The Celtic Magazine, Vol. IX (1884) - Searchable PDF & Surname Index

Uncover Rare 19th-Century Clan Cameron Charters, Sworn Strathnaver Clearance Depositions & Highland Family Records

Originally published in Inverness in 1884 by the renowned Highland historian and genealogist Alexander Mackenzie, F.S.A. Scot., Volume IX of The Celtic Magazine (spanning Monthly Issues Nos. XCVII to CVIII, November 1883 – October 1884) is one of the richest primary genealogical and historical compendiums of the Scottish Highlands and Islands. Prepared as an enhanced Fairbairn's Crests Digital Research Edition, this 615-page volume preserves the original 1884 Inverness Courier Office typeset pages and embedded OCR search layer while adding a newly written Historical Introduction, a Researcher's Page-Offset Guide, and a 19-page Alphabetical Surname, Clan, Parish & Regiment Index.

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

• 615 Total Pages (1883–1884 Full Annual Volume): Includes 4 pages of Fairbairn's Crests Front Matter (Pages i–iv), 592 cleaned original book pages (retaining the original 1884 Title Page, Contents pp. iii–iv, Printed Pages 1–588, and the full-page portrait plate of Charles Fraser-Mackintosh, M.P., with the blank trailing flyleaf removed), and a 19-page Back-of-Book Research Index.
• The History of the Camerons (Chapters X–XXI): Over 130 pages of primary clan history and cadet genealogies by Alexander Mackenzie, detailing Sir Ewen Cameron of Lochiel (1629–1719), the 1654 Battle of Achadalew, the 1665 settlement of the 360-year feud with Mackintosh at Loch-Arkaig, the Battle of Killiecrankie (1689), John Cameron of Lochiel (attainted 1715), Donald Cameron ("The Gentle Lochiel" of 1745), the execution of Dr. Archibald Cameron at Tyburn (1753), and detailed family lineages of the Camerons of Fassifern, Erracht, Glenevis, Callart, Lundavra, Letterfinlay (MacMartin Camerons), Torcastle, and Barcaldine.
• Sworn Eyewitness Testimony of the Strathnaver Clearances: Three instalments of verbatim, witnessed depositions collected in August 1883 from octogenarian and nonagenarian survivors in the parishes of Tongue, Farr, and Strathy—recording the names, ages, birthplaces, and burnt townships (225 houses across Rossal, Langall, Syre, Grumb-mhor, Ceann-na-coille, Skelpick, Dalacharn, Badinloskin, and Achness) destroyed by Patrick Sellar's burning parties, plus Rev. D. B. Blair's account of "Iain Muilleir" (John Sutherland of the Kilt) and his daughter "Sine Mhor" (Big Jane) of Clyne and Barney's River, Nova Scotia.
• "Taillear Dubh na Tuaighe" & Highland Clan Studies: Rev. Prof. Malcolm Campbell Taylor's two-part investigation into the 16th-century Lochaber warrior Donald MacEwen Beg and the Macintaylor/Taylor sept of Cowal; Charles Fraser-Mackintosh, M.P.'s charter history of The Lower Fishings of the Ness (1474–1822) and biographical sketch; Provost H. C. Macandrew's Ancient Celtic Tenures; J. G. Mackay on The Disarming Act and Proscription of the Highland Dress; Alex. Ross on Rev. Donald Munro, High Dean of the Isles (1549); and M. A. Rose on Glencairn's Duel (1653).
• Crofters' Royal Commission Analysis & Delegate Rolls: Alexander Mackenzie's four-part analysis of the 1884 Napier Royal Commission Report, including a parish-by-parish population and rent-limit table across Skye, the Uists, Barra, Harris, Lewis, Ross-shire, and Inverness-shire, plus full attendee and subscriber lists from the Gaelic Society of Inverness, the Dingwall Land Law Reform Conference, and Highland emigrants in Canada, the United States, and Otago/Southland, New Zealand.
• Preserved Archival Scan & Bookmarks: Original page backgrounds and native OCR text layer kept intact, with interactive PDF bookmarks for every monthly issue, major article, and index section.

