History of the Clan Macrae

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Christopher Macrae of 1386 Agreement

See The First Appearance of "Macrae" as a Surname

So far as at present known, the name Macrae is first mentioned as a surname in the year 1386, in an agreement made, at Inverness, between the Bishop of Moray and Alexander Stewart, Earl of Buchan, better known as the Wolf of Badenoch, with regard to some land in Rothiemurchus, in Inverness-shire, which was formerly occupied by a certain Cristinus M'Crath (Christopher Mcrae), who was then dead.1

See Fionnla Dubh Mac Gillechriosd

The Macrae who came from Clunes had a son, or maybe a grandson, named Christopher (gen 0) (who might be the Christopher whose name appears in a document dated 1386) whose son was Fionnla Dubh Mac Gillechriosd, founder of the Clan Macrae of Kintail.