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3 Celts & Company • "CLAN GUNN"

Though largely a Pictish tribe, the name probably equivalent to the Welsh 'Gwynn,' the clan Gunn chiefs claimed Norse descent from one Guinni, son of a 12th-century Orcadian Olaf, acquiring Caithness lands from his mother's side, the earls of Ross. A turbulent clan much in feud with the Keiths and MacKays, they found it advisable in the 15th century to move from Caithness to the Kildonan district of Sutherland. The sept names derive mostly from chief's sons: as Johnson, MacIan, MacKean, Kean, Keene, all from 'son of John.' James (or Hamish), John, Henry (Eanrick), Rob and Will were all sons of the same 14th-century George Gunn, the 'Crowner' (royal legal deputy); William, of a later chief.

Septs: ENRICK, GALDIE, GALLIE, GANSON, GAULDIE, GAUNSON, GEORGESON, HENDERSON, INRIG, JAMESON, JAMIESON, JOHNSON, KEAN, KEENE, MACCOMAS, MACCORKILL, MACCORKLIE, MACCULLIE, MACIAN, MACKAMES, MACKEAMISH, MACKEAN, MACMAINS, MACMANUS, MACOMISH, MACROB, MACWILLIAM, MAGNUS, MAIN, MANN, MANSON, MANUS, NEILSON, NELSON, ROBINSON, ROBISON, ROBSON, SANDISON, SWAN, SWANN, SWANNEY, SWANSON, WILL, WILLIAMSON, WILLS, WILSON, WYLIE, WYLLIE

"GUNN." Scots Kith and Kin and Illustrated Map Revised Second Edition. Edinburgh, SCOT: Clan House, c.1970. p.58. Print.

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