{"product_id":"the-celtic-magazine-vol-xii-1887-searchable-pdf-surname-index","title":"The Celtic Magazine, Vol. XII (1887) - Searchable PDF \u0026 Surname Index","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eGet\u003c\/strong\u003e - \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/fairbairncrests.com\/products\/the-celtic-magazine-scottish-genealogy-biographical-directory-searchable-pdf-download\"\u003eThe Celtic Magazine Biographical Directory and Surname Index\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, covering all 13 volumes\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003eUncover Your Hebridean, Caithness \u0026amp; Highland Ancestors in Volume XII of \u003cem\u003eThe Celtic Magazine\u003c\/em\u003e (1886–1887)\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOriginally published in Inverness in 1887 by A. \u0026amp; W. Mackenzie and edited by the renowned Celtic scholar \u003cstrong\u003eAlexander Macbain, M.A., F.S.A. Scot.\u003c\/strong\u003e, Volume XII of \u003cem\u003eThe Celtic Magazine\u003c\/em\u003e (comprising monthly issues Nos. CXXXIII to CXLIV, November 1886 through October 1887) is one of the most important primary-source compendiums of Scottish clan genealogy, Hebridean charter history, Caithness earldom records, and Jacobite correspondence ever printed. Whether you are tracing ancestors from the \u003cstrong\u003eIsle of Skye, Harris, Lewis, Raasay, or Assynt\u003c\/strong\u003e, researching the \u003cstrong\u003eSinclair Earls of Caithness\u003c\/strong\u003e around Wick, Thurso, and Girnigoe Castle, or investigating family links to the \u003cstrong\u003e1745 Jacobite Rising\u003c\/strong\u003e, Badenoch, Rannoch, and the Canadian Highland diaspora in \u003cstrong\u003eNova Scotia and Glengarry County\u003c\/strong\u003e, this 591-page enhanced digital edition puts hundreds of rare 19th-century genealogical records at your fingertips.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eWhat's Inside This Enhanced Fairbairn's Crests Digital Edition:\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eComplete 591-Page Archival Volume:\u003c\/strong\u003e Includes 4 pages of newly typeset Fairbairn's Crests Front Matter (Pages i–iv), all 575 authentic historical pages of the 1887 Inverness edition (Original Title Page, 2-page Table of Contents, and all 572 numbered text pages), and a newly compiled 12-page Back-of-Book Research Index.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eArtifact-Free Conservation \u0026amp; Intact Native OCR Search Layer:\u003c\/strong\u003e Institutional library stamp sheets (the University of Toronto Library call-number page) and blank end flyleaves have been cleanly removed, while the retained historical pages and their native embedded OCR text layer are preserved 100% 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\u003eAlexander Mackenzie's \u003cem\u003e\"The History of the Macleods\"\u003c\/em\u003e (11 Serial Installments):\u003c\/strong\u003e Spanning over 85 pages of charter-documented family history covering both \u003cem\u003eSiol Tormoid\u003c\/em\u003e (Macleods of Dunvegan, Harris, Glenelg, Bernera, Talisker, Hamer, Contullich, and Drynoch) and \u003cem\u003eSiol Torquil\u003c\/em\u003e (Macleods of Lewis, Raasay \/ \u003cem\u003eMacGillechallum\u003c\/em\u003e, Assynt, Coigach, and Gairloch), including Sir Rory Mor Macleod, Iain Breac, the poetess Mary Macleod, the MacCrimmon hereditary pipers of Boreraig, Norman Macleod of Macleod, and General Norman Macleod.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eGeorge M. Sutherland's \u003cem\u003e\"Caithness History: Earls of Caithness of the Sinclair Line\"\u003c\/em\u003e (8 Serial Installments):\u003c\/strong\u003e An exhaustive chronicle of the Sinclair Earls of Caithness, Castle Girnigoe, Castle Sinclair, Ackergill Tower, Keiss, Mey, Murkle, Dunbeath, Ratter, and Ulbster, the bitter succession feud with Sir John Campbell of Glenorchy (1st Earl of Breadalbane) and the Battle of Altimarlach (1680), and connected Keith, Sutherland, Mackay (Lord Reay), Gunn, Henderson, and Mowat families.