The Celtic Magazine, Vol. VI (1881) - Searchable PDF & Surname Index | Clan Macdonald, Strathglass, Caithness & Inverness Genealogy

Unlock 500+ Years of Highland, Hebridean, Caithness & Scottish Diaspora Lineages in Volume VI of Alexander Mackenzie's The Celtic Magazine (1881)

Originally published in Inverness between November 1880 and October 1881 by celebrated Highland genealogist Alexander Mackenzie, F.S.A. Scot. ("The Clan Historian"), Volume VI of The Celtic Magazine is one of the richest primary-source compendia ever printed for Scottish family historians. Spanning medieval feudal charters, 16th- and 17th-century Privy Council commissions, Jacobite field narratives from Killiecrankie (1689), Sheriffmuir (1715), and Culloden (1746), and 19th-century pioneer migration records to Canada, the United States, Australia, New Zealand, and Patagonia, this volume preserves hundreds of birth, marriage, charter, and patronymic links that never survived in standard civil or parish registers.

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

• 527 Total Pages (Complete 1880–1881 Annual Volume + Newly Compiled Research Apparatus): Includes all 12 monthly numbers (Nos. LXI to LXXII, Printed Pages 1–492) and original preliminary pages, preceded by 4 pages of Branded Front Matter (Pages i–iv) and followed by a newly compiled 27-page Comprehensive Alphabetical Surname, Parish, Regiment & Ship Index (Merged PDF Pages 501–527).
• Complete Genealogies of Clan Donald (Parts XIII–XXIV): Alexander Mackenzie's exhaustive, generation-by-generation history and genealogies of the Lords of the Isles (Donald Dubh's 1545 Rising and the 17 Island Barons at Knockfergus), the Macdonalds of Sleat (Barons, Baronets, and Lords Macdonald of Armadale), the Macdonells of Glengarry and Lords Macdonell & Arros, the cadet houses of Scotus, Lochgarry, Greenfield, and Barrisdale, and the Captains of Clanranald (Moidart, Morar, Knoydart, Arisaig, Benbecula, Boisdale, Glenaladale, and Kinlochmoidart).
• Feudal Charters & Sasines of Kinmylies (1232–1780): Antiquarian Charles Fraser-Mackintosh, M.P., abstracts 30 original charters and Instruments of Sasine for the Barony of Kinmylies, Muirtown, Bught, and Abriachan—documenting the Bishops of Moray, six successive Lords Lovat, the Scheviz family of Muirtown, Col. Hugh Fraser of Kinneries, David Polson, and the Baillies of Dochfour and Dunain.
• The 1881 Gaelic Census of Inverness, Ross & Sutherland: Complete parish-by-parish and registration-district statistical tables compiled by Charles Fraser-Mackintosh, M.P., recording total population and Gaelic speakers across 102 Highland and Hebridean parishes.
• Traditions of Strathglass (Parts I–XI) & Caithness Clan Feuds: Colin Chisholm's famous oral histories of the Chisholms of Comar and Knockfin, the Macraes of Kintail, the Macmillans of Lochaber, and the 71st Fraser Highlanders in North America, alongside George Miller Sutherland's accounts of the bloody feuds between the Keiths of Ackergill and Clan Gunn in Caithness.
• Rare Patronymic & Surname Origin Studies: Resolves elusive Highland alias and patronymic brick walls, including the origin of the Crerars of Lochtayside (from fugitive Mackintoshes), the Darrochs / MacGille Riabhaich of Jura and Gourock ("the oak-stick Macdonalds"), MacMinn / Macklemin / MacClymont, MacIan of Glencoe and Livisie, and Clann Ian Uidhir / MacNairs of Strathglass.
• Artifact-Free Archival Scan with Intact Native Layout: Unwanted blank flyleaves have been removed while leaving all 496 original historical pages and their authentic archival scan background 100% intact, paired with an exact page-offset navigation formula (Merged PDF Page = Printed Page + 8).

Historical & Regional Overview

Volume VI captures the Scottish Highlands and Islands across seven centuries of clan warfare, feudal land tenure, Jacobite devotion, and overseas settlement. In the Western Isles and Skye, the Rev. Alexander Macgregor concludes his celebrated biography of Flora Macdonald—chronicling Prince Charles Edward Stuart's landing at Eriskay aboard the Doutelle, his shelter in the cave of Corrodale in South Uist, his voyage across the Minch disguised as the Irish spinning-maid "Betty Burke," and his reception by Lady Margaret Macdonald at Monkstadt and Old Kingsburgh. In Ross-shire and Cromarty, Captain Colin Mackenzie (late 78th Highlanders / Ross-shire Buffs) surveys the ancient Pictish sculptured cross-slabs of Hilton of Cadboll, Shandwick, Nigg, Rosemarkie, Tarbet, Edderton, and Kincardine, and defends the heroic record of the 78th Highlanders under General Havelock at Khooshab, Cawnpore, and Lucknow.

