Clan Fraser in Canada

36 CHANGE OF SURNAMES.
married Nien (daughter) Dunchy Chaim in Glenmoriston.
Sir Andrew likewise married, whose son was Donall Dubh
Maclntagard (Black Donald, son of the Priest) and was
priest of Kirkhill and chapter of Ross. His tacks of the
Vicarage of Kilmorack to John Chisholm, of Comar, stands
to this day. His son was Mr. William MacAhoulding, alias
Fraser, who died minister of Kiltarlady. His son was Mr.
Donald Fraser, who died minister of Kilmorack ; so that he
is the fifth minister or ecclesiastical person in a lineal and
uninterrupted succession, which falls out but seldom, and than
which, in my judgment, nothing can more entitle a man to be
really a gentleman ; for that blood which runs in the veins of
four or five generations of men of piety and learning and
breeding cannot but have influence, and it confirms my opinion
that the present Mr. Wm. Fraser (who is the fifth) has the
virtues and commendable properties of his predecessors all
united in him.' "
We see here the ease with which a MacCreggie could
become a Fraser, and, bearing in mind the principle noticed
by Hill Burton, there is no difficulty in accounting for the
origin and growth of our Clan in the Highlands. Whether
we can tell the day of the month and the year on which Andrew
or Simon Fraser first gazed on the winding Beauly or not —
and the date can be approximately fixed — we, at all events,
have no deep, unfathomable problem to solve as to the forma-
tion of the Fraser Clan. We know that the founder of the
name in Inverness-shire arrived there as the head of a power-
ful Lowland house, that he settled among the native Cale-
donians of the country, assumed possession of the lands then
forming his estate ; that the people, who were as Celtic as
those in any portion of the Highlands, bearing such names