The Celtic Magazine, Vol. V (1880) - Searchable PDF & Surname Index

Trace Your Scottish Highland, Hebridean & Canadian Pioneer Ancestors in Alexander Mackenzie's Classic 1880 Compendium

Originally published in Inverness between November 1879 and October 1880 by the renowned "Clan Historian" Alexander Mackenzie, F.S.A. Scot., The Celtic Magazine, Volume V is an indispensable primary-source treasure for Scottish Highland, Island, and North American diaspora researchers. Spanning twelve monthly issues (Nos. XLIX to LX), this volume unites medieval West Highland charters and clan genealogies with first-hand accounts of 18th- and 19th-century emigrants settled across Nova Scotia, Cape Breton, New Brunswick, Quebec, Ontario, and the United States.

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

• Complete 519-Page Archival Digital Edition: Includes 4 pages of newly typeset Fairbairn's Crests Front Matter (Pages i–iv), all 488 original 1880 book pages preserved in full, and a newly compiled 27-page Back-of-Book Alphabetical Surname & Place Index.
• Preserved Original Scan & Native OCR Layer: All 488 original archival pages are retained with their authentic page backgrounds and native embedded OCR layer untouched, paired with full PDF bookmarks by monthly issue and major article.
• History of the Macdonalds & Lords of the Isles (Parts I–XII): Alexander Mackenzie's landmark twelve-part serialized history tracing Somerled and the Lords of the Isles through the houses of Islay, Sleat, Clanranald, Glengarry, Keppoch, Glencoe, and Ardnamurchan from A.D. 1100 to 1542.
• "The Editor in Canada" (Parts I–IX): Mackenzie's personal 1879 travel dispatches naming hundreds of Scottish Highland emigrants, their occupations, and their exact Scottish parishes of origin across Pictou, New Glasgow, Springville, Antigonish, Cape Breton, Halifax, St John (N.B.), Quebec, Montreal, Glengarry, Alexandria, Lochiel, Cornwall, Ottawa, Kingston, Toronto, Beaverton, Thorah (with verbatim gravestone inscriptions of Skye and Kintail pioneers), Guelph, Lucknow, Kincardine, Woodstock, London, and Hamilton.
• Clan Lineages, Jacobite Biographies & Regimental Rolls: Features multi-part biographies of Flora Macdonald and Iain Lom (the Lochaber Bard), genealogies of the Caithness MacIver-Campbells, Macraes of Inverinate, Macbeans of Kinchyle, Crerars, Rosses of Inverchastley, Shaws of the Black Isle, and Cheynes, Oliphants, Sutherlands & Keiths of Caithness, plus officer rolls of Fraser's Highlanders at Quebec (1759) and the Highland Rifle (Ross-shire) Militia (1798–1880).
• Exact Page-Offset Navigation Guide: Clearly documents the original 1880 Inverness typesetter's pagination jump between pages 379 and 390 so researchers can jump effortlessly between printed citations and PDF page numbers.

Historical & Regional Overview

Few 19th-century publications bridge the Atlantic divide as vividly as Volume V of The Celtic Magazine. In Scotland, the volume preserves rare charter abstracts, feud narratives (including the Battle of Invernahavon in 1386, the Mackintosh Raid into Aberdeenshire in 1382, the Battle of Harlaw in 1411, the Battle of Inverlochy in 1431 and 1645, the Raid of Killichrist in 1602, and the Macdonalds and Macleods in Harris), and ecclesiastical antiquities such as the Quigrich (Pastoral Staff of St Fillan) and the Monks of Iona.

For North American family historians, Mackenzie's nine-part series The Editor in Canada acts as a living census of the Highland diaspora in 1879–1880. Travelling from New York and Boston through the Maritime Provinces and Upper Canada, Mackenzie visited farms, manses, and Caledonian societies, recording who emigrated on the ship Hector in 1773, which families hailed from Kintail, Gairloch, Lochbroom, Glenelg, Strathglass, Moidart, Barra, Skye, Islay, and Sutherland, and how their descendants prospered across Nova Scotia and Ontario.

Surnames & Families Indexed in This Volume:

