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

by Diana Gabaldon

  x MacKenzie, Kenneth—(unknown) Known as the Brahan Seer. A famous Highland seer, born in the seventeenth century, he made numerous prophecies. He made one too many true ones, though, and was burned to death in a spiked barrel filled with tar by the wife of a Scottish nobleman who the Seer had prophesied was having affairs with other women. Among his lesser-known prophecies is a fragmentary reference to the Frasers of Lovat, with the cryptic statement that “the last of Lovat’s line will rule Scotland.” It’s this statement that leads Geillis Duncan to decide to go after Brianna, once she’s learned of Jamie’s daughter’s existence. [MOBY]

  MacKenzie, Marjorie (aka “Dolly”)—Jerry’s wife and young Roger’s mother, noted for her dark, curly locks; she and Jerry have a deep and abiding love for each other. Her nickname is reminiscent of the name written on his plane—Rag Doll—complete with an image of a doll with dark ringlets. She bids farewell to Jerry, a Spitfire pilot, and never sees him again—until they meet moments before the bombing collapse of the Bethnal Green Tube station, which kills them both. But by their joint actions, they save the life of their small son, Roger. [Echo, LW]

  MacKenzie, Morag Gunn—Wife of William Buccleigh (Buck) MacKenzie, Roger MacKenzie’s five-times grandmother, and mother of Jeremiah. Roger helps save young Jeremiah from drowning while on Bonnet’s ship, but his kindness is seen as something else by Morag’s jealous husband. Morag, however, sees Roger about to be hanged and runs to tell Jamie Fraser, who arrives too late to stop the hanging but in time to save Roger’s life by cutting him down. [All]

  MacKenzie, Roger—Great-nephew of the Reverend Wakefield, adopted as a child by the Reverend following the death of Roger’s parents during World War II. A historian, talented musician, and charming Scottish folk singer. Father of Jemmy and Mandy MacKenzie; Jamie’s nickname for him is Roger Mac. Having followed Brianna into the past, married her, and claimed her son, Jeremiah, as his own (which indeed he is), he becomes a “son of the house” to Jamie and the Fraser family, and a valuable help to Jamie in the work of raising a militia company, which Roger does by singing rousingly emotional songs as a prelude to Jamie’s exhortations. He accompanies Jamie to Alamance, where, through a series of unfortunate misunderstandings, he is hanged as one of the ringleaders of the Regulation. Roger narrowly survives the hanging—Claire saves his life with an emergency tracheotomy—but has lost his beautiful singing voice. With the help of Brianna and the family, he also survives the depression caused by this loss and slowly realizes his vocation as a minis ter. On the verge of Roger’s ordination, though, Brianna is kidnapped by Stephen Bonnet, and Roger and Jamie go to rescue her. A few months later, Brianna and Roger’s daughter, Amanda, is born—with a serious heart defect. The MacKenzies make the agonizing choice to leave Fraser’s Ridge and venture through the stones with their two children, in hopes of making it to the future, where the defect can be easily cured by surgery. They do make it, the surgery is successful, and they begin to build a new life for themselves at the Lallybroch of 1980. This life is interrupted when Rob Cameron kidnaps Jem and tricks Roger and William Buccleigh (“Buck”) into thinking that he has taken Jem into the past. The two men resolve to go after Jem; however, upon arriving in the past, they discover that they’ve come to the wrong time—they’re in 1739! In the course of the fruitless search for his son, Roger discovers evidence of his father, also named Jeremiah MacKenzie. Roger and Buck find Jerry, rescue him, and take him to the stone circle where his Spitfire crashed during WWII. They then resume their search for the other Jeremiah and are at last reunited with Brianna and the two children, who have come in search of Roger. The family then makes it from the Scotland of 1739 to Fraser’s Ridge in 1779, where they finally rejoin Jamie and Claire. [All]

  MacKenzie, Rupert—A tacksman of clan MacKenzie and distant cousin to Dougal and Colum MacKenzie. He helps Claire rescue Jamie from Wentworth Prison; later, in great pain from wounds suffered at the Battle of Falkirk, he makes a request to die quickly and mercifully by Dougal’s hand instead of suffering a painful, lingering death. [All]

  MacKenzie, William and Sarah—The adoptive parents of William Buccleigh MacKenzie. The child’s real father, Dougal MacKenzie, gave him to them to raise after their own child died; the child’s real mother, Geillis Duncan, escaped to France, with Dougal’s help, after nearly being burned as a witch. [Fiery Cross]

