The Highlanders of Scotland - Clan Strachan Society

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carried her mother's inheritance, consisting
of the half of Tulli-
bardine, the lands of Ruchanty, &c., being the half of Finach,
and part of Lethindy, to William De Moravia, predecessor of
the Murrays of Tullibardine. The other half of these baronies
went to Ewen Mac Conan, who married Maria Duncan's
youngest daughter. Now, we find that in 1284, this Maria
granted her half of Tullibardine to her niece, Ada, and William
Moray, her ; spouse and in 1443, we find Robert Duncanson, the
undoubted ancestor of the Robertsons of Strowan, designating
himself, Dominus de Fynach, and granting his lands of Finach,
in Stratherne, consanguineo suo Davidi de Morav'a Domino de
Tullibardine. The descent of the family from Ewen, the son of
Conan, the second son of Henry, earl of Athol, the daughters of
whose eldest son carried the earldom into Lowland families, is
thus put beyond all doubt, and the Strowan Robertsons thus
to be the male heirs of the old earls of Atholl. Ewen
appear
was succeeded by his son, Angus, as I find a charter to Angus
filius Eugenii, of part of the baron}- of Lethendy. About fifty
\-ears after, this : appears Duncanus de Atholia filius Andreae de
"
as Duncan is in tradition invariably styled Mac
Atholia ; and
Innes," it is probable that this name was derived from this
Angus, and that Andrew de Atholia was his son.
From this view of the earlier generations of the clan
the death
Donnachie, it would accordingly seem that upon
of Henry, the last Celtic earl of Atholl, the district of Atholl
was divided, and that the eastern part descended in the female
line, by the feudal law, while the western and more inaccessible
part was divided among the male descendants of the old earls,
according to the Highland law of gavel.
Andrew, of whom we know nothing, was succeeded by his
son, Duncan, termed Rearnhixir, or Fat. Duncan acquired a
great addition to his lands, including the south half of Rannach,
by marriage with one of the daughters of a certain Callum
Ruaidh, or Malcolm the Red, styled Eeamnach, or De Lennox,
whom tradition connects closely with the earls of Lennox,
Malcolm appears to have been the same person with a Malcolm
de Glendochart, who signs Ragman's Roll in 1296, for it is
said that the other daughter of Callum Ruaidh married
Menzies, and it is certain that the Menzies possessed soon after