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I'm confused. I followed the advice of Pamela Holden (elsewhere in this forum) and looked up Clan Farquharson on the web page www.electricscotland.com. I found the same information that I had earlier found at another site, www.scotclans.com. According to both of these sources Clan Farquharson (which appears to be synonymous with Clan Fionnladh or Fionnlaigh, originated with Finlay Mor, who died in 1547. Both sources also mention that Clan Farquharson is a branch of the Clan Chattan Confederation.
The book "Findley Genealogy" by Mrs. Robert A. Hughes (see my other notes on this page) quotes the following from another book, "Torrence and Allied Families": "Fearchar was chief of a powerful clan known as Clan Fionnladh, a sept of the great confederation, Clan Chatton,...in the year 1236." It is easy to see that Farquhar and Fearchar might be variations of the same name. This book also traces Fearchar's ancestry back to Macbeth and a couple of generations before him, and states that his father, Finley McRuaidhri, was "The Earl of Moray, Chief of Clan Fionnladh." Macbeth was born about 1005. This places the clan a half millenium earlier than the above references.
The Hughes book further states: "Fionnladh, from which the name Finley is derived, is a combination of the Gaelic words Fionn, meaning Fergus, and Ladh, meaning boy or child. From this root have come the different spellings such as Finleg, Finlegh, Finley, Finlay, Findley and Findlay. All are pure Scotch and identical in origin." I infer from this that Fionnladh/Findley means the same as Ferguson (or Farquharson?).
Can anyone clarify this?
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