The Companion to the Fiery Cross, a Breath of Snow and Ashes, an Echo in the Bone, and Written in My Own Heart's Blood
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Bear-Killer—The name given to Jamie Fraser by the Tuscarora in consequence of his having killed a black bear single-handedly, with only a knife. [Fiery Cross, Ashes, Echo]
Beasley, Mr.—Hal’s elderly clerk and the only one able to understand the orderly chaos on Hal’s desk at the regimental offices. [BL, SP]
Beathag—One of three small sisters who were the children of tenants of Lallybroch. The croft in which she lived was burned after Culloden. [SP]
Beauchamp, Amelie Élise LeVigne—The missing younger sister of Baron Amandine, last heard to have been living in a Paris brothel and quite possibly the mother of Fergus “Claudel” Fraser. Along with her brother and her sister, she is one of the Trois Flèches Lord John is investigating. [Echo]
Beauchamp, Cecile—Percival Beauchamp’s wife, sister of Baron Amandine, and one of the Trois Flèches. [Echo]
Beauchamp, Percival—see “Percy Wainwright.”
Beauchamp, Quentin Lambert (aka Uncle Lamb)—Claire’s paternal uncle, who raised her from childhood following the death of her parents in a car accident. [Fiery Cross, Echo, MOBY]
x Beaumarchais, Pierre—(1732–1799) French playwright (The Barber of Seville, The Marriage of Figaro), U.S. sympathizer, and founder of Hortalez et Cie exports—a front for a joint French–Spanish arms/ammunitions supplier to the Continental army. [Echo]
Beckett, Moira—Daughter of the landlord at the public house in the village near Siverly’s Irish estate; she catches the eye of Tom Byrd, Lord John’s valet. [SP]
Beckett, Mr.—Landlord of the public house in the village near Siverly’s Irish estate. [SP]
Bedelia—A horse at the inn near Siverly’s estate. [SP]
Behan, Rose—The downstairs neighbor of Kitty O’Donnell; she requests that the O’Higgins brothers put an end to the wake. [BL]
Belcher, Tod—The incorrect name of the cannon “Tom Pilchard,” listed in a Sussex newspaper article that was rife with exaggerations and inaccuracies, except for the name of the commander, called the Hero of Crefeld—Lord John Grey. [HS]
Belden, Mr.—Mule skinner who stole Clarence from Germain and who suffers a nasty bite from the mule. [MOBY]
Bell, Abigail—Wife of Richard Bell, the man in charge of keeping Jamie’s printing press safe; she appeals to Jamie to find her husband in Scotland. [Echo]
x Bell, Andrew; Andy—(1726–1809) Scottish engraver and co-founder of the Encyclopedia Britannica. He has been storing Jamie’s printing press in Edinburgh since Jamie left there so many years ago. Richard Bell of Wilmington is his fictitious kinsman. [Echo]
Bell, Lillian—Richard Bell’s daughter, who shares a kiss with William after a dinner meeting between William and Captain Richardson. [Echo]
Bell, Miriam—Richard Bell’s other daughter, also enamored of William. [Echo]
Bell, Richard—Wilmington merchant and father of two attractive daughters, both admired by William Ransom. He is abducted by the Sons of Liberty and forcibly deported to London; Jamie hires him to look after his printing press, Bonnie. [Echo, MOBY]
Bella—One of Lord Dunsany’s older, sedate, and sensible horses, who is chosen for two-year-old William’s first horseback ride. [SP]
Bellman, Edwin, Sir—A suspected Jacobite and one of the men who thought to protect his own secret by supporting the false accusations of treason and Jacobitism directed at Lord John’s father. [CA]
Benedicta, Lady Stanley—See “Benedicta Grey.”
