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The Maclaines of Lochbuie are descended from Gillean-na-Taughe, or Gillean of the Battleaxe, a fierce warrior born about 1210. He is said to have fought, along with his sons, at the battle of Largs in 1263. Gillean's great-grandson, Iain Dubh, or Black John, had two sons, Eachann Reaganach (Hector the Stern), and Lachainn Lubanach (Lachlan the Wily). Hector, the eldest Son, married Margaret, eldest daughter of MacDonald, Lord of the Isles, via a Papal Dispensation dated April 14, 1356. Lachlan married a younger sister of Margaret in May of 1367. Hector and Lachlan were granted independent charters to lands on the Isle of Mull by the Lord of the Isles; Hector at Lochbuie, and Lachlan at Duart.
Thus, the two dominant branches of the family were founded: Maclaine of Lochbuie and MacLean of Duart. The Maclaine family used the "MacLean" spelling until around 1600, when the present phonetic spelling was adopted. Many of the clansmen at Lochbuie retained other spellings of "MacLean" or "Maclaine",such as "MacLayne" or "McCLain". Various smaller families intermarried or banded together with the Maclaines. Such families include the McFadyens, MacCormicks, Blacks, Beatons, MacGillivrays, MacAvoys, Huies, and Pattons (all with over 200 different spellings).
The Seventh chief was Iain Mor, so expert a fencer that he fought on a stage in Edinburgh before the King and Court and killed a famous Italian swordsman, who had challenged all of Scotland.
They were accepted loyal Clan members. The Maclaines of Lochbuie occasionally feuded with the Duarts (the other MacLeans), but joined forces with them when threatened. One feud was put to rest when the Lochbuie Chief and his followers came upon the Duart Chief and his band in the woods. Duart and his followers were asleep, exhausted after losing a battle with the Lochbuie Clan. Lochbuie's followers wanted to immediately attack. Instead the Lochbuie Chief crept up on the Maclean of Duart and twisted MacLean's hair around his Dirk and stuck it in the ground. The Lochbuie Clan then left. When the Duart Chief awoke to find his hair nailed to the ground. MacLean of Duart recognized that it was Maclaine of Lochbuie's dagger. He was so moved by the act of mercy that he ended the feud. Lochbuie and Duart fought side-by-side at Killecrankie under Bonnie Dundee, but due to what proved to be wise advice, the Lochbuies did not, as a clan, join Bonnie Charlie in the uprising of 1745. Consequently, the Lochbuie estates were not lost as a result of the rebellion, as were Duart. The estates were lost, however, in 1920, and are currently owned by an English family. Many Maclaines were forced or coerced by the Crown to settle the Ulster Plantation in Ireland as a way of subduing the Irish, or suffered economic hardships and were forced to leave Scotland. From Scotland or Ireland, many made their way to Canada, the United States, Australia, and other countries.
Clan McLaine of Lochbuie Website: http://maclainelochbuie.tripod.ca/
First Sept of Clan McLaine is Clan McFayden
Motto " Lamh Laidir Annachtar"
McFadyen (MacFadden, Patton, Peden, etc...)
Other Spellings:
Fadyen, MacFadyen, MacFadin, MacFadion, MacFadwyn, MacFadyean , MacFadyon, MacFaddien, MacFaddin, MacFadzan, MacFadzean, MacFadzein, MacFadzeon, MacFayden, MacFeyden, MacPaden, Macpadene , MacPhadden, MacPhaiden, Makfadieane, Makfadzane, McFaddan, McFaddin, McFadzen, McFayeane, McFydeane, McKfadyean, McPhadan, McPhaddion, McPhaden , McPhadzen, McPhaiden, McPyden, McSpadden, M’Faden, M’Fadzean, M’Fadzeane, M’Fadzeans , M’Fadzeon, M’Faggaine, M’Fedden, M’Phaden, M’Phadden, Phaidean, Paton, Padan, Padon, Padyen, Patein, Pateman, Paten , Patone, Patonson, Patonsoun, Pautoun, Patoune, Patoun, Patowne, Patovnson, Pattinson , Patynson, Patten, Patton, Pattoun, Pattoune, Pattounsoun, Pattowsone, Pawton, Pawtonsoun, Pawtoun, Pawtoune, Pedan, Peden, Pedin, Pedden, Petensen, Pethein , Pethin, Patenesone, Peathine
From the Gaelic "MacPhaidein" -- "little Pat", meaning son of Paidin, a diminutive of Padraig (Patrick). The name is first recorded in Kintyre in 1304. The McFadyens were the original owners of the lands at Lochbuie. They are also known as "Sliocht Nan Or-Cheard", "The Race of Goldsmiths" on the Isle of Mull.
The McFadyens are a very old tribe. They were the first Sept to join the Maclaines, although under dubious circumstances. It is a tradition that the McFadyens were the first owners of Lochbuie. When Hector Maclaine went to claim the lands given to him by the MacDonalds, he found the lands already under the possession of the McFadyens. For mutual protection (from various raiders and neighbouring tribes), the McFadyen Chief granted him permission to build a fortalice at the head of Lochbuie. After the castle was completed, Maclaine used the Castle to wage war on the McFadyens! Legend says that Hector climbed to the top and shot an arrow through a bone that the McFadyen Chief was eating. Not being foolish, the McFadyen Chief removed himself from the scene. Whether Maclaine was aiming for the bone, and hit, or at McFadyen, and missed, is a matter of speculation (and perspective).
