Michies Abroad (Classic Reprint) - Unknown Author

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Mr. J. F. George in Scottish Notes and Queries of October, 1905, says: Some authorities assert that the surname Michie is a debased Lowland form of MacEachan or Maclan. In either case, therefore, the sept would belong to the Clan Alacdonald. A less interesting but perhaps more probable suggestion is that Michie is a diminutive of the once favourite Scottish Christian name Michael, Mickie being easily converted into Michie.8 in the same publication says Michie or Mickie is probably a corruption of Michael, which means who like God Lowers Dictionary of Names, says Michie, is a nursename of Michael. Strathdon, in the Western Highlands of Aberdeenshire, seems to have been the original habitat of the sept, many of whom were Catholics. How they came to be settled there is told in a letter from Mr. Alexander Michie, Maraisburg, Transvaal, to his brother Mr. A.S. Michie, Manager of the Royal Bank of Scotland, Glasgow, dated 22 nd September 1905, in which he says that the account given by Mr, Thomas Michie, brother-in-law of Mr. Ailanach, the first Superintendent of Police in Hawick, fifty or sixty years ago, is to tlie effect that the first of the name was a son of the then Chief of the Macdonalds of the Isles. He was a younger son, and born on St. Michaels day, and for that reason was named Michael. His eldest son was thought to be somewhat deficient in some of those qualifications which were generally reganied as essential to a chief of the right stamp. Michael and a younger brother formed a party to oust the eldest brother from his position as head of the Clan, but a stronger party rallied in his support, and in the fighting which followed, the party of the two rebels was defeated, and Michael had to fly for safety to the mainland. On the way over, the boat in which the fugitives were, was overtaken by some of the pursuers. One of them had his hand on the edge of the boat, but with a thrust of a dagger, he was forced to let go his hold, and the fugitives escaped.
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