Benjamin, Mr.—Owner of a Cross Creek warehouse; while he’s conducting business with Jocasta Cameron, Stephen Bonnet appears briefly and frightens Phaedre and wee Jem. [Ashes]
Berculi, Signor—A small Sicilian gentleman who is the senior swordsman and fencing instructor to the Duke of Pardloe and Lord John; he includes Percy as a new student since he will become one of the family. [BL]
Berrisch, Monika, Fraulein (aka Monika Wemyss)—German Pastor Berrisch’s spinster sister; while attending the engagement party between Lizzie Wemyss and Manfred McGillivray, she catches the eye of Lizzie’s father, Joseph, eventually becoming his wife and grandmother to Lizzie’s future children. (Monika is one of the Real People—friends or acquaintances of mine gracious enough to allow me to make free with their names and/or personae.) [Ashes, Echo, MOBY]
Berrisch, Pastor—Protestant pastor for the German population near Salem and brother to Monika, Joseph Weymss’s future wife. [Ashes]
Betty—A River Run slave found drunk and unconscious during Jocasta’s wedding reception. She dies after being fed ground glass, which Claire discovers when she performs a nocturnal autopsy; the Frasers and Jocasta wonder why someone would go to great lengths to kill the woman, who happened to be Phaedre’s mother. [Fiery Cross]
Beverley, Lady—A woman attending Lady Joffrey’s salon, who Lord John knows is a flirt and woman of easy virtue, even though she is respectably married. [BL]
Bewlie, Peter—Resident of Fraser’s Ridge, married to a Cherokee woman. He brings news of a ghostly white bear that’s been terrorizing Indian villages and enlists the aid of Jamie and Claire to hunt the bear. [Fiery Cross]
Billings—An under-footman at Helwater. [SP]
Billman, Captain—The captain of the English horse soldiers present at dinner at Schloss Lowenstein, where the succubus is discussed. [SU]
Bingham—A member of Hal’s regiment and one of the piquet players meeting at Almack’s gentlemen’s club. [SP]
Bird-who-sings-in-the-morning; Bird (aka Tsisqua)—The Cherokee war chief’s English name. He asks Jamie to provide his tribe with guns so they might be able to defend their homes and fight opposing tribes; in turn, Jamie warns Bird about a “dream” his daughter, Brianna, has had regarding the future fate of the Cherokee people and gives him instructions to avoid what will become known as the Trail of Tears. [Ashes]
x Bissell, Israel—(1752–1823) Bissell was a post rider who rode 345 miles from Boston to Philadelphia, alerting the American colonists of the British attack on April 19, 1775. [Ashes]
x Bishop of Ely—(1683–1770) Matthias Mawson, an academic and churchman, he was also a friend of Lord John’s mother, Benedicta Grey. [HF]
Bishop of York—Second-highest-ranking cleric in the Church of England; a highly honored guest at Benedicta Grey’s party celebrating Clive’s victory over the Nawab of Bengal. [PM]
Bixby, Judah—One of the lieutenants under Jamie’s command at Monmouth. [MOBY]
Black-beard—One of the scruffy Regulators from Hermon Husband’s encampment. He blames Roger for Husband’s departure from the camp, leaving the Regulators without leadership, and is instrumental in helping Buck MacKenzie turn Roger in as a traitor to Tryon’s army at the Battle of Alamance. [Fiery Cross]
Black Hugh—Jocasta Cameron’s second husband; he fathered her daughter Seonag. [Fiery Cross]
Black Jack—See “Jonathan Wolverton Randall.”
Bledsoe, Miss—An elderly guest at Jocasta Cameron’s wedding. [Fiery Cross]
Bledsoe, Tench—Edward Shippen’s young cousin. Benedict Arnold, a friend of the Shippen family, comes on their behalf to ask Claire to tend Mr. Bledsoe, who has been attacked by the Sons of Liberty. She saves his life, though she is forced to amputate his shattered leg. [MOBY]
Blogweather, Mr.—Glassmaker from Williamsburg, Virginia; contracted by Lord John Grey to manufacture the delicate equipment for Claire’s distillation of ether from the dangerous oil of vitriol, also known as sulfuric acid. [Ashes]
Blomberg, Agathe; Old Agathe—Deceased mother of Herr Blomberg, the mayor of Gundwitz; her body is suspected to house a demon spirit, since the white horse stopped at her grave during the nocturnal search through the graveyard. [SU]
Blomberg, Herr—The bürgermeister, or mayor, of the Prussian village of Gundwitz, who seeks to borrow Lord John’s white stallion to locate a succubus. [SU]
Bob—A waiter employed at White’s Chocolate House in London. [BL]
Boble, Harley—Thief-taker and member of a group of bandits who abduct and abus
e Claire and the one who savagely beats Claire in retaliation for a personal humiliation at the Mount Helicon Gathering; Roger kills Boble after he and the tenants of Fraser’s Ridge track the bandits down and rescue Claire. [Fiery Cross, Ashes, Echo]
Bodger, Private—An English private who has an altercation with a gypsy whore and is later found dead—allegedly killed by a marauding female demon intent on seducing men. [SU]
Bodley, Mr.—The chief steward at the Society for Appreciation of the English Beefsteak, the gentlemen’s club where Lord John is a longtime member. [HS, Echo]