Abercrombie, Adam, Agnew, Alexander, Allan, Allanson, Anderson, Angus,Archibald, Argyll, Armstrong, Arnold, Athole, Aust, Baillie, Bain, Baird, Baliol, Balkason, Balloch, Barbour, Barron, Barton, Bayne, Beaton, Beatty, Bede, Bedell, Bennet, Bethune, Bisset, Black, Blackie, Blair, Boece, Bopp, Boswell, Bourke, Bower, Boyd, Braes, Brayach, Brisbane, Brodie, Brown, Bruce, Bryan, Buchan, Buchanan, Burgess, Burns, Burton, Cabot, Calder, Cameron, Campbell, Carroll, Carruthers, Cartwright, Cathcart, Celestine, Chalmers, Charles, Cheyne, Chisholm, Clark, Clerk, Columba, Comyn, Conn, Connon, Conochie, Corbet, Cormack, Crawford, Crerar, Crovan, Cumberland, Cunningham, Cunninghame, Cuthbert, Dalrymple, David, Davidson, Depew, Dewar, De Winton, Diefenbach, Dillon, Dingwall, Doil, Doire, Donn, Douglas, Drum, Drummond, Dubh, Duffus, Dugall, Dunbar, Duncan, Dundee, Durwarth, Ebel, Ebrard, Edward, Eglinton, Elder, Erroll, Evans, Ewen, Fairn, Farquharson, Fedderet, Fedrett, Fergus, Fergusson, Fillan, Findlater, Finlay, Finlayson, Fitzgerald, Fletcher, Forbes, Fordun, Forsyth, Fowler, Fraser, Fraser-Mackintosh, Fyers, Gairey, Gallach, Gallda, Gallie, Galt, Gaston, Geddes, Gilchrist, Gillebride, Gilledomnan, Gillies, Gilully, Gladstone, Glass, Glen, Godfrey, Godred, Gordon, Gorm, Gospatrick, Graham, Grange, Grant, Grassie, Gray, Gregory, Gregorson, Grimm, Grove, Gruamach, Gunn, Haco, Halliwell, Hamilton, Hancock, Harcombe, Harfager, Hart, Havelock, Hay, Henderson, Henry, Herrach, Hill, Holmes, Home, Hope, Hore, Houstoun, Huchonson, Huntly, Hutcheson, Innes, Irvin, Iver, James, Jamieson, Jenkins, Jerram, Johnson, Johnston, Jolly, Jore, Joyce, Keith, Kelly, Kempt, Kennedy, Kenneth, Kentigerna, Keir, Kerr, Keyth, Kidd, Kilsyth, Kinloch, Kirke, Kirkpatrick, Kuhn, Lagman, Laidlaw, Laing, Lamont, Lang, Langtry, Lauder, Laurie, Law, Lawrie, Lee, Lennox, Lermouth, Leslie, Lindsay, Livingston, Lochan, Lockhart, Logan, Lom, Longfellow, Lookup, Lorn, Lorne, Lovat, Lowe, Lyell, Lynedoch, MacAilein, MacAlister, MacAllan, MacArthur, MacAulay, MacBean, MacBeth, MacBrayne, MacCarrol, MacColl, MacCorry, MacCotter, MacCrae, MacCrimmon, MacCulloch, MacDonald, MacDonell, MacDougall, MacDuff, MacDuffie, MacEachern, MacEwen, MacFarlane, MacGee, MacGibbon, MacGill, MacGillivray, MacGilonay, MacGregor, MacGuire, MacHardy, MacHenry, MacIan, MacInnes, MacIntyre, MacIsaac, MacIver, MacIvor, MacKay, MacKeddie, MacKellar, MacKenzie, MacKinnon, MacKintosh, MacLachlan, MacLauchlan, MacLean, MacLeay, MacLennan, MacLeod, MacLullich, MacMaster, MacMillan, MacMurrich, MacNab, MacNaughton, MacNeill, MacNicol, MacNish, MacPhail, MacPhee, MacPherson, MacQuarrie, MacQueen, MacRae, MacRauri, MacRuari, MacTade, MacTavish, MacVean, MacVicar, MacVurich, Magee, Malcolm, Manson, Mar, Margaret, Masson, Matheson, Mauld, Menzies, Miller, Milman, Mills, Milton, Mitchell, Montalembert, Montrose, Moore, Moravia, More, Morice, Morley, Morrison, Moseley, Mowatt, Muir, Muller, Munro, Murdoch, Murray, Neill, Neilson, Nelson, Newnham-Davis, Nicholson, Nicolson, Nigra, Noble, Norris, North, O'Brien, O'Bryan, O'Carby, O'Cathan, O'Connor, O'Curry, O'Dochartie, O'Donnell, Ogilvie, O'Grady, Olave, Oliphant, O'Neill, Ossian, O'Sullivan, Oswald, Paterson, Paton, Pattison, Paul, Pembroke, Pictet, Pinkerton, Pitscottie, Pollock, Ponsonby, Pritchard, Ragnhildis, Ranald, Randoll, Rankine, Reay, Reginald, Reid, Rennie, Rhys, Richard, Ritson, Robert, Robertson, Rollock, Rose, Ross, Rutherford, Rutledge, Saxe, Schleicher, Scobie, Scott, Seaforth, Seton, Shairp, Shaw, Sheridan, Shirley, Sim, Sime, Simpson, Sinclair, Skene, Smibert, Smith, Somerled, Soulis, Spalding, Spens, Stalker, Stanley, Stapleton, Stephens, Stewart, Stirling, Stokes, Stone, Strachan, Strickland, Stuart, Suibne, Sutherland, Swanson, Taylor, Thomas, Thomson, Thorfinn, Tiffany, Torquil, Traquair, Tullibardine, Tulloch, Turner, Tytler, Urquhart, Valancymer, Victoria, Vyse, Waddell, Walford, Walker, Wallace, Walsh, Warbeck, Washington, Waters, Watson, Wellington, Whyte, William, Williamson, Wilson, Wimberley, Wishart, Wolfe, Wood, Yawson, Zeuss.