Historical & Regional Overview

Volume IX captures the Scottish Highlands at a pivotal moment in 1883–1884, when the testimony of living survivors of the early nineteenth-century Clearances was presented before the Royal Commission (Highlands and Islands) alongside centuries-old charters from the Register House in Edinburgh and local burgh archives in Inverness. Researchers tracing ancestors across Inverness-shire (Lochaber, Glenmoriston, Glen-Urquhart, Strathglass, Badenoch, and the Isle of Skye), Ross-shire (Kintail, Lochalsh, Applecross, Gairloch, Dingwall, Kiltearn, Alness, and the Isle of Lewis), Sutherlandshire (Strathnaver, Farr, Tongue, Strathy, Durness, Clyne, Golspie, and Dornoch), Caithness (Wick, Castle Sinclair, and Girnigoe), Argyllshire (Appin, Lorn, Dunolly, Ardnamurchan, Sunart,Cowal, Mull, Tiree, and Islay), and Perthshire (Athole, Glendochart, Strathfillan, and Killin) will find hundreds of named heads of families, tacksmen, ministers, military officers, and crofters.

Beyond Scotland, this volume is an exceptional resource for diaspora genealogists. It documents Scottish pioneer communities and named correspondents across Nova Scotia (Barney's River, Pictou, and Springville), Ontario & Quebec (Glengarry, Ottawa, Toronto, Hamilton, Collingwood, Kingston, and Montreal), Manitoba (Winnipeg, Fort-Garry, Portage-la-Prairie, Morris, and Emerson), the United States (Chicago, Minneapolis, St. Paul, New York, and Charleston, South Carolina), and New Zealand (a complete subscriber roll of Highlanders in Invercargill, Waikaia, Tapanui, Gore, Nokomai, and Mataura).

Surnames & Families Indexed in This Volume:

