The Celtic Magazine, Vol. VII (1882) - Searchable PDF & Surname Index

Unlock Rare 1882 Clan Matheson Pedigrees, Argyll & Ross-shire Charters, Kintail Loyalist Bards, and Skye & Sutherland Clearance Records

Originally published in Inverness between November 1881 and October 1882 under the editorship of celebrated Highland historian Alexander Mackenzie, F.S.A. Scot., The Celtic Magazine, Volume VII (Issues No. LXXIII to No. LXXXIV) is an indispensable primary source for anyone tracing ancestors across Ross and Cromarty, Inverness-shire, the Isle of Skye, Sutherland, Argyll, and the North American Highland diaspora. This enhanced Fairbairn's Crests Digital Research Edition preserves all 584 original pages with their untouched archival scan backgrounds and native every-word OCR search layer intact—bracketed by a newly written Historical & Genealogical Introduction, a Researcher's Offset Guide, and an 11-page Alphabetical Surname & Parish Index covering 226 family surname groups and 141 parishes, castles, regiments, and diaspora settlements.

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

• Complete 599-Page Merged Digital Volume: Includes 4 pages of branded Fairbairn's Crests Front Matter (Pages i–iv), all 584 original 1882 printed pages (Original Title, Imprint, Contents pp. iii–iv, and Monthly Text pp. 1–580), and an 11-page Back-of-Book Alphabetical Surname & Place Index.
• Artifact-Free & 100% Native Searchable OCR: Trailing blank flyleaves have been removed while leaving the original 1882 page backgrounds and embedded OCR text layer completely intact for instant Ctrl+F / Cmd+F keyword searching.
• The History of the Mathesons (Complete 9-Part Serialized Monograph): Written by editor Alexander Mackenzie (pp. 57, 105, 153, 201, 265, 373, 468, 489, and 577), documenting the ancient chiefs of Lochalsh and Kintail, the Mathesons of Bennetsfield, Attadale, Ardross, Shinness, Achany, Sir James Matheson of the Lews, and the Iomaire Mathesons, with extensive marriage alliances, sasines, and colonial emigrant lines.
• Bishop John Carswell of the Isles & 1665 Airds Fosterage Contract: Rev. John Dewar's 7-part history of Bishop Carswell (c. 1520–1572), Carnasserie Castle, Kilmartin, and the Earls of Argyll, plus the 1665 Gaelic/Scots Contract of Fosterage between George Campbell of Airds and Donald Dubh MacEwin.
• Sculptured Stones of Ross & Cromarty & 1703 Scatwell Memorandum: Captain Colin Mackenzie's 8-part survey of Pictish monuments at Nigg, Hilton of Cadboll, Shandwick, Edderton, Rosemarkie, Tarbat, and Tain, alongside Charles Fraser-Mackintosh's Memorandum Book of Sir Kenneth Mackenzie of Scatwell (1703).
• Kintail & Carolina Bards, Strathglass Priests & The 1882 Land Agitation: Features the 5-part series on Ian MacMhurchaidh (John Macrae of Kintail, who emigrated to North Carolina in 1774), Colin Chisholm's memoir of Rev. John Farquharson of Strathglass, Donald Bane's adventures in the Hudson Bay Territory, and eyewitness reports on the Battle of the Braes, Glendale, Lochcarron, and Sutherland Evictions.

Historical & Regional Overview

Few 19th-century Highland periodicals preserve as rich a blend of medieval charter scholarship and living clan tradition as The Celtic Magazine. In Volume VII, Alexander Mackenzie draws directly upon private charter chests, the Bennetsfield and Iomaire family manuscripts, and kirk session records to trace generation after generation of the Mathesons and their intermarriages with the Mackenzies of Kintail, Seaforth, Scatwell, Ord, and Allangrange, the Macraes, the Mackinnons of Skye, the Munros of Foulis, the Macleods of Lewis and Assynt, and the Robertsons. At the same time, Rev. John Dewar's archival study of Bishop John Carswell reconstructs 16th-century ecclesiastical and feudal life across Argyll, Lorn, Kilmartin, and the Hebrides.

For researchers tracing trans-Atlantic emigrants to Canada and the United States, this volume bridges old-country parishes and pioneer settlements. It records Loyalist poet John Macrae (Ian MacMhurchaidh) of Kintail in North Carolina, Highland fur-traders in the Hudson Bay and Red River territories, Scottish scholars in Toronto, and dozens of cadet officers serving in the 42nd Black Watch, 72nd and 78th Seaforth Highlanders, and 79th Cameron Highlanders. Interactive PDF bookmarks allow you to jump immediately to any monthly issue, article, or index section.

