This summer, we visited two local cemeteries, Avoca Cemetery and the Shaw Protestant Cemetery in Harrington, Quebec, to trace some MacRae relatives. I took lots of photos of headstones, and while I stood there on the hillside, I imagined the people they all once were. I am placing them hereContinue Reading
Article | Charts: Sharon Clayton Clan member Allan Thomas, who lives in New Brunswick, is an artisan who turns heirloom cutlery into jewelry. This article started out to tell the stories behind Allan’s Let’s Spoon Jewellry creations: https://www.facebook.com/allan.thomas.5 After discovering that Allan shares generous DNA segments in common with severalContinue Reading
Written by Peter MacRae, London, September 1999 INVERNESS is famous as the birthplace of noted athletes – Charles McLean, Donald Ross, A. A. Cameron, nd many others were born and brought up in that country; but had no one else besides the stalwart Highlander, whose name heads this page, comeContinue Reading
The life of my great-great grandmother, Helena MacRae, has fascinated me for more than a decade. She was born in Salachy, Lochalsh, Ross-shire in 1840 and married a grocer, Roderick Tolmie in Beauly, Kilmorack, Inverness in 1859 when she was 18 and he was 23. Roderick and the heavily pregnant,Continue Reading
The following is a representation of the document known as the Dornie Manuscript, the history of the Clan Mackenzie transcribed by Colin Mackenzie of Newburnside in 1760. We do not have a verified copy of the manuscript, and cannot confirm this as an accurate representation, or only a subset thereof.Continue Reading
by Peter A. MacRae Part I: INTRODUCTION Before setting out this brief history, it is important to set certain matters straight. First, consider the name and spelling of ‘MacRae’: the spelling used here, it is conceded, is the modern evolved version, which is ordinarily met with in most accounts sinceContinue Reading
Generation No. 1 Maurice Of Clunes1 MacRath1 was born Abt. 1280 in Ireland, and died Abt. 1350 in Scotland. Notes for Maurice Of Clunes MacRath: Of a possible migration of the Clan MacRae to Scotland from Ireland, little is known, but their first known home in Scotland was on theContinue Reading
The Court of the Lord Lyon All heraldry in Scotland is controlled by the Court of the Lord Lyon King of Arms, commonly known as the Lyon Court, and located at New Register House in Edinburgh. The origins of the Lyon Court are literally lost in the mists of timeContinue Reading
By William Anderson Excerpt … Macrae, a minor clan of Ross-shire, which has from time immemorial been subordinate to the Seaforth branch of the Mackenzies. The badge of the Macraes was the fir-club moss, and they are generally considered of the pure Gaelic stock, although they have also been statedContinue Reading
Leslie A. McRae This was the name given to a survey that was commissioned by ‘William the Conqueror’ (King William I) in AD1085 at his Christmas Court. Previous records, held at Winchester, were examined and provided a starting point for the survey. William sent Royal Commissioners out into England toContinue Reading