from "The Clans, Septs, and Regiments of the Scottish Highlands" by Frank Adam, 8th edit., 1970, London List of Clan Septs and Dependents (Arranged underthe Clans with which they are Connected) Clan Ferguson Fergus Ferries MacAdie MacFergus MacKerras MacKersey FERGUSON OR FERGUSSON "The Fergusons appear to have been of Scoto-Dalriadic descent, and to have had their first settlement in Scotland in Kintyre. As regards Fergussons in the strictly Highland area: in Argyll the chiefs of Clannfhearghuis of Stra-chur long held the estate of Glenshellich (the valley of the willows) and with it the office of hereditary maer of Strachur on Loch Ryne, their seat being Caisteal Dubh on Beinn Bheula. As some corroboration of the theory asto Kintyre having been the original seat of the Fergusons in Scotland, Kilkerran, the seat of the chief of the Fergusons, in Ayrshire, is the modern form of the Gaelic name of what is now Campbeltown. St. Ciaran, on of the Twelve Apostles of Ireland, landed, in the sixth century, at Dalruadhain, where there is a cave, still know as Uaimh-a-Chiarain, and the name of the place Ceann Loch Chille-Chiarain, is, in modernised form, Kilkerran. It passed into the possession of the MacDonalds. When the Campbells became owners it received the name which it now bears, viz., Campbeltown. The Fergussons of Kilkerran (named after St. Ciaran) descending from Fergus, son of Fergus, in the time of Robert the Bruce, may have been Keepers of theCross of St. Ciaran. Sir John of Kilkerran was created a Baronet in 1703, and the line has been celebrated as judges and statesmen. From Fergus, Prince of Galloway, whom we find ruling in 1165, and whose wife was a daughter of Henry I of England, the Fergusons of Craigdarroch, in Dumfriesshire, claim descent. Alan, Lord of Galloway, a descendant and successor ofFergus, and Fergus of Glencairn witnessed Alexander II.'s charter to the monks of Melrose. Craigdarroch, Dumfries, was the possession of the Fergusons for many centuries. "Bonnie Annie Laurie," so enshrined in Scottish hearts and song, was the wife of Alexander Ferguson of Craigdarroch. The Fergussons of Atholl descent from Adam, son ofFergus, styled Adamh-na-Cainbe, who lived in the time of Baliol, and claimed descent from the Lords of Galloway. Adam obtained the barony of Derculich in Atholl, and later, by murdering the Baron Maol and his sons as the clach dearg Dunfallandaigh, made their sister an heiress, whom his son married; hence the baronial house of Fergusson of Dunfallandy, which will holds that estate and the style of Baran Dunfallandaigh and Chief of the Clan-vic-Fergus-na-Derculich-Athfodhla. Fergusons have been settled in Balquihidder, according to tradition, for about six centuries. Their origin is lost in antiquity. The oldest families of the Balquhidder Fergusons would appear to have been those of Ardandamh (in Laggan of Strathyre, on Loch Lubnaig), and Immervoulin. The Balquhidder branch of the clan wore a sett of tartan differenct from that worn by the Atholl families. A branch of the Fergusons existed in Aberdeenshire and probably sprang from issue of one of the Ferguses who appear as younger sons of the Earls of Buchan. The head of this branch appears to have been Ferguson of Badiffurow. All cadet families of Badifurrow are believed to be extinct, except tow, viz., Pitfour and Kinmundy." ow are believed = to be extinct, except tow, viz., Pitfour and Kinmundy." =20