Surnames & Families Indexed in This Volume:

Abercromby (Abercrombie), Agnew, Aird, Allan (Allen), Anderson, Anson, Argyll (Argyle), Armstrong, Athole (Atholl), Baillie (Bailie), Bain (Bane, Bayne), Baird, Balfour, Ballantine (Ballantyne, Bannatyne), Barclay, Beaton (Bethune, Macbeth), Begg, Bell, Bennetsfield, Black, Blackie, Blair, Boece (Boethius), Borrowes, Boswell, Boyd, Breadalbane, Brodie, Brougham, Brown (Browne), Bruce, Buchan, Buchanan, Burgess, Burnet (Burnett), Burns, Bute, Calder (Cawdor), Cameron (Lochiel), Campbell (Airds, Argyll, Breadalbane, Cawdor, Glenlyon), Carlyle, Carmichael, Carnegie (Southesk), Carswell (Carsewell), Cathcart, Chalmers, Chambers, Charles (Prince Charles Edward Stuart), Chisholm (Strathglass), Claverhouse (Claverse), Clerk, Cluny, Cockburn, Colquhoun, Columba, Comyn (Cumming, Cumyn), Cordiner, Craig, Crawford (Crawfurd), Crerar, Cromarty, Cromwell, Cumming (Cuming), Cunningham (Cuninghame), Dalrymple, Darnley, Davidson, Dempster, Dewar, Dick, Dingwall, Donald (Lord of the Isles), Donaldson, Douglas (Douglass), Drummond, Duff, Dunbar, Duncan, Dundas, Dunmore, Edmonstone, Elgin, Elphinstone, Erskine, Ewing (MacEwin, MacEwen), Falconer, Farquhar, Farquharson, Ferguson (Fergusson), Finlay (Finlayson), Fleming, Fletcher, Forbes (Culloden), Fordun, Forsyth, Fowler, Fraser (Lovat), Fraser-Mackintosh, Gair, Galbraith, Geddes, Gillanders (Highfield), Gillies, Gilmore (Gilmour), Gladstone, Glass, Glengarry, Gordon (Huntly), Gow, Graham (Grahame, Montrose), Grant (Seafield, Glenmoriston), Gray (Grey), Gregory, Gunn, Guthrie, Haldane, Hamilton, Harcourt, Hay, Henderson, Hepburn (Bothwell), Hogg, Home (Hume), Hope, Houston, Hunter, Huntly, Inglis, Innes, Irvine (Irving), Ivory, Jackson, Jamieson, Jardine, Jeffrey, Johnson, Johnston (Johnstone), Jolly, Keith (Marischal), Keltie, Kennedy, Kenneth (Coinneach Odhar, Brahan Seer), Kerr (Ker), Kilravock, Kintail, Knox, Laing, Lamont, Lauder, Lawson, Lennox, Leslie (Lesley), Lindsay, Livingstone (Livingston), Loch, Lochiel, Lockhart, Logan, Lorne (Lorn), Lovat, Macaulay (MacAulay, M'Aulay), Macbain (MacBain, M'Bain), Macbean (MacBean, M'Bean), Macbeth, Maccallum (MacCallum, M'Callum), MacCholla (Colkitto), Maccodrum (MacCodrum, M'Codrum), Maccoll (MacColl, M'Coll), MacCoul, Macculloch (MacCulloch, M'Culloch), Macdiarmid (MacDiarmid), Macdonald (MacDonald, M'Donald, Clanranald, Skaebost, Sleat, Glencoe, Keppoch, Dalilea), Macdonell (MacDonell, Glengarry, Keppoch), Macdougall (MacDougall, M'Dougall), Macduff, Maceachern (MacEachern), Macewen (MacEwin, MacEwen, M'Ewen), Macfarlane (MacFarlane), Macfie (Macphee, MacPhee, M'Phee), Macgillivray (MacGillivray, M'Gillivray), Macgregor (MacGregor, M'Gregor), Macinnes (MacInnes, M'Innes), Macintyre (MacIntyre, M'Intyre), Maciver (MacIver, M'Iver), Mackay (MacKay, M'Kay), Mackellar (MacKellar, M'Kellar), Mackenzie (MacKenzie, M'Kenzie, Seaforth, Scatwell, Kintail, Gairloch, Applecross, Ord, Allangrange), Mackinnon (MacKinnon, M'Kinnon), Mackintosh (MacKintosh, M'Intosh), Mackintosh-Shaw, Maclachlan (MacLachlan, M'Lachlan, Maclauchlan), Maclagan (MacLagan), Maclaren (MacLaren), Maclean (MacLean, M'Lean, Duart, Coll, Ardgour, Lochbuie), Macleay (MacLeay), Maclellan (MacLellan), Maclennan (MacLennan, M'Lennan), Macleod (MacLeod, M'Leod, Macleoid, Dunvegan, Lewis, Assynt, Raasay, Bernera), MacMhurchaidh (Ian MacMhurchaidh / John Macrae), Macmillan (MacMillan, M'Millan), Macnab (MacNab, M'Nab), Macnaghten (MacNaughton, M'Naughton), Macneil (MacNeill, M'Neill, Barra), Macnicol (MacNicol, M'Nicol), Macphail (MacPhail, M'Phail), Macpherson (MacPherson, M'Pherson, Cluny), Macqueen (MacQueen, M'Queen), Macrae (MacRae, MacRa, M'Rae, Kintail), Mactaggart (MacTaggart), Mactavish (MacTavish), Macvuirich (MacVurich), Maitland, Malcolm, Mar, Marshall, Martin, Mary Stuart, Masson, Matheson (Mathieson, M'Math, Bennetsfield, Lochalsh, Attadale, Ardross, Shinness, Achany, The Lews, Iomaire), Maxwell, Menzies, Middleton, Miller, Milne, Mitchell, Moir, Moncreiff (Moncrieff), Monro (Munro, Foulis), Montgomerie (Montgomery), Montrose, Moray (Murray), Morgan, Morrison (Morison), Muir, Murchison, Murdoch, Murray (Atholl), Nairne, Napier, Nicolson (Nicholson), Noble, Ogilvie (Ogilvy), Oliphant, Ossian, Paterson (Patterson), Pennant, Pinkerton, Pollok, Pope, Ramsay, Rattray, Reid, Riddell, Ritchie, Robertson (Struan), Rose (Kilravock), Ross (Balnagown, Pitcalnie), Russell, Rutherford, Ruthven, Sage, Savory, Scatwell, Scott, Seaforth, Sellar, Shairp, Sharp, Shaw, Sherbrooke, Sim, Sime, Simpson, Sinclair (Caithness), Skaebost, Skene, Smith, Smollett, Somerville, Southesk, Spottiswoode, Stafford, Stewart (Stuart, Appin, Garth), Stirling, Strathglass, Stratton, Struan, Sutherland, Taylor, Tennyson, Thomson (Thompson), Tolmie, Tulloch, Tytler, Urquhart, Waddell, Wallace, Watson, Webster, Whyte (White), Wilkie, Wilson, Wishart, Wood, Young.

