Clan Macqueen

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Clan MacQueen / Clan Revan
MacShuibhne
Plant badge
boxwood or red whortleberry
Clan MacQueen / Clan Revan no longer has a chief, and is an armigerous clan
Last ChiefThe MacQueen of Corrybrough
Allied clans
Clan MacDonald of Clan Ranald

Clan Macqueen is a Highland

Chattan Confederation.[1] The clan does not currently have a chief and is therefore considered an armigerous clan.[1]

History

Origins

The name MacQueen is sometimes also given as MacSween which means son of Sweyn.

Chattan Confederation and so the MacQueens settled around Findhorn and became part of the confederation of Clan Chattan.[1]

The Clan MacQueen was then known as the Clan Revan.[1] The chiefs became the Lairds of Corrieborough and were highly regarded amongst the supporters of the MacDonalds.[1]

18th century

The chief of the

Clan MacDonald of Sleat said in 1778: "it does me great honour to have the sons of the Chieftains in the Regiment and as the MacQueens have been invariably attached to our family, to whom we believe we owe our existence, I am proud of the nomination".[1]

The MacQueens or MacSweens were numerous in the Hebrides.[1] The Reverend of Snizort, Donald MacQueen was of such intellect that he even impressed the doctor Samuel Johnson when he visited the Hebrides.[1] The name MacQueen was not always highly regarded as Robert McQueen, Lord Braxfield, a notorious 18th-century judge was feared for his savage sentences and use of the death penalty.[1]

The chief's family is believed to have moved to New Zealand and the clan became scattered throughout Scotland and the rest of the English-speaking world.[1]

Modern clan symbolism

The MacQueen tartan, as published in the Vestiarium Scoticum in 1842. Today the Vestiarium is considered a Victorian era hoax.[2]

Today members of Scottish clans show their clan allegiance by wearing

common heath attributed as their clan badge. Common heath is the clan badge of many of the clans associated with Clan Donald.[4]

The MacQueen tartan was first published in 1842, in the

Scottish Tartans World Register (STWR) notes that the MacQueen tartan is similar to the Fraser and Gunn tartans, which both have four bold stripes. However, the STWR considers it to be a combination of the MacDonald and Mackintosh tartans.[5] The tartan scholar D. C. Stewart noted that the MacQueen tartan is the reverse of the MacKeane tartan, possibly because of the two similar-sounding names, even though both names have a different history.[2]

Associated Names and Septs

The following Scottish and Irish names are spelling variants of the Clan name MacQueen:

See also

Notes

  1. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m Way, George and Squire, Romily. Collins Scottish Clan & Family Encyclopedia. (Foreword by The Rt Hon. The Earl of Elgin KT, Convenor, The Standing Council of Scottish Chiefs). Published in 1994. Page 426.
  2. ^ a b Stewart (1974), p. 49.
  3. ^ "MacQueen". MyClan (Myclan.com). Archived from the original on 19 March 2007. Retrieved 6 September 2008.
  4. ^ Adam; Innes of Learney (1970), pp. 541–543
  5. Scottish Tartans World Register
    (scottish-tartans-world-register.com)    . Retrieved 22 September 2008.
  6. ^ Kenny, Hamill (1960) [1945]. West Virginia place names: their origin and meaning, including the nomenclature of the streams and mountains. West Virginia University. p. 514. OCLC 233593610.

References

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