MacGregor women were branded and their children were given to other families. Under the Proscriptive Acts of Clan Gregor, which came into force on the 3rd of April 1603 the name MacGregor "altogidder abolished" and bearing the MacGregor name was punishable by death. For MacGregors it was somewhat different, for the MacGregors were legendary outlaws, known as the Children of the Mist, and the victims of State oppression.įollowing the MacGregor massacre of more than 140 Colquhouns – and a party of schoolboys who came to watch - at the Battle of Glen Fruin in 1603, King James VI outlawed the MacGregor Clan. When the wearing of tartan was outlawed after the 1745 Jacobite rebellion, clansmen wore their clan's plant badge as an act of defiance and identification. Sir Malcolm MacGregor of MacGregor became 24th Chief of the MacGregor Clan in 2003. Clan Territory: Argyll, Stirlingshire and The Trossachs
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