarden, Gairloch), MacKorkill, MacLachlan, MacLean (Duart), MacLeod (Macloyd, Lewis, Harris, Dunvegan, Assynt, Raasay), MacNeill (Seill-Neill), MacPhail (Seill-Phail), MacQueen, MacRaith (MacRae), MacRanald, MacRob (Gunn), Mactire (Paul Mactire), MacThomas (Seill-Thomas), MacWilliam, Magnus, Maitland, Malbie, Malcolm (Malcolmson), Malesius, Maltravers, Mar (Erskine), March, Marischal (Keith), Maule (Panmure), Maxwell (Nithsdale), May (Sinclair of Mey), Meldrum (Seton), Melgum (Gordon), Melville, Menteith (Graham), Menzies (Pitfodels), Middleton, Moir, Moncreiff, Monro (Monroe, Munro of Foulis, Obsdale, Lemlair, Milntown, Clynes), Montfort, Montgomery, Montrose (Graham), Moray (Murray, Randolph, Stewart), Morton (Douglas), Mowat (Buchollie, Freshwick), Moyness (Dunbar), Mudyard (Clanranald), Murkle (Sinclair), Murray (Abirscors, Aberscross, Skelbo, Tullibardine, Pulrossie), Musgrave, Nairn, Napier, Neilson (MacNeill of Assynt), Neville, Nithsdale (Maxwell), Norfolk, Northumberland (Percy), Ochiltree (Stewart), Ogilvy (Airlie, Deskford, Findlater, Banff), Oliphant, Orkney (Sinclair, Stewart), Ormiston, O'Donnell (Oy-Donnel), O'Sullivan (Oy-Suliwant), Paip (Pape), Panmure, Paterson, Percy, Perth (Drummond), Petaw, Pitcaple (Leslie), Pitfodels (Menzies), Pitsligo (Forbes), Pluscarden (Mackenzie), Polwarth (Hume), Preston, Queensberry (Douglas), Raasay (MacLeod), Ramsay (Dalhousie), Randolph, Ratter, Reawigh, Reay (Mackay), Reid, Richmond (Stuart), Robertson, Robson (Clangun), Rollo (Rollock), Rose (Kilravock), Ross (Balnagown), Rothes (Leslie), Rothiemay (Gordon), Roxburghe (Ker), Roy (Sleaght-ean-Roy), Ruthven (Gowrie), St Clair (Sinclair), Saltoun, Sandilands (Torphichen), Savile, Scott (Buccleuch), Scrimgeour, Seaforth (Mackenzie), Sempill, Seton (Huntly, Winton, Dunfermline, Meldrum), Shaw, Sinclair (Caithness, Orkney, Berridale, Murkle, Mey, Dunbeath, Ravensheugh, Greenland, Stirkoke), Skene, Skelbo, Skibo (Gray), Sleat (MacDonald), Smith, Somerset, Somerville, Southesk (Carnegie), Spens (Spence), Spottiswoode, Spynie (Lindsay), Stafford (Strafford), Stewart (Stuart, Royal House, Lennox, Atholl, Moray, Caithness, Orkney, Traquair, Ochiltree), Stirling (Alexander), Strachan, Strathbogie (Gordon), Strathearn, Strathnaver (Sutherland, Mackay), Sutherland (Southerland, Earls of Sutherland, Duffus, Forse, Berriedale, Clyne, Thoroboll, Dilred), Swinton, Tarbat, Terrell (Tirrell of Doill), Thoroboll (Sutherland), Tod, Torphichen, Torquhill (MacLeod), Toskie, Towie (Barclay, Forbes), Traquair (Stewart), Tullibardine (Murray), Umfraville, Urquhart, Urry (Hurry), Vans (Vaus), Vidomar, Wallace (Sir William Wallace), Wallenstein, Warbeck (Lady Catherine Gordon), Wardlaw, Watson, Wauchope, Wedderburn, Weir, Wemyss, Wharton, White, Wigton (Fleming), Williamson (Mackay), Wilson, Winram, Winton (Seton), Wishart, Woir, Wood, Young, Zouch.