NAME: FARQUHAR MacRAE

SURNAME: MacRae ................GIVEN NAMES:Farquhar ............ *SEX: M

BIRTH: 1580 ,Eilean Donan Castle Scotland

DEATH: 1662

BURIAL: Macrae burial ground at Clachan Duich (also called Kilduich), an ancient kirk in Kintail dedicated to St. Dubhthach

• FATHER: Christopher Macrae ( - 1615) .
• MOTHER: Isabella Murchison (1556 - 1625)

MARRIAGE:Christina Macculloch of Park

MARRIED: December 1, 1611

OCCUPATION

: Episcopal minister in the parishes of Gairloch and Kintail, Ross and Cromarty

    Chief of the Clan Macrae

=CHILDREN=

1...m...Alexander Macrae of Inverinate (b. 1612), whose son Duncan was later a celebrated Scottish Gaelic poet

2...m...Donald Macrae, minister of Kintail (b. 1615)

3...m...Miles Macrae (1616-1645), killed at the Battle of Auldearn

4...m...Murdoch Macrae (1617-1700)

5...m...John "Ian Breac" Macrae, minister of Dingwall (1614-1673)

6...m...Christopher Macrae (b. 1619)

7...m...Thomas Macrae (b. 1620)

8...f...Isabel Macrae (b. 1621; m. 1st Malcolm Macrae; 2nd William Mackenzie)

9...f...Helen Macrae (b. 1624; m. John Bayne of Knockbain)

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Farquhar Macrae (1580-1662) was a Scottish Episcopal minister in the parishes of Gairloch and Kintail, Ross and Cromarty (now part of the Highland Council). He is known for the cultural improvement he brought to the north of Scotland in the seventeenth century.

Farquhar Macrae was the son of Christopher Macrae (d. 1615) and Isabella Murchison. He was born in 1580 in Eilean Donan Castle, where his father held the office of constable. He was sent to Perth for his education, and after five years there completed his education at the University of Edinburgh. Kenneth Mackenzie, Lord of Kintail, became acquainted with Macrae at Edinburgh and invited him to come north to help lift the spiritual and educational level of the inhabitants there. Macrae agreed to do so, though it meant he would have to turn down the offer to succeed his teacher, James Reid, as regent (professor). He began his career in the north as headmaster at Fortrose Grammar School, which was a respected school. While there, he was admitted to holy orders and soon acquired a reputation as a “sound, learned, eloquent, and grave preacher.”[1][2]

When ironworks commenced at Letterewe in the parish of Gairloch, Englishmen were brought north to carry on the work there, and seeing that an English-speaking minister was needed to conduct services for them, Sir George Hay (later Earl of Kinnoull) invited Farquhar Macrae to become the vicar of Gairloch. A Gaelic-speaking pastor served the remaining parish, but Macrae also served the parish lying to the north of Loch Maree, then considered part of Lochbroom.[3] During this time, he resided at Ardlair near which is a boulder called “the minister’s stone,” from which Rev. Macrae used to preach in English and Gaelic to those gathered around.[4]

In 1610, after Mackenzie had acquired the Isle of Lewis, he took Macrae with him to help restore the spiritual climate of the island.[5] Macrae baptized all islanders under forty since there had been no minister of the Gospel on Lewis for the preceding forty years.[6] It is said so many required baptism that Macrae was obliged to use a heather besom to sprinkle water on crowds gathered around him rather than performing individual baptism.[7] He also married many couples who had been cohabiting as man and wife under the Scots principle of marriage by cohabitation with habit and repute, thereby legitimizing their children, and he abolished the custom that had grown up there of men putting away their wives “upon the least discord.”[8]

In 1616, Sir George Hay left Letterewe for Edinburgh and urged Rev. Macrae to leave Gairloch “and seek a wider field for his talents in the south,” offering him a pension and a choice of several parishes of which he (Hay) was patron; in addition, he sought an ecclesiastical promotion for Macrae. Macrae at first agreed to the proposal but was persuaded either by the young Colin Mackenzie, Lord of Kintail, or his own uncle, Roderick Macrae, “Tutor of Kintail,” that his services to the north were invaluable. It has been said that, had he accepted Sir George’s proposal, “his career in the Church would have been a very successful and distinguished one.” To entice Macrae to remain in the north, Mackenzie promised him the vicarage of Kintail when it was open; at the time, it was held by the Rev. Murdoch Murchison, Macrae’s elderly uncle. At Murchison’s passing in 1618, Macrae was made vicar of Kintail and, at the same time, was appointed constable of Eilean Donan Castle, which had long been in the keeping of the Clan Macrae. For reasons unknown, one member of the Clan Mackenzie effected the ouster of Macrae from the castle in 1650, though by this time the minister was aged and the cold climate of the castle was not particularly supportive of his health.[9]