Parishes, Townships & Settlements Indexed:

Aberdeen, Aberdeenshire, Aberfoyle, Menteith, Achany, Shinness, Achnacarry, Locharkaig, Airds, Appin, Alness, Rosskeen, America, Applecross, Arbroath, Forfarshire, Angus, Ardchattan, Lorn, Ardnamurchan, Sunart, Ardross, Argyll, Argyllshire, Arran, Bute, Assynt, Atholl, Blair Atholl, Attadale, Australia, New Zealand, Avoch, Black Isle, Ayr, Ayrshire, Badenoch, Strathspey, Balmacara, Lochalsh, Banff, Banffshire, Barra, Beauly, Benbecula, Bennetsfield, Bernera, Glenelg, Braemar, Deeside, Braes of Portree, Breadalbane, Loch Tay, Breakish, Brodie, Dyke, Caithness, Wick, Caledonian Canal, Canada, Nova Scotia, Cape Breton, Toronto, Carnasserie Castle, North & South Carolina, Cawdor, Nairnshire, Clyne, Brora, Golspie, Coll, Tiree, Contin, Strathpeffer, Cowal, Dunoon, Loch Fyne, Creich, Bonar Bridge, Cromarty, Cromartyshire, Culloden, Dalilea, Moidart, Dalriada, Dingwall, Dornoch, Drumclog, Duart, Dublin, Ireland, Dumbarton, Lennox, Dumfries, Galloway, Dunblane, Stirling, Dundee, Dunkeld, Dunrobin Castle, Dunvegan, Edderton, Edinburgh, Eigg, Rum, Canna, Eilean Donan Castle, Elgin, Morayshire, Farr, Strathnaver, Fearn, Ferintosh, Fife, St Andrews, Findon, Culbokie, Fodderty, Knockfarrel, Forres, Fort Augustus, Fort George, Fort William, Inverlochy, Fortrose, Chanonry, Foulis, Gairloch, Glasgow, Clyde, Glenbrittle, Glencoe, Glendale, Glengarry, Lochgarry, Glenmoriston, Glenshiel, Glen-Urquhart, Harris, Hebrides, Helmsdale, Kildonan, Hilton of Cadboll, Hudson Bay Territory, Red River, India, Inveraray, Inverness, Inverness-shire, Iona, Islay, Jura, Killearnan, Redcastle, Kilmartin, Kilmorack, Kilmuir, Trotternish, Kiltearn, Kincardine, Kingussie, Kintail, Kintyre, Kirkhill, Wardlaw, Knoydart, Lairg, Lewis (The Lews), Stornoway, Lismore, Loch Broom, Ullapool, Loch Maree, Loch Ness, Lochaber, Nether-Lochaber, Lochcarron, Lochgilphead, Knapdale, London, Lothian, Morvern, Mull, Tobermory, Nigg, Oban, Orkney, Shetland, Paisley, Renfrewshire, Perth, Perthshire, Portree, Pyrenees, Raasay, Rona, Reay, Rogart, Rosemarkie, Ross-shire, Scatwell, Strathconon, Shandwick, Isle of Skye, Sleat, Waternish, Snizort, Uig, Bannockburn, Strathbran, Strathglass, Sutherland, Sutherlandshire, Tain, Tarbat, Thurso, Tongue, North & South Uist, Urquhart, Urray.