Clans of Lochaber

Families seated in Lochaber

• Clan HendersonBodyguards of the chiefs of MacDonald of Glencoe.
• Clan MacDonaldThe largest of the Highland clans, Lords of the Isles.
• Clan CameronSons of Lochiel, fierce in the Stewart cause.

Historic ties to Lochaber

Families with historic but not core ground here.

• Clan Morrison

Champions made here

Famous bearers whose lives or work root in Lochaber.

• Bonnie Prince CharlieThe Stuart prince who landed in Moidart in July 1745 with seven men and within ten weeks had taken Edinburgh, beaten a government army at Prestonpans, and marched a Highland army to within a hundred and twenty-seven miles of London.
• Donald Cameron of LochielThe XIX Chief of Clan Cameron whose decision on the nineteenth of August 1745 to bring out the men of Lochaber for Prince Charles Edward Stuart at Glenfinnan made the '45 rising possible.

Stories told here

Legends set in Lochaber, from any family that carries them.

• The Massacre of Glencoe1692
  On the Clan MacDonald page
• Inverlochy1645
  On the Clan MacDonald page