He removed to a place called Inchcruiter, remaining there for eleven years with the assistance of some of his grandchildren who resided with him after the passing of his wife. Macrae received there “all sorts of people, he being very generous, charitable, and free-hearted.”[10]

Royalist Sympathies Edit In 1654, during the English Civil War, General George Monck passed through Kintail with his army and commandeered 360 cows belonging to Rev. Macrae, who, like Monck, was a Royalist in his sympathies. After the Restoration, Macrae was advised to seek compensation for his loss from the government, but his loyalty to Charles II was such that he would not hear of it, considering “the successful restoration of the King sufficient compensation for any loss he might have suffered in the Royalist cause.”[11] It is said that, by the time he died, Macrae had re-established his herd, which may even have surpassed its original size had it not been for the constant supply of meat needed for his many “grandchildren and their bairns.”[12]

Death and Burial Edit Macrae lived to see the restoration of Charles II, which happened in 1660. He died in 1662 and was buried in the Macrae burial ground at Clachan Duich (also called Kilduich), an ancient kirk in Kintail dedicated to St. Dubhthach.[13]

Family Edit Farquhar Macrae married Christina Macculloch of Park on December 1, 1611. They were the parents of the following:

Alexander Macrae of Inverinate (b. 1612), whose son Duncan was later a celebrated Scottish Gaelic poet Donald Macrae, minister of Kintail (b. 1615) Miles Macrae (1616-1645), killed at the Battle of Auldearn Murdoch Macrae (1617-1700) John "Ian Breac" Macrae, minister of Dingwall (1614-1673) Christopher Macrae (b. 1619) Thomas Macrae (b. 1620) Isabel Macrae (b. 1621; m. 1st Malcolm Macrae; 2nd William Mackenzie) Helen Macrae (b. 1624; m. John Bayne of Knockbain)

SOURCE : https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Farquhar_Macrae?fbclid=IwAR1rFL_4hS...

IGI RECORDS from The Church of the Latterday Saints - familysearch.org

View Tree for Rev. Farquhar MacRaeRev. Farquhar MacRae (b. 1580, d. 1662) Farquhar MacRae (son of Christopher (MacGonnachie) MacRae and Isabella Murchison) was born 1580 in Scotland, and died 1662. He married Christian McCulloch.

Children of Farquhar MacRae and Christian McCulloch are:

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Rev. Farquhar Macrae, Min. of Kintail SOURCES IGI RECORDS from The Church of the Latterday Saints - familysearch.org

: Fasti ecclesiae scoticanae: the succession of ministers in the Church of Scotland from the reformation, Vol. VII, page 152

