The Celtic Magazine Vol. X (1885) - Searchable PDF & Surname Index

Unlock Rare 1885 Highland Cadet Pedigrees, Lovat Jacobite Letters, Clan Battles & Skye Crofter Records

Originally published at Inverness in 1885 and conducted by celebrated Highland clan historian Alexander Mackenzie, F.S.A. Scot. (author of the standard histories of the Mackenzies, Macdonalds, Camerons, Frasers, and Munros), The Celtic Magazine, Volume X (Issues No. CIX to No. CXX, November 1884 – October 1885) is an indispensable primary source for anyone tracing ancestors across Inverness-shire, Easter and Wester Ross, Sutherland, Caithness, Argyll, Lochaber, and the Isle of Skye. Combining charter-backed cadet genealogies with unpublished 18th-century Jacobite correspondence, military autobiographies, and eyewitness accounts of the Highland Land War, this enhanced Fairbairn's Crests Digital Research Edition equips you with both the complete, every-word searchable historical text and a newly compiled Alphabetical Surname & Place Index covering 265 family groups and 200 parishes, estates, castles, battlefields, ships, and regiments.

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

• Complete 604-Page Merged Digital Volume: Includes 4 pages of newly written Fairbairn's Crests Front Matter (Pages i–iv: Historical & Genealogical Introduction and Researcher's Search Guide), 589 original 1885 historical pages (pp. i–iv, 1–587), and an 11-page Back-of-Book Alphabetical Surname & Place Index.
• Artifact-Free Archival Restoration with 100% Intact Native OCR: Extraneous institutional library call-number stamp sheets and blank end flyleaves have been stripped out while preserving the original 1885 archival page backgrounds and native embedded optical character recognition (OCR) layer completely intact for instant Ctrl+F / Cmd+F keyword searching.
• The Munros of Milntown, Pittonachy & Culcairn (by Alexander Ross, F.G.S.): Seven comprehensive chapters (pp. 49–56, 103–112, 151–158, 230–237, 279–286, 495–506, 559–566) tracing the great Easter Ross cadet houses of Clan Munro from medieval Foulis charters, sasines, marriage contracts, and kirk sessions across Kilmuir-Easter, Rosskeen, Alness, Kiltearn, Tain, and Fearn.
• The Lovat Peerage Case & Unpublished Letters of Simon Lord Lovat (1739–1743): Forensic peerage analysis by Alexander Mackenzie (pp. 1–9, 468–470), unpublished letters of Simon Fraser, 11th Lord Lovat, edited by Charles Fraser-Mackintosh, M.P. and Rev. Alexander Sinclair (pp. 347–354, 544–553), and the 1747 execution narrative (pp. 407–416, 461–467).
• The Frasers of Fairfield & The Cummings of Achdalew: Charter genealogy of the Frasers of Fairfield, Inverness, by Charles Fraser-Mackintosh, M.P. (pp. 336–340) and Mary Mackellar's study of the Cummings of Achdalew in Lochaber (pp. 575–577).
• 18th-Century Highland Military Autobiographies & Monumental Inscriptions: M. A. Rose's four-part serialization of Major John Macdonald — His Autobiography (pp. 67–76, 113–122, 173–180, 219–227), The Adventures of Donald Macleod, the Skye Centenarian born at Ullinish in 1688 (pp. 418–426, 447–460), The Inverness Burgh Guard in the 17th Century (pp. 440–444), and Inscriptions in Rodel Churchyard, Harris (p. 471).
• Sutherland Fights, Clan Conflicts & the Skye Crofters' Expedition: Detailed accounts of Tuiteam-Tarbhach, Druim-na-coub, Fiscary (1196), Leathad Riabhach (1601), Clachnaharry, Bealach-na-Broige, Blar-na-Pairc, and Torran Dubh, plus first-hand reports from Kilmuir, Glendale, Valtos, and Stornoway during the 1884–1885 Highland Land Law agitation.

Historical & Regional Overview

Few 19th-century Scottish periodicals rival Volume X of The Celtic Magazine for its concentration of primary family records drawn directly from private Highland charter rooms. In his landmark studies of the Munros of Milntown, Pittonachy, and Culcairn, Inverness architect Alexander Ross reconstructs generations of Easter Ross tacksmen, ministers, and military officers—documenting marriages with the Mackenzies of Kintail, Seaforth, and Redcastle, the Rosses of Balnagown and Pitcalnie, the Frasers of Lovat, the Urquharts of Cromarty, the Dunbars, Beatons, and Macleods of Assynt and Dunvegan. Alongside these Easter Ross pedigrees, Charles Fraser-Mackintosh's Frasers of Fairfield and Hector Rose Mackenzie's three-part history of Old Inverness (pp. 125–133, 158–166, 209–217) preserve hundreds of burgh magistrates, merchants, provosts, and Jacobite officers across Inverness-shire.

