Archie and Lynn McLachlan Book

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Carl Sandburg said, " When a society or a civilization
Perishes, one condition can always be found. They forgot
where they came from." With a history of your family in
hand, there is no forgetting, no sense of coming to an end.
Because there is no end, there is only the sense of continuing.
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The Romans arrived in Scotland in A.D.80. They Scarcely left a
mark. The dark ages saw bands of violent peoples fighting,
combining, splitting up and coming together again until A.D.600
when four recognizable tribal divisions ermerge. One was the
Scots of Irish origin who spoke Gaelic dialect. This is on of the
clans which descends according to tradition, fortified by a Galic
manuscript of 14-50, from the oldest traceable family in Europe.
The line of Lachlan passed, according to this tradition, through
the Historical O'Neill kings from Niall of the Nine Hostages, who
was High King Of Ireland (Scotia) in A.D. 400.. Aedh, younger
grandson of Hing Flaithbertach married a Scottish princess who was
Heiress of Cowal.(The area of Argyll where Kerry is located) In
about 1238 their descendent in these properties, Gilpatrick, son of
Gilchrist, witnessed a charter by which one of their cousins in
creased the endowments of Paisley Abbey. Gilpatrick was the father
of Lachlan Mor after whom the clan takes its name. Lachlan Mor left
Scotia (Ireland) and joined the kindered tribe at Otter. Although
the clan descends in the male line from the Royal House of O'Neill,
he founded the clan and became its first chief. Thereafter —
MacLachlan—son of Lachlan.
In 1292, King John Balliol erected Argyll into a sheriffdom, and
rillescop MacLachlan ws one of the twelve principal barons of whose
lands it was composed. His son ,of the same name, gave his support to
Robert the Bruce and attended the King's first Parliament at St. And
rews in 1308. Just as the MacLachlans had prospered through their *
support of Pobert the Bruce, so they continued to flourish by elabor
ating and marrying with the clan that rose to supremecy in Argyll—
The Campbells
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Castle
In 1615 the MacLachlans formed part of Argylls army opposing
Sir. James MacDonald. In 1633 the Chief's estates were enumerated
in a statue and contained over thirty farms in Strathlachlan and
the neighborhood of Loch Fyne. They were erected into a free barony
in 1680 before the supreme hazard of the 1688 Revolution. In 1689
the Maclachlans fought with Dundee at the Battle of Killiecrankie.
The MacLachlans remained loyal to the Stewarts and supported the
Old Chevahuer in the uprising of 1715.Lachlan MacLachlan, the l?th
Chief in the descent from Lachlan Mor, raised hia clan for Prince
Charley in 17^5. The Rev. John MacLachlan of Hilchoan, who was
Chaplain-Feneral to the Jacobite forces was an eye witness when the
Chief was shot by a cannon ball as he was advancing on horseback to
lead his regiment into battle.
The estates were attainted (forfeited).
In 17^9 Robert McLachlan of Innis regained possession of the lands
and from here decended the later chiefs.
Reproduced from an early chromolithograph in the Archives of the American
Heritage Center of the University of Wyoming, the print pictures 29 clan chiefs
and individuals as follows: /. McGregor; 2, Fraser; 3, Munro; 4, Campbell
(Duke of Argyle); 5, McLachlan; 6, Farquharson; 7, Ross; 8, Sutherland (Duke
of Sutherland); 9, Victoria Stewart (Duke of Edinburgh); 10, Prince of Wales in
his own tartan; II, Mcintosh; 12, Hunting Stewart (late Duke of Albany); 13,
Mackenzie; 14, McFarlane; 15, Royal Stewart (Ross, the Queen's Piper); 16,
Macdonald; 17, Scott; 18, McPherson (General McPherson); 19, Graham; 20,
McNab; 21, McRae; 22, Graham; 23, Gordon; 24, Cameron; 25, Chisholm; 26,
Forbes; 27, Murray; 28, McLean; 29, McDonell.
The wooden stronghold, belonging to the McLachlans, had been destroyed
in the 13th century and a stone castle built to replace it.
The
island was too open to its enemies so the new stone castle was built
on the shore line next to a small bay. In 17^5. during the uprising,
the castle was bonbarded into a ruin. Its bereaved and homeless occu
pants were more fortunate than many, and the long-standing friendship
of the Duke of Argyll and the Campbells did the rest.

In 1746 after the battle of Culloden there was passed by Parliament
an Act outlawing the clans. The Highlanders were disarmed and the
wearing of the tartan severly punished. In 1785 the Act was repealed,
A New Castle was built in 1790, which still stands and is the home of
the present Chief, the Madame Marjorie MacLachlan.
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All was not sweetness and light from that point on. The Highland
Clearances - 1750 to 1850 - left its mark.
Small farmers, Crofters, now with the disbanding of the clans, were
forced to give up their tiny farms (owned by the laird) to make way
for grazing sheep and industrial growth. Life was social change and
political pressures. The population in 17551 in Kilfinan Parish,
was 1800 persons. In 1793 population decreased to 1417 due to battlesSk
partly attributed to reduced lack of opportunities for smuggling.
Too many of the inhabitants tried to farm and to fish and failed to
be successful at either. As many as eight to fifteen families occupied
any one farm. In 1755 there were twenty one open boats engaged in the
herring fishery and each boat required four hands. By 1845 the
number of fishing boats had increased to 111, each requiring an aver
age of three men. In 1839 a Glasgow company set up a gun powder
factory but it has since left the area. In order to survive the
MacLachlans of our branch left for Canada and a new life.in the 1830's.
Customs:
During the late Middle Ages in Scotland because of infant
mortality it was not uncommon to give two or even three
brothers the same first name. It's possible to trace a family
line back and find three children in the same family with the
same name. It is also possitle to have a problem tracing a
family or have one disapear 5due to the eommon practice back
then to change surnames with every change of residence in order
"to please the laird". Finally, until the last century many
good Scottish wives did not take their husband's surname on
marriage but retained their own—remnant of an even older
custom in which men took their wives' surnames after marriage.
An example of this ancient custom is evident today as the
present 24th Chief of the McLachlan Clan Marjorie MacLachlan
of MacLachlan whose husband took her last name as she was the
last in line to become Chief.