Books and Articles relating to the History of Clan MacMillan
KEY:
NLS: National Library of Scotland
NAS: National Archives of Scotland
TGSI: Transactions of the Gaelic Society of Inverness
TSG: The Scottish Genealogist
CMIM: Clan MacMillan International Magazine
HFHSJ: Highland Family History Society Journal
MS SOURCES:
NLS MSS/MS 1467 - The collection of
clan genealogies known as MS 1467(r e29-34 for the MacMillan
pedigree).
NAS/GD.61 – The Buchanan of Leny papers (Box 17 for the 16th
century Leny Family Tree).
Mitchell Library, Glasgow: Local Archives T-SK1 to Y-SK39 – Stirling of
Keir papers
SRO/GD.80/965 - Ardross MS.
SECONDARY SOURCES:
Books or articles about, or containing
material about, the MacMillans and the MacMhaolain lairds of Leny:
William Buchanan of Auchmar, “An Account of the MacMillans” &
“An Account of the Lennies” in A Historical and Genealogical Essay upon
the Family and Surname of Buchanan (1723).
Hugh Macmillan, The Clan Macmillan (London, 1901).
Duncan MacMillan, Traditional History of the Scots and of Clan MacMillan
(MS, c.1924 in Campbeltown Library; CPL-22).
Somerled MacMillan, The MacMillans and their Septs
(Glasgow, 1952).
Somerled MacMillan, Families of Knapdale (Paisley, 1960).
T. H. Mullin & J. E. Mullan, The Ulster Clans O’Mullan, O’Kane and
O’ Mellan (Belfast, 1966).
Somerled MacMillan, Bygone Lochaber (Paisley,
1971).
Graeme M. Mackenzie, "The McMillans of Glen Urquhart", Inverness
Courier, January & February, 1990 (series of six articles)
Christopher W. McMullen, The MacMillan Endeavour (West Virginia, 1990).
Graeme M. Mackenzie, “Origins of Lochaber Macmillans” in Lochaber
Emigrants to Glengarry, ed. Rae Fleming (Toronto, 1994).
Graeme M. Mackenzie, “The Rarest Decision Recorded in History – The Battle
of the Clans in 1396”, TGSI, Vol. LIX, 1994-96.
Graeme M. Mackenzie, “For Ever Unfortunate – The Original Clan Chattan”, TGSI,
Vol. LXI, 1999-2000.
Graeme M. Mackenzie, “The Origins and Early History of the MacMillans and
Related Kindreds” (Clan MacMillan Centre, 2001).
Graeme M. Mackenzie, “The Origins of the MacLellans”, The Scottish
Genealogist (TSG), Vol. XLIX, No. 1, March 2002.
Graeme M. Mackenzie, “The De Lanys or Lennies of that Ilk” TSG, Vol. L,
No. 1, March 2003.
Graeme M. Mackenzie, "The McMillans of Brockloch",
CMIM, No. 1, Nov/Dec 2003.
Graeme M. Mackenzie, “Clann Challuim in Lorn”, TSG,
Vol. LI, No. 3, Sept. 2004.
Graeme M. Mackenzie, "The MacMillans of
Dunmore", CMIM, No2, June 2004.
Graeme M. Mackenzie, "Emigrants on the Ship
'Glasgow' in 1775", HFHSJ, Vol. 23, No.3, May 2005.
Graeme M. Mackenzie, “The Surnames M’Gill and Bell”, TSG, Vol. LII, No.
4, Dec. 2005.
Graeme M. Mackenzie, "The Macmillans of Murlagan
& Glenpean - an update", CMIM, No. 6, June 2006.
Graeme M. Mackenzie, “The Name MacMillan”, TSG,
Vol. LIII, No. 1, March 2006.
John B. McMillan, "Crests, Badges, and Mottos of the 3 Principal Hereditary
Branches of Clan MacMillan...", Clan MacMillan Society (of North
America) Journal, Vol. 50/51, Dec. 2007/May 2008.
See also various articles by Somerled MacMillan in the Clan MacMillan Magazine of North America, (3 Vols, 1958-60), and The Clan MacMillan Magazine, (3 Vols, 1964-66).
Other clan histories containing
material about the MacMillans, the Lenys, or possibly related kindreds:
William Fraser, Stirlings of Keir (Edinburgh,
1858).
Charles Fraser-Mackintosh, An Account of the Confederation of Clan Chattan
(Glasgow, 1898).
A. M. Mackintosh, The Mackintoshes and Clan Chattan (Edinburgh 1903).
MS History of Craignish in SHS Miscellany IV (Edinburgh, 1926).
James Steuart, The Bell Family in Dumfriesshire (1932).
John Stewart of Ardvorlich, The Camerons (Clan Cameron Association,
1981).
Colin I. G. Forrester, The Forresters: A Lowland Clan and its Lands
(London, 1988).
D. Richard Torrance, The McClellans in Galloway (2 Volumes, Edinburgh,
1993 & 1996).
Local studies containing material
connected with the MacMillans, the Lenys, or possibly related kindreds:
Lachlan Shaw, History of the Province of Moray
(Glasgow, 1882).
J. Guthrie Smith, Strathendrick and its Inhabitants (1896).
W. A. Gillies, In Famed Breadalbane (Perth, 1983).
Andrew McKerral, Kintyre in the Seventeenth Century (1948).
Richard Oram & Geoffrey Stell (eds), Galloway: Land and Lordship
(Edinburgh, 1991).
Daphne Brooke, Wild Men and Holy Places (Edinburgh, 1994).
Richard Oram, The Lordship of Galloway (Edinburgh, 2000).
ARTICLES OR INDIVIDUAL CHAPTERS:
David Sellar, Family Origins in Cowal
in SCOTTISH STUDIES, No. 15 (1971).
John Bannerman, “The Lordship of the Isles: Historical Background”, App.
II of Late Medieval Monumental Sculpture in West Highlands, eds.
Kennth Steer & John Bannerman (1977).
W. D. H. Sellar, “Highland Family Origins”
Edward J. Cowan, “The Historical Macbeth”