Boggs—The young clerk employed by Sussex lawyer Simon Coles. [HS]
Bogle—Harry Quarry’s predecessor as governor of Ardsmuir Prison; put Jamie Fraser in irons. [Fiery Cross]
Bogues, Miranda; Randy—Ten-year-old daughter of the Cross Creek apothecary Ralston Bogues; Claire finds her upset about moving to England and having to sell the family’s wagon horse, Jack, who is her particular pet. [Ashes]
Bogues, Melanie—Wife of the Cross Creek apothecary, she is terrified that her husband will be caught up in the mob that Jamie is holding off. [Ashes]
Bogues, Ralston—The Cross Creek apothecary who is closing shop and returning with his family to England, as the population is becoming more patriotic and hostile to anyone harboring Tory sensibilities; he helps Jamie fight off a mob intent on tarring-and-feathering local printer Fogarty Simms. [Ashes]
Bonham, Colonel—A military officer in charge of the Fifty-first Regiment stationed in London during 1758. [BL]
Bonham, Viscount—Fictitious nobleman and one of the guests at Benedicta Grey’s party celebrating Clive’s victory over the Nawab of Bengal. [PM]
Bonnet, Stephen—An Irishman orphaned young, he is a sociopath and notorious pirate, who escaped hanging once and played upon the Frasers’ sympathies to aid his escape from the British; he promptly returned their generosity by ambushing and robbing their party, taking Claire’s gold wedding ring. Brianna later recognizes the ring and meets with Bonnet in an attempt to buy it back, but his price is rape. Brianna finds out she’s pregnant with a child that could belong to either the rapist Bonnet or Roger MacKenzie, with whom she is handfasted. Bonnet finally meets his fate after raising the ire of the entire Fraser clan by kidnapping and attempting to sell Brianna as a sex slave. He’s sentenced to drown for piracy, but Brianna shoots him out of mercy. [All]
Bonnie—The name Jamie sheepishly admits to Claire that he has given his beloved printing press, left behind in Edinburgh in the care of his printing associate, Andrew Bell. [Echo, MOBY]
Bork, Lieutenant—The commanding officer in Scotland who inadvertently directs Hector and Meadows into an enemy’s path; his direction forces Hector to kill his first man by running a bayonet through the Scot who had just felled Meadows with a rock. [PM]
Borthy, Robert—One of the commanders of militia present at the Battle of Moore’s Creek Bridge, who briefs Jamie on the status of the opposing Emigrant Highland Regiment led by Fraser’s old acquaintance and friend Donald MacDonald and Alexander McLean. [Ashes]
Bouton—While we see the original Bouton only in Dragonfly in Amber, Mother Hildegarde’s later canine companions share the same name. Claire meets one of these incumbents when she visits L’Hôpital many years later. [SB]
Bowen, Zeke—A householder outside Philadelphia, to whose house Natty Bumppo takes Corporal Woodbine’s militia company while Woodbine himself escorts his prisoner, Lord John Grey, to Colonel Smith. [MOBY]
Bowles, Hubert—The head of a classified British government organization that engages in intercepting and decrypting diplomatic dispatches; the organization is only known as the Black Chamber. He is an unnerving character since he has informants in many areas of the government and among London society and is willing to use anyone in the protection of England from its enemies, domestic or abroad. [PM, BL, HS, SP, Echo]
Brabham-Griggs—One of the junior officers in the Duke of Pardloe’s Forty-sixth Regiment of soldiers. [BL]
Bracknell, Lady—A London socialite and the hostess of the salon where Joseph Trevelyan meets Maria Mayrhofer. [PM]
Bradbury, Captain—An English officer who interrogates Denzell Hunter for information after he pretends to desert the Continental army. The “deserter game” was practiced on both sides during the war, with soldiers pretending to desert and giving false information but getting a look at the other side’s encampment, before “re-deserting” to report back to their own commanding officers. Anyone caught was executed as a spy. [Echo]
Bradshaw, Mrs. Phillip; Sarah—Wife of a slave owner, she brings her very young house slave, Sophronia, to Claire for treatment after a childbirth injury. [MOBY]
x Brant, Joseph (aka Thayendanegea, “Two Wagers”)—(1742–1807) Mohawk chief educated by whites, staunch Loyalist sympathizer, fought with British against Patriots so well that he received the commission of Colonel of Indians from King George I. [Echo, MOBY]
Brennan, Mr.—A resident of Cross Creek, whose wife has requested Dr. Fentiman’s aid in delivering her child. [Ashes]
Brett, Richard—The fifteen-year-old ensign assisting Lord John near the Drachenfels in the Rhine Valley during the Seven Years’ War. [BL]
Brewer, Joseph—Dr. McEwan’s friend and shooting companion. [MOBY]
Brewster, Neph—A Continental soldier recuperating after the Battle of Saratoga and suffering from a bad case of diarrhea, which leaves him raw and uncomfortable but still with a sense of humor and the ability to flirt with Claire. [Echo]
Broch Tuarach, Lord—see “Jamie Fraser.”
