Hi all, I'm lookoing for a list of all of the Clan MacInsoh Chieftans. It would also be very helpful to have a list of each of their family. Has anyone come across these records? I'm trying to verify and most likely correct the account stated below. [ref: "Memoir of the Families of M'Combie and Thoms", by William M'Combie Smith, 1890] Chapter 1; The founder of the Clan M'Intosh was Shaw M'Duff, second son of the fifth Earl of Fife, who distinguished himself in quelling a rebellion among the Moray tribes, against Malcolm IV, about the years 1161-63, and whose descendants thenceforward assumed the name M'Intosh (Mac-an-Toiseach) son of the foremost or chief man. The Clan M'Intosh, of which the family of M'Combie is a branch, was in turn a branch of the still older Clan Chattan, the derivation of which is uncertain. The famous fight on the North Inch of Perth, in 1396, in the reign of Robert III, between the Clan Chattan and Clan Quhele, was fought by the ancestors of present M'Intoshes, M'Phersons, and Camerons. >From Angus Og, son of Angus, the sixth chief of the Clan M'Intosh, who died in 1345, were descended the M'Intoshes of Glen Tilt, who afterwards settled at Dalmunzie in Glenshee. It was probably owing to the settlement of this branch of the M'Intoshes in Glenshee, that the descendants of Adam M'William(1) of Garvamore, in Badenoch, a natural son of William(2), the seventh chief, also settled in Glenshee, Strathardle, and Glenisla. This Adam M'Intosh son of William (another source claims Adam was son of Iain, son of Thomas) , the seventh chief of the Clan M'Intosh, was the founder of that branch of the clan which afterwards came to be known by the surname of M'Thomas (son of Thomas), which in time became corrupted into M'Thomie, M'Homie, M'Omie, M'Comie, and laterly M'Combie, M'Comb and Thoms. The surname M'Intosh was used interchangeably with M'Comie until the settlement in Aberdeenshire (c1800). The family of M'Comie took its rise therefore, as a separate and distinct branch of the Clan M'Intosh in the latter half of the fourteenth century. In the original feu-charter, of date 7th September 1568, the M'Combies are described as being "ab antiquo" tenants and possesors of Finnegand in Glenshee. APPENDIX: (1) I own that John M'Intoshe of Forter, commonly called M'Comie, was a brave a loyall gentleman, and behaved very worthily in the King's service. But he needs not be excepted in this place; his predecessor, as he told me and others severall tymes, was a son of the House of Garvamore in Badenock, where never a M'Intoshe treaded till this our age otherwise than as a guest or passenger; so was really ____rsone, as all the oy(r) M'Intoshes in the south are, _____ by ane unacceptable mistake they bear yr name _____ our nature, and constantly from age to age loved us better than them. But if he had been a M'Intoshe as he was called, he was neither at Glencolva nor at Blaire Castle, or the seidge of Lethen and Burgie, consequently that part of the history that concerns the servieces of the Catana tribus under the reign of King Charles the first, cannot at all be ascribed to the M'Intoshes, nor the rescue of Queen Mary, more than this, except that in contradiction to common sense and reason, and the vbouched testimonies of unexceptible witnesses, their bold assertion pass for a sufficient proofe." - From Sir Aeneas M'Pherson of Invereshire's MS. Memorial to the Laird of Cluny in Badenock, penes M'Pherson of Cluny, c1684. Of the elder son of William, seventh laird of M'Intosh, Adam M'William at first settle in Atholl, but afterwards removed to Garvamore in Badenagh; and from him are descended the MacIntoshes of Glenshee, Strathairdle, and Glenisla. (2) "Hic Gulielmus crat supra communem popularem staturam procerus robustus sed minime camosus (?); eratque suae familiae primus qui Clan Chattanorum ducem subscripsit." - From "De Origine et Incrumento Makintoshiorum Epitome." The Latin History of the M'Intoshes, preserved in MS, in the Advocates' Library at Edinburgh. QUESTIONS: 1) I was wondering if this account seem plausable and correct? 2) I beleive that King Malcom III was the ruler at the time of the Moray tribe battle? 2) Is there more known about Shaw M'Duff? Is there a list of chieftans up to William M'Iintosh, seventh chieftan? (I've read the history on your website...I really like reading these old histories - thank you)? 3) My references above also goes on to describe castle ruins at Glenilsa and Finnegand, described at the time (c1890) as completely in ruin, but remaining stones marked with ancient Celtic runes and symbols, which by your website account and other histories may have been King Malcolm's Scots Parliment in Finnegand?