  MacKenzie, William Buccleigh; Buck; “the Changeling”—The five-times grandfather of Roger MacKenzie; illegitimate son of Geillis Duncan and Dougal MacKenzie; fostered to a family who had lost a child of the same age and given the same name as the dead child. He later emigrates to America with his wife, Morag, and infant son, Jeremiah. He’s a jealous man and through a severe misunderstanding causes Roger to nearly be killed; years later, he discovers his own ability to time-travel and must ask Roger and Brianna for assistance when he finds himself accidentally in the twentieth century. (See further details in entry for “the Nuckelavee.”) He repays the favor by joining Roger in the search for Jem, which takes them back through the stones, ending up in 1739. He is deeply intrigued by Roger’s telling him who his real parents were—and are. He insists on meeting his real mother, Geillis Duncan—to whom he is strongly sexually attracted, much to Roger’s horror. Later, when Roger is finally reunited with his family, Buck goes to Castle Leoch, meaning to learn more about his father, Dougal MacKenzie. [All]

  MacKimmie, Joan (aka Sister Gregory)—Laoghaire’s younger daughter by Simon MacKimmie, sister to Marsali, and stepdaughter to Jamie Fraser; she wishes to join a convent and enlists Jamie’s aid in obtaining her goal. Traveling to France under the protection of Michael Murray, she finds herself attracted to him—but still desirous of joining the convent, in hopes that spiritual company and practice will help her to stop the voices in her head. [Fiery Cross, Echo, SB]

  MacKimmie, Simon—Laoghaire’s second husband; father of Marsali and Joan. Died in prison, following the Rising. [Ashes, Echo]

  MacLachlan, Captain—An officer of the Scotch Greys, who rescues Lord John from the mobs present at Tyburn during the public hanging of Captain Bates. [BL]

  MacLaren, Allie, Robby, Sandy, Stuart, and Josephine—Children of Angus and Maggie MacLaren. [MOBY]

  MacLaren, Angus—The reluctant host of Roger and Buck when Buck suffers a heart-related collapse during the search for Jem. MacLaren summons the local healer, Dr. Hector McEwan—who proves to be something more than just a healer. [MOBY]

  MacLaren, Annie—A Balriggan tenant, beside herself with fear for her overly large pregnant belly and terrified that she and her child will die in childbirth; one of Joan’s inner “voices” tells her to assure young Annie that all will be well and that she will safely deliver a son—the voices don’t tell Joan that Annie will also safely deliver a twin daughter. [SB]

  MacLaren, Maggie—Wife of Angus. [MOBY]

  MacLennan, Abel—An elderly resident of Drunkard’s Creek, near Fraser’s Ridge, who was in attendance at the Gathering on Mount Helicon. The British put the MacLennans out of their house for non-payment of taxes, whereupon Abel’s wife took ill and died, leaving him alone in the world. [Fiery Cross]

  MacLennan, Abigail; Abby—The elderly wife of Abel MacLennan, she dies after suffering from hypothermia when she and her husband are put out of their home by the local sheriff. [Fiery Cross]

  MacLeod, Angus—From Skeabost, Skye; a Scottish man at the Gathering who wishes to hire Roger to sing at his cousin’s wedding in Spring Creek. [Fiery Cross]

  MacLeod, Duncan—A homesteader near the Ridge and kin to Rabbie Cochrane; he and his brother are summoned by Roger to join Jamie’s regiment of militia. [Fiery Cross]

  MacLeod, Grannie—Elderly resident of Fraser’s Ridge, brought to the Frasers in a comatose state; Claire is unable to do anything except sit with her until she dies, after which Claire prepares her body for burial in the deep of winter. [Echo]

  MacLeod, Jock—The night watchman at the Loch Errochty Dam offices. Jem runs into him (literally)
when he escapes from the tunnel. Mr. MacLeod is trying to phone Jem’s parents when they are suddenly attacked by one of Rob Cameron’s buddies. Jock is hit on the head but Jem escapes, running out of the building and hiding on the ladder in the dam’s spillway, where Brianna finds him a short time later. [MOBY]

  MacLeod, John Robert—The man from Killicrankie with whom sixteen-year-old Laoghaire played loose, thereby warranting a public punishment at Castle Leoch for her wanton behavior. After Jamie gallantly took the beating in her stead but married Claire anyway, a brokenhearted Laoghaire turned to McLeod for comfort—giving up her virginity—only to discover he was a married man with a family. [Echo]

  MacLeod, Mrs.—The wife of one of the MacLeod brothers and a new tenant on the Ridge. [Fiery Cross]

  MacLeod, Murray—A traveling apothecary in attendance at the Mount Helicon Gathering. He is not sanitary in his person or practice, is not educated in medicine, and is viewed by Claire as a charlatan and nuisance; as a member of the New Light Church, he’s also considered a bit of a heretic by more-conservative Presbyterians. [Fiery Cross]