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eJacobite Letters, Clan Feuds \u0026amp; Highland Lore:\u003c\/strong\u003e Features Charles Fraser-Mackintosh, M.P.'s \u003cem\u003e\"Macdonald and Macleod of the '45\"\u003c\/em\u003e, the four-part Rannoch and Lochaber historical narrative \u003cem\u003e\"The Tragedy of Clach-nan-Ceann\"\u003c\/em\u003e (Camerons, MacGregors, and Mackintoshes), \u003cem\u003e\"The Chisholm of Chisholm\"\u003c\/em\u003e (tracing the Strathglass chiefship to Montreal and Glengarry County, Canada), Dr. Corbet's \u003cem\u003e\"Maccuil Glenfhiodhag\"\u003c\/em\u003e, Badenoch song collections, and Alexander Macbain's landmark historical essays on \u003cem\u003e\"Macpherson's Ossian\"\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003e\"The Picts\"\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDeterministic Back-of-Book Surname \u0026amp; Parish Index:\u003c\/strong\u003e Newly compiled alphabetical index of \u003cstrong\u003e220+ Surnames \u0026amp; Clan Branches\u003c\/strong\u003e and \u003cstrong\u003e170+ Parishes, Islands, Castles, Battles \u0026amp; Regiments\u003c\/strong\u003e with exact page citations and a clear Page Offset Conversion Formula (\u003ccode\u003eMerged PDF Page = Printed Page + 7\u003c\/code\u003e).\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eHistorical \u0026amp; Regional Overview\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eVolume XII captures the Scottish Highlands and Islands across seven centuries—from the Norse-Gaelic lordships of the Hebrides and the Pictish kingdoms of Alba to the clan feuds of the 16th and 17th centuries, the Jacobite Risings of 1715 and 1745, service in the 42nd Royal Highland Regiment (Black Watch) and Highland Brigade, and 19th-century emigration to British North America. Drawing directly from the Dunvegan Charter Chest, Privy Council Registers, Retours, Sasines, and Caithness baronial muniments, its contributors preserve marriage contracts, wadsets, military commissions, and oral genealogies that seldom survive in standard parish registers.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePrepared specifically for genealogists, clan historians, and heritage researchers, this Fairbairn's Crests edition also includes interactive PDF bookmarks for every monthly issue (November 1886 to October 1887) and every major serial contribution, allowing you to navigate effortlessly between the Western Isles, Skye, Ross-shire, Inverness-shire, Badenoch, Rannoch, Sutherland, and Caithness.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eSurnames \u0026amp; Families Indexed in This Volume:\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAdam (Adams, Adamson, Adhamhnan), Aird, Alexander, Allan (Allen), Anderson, Angus (MacAngus), Anstruther, Archibald, Argyll (Campbell, Earl\/Duke of Argyll), Armstrong, Atholl (Stewart \u0026amp; Murray, Earls\/Dukes of Atholl), Baillie (Bailie), Balfour, Beaton (Bethune, MacBheathain), Bisset (Bissett), Black, Blair, Borthwick, Boswell (James Boswell of Auchinleck), Breadalbane (Campbell of Breadalbane), Brodie (Brodie of Brodie), Brougham, Brown (Broun), Bruce (King Robert the Bruce), Buchan (Earl of Buchan), Buchanan, Burns (Robert Burns), Bute (Marquis of Bute), Caithness (Sinclair, Earls of Caithness), Calder (Campbell of Calder\/Cawdor), Cameron (Camshron, Lochiel, Rannoch), Campbell (Caimbeul, Argyll, Glenorchy, Breadalbane), Carlyle, Carmichael, Chalmers, Chisholm (The Chisholm, Siosal, Strathglass), Clanranald (Macdonald of Clanranald), Clark (Clarke, Clerk), Clouston (W. 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