Clan Buchanan

Clan Buchanan
Na Cananaich
Crest: A hand coupee holding a ducal cap, or duke's cornet, proper, with two laurel branches wreathed surrounding the crest, disposed orleways proper.[1][2]
MottoClarior hinc honos "The Brighter Hence the Honour" or "Henceforth forward the honour shall grow ever brighter"
War cryClar Innes[3]
Profile
RegionHighlands
DistrictStirling
Plant badgeBilberry[4] and Oak
Pipe music"The Return of the Chief" by Richard Harris, 2016
Chief
John Michael Baillie-Hamilton Buchanan of that Ilk
The Buchanan
SeatCambusmore
Historic seatBuchanan Auld House and Clairinch island
Septs of Clan Buchanan
The Septs of Clan Buchanan derive from the first Auselan to use the surname Buchanan, Gilbert, whose father had obtained the Buchanan lands, and his brothers Colman and Methlan, grandson Maurice, and great-grandson Walter. For names spelled with Mac also read as Mc [5]
Bohanan, Bohanon, Bohannan, Bohannon, Buchannan, Buchannon, Buchanon, Buxton*, Colman*, Cormack*, Cousland*, Dewar*, Dove*, Dow*, Dowe[citation needed], Gibb*, Gibbon*, Gibson*, Gilbert, Gilbertson*, Harper*, Harperson*, Leavy*, Lennie*, Lenny*, MacAldonich*, MacAlman*, MacAslan*, MacAslin*, MacAuselan*, MacAuslan*, MacAusland*, MacAuslane*, MacAlman*, MacAlmont*, MacAmmond*, MacAsland*, MacChruiter*, MacColman*, MacCormack*, MacCubbin*, MacCubbing*, MacCubin*, MacGeorge*, MacGibbon*, MacGreuisich*, MacGubbin*, MacInally*, MacIndeor*, MacIndoe*, MacKinlay*, MacKinley*, MacMaster*, MacMaurice*, MacMurchie*, MacMurchy*, MacNeur*, MacNuir*, MacNuyer*, MacQuattie*, MacWattie**, MacWherter, MacWhirter*, Masters*, Masterson*, MacCaslin*, Morrice*, Morris*, Morrison*, Murchie*, Murchison*, Richardson*, Risk*, Rusk*, Ruskin*, Spittal*, Spittel*, Walter*, Walters*, Wason*, Waters*, Watson*, Watt*, Watters*, Weir*, Yuill*, Yool*, Yule*, Youll*, Zuill*.
*Asterisked (*) sept names are sourced from Scots Kith & Kin. 1900. Edinburgh: Albyn Press, Ltd. for Clan House, Lindsay & Co. Ltd., s.d. (c1960, reprint of 1900 first edition). 94 pp. + fold-out map.
Clan branches
Auchneven, Leny, Arnprior, Spittall, and Auchmar
Allied clans
Rival clans

Clan Buchanan (Scottish Gaelic: Na Cananaich [nə ˈkʰanənɪç]) is a Highlands Scottish Clan whose origins are said to lie in the 1225 grant of lands on the eastern shore of Loch Lomond to clergyman Sir Absalon of Buchanan by the Earl of Lennox.[6]

  1. ^ Smibert, Thomas (1850). The clans of the Highlands of Scotland: an account of their annals, with delineations of their tartans, and family arms. Edinburgh: James Hogg. p. 44.
  2. ^ The belt and buckle encompassing the crest shown, implies that is a clansmen or clanswomen crest, the chief's crest is encompassed by a circlet.
  3. ^ The Scottish Clans and Their Tartans, p.11. (Retrieved on 24 April 2009). Edinburgh: W. & A.K. Johnston, 1900(?).
  4. ^ Logan, James (1899). The clans of the Scottish Highland. Columbia University: Bryce. p. 113.
  5. ^ Scots Kith & Kin. 1900. Edinburgh: Albyn Press, Ltd. for Clan House, Lindsay & Co. Ltd., s.d. (c1960, reprint of 1900 first edition). 94 pp. + fold-out map.
  6. ^ "The Scottish Clans and Their Tartans". W. & A. K. Johnston Limited. Edinburgh and London. 1886. Page 3.