  MacLeod, Robert; Bobby—One of Jamie’s comrades from Ardsmuir and a resident of the Ridge. He spots a herd of forest bison and alerts Jamie and the other men of the Ridge so a hunting party can be organized. [Fiery Cross]

  MacLeod, Siegfried—The twentieth-century choirmaster at the Old High Church of St. Stephen’s in Inverness; Roger speaks to him about teaching the children’s choir. [Echo]

  MacMahon, Old Alec—Colum MacKenzie’s master of horse (lead groom) at Castle Leoch, he was an admirer of Jamie’s mother, Ellen, and took Jamie under his wing during his time at Castle Leoch; among other things, he tells Jamie the importance behind the old custom of “the fiery cross.” [Fiery Cross]

  MacMillan, Gerry—A friend from Roger’s youth and one of his gang of friends in Inverness. [Ashes]

  MacNab, Grannie—An elderly resident on Lallybroch estate; mother of Ronnie and grandmother of Rabbie. She asks Jamie to take Rabbie in as stable-lad, to remove him from his abusive father. [Ashes]

  MacNab, Mary—The widow of Ronald MacNab of Lallybroch and mother to Rabbie, she is offered a position as a Lallybroch maid after her husband’s death. She offered comfort (and sex) to Jamie when he was in hiding in the cave, the night before his surrender to the English; Jamie confesses this event to Claire after he’s accused of seducing Malva Christie. [Ashes]

  MacNab, Nessie; Mrs. MacNab; Agnes—A young Scottish prostitute-madame married to Rab MacNab, she is an acquaintance of Lord John Grey. They first meet when she’s new at the profession and he’s trying to hide his predilections from his companions, and they form a friendship of sorts. Although they do not share physical pleasures, Lord John enjoys her straightforwardness and her skill as an intelligence agent, and she enjoys the sweets and candies that he brings her. [PM, BL, SP, Echo]

  MacNab, Rabbie—A former stable-boy at Lallybroch and young Fergus’s best friend; after the fall of Culloden, he moves to London and finds employment carrying a hired sedan-chair (a sort of taxi). He eventually meets and marries Nessie, the young Scottish prostitute, and they end up running a brothel together. [PM, SP, Echo]

  MacNab, Ronald—A tenant at Lallybroch, he’s a drunken sot who abuses his son, Rab, who is rescued by Jamie. Ronald is later suspected of betraying Jamie to the Watch, and he dies when someone sets fire to his house, presumably in revenge for the betrayal. [SP]

  MacNair, Corporal—One of the aids accompanying Lieutenant Hayes’s military division to the Gathering. He requests that Jamie and other powerful men of the area meet with him to discuss the formation of a militia to protect the citizens against mob actions such as the Regulators. [Fiery Cross]

  MacNeil, Misses—Two elderly women in attendance at the reception for Jocasta Cameron’s wedding to Duncan Innes. [Fiery Cross]

  MacNeil, Mr.—One of Brianna and Roger’s neighbors at Lallybroch, possibly a farmer. [Echo]

  MacNeil, Mrs.—Staunch member of the Ladies’ Altar and Tea Society at the Free North Church in Inverness, concerned about Brianna’s mortal soul since she is a Papist and doesn’t attend services with Roger. [Echo]

  MacNeill, Alex—One of Jamie’s comrades from Ardsmuir and a resident of the Ridge. Tom Christie insists that Alex can vouch for his character if needed. [Fiery Cross]

  MacNeill, Andrew—A plantation owner and local magistrate who lives near Cross Creek; a friend of Jocasta’s. [Fiery Cross]

  MacNeill, Angelica—Infant daughter of Hortense MacNeill, she and her mother were among the first vicitims of the fatal epidemic of bloody flux on Fraser’s Ridge. [Ashes]

  MacNeill, Captain—An officer of the Scotch Greys who rescues Lord John from the mobs present at Tyburn during the public hanging of Captain Bates. [BL]

  MacNeill, Hortense—Resident of Fraser’s Ridge and wife to Padraic, she and her family are the first victims of the bloody flux that sweeps the Ridge; she and her infant daughter are also the first fatalities of the epidemic. [Ashes]

  MacNeill, John—A resident of the Ridge, he is in attendance the day Richard Brown and company attempt to arrest Claire for the murder of Malva Christie. [Ashes]

