{"product_id":"sutherland-and-the-reay-country-1897-rev-adam-gunn-john-mackay-searchable-clan-mackay-sutherland-genealogy-pdf","title":"Sutherland and the Reay Country (1897) – Rev. Adam Gunn \u0026 John Mackay | Searchable Clan Mackay \u0026 Sutherland Genealogy PDF","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eUncover your northern Highland roots in the definitive 1897 historical, military, and genealogical compendium of Sutherland (\u003cem\u003eCataobh\u003c\/em\u003e), Assynt, and Lord Reay’s Country (\u003cem\u003eDùthaich Mhic-Aoidh\u003c\/em\u003e).\u003c\/strong\u003e Edited by the Rev. Adam Gunn, M.A., of Durness and John Mackay, Editor of the \u003cem\u003eCeltic Monthly\u003c\/em\u003e and founder of the Clan Mackay Society, \u003cem\u003eSutherland and the Reay Country\u003c\/em\u003e brings together the foremost Highland scholars of the late Victorian era to chronicle six centuries of clan feuds, charters, antiquities, folklore, Gaelic place-names, famous regiments, ecclesiastical fasti, and notable families across the far north of Scotland. Restored and indexed by \u003cstrong\u003eFairbairn's Crests\u003c\/strong\u003e, this 447-page searchable digital edition transforms a scarce 19th-century subscriber volume into an instant-search research tool for modern family historians.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch3\u003eWhy This Edition Is Essential for Genealogists \u0026amp; Clan Researchers\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eComplete 1897 List of Subscribers (pp. xii–xix):\u003c\/strong\u003e Records nearly 200 named subscribers with exact 1897 residences and occupations across Sutherland, Caithness, Ross-shire, Glasgow, Edinburgh, London, and the global Highland diaspora in Nova Scotia, Prince Edward Island, Montreal, the United States, South Africa, India, Siam, Java, Australia, and New Zealand.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eSix Centuries of Clan \u0026amp; Family History (pp. 1–77):\u003c\/strong\u003e Traces the Earls of Sutherland (Freskyn\/de Moravia and Gordon lines) and the Chiefs of Clan Mackay (Lord Reay, Clan Abrach of Strathnaver, Bighouse, Scourie, Melness, Strathy, and Dirlet), alongside the Macleods of Assynt and Durness, Clan Gunn, the Sinclairs of Caithness, the Murrays, Munros, Rosses of Balnagown, Mackenzies, and Mathesons.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003e79-Page Regimental \u0026amp; Military History (pp. 183–282):\u003c\/strong\u003e Chronicles Sir Donald Mackay’s Scots Regiment in the Thirty Years’ War (1626–1634), the 1st, 2nd, and 3rd Sutherland Fencibles, the Reay Fencibles (with surname muster statistics), the 93rd Sutherland Highlanders (\"The Thin Red Line\" at Balaclava, New Orleans, and Lucknow, including Victoria Cross winners and officers promoted from the ranks), and complete officer rolls of the 1st Sutherland Rifle and Artillery Volunteers.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eParish Place-Names, Fasti \u0026amp; Biographies (pp. 141–171, 321–399):\u003c\/strong\u003e Explains hundreds of Norse and Gaelic township names across Farr, Tongue, Durness, Eddrachillis, Assynt, Creich, Lairg, Dornoch, Golspie, Rogart, Clyne, Loth, and Kildonan; includes the life and songs of Rob Donn Mackay (pp. 285–320); provides illustrated biographical notices of prominent Sutherlanders; and lists every post-Reformation minister in the Presbyteries of Tongue and Dornoch from 1567 to 1842 (Appendixes I \u0026amp; 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