Clan Macpherson

Macpherson ( Gaelic Mac a ' Phearsain - son of the pastor or parish administrator ) is the name of a Scottish clan, which in the area of Badenoch ( gäl.: Bàideanach - land under water, now part of the electoral district of Badenoch and Strathspey ) on the upper reaches of the Spey originates.

History

The MacPhersonclan goes on Murdoch ( gäl.: Muirich ) back from Kingussie, in the 12th/13th. Century lived, hence the Gaelic Clan Name: Clann Mhuirich - children of Murdoch. In pre-Reformation Scottish Highlands was his office, next to the priest as a spiritual leader, the manager of the property of the parish ( parish ), responsible for the withholding of tithes. Therefore, the Gaelic name ( pearsain (person) or pears - eaglais ( church person) ) is derived.

Ewen Ban ( Ban Eoghann ), the second son of Murdoch was the first Macpherson - son of the pastor. His three sons Kenneth ( Caoineach ), John ( Iain ) and Gilliosa ( Gill - Iosa ), the three grandchildren Murdoch, the ancestors of the three listed by town family branches Cluny ( Cluanaigh ) Pitmain ( Baile - meadhan - Mittelstadt ) were and Invereshie ( Inbhir Fheisidh - Mouth of Feshie ( in the Spey ) ), which is why the history of the clan as the descendants of three brothers (The Posterity of the Three brethren ) became known.

The Macpherson were from the beginning a member of the Chattan Clankonföderation and demanded constantly guiding the Mackintosh out. Within the family, the Macpherson of Cluny played the biggest role, its most famous representative Ewen Macpherson of Cluny was -. , He led about 400 clan members for Bonnie Prince Charlie in the Jacobite Rising of 1745 After the suppression of the rebellion, he went underground and lived for nine years in a cave, before he finally fled to France.

As the basement Raitt's Cave was excavated in 1835, belonged to the excavator of local legends, after which the tunnel by members of the clan MacNiven had been built here, sought to hide from their pursuers from the Clan Macpherson.

The motto of the clan is Touch not the cat bot a glove ( "Touch not the cat without a glove" ), a warning from the past to all the other clans, the wildcat - the Clan MacPherson - not to interfere in his actions ( " to touch " ) when it shows the claws - " without gloves " is. The emblem of the clan is within the typical circular shape belt with buckle and applied exchange a sedentary wild cat with raised left paw and claws bared. In addition to the white-black -dominated Tartan exist two other rotdurchwirkte Tartan variations.

Seat of the clan chief was to 1932 Castle Cluny, about 28 km west-northwest of Aberdeen, built in 1604, in 1746 largely destroyed and rebuilt around 1805, since then it is Newton Castle, Blairgowrie, acquired in 1789 from the clan. Another seat of the clan is Ballindalloch Castle Ballindalloch, built in 1546 and owned by the Macpherson - Grants.

1952 opened the Macpherson Clan Museum in Newtonmore one.

Pictures

Coat of arms of Cluny Macpherson

Tartan