For diaspora researchers in Canada, the United States, Australia, and New Zealand, this volume is an indispensable link to the old country. It features extensive reviews and extracts from J. M. Le Moine's The Scot in New France (tracing the 78th Fraser Highlanders at Louisbourg and the Plains of Abraham, Major Robert Stobo, Sergeant James Thompson of Tain, and Loyalist settlers on the St. Lawrence and in Glengarry, Ontario), biographical memoirs of Kingston bard Evan MacColl ("The Bard of Lochfyne"), London Gaelic Society President John Cameron Macphee, Gairloch Baronet Sir Kenneth S. Mackenzie, James Sinclair, 14th Earl of Caithness, Duncan Davidson of Tulloch, and Inverness poetess Christian Ross (Mrs. Milne), as well as contemporary accounts of the Highland Clearances in Skye, Glengarry, Strathglass, and Leckmelm.

Surnames & Families Indexed in This Volume:

Abercrombie, Abernethy, Achinross, Adamnan, Aitken, Albemarle, Allan, Alpin, Anderson, Angus, Annandale, Anstruther, Argyll, Arran, Ashburton, Athole,Atholl, Baillie, Bailey, Bain, Balcarres, Balcolmly, Balfour, Baliol, Balnagown, Bannerman, Barclay, Barnard, Barron, Beaton, Beaumont, Belhaven, Bennet, Berwick, Bethune, Bird, Bisset, Black, Blackie, Bonar, Bosville, Bowes, Breadalbane, Briggs, Brodie, Brooks, Brown, Browne, Bruce, Buccleuch, Buchan, Buchanan, Burghley, Burke, Burns, Burton, Caird, Calder, Cameron, Camoys, Campbell, Canmore, Cannin, Cannon, Carmichael, Carnegy, Carroll, Carruthers, Cartier, Cassels, Cathcart, Cawdor, Cecil, Chalmers, Chambers, Charteris, Chatelherault, Chetwynd, Childers, Chisholm, Claverhouse, Clinton, Coke, Colbert, Columba, Columbanus, Connal, Cope, Craig, Craigie-Halkett, Creed, Crerar, Criathrar, Cromarty, Cromwell, Crowe, Cumberland, Cumming, Cumming-Bruce, Cunningham, Cunninghame, Cust, Cuthbert, Dalhousie, Dalzell, Darby, Darnley, Darroch, Darrach, Davidson, Davitt, Dewar, Dickens, Digby, Dingin, Dingwall, Dinwiddie, Disraeli, Dixon, Douglas, Downing, Drummond, Duff, Duffus, Dunbar, Duncan, Dundee, Dunmore, Dunning, Edgcumbe, Edsir, Eglinton, Eldon, Elgin, Elphinstone, Errington, Errol, Erskine, Esmond, Ewart, Eyre, Farquharson, Fenton, Ferguson, Fergusson, Fillan, Fionn, Fitzroy, Fletcher, Forbes, Ford, Fordun, Forret, Forsyth, Fortrose, Fraser, Fraser-Mackintosh, Freskin, Gallie, Gardiner, Garneau, Geddes, Gilfillan, Gillies, Gladstone, Glencairn, Godsman, Gollan, Gordon, Gordon-Cumming, Gough, Gow, Gower, Grafton, Graham, Grant, Gregory, Griffith, Gullach, Gunn, Guthrie, Hall, Hamilton, Harewood, Havelock, Hawley, Hay, Hedderwick, Henderson, Henry, Hertford, Hiley, Hill, Hogg, Home, Hopetoun, Hudson, Hume, Hunter, Huntly, Innes, Ivor, Jack, James, Jameson, Jamieson, Jeffrey, Johnson, Johnstone, Jolly, Keith, Keppel, Kerr, Kirke, Knox, Kyle, Langham, Lauder, Leighton, Leirmonth, Le