{"product_id":"the-celtic-magazine-vol-x-1885-searchable-pdf-surname-index","title":"The Celtic Magazine Vol. X (1885) - Searchable PDF \u0026 Surname Index","description":"\u003ch2\u003eUnlock Rare 1885 Highland Cadet Pedigrees, Lovat Jacobite Letters, Clan Battles \u0026amp; Skye Crofter Records\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOriginally published at Inverness in 1885 and conducted by celebrated Highland clan historian \u003cstrong\u003eAlexander Mackenzie, F.S.A. Scot.\u003c\/strong\u003e (author of the standard histories of the Mackenzies, Macdonalds, Camerons, Frasers, and Munros), \u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Celtic Magazine, Volume X\u003c\/em\u003e (Issues No. CIX to No. CXX, November 1884 – October 1885)\u003c\/strong\u003e 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 Combining charter-backed cadet genealogies with unpublished 18th-century Jacobite correspondence, military autobiographies, and eyewitness accounts of the Highland Land War, this enhanced \u003cstrong\u003eFairbairn's Crests Digital Research Edition\u003c\/strong\u003e equips you with both the complete, every-word searchable historical text and a newly compiled \u003cstrong\u003eAlphabetical Surname \u0026amp; Place Index\u003c\/strong\u003e covering 265 family groups and 200 parishes, estates, castles, battlefields, ships, and regiments.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch3\u003eWhat's Inside This Enhanced Fairbairn's Crests Digital Edition:\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eComplete 604-Page Merged Digital Volume:\u003c\/strong\u003e Includes 4 pages of newly written Fairbairn's Crests Front Matter (Pages i–iv: Historical \u0026amp; 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 \u0026amp; Place Index.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eArtifact-Free Archival Restoration with 100% Intact Native OCR:\u003c\/strong\u003e 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 \u003ccode\u003eCtrl+F\u003c\/code\u003e \/ \u003ccode\u003eCmd+F\u003c\/code\u003e keyword searching.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eThe Munros of Milntown, Pittonachy \u0026amp; Culcairn (by Alexander Ross, F.G.S.):\u003c\/strong\u003e 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.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eThe Lovat Peerage Case \u0026amp; Unpublished Letters of Simon Lord Lovat (1739–1743):\u003c\/strong\u003e 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).\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eThe Frasers of Fairfield \u0026amp; The Cummings of Achdalew:\u003c\/strong\u003e 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).\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003e18th-Century Highland Military Autobiographies \u0026amp; Monumental Inscriptions:\u003c\/strong\u003e M. A. Rose's four-part serialization of \u003cem\u003eMajor John Macdonald — His Autobiography\u003c\/em\u003e (pp. 67–76, 113–122, 173–180, 219–227), \u003cem\u003eThe Adventures of Donald Macleod, the Skye Centenarian\u003c\/em\u003e born at Ullinish in 1688 (pp. 418–426, 447–460), \u003cem\u003eThe Inverness Burgh Guard in the 17th Century\u003c\/em\u003e (pp. 440–444), and \u003cem\u003eInscriptions in Rodel Churchyard, Harris\u003c\/em\u003e (p. 471).\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eSutherland Fights, Clan Conflicts \u0026amp; the Skye Crofters' Expedition:\u003c\/strong\u003e 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.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\n\u003ch3\u003eHistorical \u0026amp; Regional Overview\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFew 19th-century Scottish periodicals rival Volume X of \u003cem\u003eThe Celtic Magazine\u003c\/em\u003e 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 \u003cem\u003eFrasers of Fairfield\u003c\/em\u003e and Hector Rose Mackenzie's three-part history of \u003cem\u003eOld Inverness\u003c\/em\u003e (pp. 125–133, 158–166, 209–217) preserve hundreds of burgh magistrates, merchants, provosts, and Jacobite officers across Inverness-shire.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBeyond 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch3\u003eSurnames \u0026amp; Families Indexed in This Volume:\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAbercromby (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 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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, 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