Parishes, Townships & Settlements Indexed:

Aberdeen, Aberdeenshire, Ackergill, Aigas, Alexandria (Ontario), Annapolis Valley, Antigonish, Antrim, Ardersier, Ardgour, Ardnamurchan, Ardtornish, Argyll, Arisaig, Armadale, Arran, Assynt, Athole, Auldwick, Ayrshire, Baddeck, Badenoch, Balquhidder, Balranald, Bannockburn, Barney's River, Barra, Beaverton, Beauly, Benbecula, Berneray, Berriedale, Birse, Black Isle, Blair Athole, Bloody Bay, Boisdale, Boston, Boulardrie, Bower, Breadalbane, Brodick, Brora, Bruce County (Ontario), Buchan, Bute, Caithness, Campbeltown, Canisbay, Canna, Cape Breton, Carrick, Charlottetown, Clifton, Cluny, Clyne, Coll, Colonsay, Comar, Cornwall (Ontario), Corrodale, Cromarty, Culloden, Dalmally, Dalry, Dartmouth (N.S.), Digby, Dingwall, Dornoch, Duart, Dunaverty, Dundas, Dunfermline, Dunkeld, Dunluce, Dunnet, Dunolly, Dunrobin, Dunstaffnage, Duntulm, Dunvegan, Easter Ross, Edinburgh, Eigg, Eilean Donan, Elgin, Ferintosh, Fifeshire, Finlaggan, Finlaraig, Flodden, Fontenoy, Fordoun, Forres, Fort-Augustus, Fort-George, Fortrose, Fort-William, Foulis, Gairloch, Galloway, Garioch, Garmoran, Glencoe, Glendochart, Glenelg, Glenfinnan, Glengarry (Inverness-shire & Ontario), Glenmoriston, Glen-Orchy, Glenroy, Glen-Urquhart, Greenock, Griminish, Guelph, Halkirk, Halifax, Hamilton (Ontario), Harlaw, Harris, Hawkesbury, Huron Township, Inchcolm, Inveraray, Invergarry, Inverinate, Inverlochy, Inverness, Invernahavon, Inverugie, Iona (Icolmkill), Islay, Jura, Keith-Marischall, Kenmore, Keppoch, Kerrera, Kildonan,Killichrist, Killin, Killearnan, Kilmallie, Kilmarnock, Kilmorack, Kilmuir, Kincardine (Ontario), Kincardineshire, Kingston (Ontario), Kingussie, Kintail, Kintyre, Kirkcudbright, Knapdale, Knoydart, Kyle, Lambton County, Lanarkshire, Largs, Latheron, Lewis, Lismore, Lochaber, Lochalsh, Loch Awe, Lochbroom, Lochbuy, Lochcarron, Lochgarry, Lochiel, Lochindaal, Loch Tay, London (Ontario), Lorn, Louisburg, Lucknow (Ontario), Mabou, Mamore, Isle of Man, Mar, Melbourne, Middlesex County, Mingarry, Moidart, Monkstadt, Montreal, Morar, Moray, Morvern, Mull, New Brunswick, New Deer, New Glasgow, New York, Niagara Falls, North Sydney, North Uist, Nova Scotia, Olrig, Oronsay, Orkney, Ormiclade, Ottawa, Pabbay, Paisley, Perth, Perthshire, Petty, Philadelphia, Pictou, Pittenweem, Pluscarden, Poolewe, Portree, Prince Edward Island, Quebec City, Raasay, Rathlin Island, Reay, Renfrew, Rothesay, Rothiemurchus, Rowallan, Rum, Ruthven, Saddell, Sarnia, Scarba, Scolpaig, Scone, Sheriffmuir, Shetland, Skye, Sleat, South Uist, Springville, St Andrews, Stellarton, Stirling, St John (N.B.), St Kilda, Stormont, Stornoway, Strathbogie, Strathfillan, Strathglass, Strathnaver, Strathspey, Strathyre, Sutherland, Sydney (C.B.), Tain, Tarbert, Thorah Township, Thurso, Tiree, Tiverton, Tobermory, Tomnahurich, Toronto, Troternish, Ullapool, Ulster, Urquhart, Urray, Victoria County (C.B.), Watten, Wester Ross, Wick, Woodstock (Ontario), Woodville (Ontario).