Moine, Lennox, Leslie, Leveson-Gower, Levi, Lewthwaite, Lindsay, Livingston, Livingstone, Lockhart, Logan, Lorne, Loudon, Lovat, Macalister, MacAlester, Macarthur, Macaulay, Macbean, Maccallum, MacClymont, MacColl, MacColla, MacCosh, MacCrimmon, MacCumhail, Macdonald, Macdonell, Macdonnell, Macdougall, Macduffee, MacEachainn, MacEachen, MacGille Riabhaich, Macgilleriach, MacGillivray, Macgregor, Macgruer, MacGruther, MacHamish, Macian, MacIain, Macinnes, Macintyre, Maciver, Mackay, Mackellar, Mackenzie, Mackinlay, Mackinnon, Mackintosh, Macklemin, Maclachlan, Maclaine, MacLamond, Maclaren, Maclauchlan, Maclean, Maclennan, Macleod, Macmaster, Macmillan, MacMinn, Macnab, Macnair, Macnaughton, Macneill, Macpherson, Macphee, Macquarrie, Macqueen, Macrae, MacRanald, MacRob, MacRuari, Macswein, Mactavish, Macvicar, Macvurich, Mar, Marischal, Marshall, Marsham, Matheson, May, Meldrum, Menzies, Middleton, Miller, Milne, Mitchell, Moluog, Montcalm, Montgomery, Montrose, Moore, Moray, Morrison, Morton, Mulholland, Munro, Murdoch, Murray, Nairn, Napier, Neill, Newman, Nicolson, North, Northumberland, Ochiltree, O'Donnell, Ogilvie, Ogle, O'Lochlan, Oliphant, O'Neal, O'Neill, Orkney, Ormond, Ossian, Outram, Park, Parnell, Patten, Peel, Percy, Perth, Picton, Pink, Pitt, Polson, Ponsonby, Pope, Porcelli, Priest, Ramezay, Ramsay, Reach, Reay, Reid, Richie, Richmond, Robertson, Robson, Rodger, Rose, Ross, Rossa, Rothes, Saltoun, Sandilands, Sangster, Saxe, Scheviz, Schulte, Scobie, Scott, Seaforth, Selkirk, Shairp, Sharp, Shaw, Shearer, Sheridan, Sidgreaves, Sim, Sinclair, Skene, Skinner, Smith, Smollett, Smyth, Somerled, Somerville, Spens, Spring Rice, Stafford, Stewart, Stobo, Stonor, Stott, Strachan, Strathnairn, Stuart, Sutherland, Tarbat, Taylor, Thompson, Torfaeus, Townshend, Trahan, Traill, Tullibardine, Tulloch, Turnbull, Turnor, Tyrone, Tytler, Urquhart, Uxbridge, Vedder, Vernon, Vivian, Wade, Wallace, Wallscourt, Warrender, Watson, Wellesley, Wellington, Weston, Whetham, Whitelaw, Whyte, Williamson, Wilson, Winans, Wodehouse, Wolfe, Wyndham, Wyntoun, Young, Zeuss.

