The Clan MacMicking

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Badge: a demi savage holding a spear with a quiver of arrows.
Motto: Res Non Verba (Deeds Not Words)
Gaelic Name: MacMiadhachain
Tartans: Carrick, Annan, Galloway (red and green)
Branches: McMicking of Killantringan, McMicking of Miltonise

Clan McMicking's earliest known origins: "Mahun (836) who accompanied Alpin from Kintyre on his invasion of Galloway." With Mahun counted as the first generation, generations 2-8 are not known at this time. Generation 9 was Rustid Mahun circa 1200 who was succeeded by his son Gildroth MacMahun, generation 11 was Angus MacMahun, 12 Uchtred MacMahun.

"The McMicking family represents the old Ayrshire and Wigtonshire McMickings. The McMickings of Killantringan [held] one of the most ancient baronies of Ayrshire and at various epochs of Scottish history were not undistinguished. One of their members, in 1427, lost his life through his adherance to the Lord of the Isles in a rebellion against King James of Scotland. At the Reformation the family took a prominent part in Ayrshire and during the reign of Charles II many of them suffered imprisonment and fines in the cause of civil and religious liberty. Sir Gilbert McMicking married Agnes MacDonald, daughter of John, Son of Angus, Lord of the Isles. Major Gilbert McMicking, C.M.G., of Miltonise, Wigtonshire, Scotland, who sat in the Imperial House for a number of years and who commanded the Royal Scots during the Great War, and Admiral Sir James Startin, are all members of this family."

The 12,000 acre estate called Killantringan was held by Clan McMicking from the mid 1300's until it was sold in 1839 to pay debts. Miltonise, a 7000 acre estate, located in Ayrshire, was acquired in the early 1700's, and remains in McMicking hands today.

Thanks to Kirk L. Bailey for providing information and images for this page. Visit his website at http://www.ryerson.ca/~kbailey/.