"Reverend Farquar McRae was born in 1580 at Ellandonan Castle when his father was the Constable. He was a man of good physique and great bodily strength, and of good ability and talent for learning. His father sent him to school at Perth for four or five years where he became very proficient in Latin. Some of his exercises and discourses in Latin are mentioned as being still preserved in 1704. From Perth he went to the University of Edinburgh and soon surpassed all his fellow students in the study of the Classics and in Philosophy. He also studied Divinity as he wished to become a Minister. He was Head Master of Fortrose Grammar School for 15 months. This school enjoyed a great reputation in the North in those days. While there he was admitted to Holy Orders and he soon acquired celebrity as a sound, learned, and eloquent and grave preacher. He was appointed Vicar of Gairloch in 1608 and stayed until 1618. He was a great friend of Sir George Hay, who later figured prominently in Scottish History as the Earl of Kinnoull and High Chancellor of Scotland. Sir George was a learned lawyer and a man of science and he enjoyed the congenial company of the scholarly and cultured Vicar. Mr. Farquhar lived at Ardlair, where there is a large and prominent rock of a peculiar shape called the “Minister’s Stone”, which is still pointed our as one of the places where Mr. Farquhar used to preach, both in Gaelic and English. In 1610 he conducted a most successful Mission on the Island of Lews. Colin Mackenzie was created first Earl of Seaforth in 1611. The same year he appointed Mr. Farquhar Macrae Vicar of Kintail and Constable of Ellandonan Castle. Colin Mackenzie died 1633 and his brother, Earl George Confirmed Mr. Farquhar in these appointments and offices and renewed his wadset rights to the lands of Dornie, Inig, Aryugan, Drumbuie and other places in Kintail. When General Monks’ army visited Kintail in 1654, they took away 360 head of Mr. Farquhar’s cattle, for which his friends strongly urged him to put in a claim for compensation when Charles the second was restored in 1660, but the old man refused to do so, being so loyal to the House of Stuart, that he considered the successful restoration of the King full compensation for his loss. In 1656, when he was 76 years of age, his son the Rev. Donald Macrae of Urray was approved as fellow labourer and conjunct Minister with his father, to the Vicarage of Kintail. This document is preserved in the Records of the Presbytery of Dingwall. He died in the midst of a prosperous grown up family, regretted and mourned by all his countrymen and leaving behind his memories of goodness and worth, which the lapse of two centuries have not effaced. For nearly half a century Mr. Farquhar Macrae was the central figure and chief guide in things both spiritual and temporal, to the people of Kintail. A man whose scholarly culture and refinement was a source of sweetness and light to the community in which his net was cast. He faithfully carried on the old traditions, was the trusted friend of Seaforth, and lived at Ellandonan, refusing offers of preferment, which would have called him away from his beloved Kintail. In 1611 he married Christian, eldest daughter of Macculloch of Park, Strathpeffer, and had eight sons and two daughters. He died in 1662 at the age of 82 and he was buried with his ancestors in the old Kilduich Churchyard in Kintail. "

The Rev. Farquhar Macrae, Chief of the Clan Macrae, was born in 1580, and died in 1662. He was a common ancestor of both Janet of Inverinate, and Christopher of Drudaig

Biographical Summary

"Farquhar Macrae, born 1580, son of Christopher M., Constable of Eilean-Donan Castle; educated at Grammar School, Perth, and Univ. of Edinburgh, where he greatly distinguished himself; was master of the Grammar School of Fortrose for fifteen months. In 1610 he went on a mission with Kenneth, Lord Mackenzie of Kintail, to Macleod of Lewis, where he remained for some time organising Church services ; adm. to Gairloch in 1608 ; trans, and adm. in 1618, and became Constable of Eilean-Donan at same time. Many suggested that he had become too secular, but he was reckoned "a sound, eloquent, and grave preacher." Bishop Maxwell of Ross said of him that he was "a man of great gifts but unfortunately lost in the Highlands." He died Jan. 1662. He marr. 1st Dec. 1611, Christian, daugh. of Duncan M'Culloch of Park, and had issue — Alexander of Inverinate ; John, min. of Dingwall ; Donald, min. of this parish ; Miles ; Murdoch ; Christopher ; Thomas ; Isabel (marr. (1) Malcolm Macrae, killed at the Battle of Auldearn : (2) William Mackenzie) ; Helen."

SOURCE: Fasti ecclesiae scoticanae: the succession of ministers in the Church of Scotland from the reformation, Vol. VII, page 152

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•Name: Farquhar (Rev) Macrae
•Sex: M •ALIA: Rev. Farquhar of /Inverinate/ •Title: Rev. •Birth: ABT 1580 in In Eilean Donnan Castle •Death: JAN 1661/62 in Kintail •Reference Number: 275 •Note: Some say he may have been a twin brother of Maurice.

Father: Christopher Macrae b: ABT 1537 Mother: Isabella Murchison

Marriage 1 Christina MacCulloch •Married: 1 DEC 1611 Children1.Has Children Alexander of Inverinate Macrae b: 1612 2.Has Children John (Rev) Macrae b: 13 MAR 1613/14 in Ardlair 3.Has Children Donald (Rev) Macrae 4.Has Children Murdoch Macrae 5.Has Children Miles Macrae 6.Has Children John Breac Macrae b: 1630 7.Has No Children Christopher Macrae 8.Has No Children Thomas Macrae 9.Has No Children Isobel Macrae 10.Has No Children Helen Macrae

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