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<t>Hi Niall, Thanks for clarifying that. I suspect there are a number of highland clans whose ancestors were lay abbots of the early church prior to the year 1200. The MacKinnons claim to descend from hereditary abbots at Iona and I assume that the McNabs also descend from an ancestor who was a son ...

<t>Hi Kyle, Interesting. Nice to have so many contributing. Still in the process making sense of all the information, before I submit Maconlea Livingstone info to an encyclopedia. I have been organising my notes, but the wonderful thing about a computer is that you can easily update and makes change...

<t>I am glad that the issue of whether the Baron is head or chief of the Highland Clan McLea is being sorted out. Judging by the discussions here there seems to be little doubt that the head of the clan is infact the chief. Regarding that MacLea article on Wikipedia I did notice that apart from the ...

<t>Hi Kin, Quick question. I have noticed that the Barons of Bachuil are referred to as both Deors and Dewars. I was wondering if this is the same word. Alexander Carmichael in the notes to his book "Carmina Gadelica" referred to the custodian of the Staff of St. Molaug as a "Deor" and almoner, but ...

<r>Hi Kin, If you have a general interest in the history of highland clans and want to learn more as I do then you might be interested in the 19th century book "The Highlanders of Scotland" by William F.Skene.Check out the book online at: <URL url="http://www.electricScotland.com/history/highlanders...

<t>Hi Kin, Continuing my discussion of the name "McFerchar", from my last e-mail, if one accepts Skene's Pedigree's included with his 19th century collection "Celtic Scotland" as did Highland Clan historian Sir Allan Moncrief then Mackenzies, MacLeans and McNabs among others area descend from a 7th ...

<t>Hi Andrew, In one of my recent messages I referred to Dr. Livingstone's father for a time had dropped the e from the family name. The source was actually a biography on Dr. Livingstone's published in the late 1800's. The name of the book and it'st author I have temporarily forgotten, but I found ...

<t>Hi Keith, Could not get through to that information page, but understand that Livingstones were living at Luing. I intend to check this out further as I am curious about any Maconleas at Luing that changed their name to Livingstone before 1775. There were Maconleas on nearby Colonsay apparently i...

Hi Rob, I wish I could be more helpful to the clan, but not living in Scotland you can only do so much. I am for the most part learning Scottish history as I do this research and am finding detailed maps to be a useful asset for someone like myself who gets easily lost in the highlands.

<t>Hi Kyle, I would agree that the Maconleas were at Luing. If you don't have a good atlas of Scotland, it is well worth getting one. Of course you can always go to mapquest.com, but for some reason some of these locations don't always come up on the map. At this point I have been looking settlement...