Sources & Disclaimer

Sources

 

“Angus MacAlister of Glenbarr, Kintyre Laird”, obituary, the Scotsman, 17 April 2007.

Bardon, Jonathan, A History of Ulster (Belfast: The Blackstaff Press,  1992).         

Barrow, G. W. S., Kingship and Unity: Scotland 1000-1306, 2^nd ed. (Edinburgh University Press, 2003).

Beaton, Duncan: “How the Tarbert Lands Passed from the Macalisters to the Campbells”, Journal of the Clan Campbell Society, vol. 24, no. 1 (Winter 1997).

Black, George F., The Surnames of Scotland (Edinburgh: Birlinn Ltd., 1993).

Burke’s Peerage and Gentry: ‘McAlister of Loup and Kennox, Chief of McAlester’ (http://www.burkespeerage.com/Search/Family HomepageFull.aspx?FID=8792)

—: ‘McDonnell of Kilsharvan’ (http://www.burkespeerage.com/Search/FamilyHomepageFull.aspx?FID=9396)

Caldwell, David, Islay: The Land of the Lordship (Edinburgh: Birlinn Ltd., 2008).

Cameron, Nigel M. de S., David F. Wright, David C. Lachman, and Donald E. Meek, eds., Dictionary of Scottish Church History and Theology (Downers Grove, Ill.: InterVarsity Press, 1993).

“Clan McAlester” (Preliminary Report on research carried out to establish the descent of Charles Godfrey Somerville McAlester from Charles McAlester of Loup), courtesy of William McAlester of Loup. [Report]

“Clan MacAlister News” (newsletter of the Clan MacAlister Society of Australia): no. 14 (November 1991); no. 30 (January 1997);  no. 31 (April 1997); no. 32 (August 1997); no. 33 (January 1998); no. 35 (September 1998). [“News”]           

Devine, T. M., The Scottish Nation: A History, 1700–2000 (New York: Viking Penguin, 1999).

Dickson, J. W., W. H. Dunbar, Esqs., Advocates, & John Rymer, Esq., W. S., The Scottish Jurist: Containing reports of cases decided in the House of Lords, Courts of Session, Teinds, & Justiciary, with outer-house cases, and acts of sederunt from 12^th November 1830 to 9 July 1831, inclusive, vol. III (Edinburgh: Michael Anderson, 1831).

Dobson, David, Original Scots Colonists: Supplement 1607–1707, in “Scottish Immigrants to North America, 1600s-1800s”. [Supplement]

—, Scots Banished to America, 1650--1775, in “Scottish Immigrants to North America, 1600–1800s”. [Banished]     

—, Scots in the Carolinas, 1680–1830, in “Scottish Immigrants to North America, 1600–1800s”. [Carolinas]

—, Scottish Emigration to Colonial America, 1607-1785 (Athens, Ga.: University of Georgia Press, 1994).

—, Scottish Highlanders on the Eve of the Great Migration, 1725-1775: the People of Argyll (Maryland: Clearfield,       

            2005).

—, Scottish Settlers in North America, 1625–1825, vols. I-VII, in “Scottish Immigrants to North America, 1600–1800s”. [Settlers]

Dodgshon, Robert A., From Chiefs to Landlords: Social and Economic Change in the Western Highlands and Islands, c. 1493–1820 (Edinburgh University Press, 1998).

Donaldson, Gordon, and Robert S. Morpeth, A Dictionary of Scottish History (Edinburgh: John Donald Publishers, Ltd., 1977).

Douglas, Hugh, and Michael J. Stead, The Flight of Bonnie Prince Charlie (Gloucestershire: Sutton Publishing Ltd., 2000).

Dwelly, Edward, Illustrated Gaelic-English Dictionary, 11^th ed.  (Edinburgh: Birlinn Ltd., 1993).

Forbes, Robert, Jacobite Memoirs of the Rebellion of 1745, Robert Chambers, ed. (Edinburgh: William and Robert Chambers; London: Longman & Co., 1834)

“Fortiter” (newsletter of the Clan MacAlister Society [USA]): December 1981; January 1982; February 1982; April 1982; June 1982; August 1982; October 1982.

Fotheringham, J. G., ed., The Diplomatic Correspondence of Jean de Montereul and the Brothers de Bellièvre, French Ambassadors in England and Scotland, 1645-48, vol. 2, trans. J. G. Fotheringham (Edinburgh: Scottish History Society, 1899).

Fraser, Alexander, B.D., North Knapdale in the XVII and XVIIIth Centuries (Oban, Scotland: The Oban Times, 1964).

Fraser-Mackintosh, Charles, The Last Macdonalds of Isla (Glasgow: 1895; GoogleBookSearch).

Grant, Neil, Scottish Clans & Tartans (New York: Crescent Books, 1987).

