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Clan Strachan
Clan Strachan is a Scottish clan originating from the barony (now village) of Strachan, in Aberdeenshire. As of 31 July 2024, the Clan Strachan Family Convention concluded with unanimous consent to recognise Charles Robert Lund (Rob) Strachan, Mill of Strachan, Strachan, Aberdeenshire, as heritable Chief of the Name and Arms.
The Clan Strachan warcry is Clachnaben!
The Highland Boundary Fault is a geologic fault that traverses Scotland from Arran and Helensburgh on the west coast to Stonehaven in the east. It separates two distinctly different physiographic regions: the Highlands from the Lowlands, but in most places it is only recognisable as a change in topography.
The village of Strachan (Strachan, Aberdeenshire) is located some 15 miles northwest of Stonehaven, 3 miles outside of Banchory, north and adjacent to the Highland Boundary Fault. Therefore, the Barony of Strachan is located within the Highland Region.
The lands of Strachan, including neighbouring Birse and Durris (RMS, ii, no. 251; and Rotuli Scotiae, i, p 10; Skene, 1890), as well as the Howe O' Mearns fell under the demesne of the Mormaer of the Mearns, Máel Petair of Mearns. His name means "tonsured one of (Saint) Peter". One source tells us that Máel Petair was the son of a Máel Coluim. His name occurs in many sources because he was the man who, in 1094, is often credited for the murder of King Duncan II of Scotland. Most historians agree that King Edgar, the brother and heir of Duncan II confiscated Máel Petair's mormaerdom, and converted it to crown lands. By mid-13th century, virtually all of the Mearns were converted to thanages. (Grant, 1998; Broun, 2015; and Early Sources, ii, pp 90).
Clan Strachan should most appropriately be classified (during the medieval period) as "a Lowland Family (or House) residing within the Highland Region". This was not uncommon as, for example, the Name of Gordon, Fraser and others fall within this same classification.
'The Strachans are a good old race, about whom a great amount of misconception and misstatement has already been printed' (Herald and Genealogist, viii, pg. 302). This is as true today, as when it was first printed in 1874.
This surname of Strachan is local as others of the greatest antiquity and has been according to ancient custom taken from lands. (GC, ii, 265)
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Clan Strachan
Clan Strachan is a Scottish clan originating from the barony (now village) of Strachan, in Aberdeenshire. As of 31 July 2024, the Clan Strachan Family Convention concluded with unanimous consent to recognise Charles Robert Lund (Rob) Strachan, Mill of Strachan, Strachan, Aberdeenshire, as heritable Chief of the Name and Arms.
The Clan Strachan warcry is Clachnaben!
The Highland Boundary Fault is a geologic fault that traverses Scotland from Arran and Helensburgh on the west coast to Stonehaven in the east. It separates two distinctly different physiographic regions: the Highlands from the Lowlands, but in most places it is only recognisable as a change in topography.
The village of Strachan (Strachan, Aberdeenshire) is located some 15 miles northwest of Stonehaven, 3 miles outside of Banchory, north and adjacent to the Highland Boundary Fault. Therefore, the Barony of Strachan is located within the Highland Region.
The lands of Strachan, including neighbouring Birse and Durris (RMS, ii, no. 251; and Rotuli Scotiae, i, p 10; Skene, 1890), as well as the Howe O' Mearns fell under the demesne of the Mormaer of the Mearns, Máel Petair of Mearns. His name means "tonsured one of (Saint) Peter". One source tells us that Máel Petair was the son of a Máel Coluim. His name occurs in many sources because he was the man who, in 1094, is often credited for the murder of King Duncan II of Scotland. Most historians agree that King Edgar, the brother and heir of Duncan II confiscated Máel Petair's mormaerdom, and converted it to crown lands. By mid-13th century, virtually all of the Mearns were converted to thanages. (Grant, 1998; Broun, 2015; and Early Sources, ii, pp 90).
Clan Strachan should most appropriately be classified (during the medieval period) as "a Lowland Family (or House) residing within the Highland Region". This was not uncommon as, for example, the Name of Gordon, Fraser and others fall within this same classification.
'The Strachans are a good old race, about whom a great amount of misconception and misstatement has already been printed' (Herald and Genealogist, viii, pg. 302). This is as true today, as when it was first printed in 1874.
This surname of Strachan is local as others of the greatest antiquity and has been according to ancient custom taken from lands. (GC, ii, 265)