Beyond charter genealogy, Volume X captures the lived experience of Highlanders at home and across the global diaspora—from the Scots Guard in France (pp. 28–35, 265–272, 330–335, 355–358) and Highland soldiers in the Black Watch (42nd), Fraser Highlanders (78th), Cameron Highlanders (79th), and Gordon Highlanders (92nd), to pioneer communities in Canada (Nova Scotia, Glengarry County, Ontario) and the United States (Illinois and the Pacific Coast). Whether you are breaking through a pre-1855 Old Parish Register brick wall in Ross-shire, Sutherland, or Skye, or researching ancestral clan battles and heraldic plant badges (pp. 39–40), this indexed edition puts every surname and parish at your fingertips.

Surnames & Families Indexed in This Volume:

Abercromby (Abercrombie), Agnew, Aird, Allan, Anderson, Anson, Argyll (Campbell of Argyll, Argyle, MacCailean Mor), Armstrong, Atholl (Murray of Atholl, Athole, Athol), Baillie (Bailie), Bain (Bayne, Baine, Macbain), Baird, Balfour, Baliol (Balliol), Ballingall, Bannatyne, Barclay, Beaton (Bethune, Macbeth), Beith, Belhaven, Bell, Bisset (Bissett), Black, Blackie, Blair, Boece, Boswell, Bothwell, Boyd, Bradshaw, Breadalbane, Brodie, Brougham, Brown (Broun), Bruce, Buchan, Buchanan, Burgess, Burnet (Burnett), Burns, Burt, Bute, Caithness, Calder (Cawdor), Cameron (Camerons, Camcron, Lochiel, Fassiefern), Campbell (Campbells, Chaimbeul, Caimbeul), Carlyle, Carmichael, Carnegie, Carruthers, Carstairs, Cathcart, Chalmers, Chambers, Chisholm (Chisholme, Siosal), Clanranald, Clark (Clarke, Clerk), Cluny (Macpherson of Cluny, Cluainidh), Cochrane, Cockburn, Colquhoun, Comyn (Cumming, Cumyn, Cuming), Cope, Corbet (Corbett), Craig, Crawford (Craufurd), Crerar, Cromartie (Cromarty), Cromwell, Cruickshank, Culloden (Forbes of Culloden), Cumberland, Cunningham (Cuninghame), Currie, Cuthbert, Dalrymple (Stair), Davidson (Davidsone, Clan Dhai), Dempster, Denoon, Dick (Dickson), Dingwall, Donaldson, Douglas (Douglass), Drummond, Duff, Dunbar, Duncan, Dundas, Dundee (Graham of Claverhouse), Dunmore, Elcho, Elgin, Elliot (Elliott), Elphinstone, Erskine, Ewing, Falconer, Farquharson (Clann Fhionnlaidh), Ferguson (Fergusson), Findlater, Finlay (Finlayson), Fleming, Fletcher, Forbes (Forbeses), Fordun, Forrester, Forsyth, Foulis (Munro of Foulis, Fowlis), Fraser (Frasers, Eraser, Frisel, Simon Lord Lovat, Mac Shimidh), Fraser-Mackintosh, Gair, Gallie, Geddes, Gibson, Gilchrist, Gillanders, Gillies, Gladstone, Glencairn, Glengarry (Macdonell of Glengarry), Gordon (Gordons, Huntly), Gow, Graham (Grahame, Graeme, Montrose), Grant (Grants), Gray (Grey), Gregory, Gunn (Gunns), Guthrie, Haldane, Hamilton, Harcourt, Hawley, Hay, Henderson, Hepburn, Home (Hume), Hope, Hoste, Houston, Hunter, Inglis, Innes, Irvine (Irving), Ivory, Jackson, Jamieson (Jameson), Jeffrey, Johnson, Johnston (Johnstone), Keith (Earl Marischal), Keltie, Kennedy, Kenneth, Keppoch (MacDonell of Keppoch), Kerr (Ker), Kilmarnock, Kilravock (Rose of Kilravock), Kinloch, Kintail, Knox, Laing, Lamont (Maclonmhuinn), Lauder, Lauderdale, Law, Lawson, Lennox, Leslie (Lesly), Lindsay, Livingstone (Livingston), Loch, Lochiel (Locheil), Lockhart, Logan, Lorne (Lome), Lovat, Love, Low, Lumsden, Lyon, Macalister (MacAlister, McAlister, Macallasters), Macalpine, Macandrew, Macarthur (MacArthur, McArthur), Macaulay (MacAulay, McAulay), Macbain (MacBain, Macbean, McBean), Macbeth, MacBrayne, MacBride (M'Bride), Maccallum (MacCallum, McCallum), MacCodrum (Mac Codrum), MacColl (MacColla), Macculloch (MacCulloch, McCulloch), Macdiarmid, Macdonald (MacDonald, McDonald, M'Donald, MacDomhnuill, Mac Dhomhnuill), Macdonell (MacDonell, McDonell), Macdougall (MacDougall, McDougall), Macdowall, Macduff, Maceachern (MacEachern, MacEachen, Mackeachern), Macfarlane (MacFarlane, McFarlane), Macfie (MacFie, MacPhee), Macgillivray (MacGillivray, McGillivray), Macgregor (MacGregor, McGregor, M'Gregor), Machardy, MacIan (Mac Ian, MacIain, Maclan), Macinnes (MacInnes, McInnes, Mac Inish), Macintyre (MacIntyre, McIntyre, M'Intyre, Mackintyre, Maclntyre), Maciver (MacIver, McIver), Mackay (MacKay, McKay, M'Kay, Clan Abrach), Mackellar (Mairi Nic Ealair), Mackenzie (MacKenzie, McKenzie, M'Kenzie, Mackenaie, Mackenrie), Mackillican, Mackinnon (MacKinnon, McKinnon), Mackintosh (MacKintosh, McIntosh, M'Intosh), Maclachlan (MacLachlan, McLachlan, Maclauchlan), Maclagan, Maclaren, Maclean (MacLean, McLean, M'Lean), Macleay, Maclellan, Maclennan (MacLennan), Macleod (MacLeod, McLeod, M'Leod, Macloyd, MacClod, MacLeoid, M'Tormaid), Macmillan (MacMillan, McMillan), Macnab (MacNab, McNab), Macnaghten (MacNaughton, McNaughton, Macnaughtans), Macnee, Macneil (MacNeil, MacNeill, McNeill, M'Neill), Macnicol (MacNicol, McNicol), Macphail (MacPhail, McPhail), Macpherson (MacPherson, McPherson, Mac a-phearsoin), Macquarrie (MacQuarrie, Macquarries), Macqueen (MacQueen, McQueen), Macrae (MacRae, McRae, M'Rae), Macraild, Macritchie, Mactavish (MacTavish, Mactavishes), MacThomais, Macvean, Macvicar, MacVorchie (M'Vorchie), MacWilliam (MacWilliams), Maitland, Malcolm, Mar, Marlborough, Marshall, Martin, Masson, Matheson (Mathesons, Mathieson), Maxwell, Melville, Menteith, Menzies, Middleton, Miller (Millar), Milne, Mitchell, Moir, Moncreiff (Moncrieff), Montagu (Montague), Montgomery (Montgomerie), Montrose, Moray, Morgan, Morrison (Morison), Morton, Muir, Munro (Munros, Monro, Monroe, Clann an Rothaich), Murchison, Murray (Murrays), Nairn (Nairne), Napier, Nicolson (Nicholson), Nithsdale, Noble, Ogilvie (Ogilvy), Oliphant, Ormonde, Oswald, Paterson, Pennant, Perth, Philorth, Pitt, Polson, Poyntz, Preston, Queensberry, Ramsay, Randolph, Rattray, Reay, Reid, Ritchie, Robertson (Robertsons, Struan), Rose (Roses, Kilravock), Ross (Rosses, Balnagown), Rothes, Russell, Rutherford, Ruthven, Saltoun, Scott, Scrymgeour, Seafield, Seaforth, Selkirk, Seton (Seyton), Sharp, Shaw (Shaws), Simson (Simpson), Sinclair (Sinclairs), Skaebost, Skene, Smith, Smollett, Somerville, Spens (Spence), Stair, Stewart (Stuart, Stewarts, Stuarts), Stirling, Strathallan, Stratton, Sutherland (Sutherlands), Tarbat, Taylor, Thomson (Thompson), Tolmie, Tullibardine, Tulloch, Turner, Tytler, Urquhart (Urquharts), Vass, Wade, Walker, Wallace, Walpole, Watson, Wedderburn, Weir, Welsh, Wemyss, White (Whyte), Wightman, Williamson, Wilson, Wishart, Wodrow, Wolfe, Wood, Wyllie (Wylie), Young.

