MACDOUGALL The MacDougalls of the Argyllshire district of Lorn trace back to the same ancestors as the MacDonalds, being named from the first Lord of Lorn, Dougall the eldest son of Somerled, by Ragnhildis daughter of Olaf the King of Man. But her Mother Alfrica was already a McDougall or McDowall of the still older Galloway branch. Alfrica`s father being Fergus Mac Dubb Gael, the powerful 12th-century Lord of Galloway and founder of several abbeys in the ancient Pictish-Celtic territory. MacDougall history is mainly coloured by their feud with Robert Bruce, after his hasty slaying of the Red Comyn claimant to the Scottish throne. Alexander, fourth Lord of Lorn, had married Comyn`s sister. After Bruce`s defeat at Methven by the English, he took for a time to the Grampians. At Dalree in Strathfillin his party was set upon by a strong force of MacDougalls, and Bruce himself escaped only by leaving his plaid grasped by a dying MacDougall. Attached to it was the magnificent Celtic `Brooch of Lorn` still in the possession of the clan chief at Dunolly. Eventually Bruce overcame both the English and the MacDougalls, the latter being restored to their Lorn lands only when Alexander`s grandson Ewan married a niece of David ll. By Ewan having only heiresses, the lordship passed to Stewart hands, whilst the male branch of Dunolly retained the clan chiefship. Septs: CARMICHAEL COLES CONACHER COWAN COWEN DOUGAL DOUGALL DOWALL DOWELL DUGAL DUGALD EUNSON HOWELL HOWELLS LIVINGSTON LIVINGSTONE LUCAS MACCLINTOCK MACCONACHER MACCONCHER MACCOUL MACCOWAN MACCOWELL MACCOYLE MACCULLAGH MACCULLOCH MACDILL MACDOOL MACDOUGAL MACDOUL MACDOWALL MACDOWELL MACDUGALD MACEWAN MACEWEN MACHALE MACHOWELL MACKICHAN MACLINDEN MACLINTOCK MACLUCAS MACLUGASH MACLULLICH MACNAMELL MACOUAL MACOUL MACOWAN MACOWEN ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Scottish Surnames some showing Clan or Sept connection and approximate District or Century earliest known in Scotland. Information from the Revised Second Edition "Scots Kith and Kin". Sept: A Division of a Family, especially a Division of a Clan.