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n  \u003ch3\u003eParishes, Castles, Kirks, Battles \u0026amp; Regiments Indexed (145 Locations)\u003c\/h3\u003e\n  \u003cp style=\"font-size: 0.95em; line-height: 1.6;\"\u003eAberdeen, Aberscross (Abirscors), Aboyne, Ackergill Castle (Acrigell), Alford (Battle of 1645), Alltachuilain (Ald-Quhillin), Alltcharish (Battle of Aldy-Charrish, 1487), Allt-Gownie (Ald-gowne), Allt-na-Beth (Aldy-Beth), Arbroath, Argyll, Arkle (Arkill Deer Forest), Assynt (Parish \u0026amp; Isle of Assynt Castle), Atholl, Auchindoun Castle, Auldearn (Battle of Aldern, 1645), Badenoch, Balnagown Castle, Banff, Bannockburn, Bass Rock, Bealach nam Brog (Bealligh-ne-Broig), Ben Griam (Bingrime), Ben Hee \u0026amp; Ben Hope, Berriedale Castle, Berwick-upon-Tweed, Bighouse, Byland (Bigland), Blackness Castle, Blair-na-Pairc, Blair-Tannie, Bog of Gight (Gordon Castle), Brechin, Brora (Broray Burgh, Coal-Pits, Salt-Pans \u0026amp; Loch Brora), Caithness (Catteynes Earldom \u0026amp; Diocese), Carbisdale (Battle of 1650), Caerlaverock Castle, Carham, Castle Sinclair \u0026amp; Girnigoe, Chanonry of Ross (Fortrose), Clachnaharry (Clagh-ne-Haire), Clyne Parish, Corrichie (Battle of 1562), Crakaig (Cracock), Creich Parish, Cromarty, Culloden, Culmaily (Golspie Kirk), Dalkeith, Del-reawigh, Bridge of Dee, Dirlot Castle (Dilred), Dirrimore Forest, Dornoch (Royal Burgh, St Gilbert's Cathedral \u0026amp; Castle), Drainie (Gordonstoun), Drummoy, Drum-na-Coub (Battle of 1433), Dumbarton Castle, Dumfries, Dunbar (Battle of 1650), Dunbeath Castle (Dumbaith), Dundee, Dunfermline, Dunkeld, Dunrobin Castle (Dounrobin), Durness (Durines Parish), Dupplin Moor, Durham (Neville's Cross), Eddrachillis (Eddirachilis Parish), Edgehill, Edinburgh (Castle, Holyroodhouse \u0026amp; Parliament), Elgin Cathedral, Embo (Enbo), Farr (Far Parish \u0026amp; Kirk), Fife, Flodden Field, Forres, Frendraught Tower (Burning of 1630), Fyvie Castle, Gairloch, Glasgow, Glenfruin (Glenfreon), Glengarry, Glenlivet (Battle of 1594), Golspie (Golspie-Kirktoun \u0026amp; Golspie Tower), Gordonstoun, Gruinard, Haddy's Rig (Haldenrig), Halidon Hill, Harlaw (Battle of 1411), Harpsdale, Harris (Herries), Helmsdale Castle (Helmisdaill), Homildon Hill, Huntly (Strathbogie), Inverlochy (Battle of 1645), Inverness (Burgh \u0026amp; Castle), Islay, Kildonan (Strathully), Kildrummy Castle, Kilsyth (Battle of 1645), Kintail, Kintyre, Kirkwall Castle, Lairg (Larg Parish), Leckmelm, Isle of Lewis, Lochaber, Loch Brora, Loch Naver, Loch Shin, Loth Parish, Mar, Mearns, Mey Castle, Moray (Province \u0026amp; Diocese), Murkle, Newcastle, Newburn, Nördlingen (1634), Nova Scotia 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