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This project is a meeting place for users who are descendants of the clan MacRae/McRae, of Dalriada Scottish ancestry. Versions of the name Macrae appear in both Scotland and Ireland. DNA results have found them in SW Ireland, NW Ireland, and various areas of Scotland. The Scottish Highland Clan of Macraes first settled at Clunes, near Beauly, Inverness-shire, Scotland. In the 14th century a branch settled at Kintail in Ross-shire and became constables of Eilean Donan castle. In the ensuing years, members of this Highland clan, have scattered throughout the globe.
Fionnla Dubh mac Gillechriosd MacRae (aka Black Finlay son of Christopher). He is the progenitor of the MacRaes of Kintail, Ross-shire, Scotland. and had a grandson, Christopher (Gillechroisd) MacRae, who was the Constable of Eilean Donan Castle around 1511. Christopher had six sons, three of whom, Duncan, Farquhar and Finlay, formed three separate Kintail MacRae lines as follows:
Fair MacRaes - all the descendants of Duncan (Donnacha Mac Gileschroid) MacRae (History of Clan MacRae page 25), which includes the descendants of the Reverend Farquhar MacRae of Kintail (History of Clan MacRae page 52) and his sons Reverend John of Dingwall and John (Ian Breac).
Black MacRaes (eventually the Torlysich MacRaes) - all the descendants of Farquhar (History of Clan MacRae chapter XIV), which includes descendants of Donnachad Mor aka Donnachad Mac Alister, Donald Og (eighth in descent from Fionnla Dubh Mac Gillechriosd) and Reverend John of Knockbain.
Strathglass MacRaes - all the descendants of Finlay.
Reverend Farquhar MacRae’s descendants test positive for the SNP R-FGC17603 (Christopher MacRae Constable of Eilean Donan 1511). Some of our MacRae cousins test positive for SNP R-FGC19785 which is also downstream from R-FGC17603. This indicates that they descend from the Black MacRae family lineage. There are two subgroups under the Black MacRae marker, FGC19785, that is FGC19782 and Y59895. (Y59895 is a newly found marker around which there is still come uncertainty, and it may actually be a Fair MacRae marker). R-BY39168 is also a haplogroup which is downstream from R-FGC17603 and is found in male descendants of John Stewart (ca. 1733-1830).
"History of the Clan MacRae with Genealogies" by Alexander MacRae