Clan MacGillvary
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Clan MacGillvary is a Highland Scottish clan. the clan does not currently have a chief therefore it is considered an Armigerous clan.
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[edit] History
[edit] Origins of the Clan
The MacGillivrays were a principal clan even before King Somerled, progenitor of the MacDonalds drove the Norsemen from the western Isles. The Clann Mhic Gillebràth were dispersed after King Alexander II of Scotland subdued Argyll in the year 1222.
[edit] 14th Century & Clan Conflicts
The Clan MacGillvary eventually joined the Chattan Confederation which was headed by the chief of the Clan MacKintosh. The clan have always distinguished themselves by their prowess and bravery. One of them, Ivor MacGillvary was killed at Drumlui in a battle with the Clan Cameron in about the year 1330. Ivor was the son of chief Duncan MacGillvary. This Duncan married a natural daughter of the sixth Clan MacKintosh chief.
[edit] 15th Century
A hundred years later, in about the middle of the fifteenth century, the chief of the MacGillivrays appears to have been a certain Ian Ciar (Brown). At any rate, when William, fifteenth chief of the Mackintoshes, was infefted in the estate of Moy and other lands held from the Bishop of Moray, the names of a son and two grandsons of this Ian Ciar appear in the list of witnesses. Other Mackintosh documents show the race to have been settled by that time on the lands of Dunmaglass (the fort of the grey man’s son), belonging to the thanes of Cawdor.
[edit] 16th Century
Ian Ciar MacGillvary was apparently succeeded by a son, Duncan, and he again by his son Ferquhar, who, in 1549, gave letters of reversion of the lands of Dalmigavie to Robert Dunbar of Durris. Ferquhar’s son, again, Alastair, in 1581 paid forty shillings to Thomas Calder, Sheriff-Depute of Nairn and chief of Clan Calder for " two taxations of his £4 lands of Domnaglasche, granted by the nobility to the King."
It was in his time, in 1594, that the MacGillivrays fought in the royal army under the young Earl of Argyll at the disastrous Battle of Glenlivet.
[edit] 17th Century
Alastair’s son, Ferquhar, appears to have been a minor in 1607 and 1609, for in the former of these years his kinsman Malcolm MacBean was among the leading men of Clan Chattan called to answer to the Privy Council for the good behaviour of Clan Chattan during the minority of Sir Lachlan Mackintosh its chief; and in the latter year, when a great band of union was made at Termit, near Inverness, between the various septs of Clan Chattan, responsibility for the " haill kin and race of the Clan M’Illivray" was accepted by Malcolm MacBean, Ewen M Ewen, and Duncan MacFerquhar, the last-named being designated as tenant in Dunmaglass, and being probably an uncle of young Ferquhar MacGillivray. The Macgilivrays were one of the oldest and most important of the clans of the Chattan Confederation, and from 1626, when their head, Ferquhard MacAllister, acquired a right to the lands of Dunmaglass, frequent mention of them is found in extant documents and registers.
[edit] 18th Century & Jacobite Uprisings
As Episcopalians they were persecuted by Calvinist and Presbyterian neighbours yet fought both in the 1715 and 1745 Jacobite uprisings including the Battle of Sheriffmuir in 1715 and the Battle of Falkirk (1746). Chief Alexander MacGillivary led the Chattan Confederation where he was killed at the Battle of Culloden in 1746. A wall at Culloden where he fell still bears his name. He is perhaps the best known of the heads of this clan. He was fourth in descent from the Ferquhard who acquired Dunmaglass in the 17th century . This gentleman was selected by Lady Mackintosh to head her husband's clan on the side of Prince Charlie in the '45, even though the chief of Clan MacKintosh was loyal to the governement. Lady MacKintosh ensured the MacKintoshes and their allies supported the Jacobites.
The MacGillvary chief was shot through the heart. His body, after lying for some weeks in a pit where it had been thrown with others, was taken up by his friends and buried acorss the threshold of the kirk of Petty. His brother William was also a warrior, and gained the rank of captain in the old 89th regiment, raised in about 1758.
After the Battle of Culloden the clan emigrations began across the Atlantic.
[edit] Clan Profile
- Gaelic Name: MacGhille-Bràth .
- Motto: Touch not the cat without a glove (Chattan Confederation).
- Plant Badge: Boxwood.
- Lands: Mull, Lochaber and Morven.
- Origin of Name: Gaelic, Gillie Brath (Son of the servant of judgement).
[edit] Clan Chief
The estates of Dunmaglas were sold in 1890 and the last chief believed to have died in Canada.
[edit] Clan Septs
Names associated with the clan and septs of the Clan MacGillvary include:
GILDEROY, GILVRAY, GILROY, GILRAY, GILRYE, GILRY, MACGILLEVARY, MACGILLAVRACH, MACGILLEVORAY, MACGILLEVORIE, MACGILLVRAY, MACGILLEVRAY, MACGILLVRA, MACGILLEWRA, MACGILLAVERY, MACGILLEWRAY MACGILLAVARY, MACGILLVERY, MACGILLVARY, MACGILLVERAY, MACGILLOWRAY, MACGILLIVARY, MACGILLIVRY, MACGILLIVOOR, MACGILLIVRAID, MACGILLIVRAY, MACGILLIVRIE, MACGILVORY, MACGILREY, MACGILWREY, MACGILROY, MACGILROYE, MACGILVRA, MACGUILVERY, MACGILVARY, MACGILVRAY, MACILBRAIE, MACGILVERY, MACILLORY, MACILVRAE, MACILORAY, MACILIWRA,Y MACILRIE, MACILVERY, MACILVRAY, MACILVORA, MACILWRAY MACILROY, MACILVEERIE, MACILVRACH, MACILVRA, MACILRAY, MACILURAY, MACILLVRA, MACILVORY, MACILRA, MACILWRA, MACKILREA, MACKELRAE, MACKILROY, MACKILRAE, MACLEROY, MACKLEROY, MACLROY, MACOULROY MACYLROY, MACYLORY, MACYLROYE, MAKGILROY, MAKILROW, MAKILLEWRAY, MEIKLEROY, MICKLROY, VCGILLEVORIE, MAKKILROW, MACILVORAY, MACILLEVORIE, MILROY, MACELROY.