The McFadyens had a reputation for parsimony (being cheap), whether they deserved it or not, as in the following bitter little satire current in Mull, Tiree and Islay: "McFadyen of the hen in the homestead of penury: though he stayed til she was boiled, he stayed not til she was eaten - for fear of paying for her." -- "Black's Surnames of Scotland", 1946, pg. 492,
Many McFadyens moved to the Colonies, settling in such places as Victoria County, Canada, or to the United States, New Zealand, and Australia. Some became farmers -- one of the largest seed companies in Canada is named after them -- and others were blacksmiths, merchants, teachers, etc,... The name McFadyen is still common on Mull, Islay, and Tiree.
Still more.........
MACFADYEN,
MACFADIN, MACFADION, MACFADWYN, MACFADYEAN, MACFADYON, MACFADZAN, MACFADZEAN, MACFADZEON, MACFADZEIN, MACFAYDEN, MACFEYDEN, MACPHADEN, and MACPHAIDEN. All from G. Macphaiden (or Macphaidin), 'son of Paidean or little Pat,' and so = Patonson. The late Rev. J. G. Campbell says: "MacFadyens were said to have been the first possessors of Lochbuie, and when expelled they became a race of wandering artificers, Sliochd nan òr-cheard - the race of goldsmiths in Mull." (Clan traditions and popular tales, p. 41). The earliest record of the name is in 1304 when Malcolm Macpadene appears as a charter witness at Achichendone in Kintyre (RMS., II, 3136). Conghan MacPhaden petitioned for the arch deaconry of Argyll in 1390 (Pap. Pet., I, p. 575). John McFadyeane is in record in Edinburgh in 1457 (ER., VI, p. 306), and in 1473 a composition was made with Donald M'Fadzeane in Kirkcudbright (ALHT., I, p. 8). Hugh McFattin was tenant of Mydcoule, Petty, in 1499 (ER., XI, p. 44), and Donald Macfadzane, precentor in Lismore in 1507, appears again in 1511 as 'Sir' Donald McFaden (Poltalloch Writs, p. 183). He was probably the Sir Donald McFadzeane, chaplain of Tibbirmore in the diocese of Sodor, whose death is recorded in 1540 (RSS., II, 3397). Another M'Faden is in record in Iona in 1532. Finlaius M'Fedden, canon of the Isles, was witness to a charter of Muckairn also in 1532 (Cawdor, p. 158) and William M'Fadzean in Dellongfurd witnessed an instrument of sasine at Blairquhan, Ayrshire, in 1618 (Laing, 1794). William Makfadieane in Beirwell was prosecuted for shooting game in 1620 (RPC., XII, p. 391). and another William Makfadzane in Lyneburne was retoured heir of William Makfadzane in 1643 (Retours, Dumfries, 183). The 20s land of Balmacfadzeane in Wigtownshire is mentioned in 1628 (Retours, Wigtown, 70), and John McPhaden was a witness at Leppenmor, 1641 (Poltalloch Writs, p. 73). Duncan M'Phadden and Lachlan M'Phadden appear in Uleyeiffe 1n 1672 (HP., II, p. 208), Malcolm M'Faden and Donald M'Phaden both in Auchadabeg were declared rebels in 1675 (HP.,I), Janet M'Faggaine or M'Fadzeon was banished for refusing the Test in 1684 (RPC., 3. ser. X, p. 377, 590) and Finlay McPhadan and Angus McPhaiden were tenant farmers in Islay in 1733. They occur again in 1741 as Angus and Finlay McFadzen (Bk. Islay, p. 545, 549, 556). Dugald McPhaden was a witness in Islay in 1737 and Katherine McPhyden a witness in 1769 (ibid., p. 430, 472). The M'Fadzeans of Over Killelago are mentioned in 1681 (Retours, Dumfries, 305), and Macfadyens are still numerous in Mull and Tiree. An absurd explaination of the name is Mac Fad Ian, 'son of long (or tall) John!' Galloway forms of the name in 1684 are McFaddan, McFydeane, McKfadyean, McPhaddion, and McPhadzen (Parish); M'Fedden.
Blind Harry, in the seventh book of his Schir William Wallace, records the doings of a Macfadzan, leader of a band of Irish mercenaries in the service of the king of England. Nothing in known of him in Scottish record outside of the pages of Harry. He was eventually slain by Gylmichall, an attendant of Duncan of Lorn, but local tradition says he was hanged from a projecting tree on the summit of Creag-an-uni (Creag an aonaidh). The Macfadyens, whether they deserved it or not, had a reputation for parsimony, as in the following bitter little satire currentin Mull, Tiree, and Islay (SGS., I, p. 80):
MacPhàidein na circe
Am baile na h-airce:
Ged dh' fhan e r'a bruithe,
Cha d' fhan e r'a h-ithe -
air eagal a pàigheadh.
(Macfadyen of the hen, in the homesyead of penury: though he had stayed till she was boiled, he stayed not till she was eaten - for fear of paying for her).
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