Bain family

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Tulloch Castle, formerly seat of the Bain of Tulloch family.

The Bain or Bayne family were a minor Scottish noble family.[1]

Origins[]

Despite their name, the Bain family were not part of the Scottish Clan MacBean (McBain). They were in fact a branch or sept of the Clan Mackay, another Highland Scottish clan. The progenitor of this family was John Bain Mackay, otherwise known as John Bàn (Bàn is Gaelic for 'fair' as in fair-haired)'.[2][3][4] John was the son of Neil Neilson Mackay who was in turn a grandson of Donald Mackay (died 1370), chief of Clan Mackay.[1] John Bain Mackay dropped his surname and used his middle name of Bain as a surname instead.[1] This may have been due to a feud within the Clan Mackay involving his father Neil Neilson Mackay that had resulted in the Battle of Drumnacoub in 1427 or 1433.[1] Due to this conflict John Bain not only dropped the surname of Mackay but moved from his homeland in the west of the county of Sutherland to the neighboring county of Caithness.[1]

In 1597 the Bain family of Tulloch Castle fought in the Battle of Logiebride in support of the Munros and against the Mackenzies.[5]

Family[]

John Bain married in 1436 and died in 1452, leaving four sons:[6]

  1. John Bain, born 1437, progenitor of the Bain families of Caithness and Haddingstonshire (East Lothian).
  2. William Bain, born 1438, progenitor of the Bain families of Clyth.
  3. Alexander Bain, born 1440, progenitor of the Baynes of Tulloch and Dingwall. This family were seated at Tulloch Castle and fought at the Battle of Logiebride in 1597 as allies of the Clan Munro.[5]
  4. Donald Bain, born 1443, settled in Galloway.

References[]

  1. ^ a b c d e Mackay, Angus (1906). The Book of Mackay. 25 George IV Bridge, Edinburgh: Norman MacLeod. p. 50.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location (link)
  2. ^ Mackay, Robert (1829). History of the House and Clan of Mackay. 233 High Street, Edinburgh: Printed for the author by Andrew Jack & Co. p. 73.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location (link)
  3. ^ Bains of Dingwall - a history
  4. ^ a history of the Bains of Tulloch - The Clan Mackay Association of Canada
  5. ^ a b "A tumult in Ross, the year of God 1597". The History of the Feuds and Conflicts among the Clans in the Northern Parts of Scotland and in the Western Isles. Glasgow: Printed by J. & J. Robertson for John Gillies, Perth. 1780 [Originally published in 1764 by Foulis press]. p. 64. Written from a manuscript wrote in the reign of James VI of Scotland (Sir Robert Gordon's A Genealogical History of the Earldom of Sutherland).
  6. ^ Clan Mackay of Canada. "Bain, Bayne". clanmackay.ca. Retrieved 11 August 2012.
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