Grant, I. F., and Hugh Cheape, Periods in Highland History (Barnes & Noble, Inc., by arrangement with Shepheard-Walwyn Ltd., 1987, 1997).

Gregory, Donald, The History of the Western Highlands and Islands of Scotland, from ad 1493 to ad 1625, 2nd ed. (Glasgow, Thomas D.Morison, 1881).

Hill, Rev. George, An Historical Account of the MacDonnells of Antrim, including Notices of some other septs, Irish and Scottish (Belfast: Archer & Sons, 1873).

Keay, John, and Julia Keay, eds., Collins Encyclopaedia of Scotland (London: Harper Collins, 1994).

Kingsburgh Manuscript, in Macalister (Historical Section), compiled by the Clan MacAlister Society (USA). [Kingsburgh]

Kintyre Rentals, 1505-1710, transcribed by Judge A. I. B. Stewart & Andrew McKerral, 1987 (document downloaded from scribd.com, July 2010).                                                             

“Lachlan Macalister, from Isle of Skye to the New Colony of Australia: Pioneer of Gippsland” (article?) April 1992. Courtesy of Max Milton Macalister, Melbourne (in possession of CMA  historian).   

Livingstone of Bachuil, Alastair, Christian W. H. Aikman, and Betty Stuart Hart, eds., Muster Roll of Prince Charles Edward Stuart’s Army, 1745–6 (Aberdeen University Press, 1984). [Muster Roll]

Macalister, compiled by the Clan MacAlister Society (USA): section 1: “Branches and Septs of Clan MacAlister” [CMS]; section 2: “Historical Section” [CMS(2)]  

McAlister, Vance B.: “Somerled, King of the Isles” [Waiting to hear back from Vance about where this article can be found.]

“McAlisters in the First U.S. Census”, Mac-Alasdair Clan, vol. IV, no. 3 (Sept. 1994).

McAllister, Robert M.: “McAllisters at Gettysburg”, Mac-Alasdair Clan, vol. VIII, no. 4 (Dec. 1998).

—: “In Memorium: The Viet Nam Wall McAlisters”, Mac-Alasdair Clan, vol. IX, no. 2 (June 1999).

MacDonald, Rev. A, and Rev. A Macdonald, The Clan Donald, vol. III (Inverness: Northern Counties Publishing Company, Ltd., 1904).

MacDonald, D. MacDonell: “The MacAlisters” in The Highlander [I have e-mailed the editors to get the volume and date for this] [DMM]

MacDonald, Donald J., of Castleton, Clan Donald (Loanhead, Midlothian: Macdonald Publishers, 1978), pp. 163-179.                        

MacDonald, Forrest Fraser: “Descent of Branches of Clan Donald” (descendancy chart, in possession of CMA historian).            [“Descent”]

MacDonald, R. Andrew, “Rebels without a Cause? The Relations of Fergus of Galloway and Somerled of Argyll with the Scottish Kings, 1153-1164”, in E.J. Cowan and R. Andrew MacDonald, eds., Alba: Celtic Scotland in the Medieval Era (E. Lothian: Tuckwell Press, 2000), pp. 166-186.                   

—, The Kingdom of the Isles: Scotland’s Western Seaboard, c. 1100–1336 (East Linton, Scotland: Tuckwell Press Ltd., 1997). [Kingdom]

MacDougall, Norman, The Stewart Dynasty in Scotland: James IV (East Linton, Scotland: Tuckwell Press Ltd., 1997).

MacInnes

Mackenzie, Hector, “Sir William Mackinnon, BT”, Kintyre Magazine on-line, issue 15 (March 1998).

McKerral, Andrew, Kintrye in the 17^th Century (Tweeddale Court, Edinburgh: Oliver & Boyd, 1948; reprinted 2001 by the Kintyre Antiquarian and Natural History Society).            

MacKinnon, Charles, Scottish Highlanders (Barnes & Noble Books, 1992).

MacLeod, John, Highlanders: A History of the Gael (London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1996).

MacLysacht, Edward, The Surnames of Ireland, 6^th ed. (Dublin: Irish Academic Press Ltd., 1991).

—, More Irish Families (Dublin: Irish Academic Press).

McNamee, Colm, The Wars of the Bruces: Scotland, England, and Ireland, 1306–1328 (East Linton, Scotland: Tuckwell Press Ltd., 1997).

Maiden, Alastair M., “The Great Pestilence in Kintyre”, Kintyre Magazine web edition, issue 11 (November 1997).

Marsden, John, Somerled and the Emergence of Gaelic Scotland (Edinburgh: John Donald Publishers, 2005).

Martin, Angus, Kintyre: The Hidden Past (Edinburgh: John Donald Publishers, 1984, reprinted 1999).

