clan MacPhee(MacFie)

[TexasMacPhee]

i'm woundering if anyone could tell me more about my clan or where i can find more about it.If our a MacPhee(MacFie) then i would like to get in touch.thanks for your time!

[Fenris]

TexasMcPhee,

The McPhees were frequently considered to be a 'tinker' clan (itinerant pot menders) but don't take it personally!

Try an internet search using McPhee or Clan McPhee as the key word(s), that should turn up what you are looking for.

best of luck

fenris

[Edited by Fenris on 2nd August 2001 at 14:48]

[colonsay]

Howdy, TexasMacPhee-

Clan MacPhee were not always [or all] Highland tinkers. Those who became such were, no doubt
forced into the practice after the loss of their ancestral islands, Colonsay and Oronsay [hence the choice of my internet address], to invasion by the mainland clans of Argyll--I don't know whether to blame the Campbells or the MacDonalds but I hold no grudge against either. As I know very little about this episode, I'm going to take Fenris' advice and try an internet search. In the meantime, I would ask anyone with further information on the subject to enlighten us all.

As for me, I need information about the connection between the MacPhee clan and my family,
the Guffeys, who, I am told, are descended from them. The only thing I know is that my ancestor, one William Guffey, departed Lanarkshire for Pennsylvania in 1743 under unknown but presumably honorable circumstances. If anyone knows how, and if, MacPhees became Guffeys and where in Scotland they might have been found in the 18th century and before, please reply.

[Edited by colonsay on 6th August 2001 at 19:32]

[Celto]

TexasMacPhee,

The Maches (Macfie) are Celts and are supposed to be of the race of Alpin. In Gaelic the clan name is Dubhsithe--the dark-featured tribe. In 1549 the island of Colonsay, in Argyll, is recorded to be under the sway of "an gentle Caitan called MacDuffyhe." The effgies on their tomstones represent them either as warriors or churchmen. Later on the Macfie dismantled and they merged into clans more powerful. Some followed the MacDonalds of Islay (see the Islay Celtic cross) others followed theCameron of Lochiel.

Hope this helps

[TexasMacPhee]

thx for info but if anyone else knows anything please tell me.

[DavidMorgan]

You might try Morgan Publications on

http://homepages.tesco.net/~morganpu.../morganpu.html

for full detsails of Clan Macduffie (now Macfie) which includes McPhee.

David Morgan

[SherbrookeJacobite]

A bit of information on those MacPhee's who came to follow Cameron of Lochiel.

MacPHEE, MacFIE, MacVEE
A branch of this Scottish Clan, in Glendessary and adjacent parts, was "confederated" with Clan Cameron for hundreds of years; following Lochiel, but usually retaining their surnames.

They were a branch of the Clann Dhubhi, whose chief, MacPhee of Colonsay, was driven off of that island and the clan became "broken," settling where they might in other clan lands.

GLEN DESSARRY / GLEANN DEIS AIRIDH:

"Glen of the South Sheiling." West of the west end of Loch Arkaig, along the river Dessarry, running into the hills of Knoydart and westward towards the head of Loch Nevis; between Lochaber and Knoydart. A ruin beside the road near Strathan is what remains of a small Hanoverian barracks where a garrison was stations after the 1745 Jacobite Rebellion.