Abercrombie, Abercromby, Aitchison, Aitken, Albemarle, Alexander, Allardice, Allan, Anderson, Argyll, Armstrong, Asgill, Athole, Austin, Bain, Balcarres, Balfour, Bankes, Bannatyne, Barbour, Barclay, Barclay-Allardice, Barron, Beaton, Beauclerk, Beaumont, Belford, Belhaven, Berwick, Bird, Black, Blackadder, Blackie, Blair, Bligh, Boswell, Bourke, Branders, Brayn, Breadalbane, Bremner, Brodie, Brown, Browne, Bruce, Bryan, Buchan, Buchanan, Buckinghamshire, Buckle, Burgess, Burns, Burroughs, Burton, Cadogan, Calder, Callender, Cameron, Campbell, Cannon, Carmichael, Chalmers, Chambers, Chinnery, Chisholm, Christie, Clark, Clerk, Clunas, Colquhoun, Comyn, Cooper, Cope, Corbet, Coulam, Cowan, Coward, Cran, Crawford, Crerar, Cromb, Cromwell, Cumberland, Cumming, Cumyn, Cunningham, Currie, Dalrymple, Darling, Davidson, Davies, Davis, Dean, Dingwall, Dixon, Douglas, Drummond, Duff, Dunbar, Duncan, Dundee, Dunmore, Edgar, Elgin, Elliott, Ellison, Erroll, Erskine, Farquharson, Fawcett, Ferguson, Findlater, Fitzgerld, Fletcher, Forbes, Forrester, Foster, Fowler, Fraser, Fraser-Mackintosh, Fyfe, Gardener, Garland, George, Gillies, Gillespie, Gladstone, Glen, Glencairn, Glennie, Gordon, Graham, Grant, Graven, Gregory, Grey, Gunn, Hamer, Hamilton, Harper, Havelock, Hawley, Hay, Hebden, Hill, Hobart, Holland, Home, Hoon, Horne, Hossack, Houghton, Hughes, Hume, Hunter, Huske, Hutcheson, Inglis, Innes, Jamison, Johnson, Johnston, Johnstone, Jolly, Keating, Keenan, Keith, Kellie, Kelly, Kemp, Kennedy, Kilmarnock, Kinahan, Kington-Oliphant, Laing, Lamont, Lang, Lauderdale, Lee, Leed, Lees, Leven, Lindsay, Linn, Linton, Liot, Livingstone, Livingston, Lloyd, Lockhart, Logan, Lorn, Lorne, Loudon, Lovat, Lowe, MacAlastair, Macalpine, Macandrew, Macaulay, MacAulay, Macbain, Macbean, MacCallum, MacColl, Maccrimon, Macculloch, Macdonald, Macdonell, Macdougall, MacDougall, Macduff, MacEwen, Macfarlane, Macfarquhar, Macgibbon, Macgillivray, Macgregor, MacGregor, MacIain, MacIan, Macianduy, Macinnes, Macintaylor, Macintyre, Mackay, Mackellar, Mackenzie, MacKewin, Mackinnon, Mackintosh, Maclachlan, MacLachlan, Maclaren, Maclean, MacLean, Macleish, Maclennan, Macleod, MacLeod, MacMartin, Macmaster, Macmillan, Macnab, MacNaughten, Macnaughton, Macneil, MacNeill, MacNish, Macphail, Macpherson, MacPhie, Macquarrie, Macqueen, Macrae, MacRae, Macraild, MacRobb, Mactavish, MacVicar, Maher, Main, Malthus, Manners, Marr, Marshall, Martin, Matheson, Maxwell, Menzies, Merrylees, Merton, Middleton, Millar, Miller, Mitchell, Monk, Montrose, Morgan, Morison, Morrison, Mundella, Munro, Murchison, Murray, Nairne, Napier, Nic-Ealair, Nicol, Nicolson, Nicholson, Noble, Norman, O'Curry, Ogilvie, Ogilvy, O'Hara, Oliphant, O'Sullivan, Pattle, Pelham, Pembroke, Pennant, Pitt, Ponsonby, Portin, Queensberry, Ramsay, Ramsden, Reach, Reay, Reid, Reoch, Rhys, Riach, Richardson, Robertson, Rose, Ross, Rothes, Sage, Sawbridge, Scott, Seaforth, Seaton, Sellar, Sempill, Sharp, Shaw, Shepherd, Sheridan, Simmonds, Simpson, Sinclair, Skene, Sligo, Smart, Smiles, Smith, Speirs, Stafford, Stanton, Stapleton, Stewart, Stobo, Stokes, Strahan, Stratton, Street, Strutt, Stuart, Sullivan, Sutherland, Taylor, Thomson, Thriepland, Tullibardine, Tulloch, Tweedmouth, Tyler, Urquhart, Veitch, Walker, Wallace, Watson, Watt, White, Whiteford, Whyte, Wilson, Winans, Wodehouse, Yea.

Parishes, Townships & Settlements Indexed:

