{"product_id":"history-of-the-house-and-clan-of-mackay-1829-by-robert-mackay-searchable-genealogy-clan-history-pdf","title":"History of the House and Clan of Mackay (1829) by Robert Mackay — Searchable Genealogy \u0026 Clan History PDF","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"fairbairns-product-description\"\u003e\n  \u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eUncover five centuries of Highland ancestry, clan warfare, royal charters, and detailed family pedigrees across Northern Scotland in the landmark 1829 chronicle of Clan Mackay and \"Lord Reay's Country.\"\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n  \u003cp\u003eOriginally published in Edinburgh in 1829 by \u003cstrong\u003eRobert Mackay, Writer in Thurso\u003c\/strong\u003e, and inscribed to The Right Honourable Eric Mackay, Seventh Lord Reay, \u003cem\u003eHistory of the House and Clan of Mackay\u003c\/em\u003e is one of the rarest and most authoritative primary sources ever compiled on the history and genealogy of the far north of Scotland. Drawing directly from the Reay family charter chests, Sir Robert Gordon's manuscripts, the Privy Council records of Scotland, and Highland oral tradition, this monumental 600+ page work chronicles not only the Chiefs and Cadet Houses of Clan Mackay, but also their alliances, marriages, and blood feuds with every major family of \u003cstrong\u003eSutherland, Caithness, Ross-shire, Inverness-shire, and the Hebrides\u003c\/strong\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n  \u003cp\u003eThis \u003cstrong\u003eFairbairn's Crests Enhanced Archival Research Edition\u003c\/strong\u003e restores the complete 1829 Edinburgh first edition into a crystal-clear, background-whitened (\u003ccode\u003e#FFFFFF\u003c\/code\u003e), fully searchable 615-page PDF—upgraded with interactive chapter navigation and a newly compiled \u003cstrong\u003eBack-of-Book Comprehensive Surname, Clan \u0026amp; Place Index\u003c\/strong\u003e covering \u003cstrong\u003e388 surnames and families\u003c\/strong\u003e and \u003cstrong\u003e252 parishes, estates, castles, and battlefields\u003c\/strong\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n  \u003ch3\u003eWhat's Inside This Complete 615-Page Archival Edition\u003c\/h3\u003e\n  \u003cul\u003e\n    \u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eBranded Fairbairn's Crests Front Matter (Pages i–iv \/ PDF pp. 1–4):\u003c\/strong\u003e Includes an Archival Provenance Notice, a Researcher's Page-Conversion Formula (\u003ccode\u003ePDF Page = Book Page + 12\u003c\/code\u003e), a 6-part Historical \u0026amp; 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II.\u003c\/li\u003e\n    \u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eChapters XV–XIX — General Hugh Mackay of Scoury, the Jacobite Risings \u0026amp; the Reay Fencibles (Book pp. 418–556):\u003c\/strong\u003e The campaigns of General Hugh Mackay of Scoury as Commander-in-Chief in Scotland (Killiecrankie, 1689) and Ireland (the Boyne, Athlone, and Aughrim, 1690–1691), the Glencoe Inquiry, the Darien Colony, Clan Mackay's staunch Hanoverian service in the 1715 and 1745 Risings, biographies of the 3rd through 7th Lords Reay, the celebrated Strathnaver Gaelic bard Rob Donn, and the Reay Highland Regiment at the Battle of Tara Hill (1798).\u003c\/li\u003e\n    \u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eComplete Genealogy of the Stock and Principal Branches of the Clan (Book pp. 557–580 \/ PDF pp. 569–592):\u003c\/strong\u003e Generation-by-generation family trees, marriages, children, and estate successions for nine principal houses:\n      \u003col\u003e\n        \u003cli\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe Chief Line \/ Stock of Mackay (Lords Reay of Tongue \u0026amp; 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Earls of Argyll, Earls of Breadalbane, Campbell of Glenorchy, Calder\/Cawdor, Lochnell, Barcaldine, Lawers, Glenlyon), Murray (Dukes \u0026amp; Earls of Atholl, Earls of Tullibardine, Earls of Annandale, Murray of Pulrossie, Pennyland, Clairden, Aberscross), Innes (Innes of Sandside, Innes, Thursater, Borlum), Keith (Earls Marischal, Keith of Ackergill, Ludquharn), Fraser (Lords Lovat, Fraser of Strichen, Belladrum, Foyers), Forbes (Lords Forbes, Forbes of Culloden, Tolquhon, Craigievar), Gray (Gray of Skibo, Ospisdale, Creich, Arboll), Graham (Marquises of Montrose, Viscounts Dundee \/ Claverhouse), Dunbar (Dunbar of Hempriggs, Northfield, Westfield, Grange), Brodie (Brodie of Brodie, Lethen), Matheson, Oliphant, Bain\/Bayne, Urquhart, Rose of Kilravock, Grant of Grant, Macintosh, Maclean, Macneil, Cameron of Lochiel, Baillie, Dempster, Honeyman, Manson, Calder, Coghill, Oswald, and Scobie.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n  \u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFull Alphabetical Index of All 388 Surnames \u0026amp; 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