Melville, Evan Whyte, The register of the Privy Council of Scotland, Second Series, vol. II: ad 1627-1628 (Edinburgh: Privy Council, Scotland, 1900).

Mitchell, Dugald, M.B.C.M., Tarbert Past and Present: Gleanings in Local History (Dumbarton, Scotland: Bennett & Thomson, 1886). [A 1996 reprint of this book is available from House of Lochar publishers, Isle of Colonsay; www.colonsay.org.uk.]

Montcreiffe of that Ilk, The Highland Clans (Brumhall House, 1967; reprinted in 1973).

Munro, Jean, and R. W. Munro, Acts of the Lords of the Isles, 1336-1493 (Edinburgh: Scottish History Society,  

            1986).

New Statistical Account, 15 volumes (Edinburgh: Blackwood, 1845): County of Argyleshire, parishes of: Kilcalmonell & Kilberry (pp. 408–412); Killean & Kilchenzie (pp. 376–394); North Knapdale (pp. 631–643); Saddell & Skipness (pp. 436–453); Southend (pp. 413– 436); Co. of Inverness, parish of Strath (vol. 14, pp. 300-317); Co. of Ayrshire, parish of Stewarton (vol. 5, pp. 727-740).

Newton, Michael, A Handbook of the Scottish Gaelic World (Dublin: Four Courts Press, 2000).

Pitcairn, Robert, Esq., Criminal Trials in Scotland from a.d. M.CCCC.LXXXVIII to a.d. M.DC. XXIV, embracing the entire reigns of James IV. And V., Mary Queen of Scots, and James VI, compiled from the original records and mss. with historical notes and illustrations, Vols. I, III (Edinburgh: William Tait, 1833; now available online at googlebooksearch).

Roberts, John, Clan, King and Covenant

Royle, Trevor, Civil War: The Wars of the Three Kingdoms, 1638–1660 (London: Abacus, 2004).

“Scottish Immigrants to North America, 1600s–1800s” (Family Archive Viewer, CD268, The Learning Company, Inc., 23 April 2001).

Scottish Record Office, The ’45 and After: historical background, document extracts and copies (Edinburgh: Publications and Education Branch, 1995). [SRO]

Sellar, W. D. H., “Hebridean Sea Kings: The Successors of Somerled, 1164–1316", in E.J. Cowan and R. Andrew MacDonald, eds., Alba: Celtic Scotland in the Medieval Era (E. Lothian: Tuckwell Press, 2000), pp. 187-218.

Smout, T. C., A History of the Scottish People, 1560–1830 (Glasgow: Fontana Paperbacks,  1972).

Statistical Account of Scotland 1791–1798, Sir John Sinclair, ed., 20 volumes (published 1799; out of print): Vol. XIX, parishes of: Campbeltown, pp. 517–567;
            Kilcalmonnell & Kilberry, pp. 54–67; South Knapdale, pp. 308–326; Southend, pp. 363–368; vo;. XVI, parish of Strath, pp. 222-229.    

Stevenson, David, Highland Warrior: Alasdair MacColla and the Civil Wars (Edinburgh: John Donald Publishers, 1980, 2003).

---, The Origins of Freemasonry (Cambridge University Press, 1988).

Stewart, A. I. B., “The Argyll Rebellion of 1685", Kintyre Magazine web edition, issue 11 (November 1997).

—, “The Duel”, Kintyre Magazine web edition, issue 14 (February 1998).

Sykes, Bryan, Saxons, Vikings, and Celts: The Genetic Roots of Britain and Ireland (New York: Norton & Co., 2006; originally published in the UK as Blood of the Isles: Exploring the Genetic Roots of our Tribal History).

Third Statistical Account, Henry Hamilton, ed., 31 volumes (Glasgow, 1960): County of Argyll, parish of Killean & Kilchenzie (pp. 273–278); North Knapdale (pp.        
            242–250); Saddell & Skipness (pp. 263-272).

Thomson, Derek, ed., The Companion to Gaelic Scotland (Oxford: Blackwell Reference, 1983).

Thomson, Oliver, The Great Feud: The Campbells and the MacDonalds (UK: Sutton Publishing Ltd., 2000). [Feud]

Turner, Sir James, Memoirs of His Own Life and Times, ed. Thomas Thomson (Edinburgh: Bannatyne Club Publications, 1829).

Tytler, Patrick Fraser, Memorable Wars of Scotland (Edinburgh: W. P. Nimmo, Hay & Mitchell, 1896).        

Way & Squire, Scottish Clan & Family Encyclopedia (Glasgow: HarperCollins, 1994). [Clan]

Webb, Reverend James, “Saddell Castle”, Kintyre Magazine web edition, issue 17 (May 1998).

Williams, Ronald, The Heather & the Gale: Clan Donald and Clan Campbell during the Wars of Montrose (Colonsay, Scotland: House of Lochar, 1997).