The Highlanders of Scotland - Clan Strachan Society

CHAP. VIII] O F S C O T L A N D 345
Clan Quarrie.
The IMacquarries first appear in possession of the island
of Ulva and part of Mull, and like the Mackinnons, their
situation forced them, at a very early period, to become
dependent upon the Macdonalds. But their descent from the
clan Alpine, which has constantly been asserted by tradition,
is established by the manuscript 1450, which deduces their
origin from Guaire or Godfrey, a brother of Fingon, ancestor
of the Mackinnons, and Anrias or Andrew, ancestor of the
Macgregors. The history of the Macquarries resembles that
of the Mackinnons in many respects ; like them they had
migrated far from the headquarters of their race, they became
dependent upon the lords of the Isles, and followed them as
if they had been a branch of the clan.
On the forfeiture of the last lord of the Isles, they became,
like the Mackinnons, in a manner independent, and although
surrounded by various powerful clans, they maintained their
station, which was that of a minor clan, without apparently
undergoing any alteration ; and survived many of the revolutions
of fortune to which the greater clans were exposed in
the same station, bearing among the other clans the character
of great antiquity, and of having once been greater than they
now were.
Clan Aula.
The Macaulays, of Ardincaple, have for a long period been
considered as deriving their origin from the ancient earls of
Lennox, and it has generally been assumed, without investiga-
tion, that their ancestor was Aulay, son of Aulay, who appears
in Ragman Roll, and whose father, Aulay, was brother of
Maldowan, earl of Lennox. Plausible as this derivation may
appear, there are yet two circumstances which render it
impossible, and establish the derivation of the clan to have
been very different.
In the first place, it is now ascertained that these Aulays
were of the family of de Fasselane, who afterwards succeeded
to the earldom, and among the numerous deeds relating to
this family in the Lennox chartulary, there is no mention of
any other son of Aulay's than Duncan de Fasselane, who