Brother Bertram—One of the monks at the Irish monastery of Inchcleraun, in charge of cooking for the monks and guests. [SP]
Brother Daniel—One of the monks at the Irish monastery of Inchcleraun, also the clerk. [SP]
Brother Infirmarian—One of the monks trained in healing at the Irish monastery of Inchcleraun; he treats a wounded Tom Byrd after Lord John’s rescue from Athlone Prison. [SP]
Brother Mordecai—One of the German residents of Salem, he is an accomplished potter and knowledgeable about the ceramic process; Brianna wishes to speak with him regarding kiln-building but is unable to because of the rift between the Frasers and most of the Salem community. [Ashes]
Brother Polycarp—One of the monks at the Abbey of St. Anne in France, he told a young Jamie Fraser stories of various saints while Jamie recuperated from injuries. [Ashes]
Brown, Aaron—One of Richard Brown’s nephews and part of the kidnapping party that includes Lionel Brown and Harley Boble. [Ashes]
Brown, Alicia—Lionel Brown’s daughter, and the second wife of bigamist Isaiah Morton. [Fiery Cross]
Brown, Christopher—Jemima Brown’s three-month-old son, who shares his mother’s milk with the orphaned Beardsley child. [Fiery Cross]
Brown, Lionel—The stupider and more impulsive pair of the Brown brothers; after the Regulation is put down, the Browns form a Committee of Safety to help police the Ridge from bandits. However, suspicions arise in Jamie’s mind that the Browns are the bandits. Lionel is injured during Claire’s abduction and brought back to the Ridge, where Mrs. Bug kills him by suffocating him with a pillow. [Fiery Cross, Ashes]
Brown, Meg—Richard Brown’s wife. [Fiery Cross]
Brown, Moses—One of Richard Brown’s nephews and part of the kidnapping party that includes Lionel Brown and Harley Boble. [Ashes]
Brown, Mrs.—The high-strung pregnant wife of a colonel of militia at the Fort Ticonderoga encampment, noted as “an hysteric” by Denzell Hunter. [Echo]
Brown, Richard—Leader of a small, close-knit community called Brownsville. While hotheaded and vengeful, Richard is the more calculating of the two Brown brothers. After the War of Regulation is put down, he and his brother form a Committee of Safety to help police the Ridge from bandits. Following Malva Christie’s accusation and subsequent murder, Richard Brown and his Committee arrest Claire by force and take her to stand trial for the murder. [Fiery Cross, Ashes]
x Bruce, Nigel—British source of information on Colonel Richardson, who died before importing it. The name is my nod to the British actor famous for his role as Doctor Watson in the series of Sherlock Holmes films of the 1930–’40s. [Echo]
Brugge—A Moravian gunsmith near Salem who Robin McGillivray thinks will be able to assemble a gun per Jamie’s requirements. [Ashes]
Brunton—The butler employed in Benedicta Grey’s Jermyn Street residence. [BL]
x Bryan, Colonel—(unknown) Militia leader of the Rowan County, N.C.; Governor Tryon’s combined forces gathered at Bryan’s plantation near New Bern before marching toward Alamance in May 1771. [Fiery Cross]
Bryan, Mrs.—Colonel Bryan’s wife, who offers Claire a bed in her plantation house during the army and militia rendezvous before Alamance. [Fiery Cross]
x Bubb-Dodington, George—(1691–1762) An English politician and nobleman said to have been part of a spy ring collecting information regarding Jacobite activities in the years after Culloden. [HF]
Bubbles—See “Henri-Christian Fraser.”
Buchan—A butcher in Campbelton who, because of the terrible writing and spelling, Jamie suspects is the author of a note sent to Farquard Campbell, denouncing Jamie as a seditionist and traitor who should be hanged or at the least tarred and sent out of town on a rail. [Ashes]
Buchan, Ernie—Fiona’s husband. While a friend to Brianna and Roger, he grows alarmed at the threat to his own family when Rob Cameron comes to his house in search of Jem. Ernie returns Jem and Mandy to Lallybroch, only to run straight into an ambush. He inadvertently provides rescue for Brianna and gets her and the children away to a place of safety. [MOBY]
Buchan, Fiona Graham—Auntie Fiona to Jem and Mandy. Granddaughter of Mrs. Graham, the Reverend’s housekeeper, who succeeds her grandmother as housekeeper and as the “caller”—the leader of the women who dance on Craigh na Dun, calling down the sun on the feast days. Fiona is a good friend to both Roger and Brianna and gives Jem and Mandy a place to stay while Brianna is trying to track down the criminals who are threatening her family. While Fiona is harboring the children, Rob Cameron shows up and—spooked by a radio report giving his name—hits Fiona and rushes out. [All]