Parishes, Townships & Settlements Indexed:

Aberdeen, Aberfeldy, Abernethy, Abertarff, Abriachan, Achallader, Acharn, Ackergill Tower, Alness, Altyre, Alvie, Antigonish, Appin, Applecross, Ardgour, Ardnamurchan, Arisaig, Armadale, Arros, Assaye, Athole, Auldearn, Auldour, Auldwick, Avoch, Badenoch, Balaclava, Ballachulish, Ballifearies, Balmoral, Banff, Barra, Barrogill, Barvas, Beauly, Belfast, Belleville, Benbecula, Bernera, Blair-Athole, Blarleine, Boat of Garten, Boisdale, Boleskine, Bona, Bonar Bridge, Boreraig, Borrodale, Braemar, Braemore, Brahan Castle, Breadalbane, Brechin, Broadford, Brora, Bught, Bunchrew, Burghead, Butseerut Gunge, Caithness,Calcutta,Candahar, Canna, Carillon, Carloway, Carrickfergus, Castle Gunn, Castle Tioram, Castletirrim, Cawdor, Cawnpore, Chubut (Patagonia), Clachan of Comar,Cluny, Clyth, Coigach, Coll, Colonsay, Comar, Contin, Corrodale, Corryarrick, Coul, Cowal, Craig Phadrick, Crathie,Cromarty, Cromdale, Croy, Culbin, Culbokie, Culloden, Dalcross,Dalwhinnie, Darnaway, Daviot, Dingwall, Dochfour,Dores, Dornoch, Drogheda, Drummossie, Duart, Dublin, Duirinish, Dumbarton, Dumblane, Dunain, Dunbeath,Dundee, Dunedin (New Zealand), Dunkeld, Dunlichty, Dunphail, Duntulm, Dunvegan, Durness, Duthil, Edderton, Edinburgh, Eigg, Eilean-Aigais,Elgin, Erchless, Eriskay, Erracht, Falkirk, Farr, Fassifern, Fearn, Findhorn,flower-dale, Fodderty, Fontenoy, Forres, Fort-Augustus, Fort-George, Fort-William, Foyers, Gairloch, Galtrigal, Garmoran, Gaspé, Gigha,Girnigo, Gladsmuir,ネGlasgow, Glen Affric, Glen Cannich, Glen Ducatay, Glen Roy, Glen Strathfarrar,Glenaladale, Glenbuckie, Glencoe, Glendochart, Glenelg, Glenfinnan, Glengairn, Glengarry, Glenlivet, Glenlyon, Glenmoriston,Glenmuick, Glennevis, Glenshiel, Glenurquhart, Golspie, Gourock, Grantown, Greenock, Guisachan, Haberry,Habost, Halifax, Halkirk, Hamilton, Harlaw, Harpsdale, Harris,Hilton of Cadboll,Howmore, Hushinish, Icolmkill,Insh,Inveraray,Invergarry,Inverlochy, Invermoriston, Inverness, Inverugie, Iona, Islay, Jura,Keiss,Kenlochewe, Kenmore, Keppoch,Kerrow,Kilbride, Kilchrist,Kilchurn, Kildonan,Killearnan, Killin, Kilmorack, Kilmuir, Kilsyth, Kiltarlity,Kincardine,Kingairloch, Kinghorn, Kingsburgh, Kingston (Ontario), Kingussie,Kinlochbervie, Kinlochluichart,Kinlochmoidart, Kinloch-Rannoch,Kinloss, Kinmylies, Kinneries, Kintail,Kintyre,Kirkhill, Kirkton,Kirkwall,Knockbain,Knockfergus,Knockfin,Knoydart, Laggan, Lairg, Latheron,Leachkin,Leckmelm, Leith,Lewis,Lietrie,Linlithgow,Lismore, Livisie,Loch Arkaig,Loch Awe,Loch Ericht,Loch Linnhe,Loch Lochy,Loch Lomond,Loch Maree,Loch Mulardich,Loch Ness,Lochaber,Lochalsh,Lochbroom,Lochbuie,Lochcarron,Lochfyne,Lochgarry, Lochiel,Lochmaddy,Lochs,Lochtayside, London,Lorn, Lossiemouth,Louisbourg, Lucknow, Luskintyre, Mingarry, Moidart,Monkstadt, Montreal,Morar,Moray, Morvern,Moy, Moydart,Moyhall,Muck, Muirtown,Mull, Nairn,Ness,Newark, Nigg,North Uist,Nova Scotia,Oban,Orkney,Ormiclade, Oronsay,Ottawa,Patagonia,Peingowen,Peronne,Perth,Peterhead, Petty,Philiphaugh,Pictou, Plains of Abraham,Plockton,Pluscardine,Poolewe, Portree,Prestonpans,Quebec, Quatre Bras, Raasay,Reay, Redcastle,Relugais,Resolis, Rodel,Rogart,Rosehall,Rosemarkie,Ross-shire,Rosskeen,Rothiemay, Rothiemurchus,Rum,Ruthven, Sanda,Sandside,Scalpay,Scourie, Shandwick,Sheriffmuir,Shieldaig,Shulista, Sillery,Skaebost,Skibo,Skye,Sleat,Small Isles,Snizort, South Uist,Speymouth,Spittal,Spynie,St Andrews, Staffa,Stenscholl,Stirling,Stonehaven,Stornoway,Strath, Strathardle,Strathbraan,Strathconan,Strathdearn,Stratherrick, Strathfillan,Strathfleet,Strathglass,Strathnaver,Strathoykell, Strathpeffer,Strathspey,Strathy,Strome,Stromeferry,Struy, Suishinish,Sunart,Sutherland,Tain, Talisker,Tannach Moor,Tarbat,Tarbert,Thurso, Ticonderoga,Tiree,Tobermory, Tombuie,Tongue,Torcastle,Torfness,Torloisk,Toronto,Torridon,Treshinish, Troternish,Tullich,Tulloch,Uig, Ulbster,Ulinish,Ulva,Urquhart, Urray,Valay,Waterloo,Waternish,Wester Ross,Wexford,Wick.