Parishes, Townships, Castles, Battlefields & Regiments Indexed:

Aberdeen & Aberdeenshire, Abertarff (Boleskine), Achdalew (Achadalew, Lochaber), Alltan-Beath, Alness, Appin, Applecross (Comraich), Arbroath, Ardnamurchan, Argyll & Argyllshire, Arisaig, Arran, Assynt, Atholl, Aughrim, Auldearn, Ayr & Ayrshire, Badenoch, Balnagown, Banff & Banffshire, Bannockburn, Barra, Bass Rock, Bealach-na-Broige, Beaufort Castle (Castle Dounie), Beauly & Beauly Priory, Ben Nevis, Berneray (Harris), Berwick & Berwickshire, Black Isle, Black Watch (42nd Royal Highlanders), Blair Atholl & Blair Castle, Blar-na-Pairc, Braemar, Breadalbane, Brechin, Brora, Bute, Caithness & Caithness-shire, Cameron Highlanders (79th Regiment), Canada & Maritime Provinces (Nova Scotia, Glengarry, Ontario), Cawdor (Calder), Clachnaharry, Clyde, Coll, Conon (Strathconon), Contin, Corpach, Craig Phadrig, Creich, Cromarty & Cromartyshire, Culcairn, Culloden, Dail-Riabhach, Dalriada, Daviot, Dingwall, Dornoch, Doune, Druim-a-lea, Druim-na-coub, Drummossie Moor, Dublin, Duirinish, Dumbarton, Dumfries, Dunblane, Dundee, Dunfermline, Dunkeld, Dunoon, Dunrobin Castle, Dunvegan & Dunvegan Castle, Durness, Eddrachillis, Edinburgh, Eigg, Elgin & Morayshire, Embo, Fairfield (Inverness), Falkirk, Farr, Fearn, Ferintosh, Fife & Fifeshire, Findhorn, Fiscary, Flodden, Fochabers, Fontenoy, Forfar & Forfarshire (Angus), Forres, Fort Augustus (Kilchuimen), Fort George, Fortrose (Chanonry of Ross), Fort William (Inverlochy), Foulis Castle (Fowlis), Foyers, France (Paris, Dunkirk, Scots Guard), Fraser Highlanders (78th Regiment), Gairloch, Galloway, Garbharry, Garmoran, Glasgow, Glencoe, Glendale (Skye), Glenelg, Glenfinnan, Glengarry, Glenmoriston, Glenquoich, Glenroy, Glenshiel, Glenurquhart, Golspie, Gordon Highlanders (92nd Regiment), Greenock, Haddington, Harlaw, Harris & Rodel Churchyard, Hebrides (Western Isles, Innse-Gall), Helmsdale, HMS Assistance & HMS Forester, Illinois & Pacific Coast (USA), Inveraray, Invergarry, Invergordon, Inverlochy, Inverness & Inverness-shire, Iona (Icolmkill), Ireland (Ulster, Connaught), Islay, Jura, Keith, Keppoch, Kildonan, Killiecrankie, Killearnan, Kilmonivaig, Kilmorack, Kilmuir (Skye), Kilmarnock, Kilravock Castle, Kilsyth, Kiltearn, Kincardine, Kingussie, Kinloch, Kintail, Kintyre (Cantire), Kirkhill (Wardlaw), Kirkwall, Knoydart, Kyle of Sutherland, Laggan, Lairg, Lanark, Langside, Largs, Leathad Riabhach, Leith, Lennox, Lewis & Stornoway, Lochaber, Lochalsh, Loch Arkaig, Lochbroom, Lochcarron, Loch Eil, Loch Leven, Loch Lomond, Loch Maree, Loch Ness, Loch Shin, Loch Tay, Logierait, London, Lon-Harpasdal, Long Island, Lorne, Lothian, Lovat & Aird, Milntown (Milltown, Ross-shire), Moidart, Montrose, Morar, Moray & Moray Firth, Morvern, Moy & Moy Hall, Mull, Nairn & Nairnshire, Nigg, North Uist, Oban, Orkney Islands, Paisley, Peebles, Perth & Perthshire, Petty, Pittonachy (Ross-shire), Poolewe, Portree, Prestonpans, Quebec, Raasay, Rannoch, Reay & Mackay Country, Renfrew, Rodel Churchyard (Harris), Rogart, Rome, Rosemarkie, Ross & Ross-shire (Easter & Wester Ross), Rosskeen, Roxburgh, Ruaig-Shansaid, Rum, Scone & Boot-Hill of Scone, Seaforth Highlanders, Selkirk, Sheriffmuir, Shetland (Zetland), Skibo & Skibo Castle, Skye, Sleat, Snizort, South Uist, Spean, Spey & Strathspey, Staffa, St. Andrews, Stirling & Stirlingshire, St. Kilda (Hirta), Stornoway, Strathconon, Strathdearn, Stratherrick, Strathfleet, Strathglass, Strathnaver, Strathpeffer, Strathspey, Strome Castle, St. Tayre, Sunart, Sutherland & Sutherlandshire, Tain, Tarbat & Tarbatness, Thurso, Tiree (Tyree), Tobermory, Tolquhon Castle, Tongue, Torran Dubh, Trotternish, Tuiteam-Tarbhach, Tulloch, Uig, Uist, Ullapool, Urquhart, Valtos (Skye), Waterloo, Wick.