Five sisters of Kintail - MacLennan homeland

Meet us at our tent across USA

Scotland Clan tent

Portree, Isle of Skye, Scotland

Meet us in Canada

New Zealand Southern Alps

Ruairidh MacLennan

Chief Ruairidh

Chief’s Welcome

It is with pleasure that I welcome you to the web site of the Clan MacLennan. This site incorporates the various Clan MacLennan Associations located in Australia, Canada, Scotland and the United States of America and acts as a focal point for MacLennans throughout the world.

Throughout the past couple of hundred years, many of our ancestors emigrated from the Scottish Highlands to seek refuge in foreign lands. Some chose to leave, some were forced.  Few would ever return to Scotland. The result is a considerable volume of “Overseas Highlanders” located throughout the world, most notably in Australia, Canada, New Zealand and the United States of America. It is often said that the further someone is taken from their homeland, the more patriotic they become and the stronger their desire is to re-connect with their historic homeland. In the modern global world within which we now find ourselves, the desire and ability to trace our roots and to know where we come from and who we are related to becomes all the more important. We are a large family and it is our aim to re-unite this family.

To help facilitate this, Clan MacLennan, after more than 300 years of dormancy, was reborn in 1978 and continues to actively re-unite MacLennan’s throughout the world – welcome to Clan MacLennan Worldwide!

If you want to learn about your Clan’s history, trace your ancestry, research where your family originated from, communicate with other MacLennan’s throughout the world, find out about Clan events and Gatherings in Scotland and overseas, you have come to the right place. Here you will find you will find how to subscribe to a Clan Association in your region.

Ruairidh D G MacLennan of MacLennan
chief [at] clanmaclennan-worldwide.com

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1 day ago

thank you Randal. do you perhaps know or can explain why my Surname was changed from Mac Lennan to Mc Lennan. the a was dropped? ... See MoreSee Less

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That will be due to “Clerical errors”. it was common when highlanders moved either south to England or overseas

Most of us have that. So many theories but in the end it doesn't really matter

My grandfather always blamed the “bean counters” at Somerset House who got it wrong on his birth certificate! 🤣 Then, in later life, he just reinstated the missing “a”!

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2 days ago

We are delighted to present the programme for the 2024 Clan Gathering. As you can see tickets are available from friday.We are delighted to share with you our programme for the 2024 Clan MacLennan Gathering!

Visit the link below to view the full programme of events, ticket sales go live at 6pm (GMT) on Friday, March 29th. We anticipate tickets will sell quickly, to avoid disappointment please don’t delay in securing yours!

clanmaclennan.eventbrite.com
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Looks like you guys will have an amazing time

Fantastic Programm, really looking forward to it. Got a wee remark: On the 6th there is the Chief‘s Drams of Scotland starting 17:00 h lasting 1 h 30 mins (18:30 h). Formal Dinner same evening starts by 18:00 h ?? Do yous wait for the ones that attend the tasting ? 🤷‍♀️😉🙈

Looks fabulous I want to be there

We are delighted to present the programme for the 2024 Clan Gathering. As you can see tickets are available from friday.
2 days ago

We are delighted to share with you our programme for the 2024 Clan MacLennan Gathering!

Visit the link below to view the full programme of events, ticket sales go live at 6pm (GMT) on Friday, March 29th. We anticipate tickets will sell quickly, to avoid disappointment please don’t delay in securing yours!

clanmaclennan.eventbrite.com
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Happy gathering we are having a wee one in Nymboida via Grafton Australia 🇦🇺 ❤️

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