Clans of Atholl & Strathearn
Perth & Kinross
The strath, the Tay and the Highland line, Murrays, Stewarts, Robertsons.
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Families seated in Atholl & Strathearn
- Clan FletcherArrow-makers to the great clans, patriots in their own right.
- Clan GowSmiths of Clan Chattan, and the Prince of Scottish Fiddlers.
- Clan HayHereditary Constables of Scotland, second only to the crown.
- Clan RobertsonChildren of Duncan, fierce when roused.
- Clan MacGregorThe persecuted clan, proscribed but never broken.
- Clan StewartFrom High Stewards to the throne, the royal name of Scotland.
- Clan MurrayDukes of Atholl, and Jacobite generals.
- Clan FergusonSweeter from hardship, the descendants of Fergus across many countries.
- Clan DuncanThe brown warrior, Duncan the king and the Robertson sept.
Historic ties to Atholl & Strathearn
Families with historic but not core ground here.
Champions made here
Famous bearers whose lives or work root in Atholl & Strathearn.
- Niel GowThe Inver weaver's son who taught himself the fiddle by ear, was retained as house musician by the Dukes of Atholl from 1745, composed roughly eighty-eight strathspeys and reels that became the repertoire of Scottish traditional music, and sat for Raeburn at sixty-three as the foundational image of the Scottish fiddler.
- Rob Roy MacGregorThe Glengyle-born Highland cattleman, raid-leader and outlaw of the proscribed Clan Gregor whose Trossachs life Walter Scott put into the novel that carried the MacGregor name into the world.