Aberarder, Aberchalder, Aberdeen, Abernethy, Abriachan, Achadalew, Achariach, Achina, Achinlochy, Achmhillidh, Achnacarry, Achness, Achphris, Airdneskich, Aldourie, Alness, Applecross, Ardgay, Ardgour, Ardnamurchan, Ardverikie, Arisaig, Armadale, Assynt, Athole, Auchallader, Auchinbreck, Auchtertyre, Auldearn, Badenoch, Badinloskin, Ballifeary, Balmuchy, Bannockburn, Barcaldine, Barney's River (Nova Scotia), Barra, Barvas, Beauly, Benalder, Benbecula, Berneray, Bettyhill, Bighouse, Birnam, Blair-Athole, Bona, Borlum, Borrodale, Botriphnie, Bracadale, Brae-Lochaber, Braemar, Breakachy, Broadford, Brora, Bught, Burntisland, Caithness, Caledonia (Ontario), Callander, Callart, Cantray, Caputh, Castlebay, Castle Sinclair, Cawdor, Ceann-na-coille, Charleston (South Carolina), Chicago, Clachnacudainn, Clachnahagaig, Clachnaharry, Clunes, Clyne, Clyth, Coll, Collingwood (Ontario), Colonsay, Corriebeag, Corrieyarrack, Coul, Coupar-Angus, Cowal, Crask, Cromarty, Cromdale, Culbokie, Culcabock, Culduthel, Culloden, Dail-Righ, Dalacharn, Dalarossie, Dalmalart, Dalnadroit, Dalvina, Dingwall, Diriebught, Dochfour, Dochgarroch, Dochnalurg, Dores, Dornoch, Drummond, Drummuir, Duart,Dufftown, Duirinish, Dunachton, Dunain, Dunfermline, Dunkeld, Dunlichity, Dunmaglass, Dunolly, Dunoon, Dunstaffnage, Dunvegan, Durness, Edinburgh, Elleshadder, Emerson (Manitoba), Erchless, Erracht, Evanton, Fair Isle, Falkirk, Farr, Fassifern, Ferintosh, Fort-Augustus, Fort-Garry, Fort-George, Fort-William,Fortingall, Foula, Foyers, Gairloch,Glencannich, Glencoe, Glendale, Glendochart, Glenevis, Glenfinnan, Glenfintaig, Glengarry, Glenlochy, Glenlyon, Glenmoriston, Glenshiel, Glenure, Glen-Urquhart, Golspie, Gore (New Zealand), Grantown, Grumb-mhor, Guisachan, Halladale, Hamilton (Ontario), Harris, Haugh, Heisgeir, Helmsdale,Inveraray, Invercargill (New Zealand), Invereshie, Invergordon, Inverlochy, Inverness, Inversnaid, Iona, Islay, Jura, Kames, Kenmore, Keppoch,Kidsary,Kildonan,Killiecrankie, Killin, Kilmallie, Kilmorack, Kilmuir, Kilmun, Kiltearn, Kincardine, Kingussie, Kinlochiel, Kinlochmoidart, Kinmylies, Kintail, Kirtomy, Knockbain, Kyleakin, Laggan, Lairg, Langall, Leachkin, Leadnagiullan, Lealt, Ledaig, Leith, Letterfinlay, Lewis,limlair, Lochalsh, Locharkaig, Lochbroom, Lochcarron, Loch-Duich, Loch-Eil, Lochfyne, Lochgarry, Lochmaddy, Lochmaree, Loch-Ness, Lochnell, Lochs, Logie-Easter, Lorn,Melness, Methven, Minneapolis, Moidart, Montreal, Morar, Morvern, Moy, Mudale, Muirtown, Mull, Nairn, Nokomai (New Zealand), North Uist, Oban, Oldwick, Onich, Orkney, Ottawa, Perth, Peterhead, Pictou (Nova Scotia), Portage-la-Prairie (Manitoba), Portmahomack, Portree, Prestonpans, Quebec, Raasay, Rannoch, Resolis, Rhifail, Rhihalvaig, Rodel, Rogart, Rossal, Rousay, Ruthven, Scourie, Sgall, Shetland, Skelpick, Skerray, Skye, Sleat, Snizort, Solitote, South Uist, Spean, St. Kilda, Stenscholl,Stirling, Stornoway, Strath, Strathfillan, Strathglass, Strathnaver, Strathpeffer, Strathy, Strome Ferry, Sunart, Sunderland, Sutherland, Syre, Tain, Tapanui (New Zealand), Tarbert, Taymouth, Teaninich, Tiree, Tirinie, Tolmachan, Tomafour, Tomnahiuraich, Tongue, Torcastle, Toronto, Tullibody, Tyndrum, Uig, Ullapool, Urquhart, Vallay, Valtos, Waikaia (New Zealand), Waternish, Wick, Winnipeg.