  MacNeill, Padraic—Resident of Fraser’s Ridge and husband to Hortense, he and his family are the first victims of the bloody flux that sweeps the Ridge; he survives, but his wife and youngest daughter do not. After Malva’s accusations are made, Claire retreats to MacNeill’s home to treat him for a bad lung infection. [Ashes]

  x MacQuiston, James—(1736–1804) Native of Pennsylvania, MacQuiston was a spy on the western frontier of the colonies; he was affiliated with the Regulators, and his two brothers were present at the Battle of Alamance. This is also the name Buck MacKenzie gives to Governor Tryon after the Battle of Alamance when he turns over a bound and gagged Roger, falsely marking him as the notorious MacQuiston. [Fiery Cross]

  MacWheen, Angus—An elderly tenant near Balriggan, known by many to be ill and often drunk, but he was the first person Joan’s visions indicated would die shortly. [SB]

  Madame Brechin—Wife of Monsieur Brechin, who thinks her husband’s comment unseemly toward a nun but accepts his behavior nonetheless. [SB]

  x Madame de la Tourelle; Marie Anne de Mailly—(1717–1744) A French courtier and the widow of the Marquis de la Tourelle. She became one of Louis XV’s favorite mistresses before dying at the relatively young age of twenty-seven. [Fiery Cross]

  Madame Fabienne—Owner of a Paris brothel located on the Rue Antoine, she has known the Comte for many years and knows of Master Raymond, as well. [SB]

  Madame Hortense—Michael Murray’s cook at his Paris house. [SB]

  Madame Jeanne—See “Jeanne LeGrand.”

  Madame Mags; Magda—A German brothel owner and seller of information, also a good friend of Harry Quarry. [PM, BL]

  Maddox, Mr.—A volunteer under Jamie’s command at Monmouth. [MOBY]

  Madeleine—A pretty blond prostitute with green eyes employed by Madame Fabienne, she fancies herself in love with the Comte, who can see the blue aura that surrounds her. He wishes to impregnate her and reserves her “favors” from Madame Fabienne for four months in order to do so. [SB]

  Madge—Madame at the brothel where William meets Arabella-Jane. [MOBY]

  Madras—One of William’s horses. [MOBY]

  Magruder, Constable—Constable of the day for the Bow Street Runners, the first formal organization of law-enforcement officers, paid through the local magistrate by funds allocated from the central government. [PM]

  Maguire, Dr.—Duke of Pardloe’s family doctor, called in to treat Lord John’s wounds after his duel with Edward Twelvetrees. [SP]

  Mairi—One of three sisters who were tenants of Lallybroch; the croft in which she lived burned out after Culloden. [SP]

  Maisie—A co-worker of Marjorie MacKenzie. Due to the shortage of “luxury items” during the war, she innovatively uses an eyebrow pencil to draw a line up the back of her legs, giving the impression of wear
ing seamed stockings. [LW]

  x Malan, Sailor; Adolph Malan—(1910–1963) The captain for Jerry’s flight group, he recommends MacKenzie for the special work needed by Captain Randall. [LW]

  Malcolm, Alexander—Jamie Fraser’s alias when he was a printer in Edinburgh; he uses it again at a roadside inn after retrieving Claire from Governor Josiah Martin’s care on the Cruizer. [Ashes]

  Malcolm, Captain—One of Governor Tryon’s aides-de-camp, who accompanies the Orange County sheriff to meet with the Regulators regarding a peaceful surrender. [Fiery Cross]

  Manoke—An Indian guide whom Lord John meets and becomes sexually involved with during his time in Canada; Manoke later becomes Lord John’s cook in Virginia, but their relationship remains one of sex and friendship, not of love. [CA, PZ, Ashes, Echo]

  Mansel, Captain—A British officer used as a courier for messages between British General Burgoyne and American General Gates while the terms of surrender were being settled after Saratoga, as well as one of Jamie’s poorly skilled card opponents. [Echo]

  x Mar, Earl of—(1705–1766) Thomas Erskine, an intimate of Charles Stuart and the heir to the Scottish earldom of Mar; due to his father’s participation in the Jacobite rebellion of 1715, the title and lands attached to the Earl of Mar had become forfeit, on charges of treason. [SP]

  Marchmont, Lord—One of the three members of the military tribunal investigating Lord John’s part in the explosion of a cannon during the Battle of Crefeld; he holds a personal grudge toward Lord John, whose previous investigation resulted in the arrest of Marchmont’s cousin on the charge of treason. [HS]

  Margery—A prostitute at Mrs. McNab’s establishment on Brydges Street in London, where Lord John takes sixteen-year-old William after William and friends are caught looking at a scandalous book of London’s women of pleasure. Margery gives William his first lesson in the art of love, and he promptly falls in love with her. [Echo]