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 Moore, Maurice—(1735–1777) North Carolina judge who openly opposed the Stamp Act of 1765; because of his outspoken opinion, he was stripped of his judicial appointment by Governor Tryon but later regained it and continued to serve as a justice until his death. [Fiery Cross]

  Moray, Stephen—Wilmington, N.C., silversmith who creates Claire’s surgical scissors after her medical kit is lost in the fire on Fraser’s Ridge. [Echo]

  x Morgan, Abigail—(unknown) Daniel’s common-law wife. When Dan quotes the Bible to Jamie, who looks surprised, Morgan laughs and says that his wife Abigail is “a reading woman” and has been reading the Bible to him in hopes that something will rub off. [MOBY]

  x Morgan, Daniel—(1736–1802) Leader of “Morgan’s Riflemen,” a regiment of handpicked sharpshooters who figured prominently in the Battle of Bemis Heights, where one of Morgan’s snipers killed British General Simon Fraser and drove Burgoyne’s forces into retreat. During the Saratoga campaign, Jamie is an officer under Morgan in the newly formed Rifle Corps, and the men remain good friends. When Morgan comes across Jamie by chance outside Philadelphia, he insists that Jamie accompany him. They meet George Washington, and Morgan suggests to the general that he appoint Jamie to take the place of a general of militia who has recently died. [Echo, MOBY]

  Morgan, Sam—An under footman at Helwater. [SP]

  Morris—Tom Byrd’s uncle, an able-bodied sailor who contracts a mysterious illness that causes severe vomiting, the results of which prove fatal. [SP]

  Morrison, Davey—A farmer from Hunter’s Point, a man of some substance and worth, as well as an athlete in the “heavy” games at the Gathering. His large extended family, all upstanding members of North Carolina society, is rather judgmental, but he is also the fiancé of Hilda McGillivray, whose family is in danger of scandal when her brother, Manfred, is nearly arrested. [Fiery Cross]

  Mortlake—One of Captain Craddock’s men. When Craddock is killed by a cannonball, leaving his two teenaged sons shocked and the rest of his men in turmoil, Jamie deputes Mortlake to take over as captain temporarily. [MOBY]

  Morton, Isaiah—A militiaman from Granite Falls, who fought with Jamie in the War of the Regulation and who is a bigamist; he marries Alicia Brown of Brownsville while already in possession of a wife, the notorious Jezebel Hatfield Morton. [Fiery Cross, Ashes]

  Moses—One of the sailors on the fishing boat used to troll up and down Ocracoke Island looking for Brianna when she’s being held at Stephen Bonnet’s secret location. [Ashes]

  Mother Hildegarde—The Mother Superior of le Couvent des Anges, in Paris. [SB]

  Moxley, Captain—One of the captains under Jamie’s command at Monmouth. [MOBY]

  Mr. A.—An unknown man who was Percy’s regular lover; Percy breaks off the relationship with him upon meeting and desiring a relationship with John Grey. [BL]

  Mr. Stevens—The steward at Boodle’s, where Harry Quarry is a regular for supper on Thursdays. [BL]

  Mr. X, the Soup-Spitter—A crude, mysterious man who appears at the Fraser campsite, claiming to have heard Willie Coulter’s last words, which reveal who really killed Dougal MacKenzie the night before the Battle of Culloden. After the threatening man insults Claire, Ian, and Jamie, Ian murders him—but the murder is witnessed by Colonel Martin and several others. [Echo]

  Mueller, Ewald—One of Gerhard Mueller’s sons. [Fiery Cross]

  Mueller, Frederick—Gerhard Mueller’s son whose wife and infant child die in a measles epidemic. [Fiery Cross]

  Mueller, Gerhard—Patriarch of a large German Lutheran family near Salem. After the deaths of his daughter-in-law and grandchild in a measles outbreak, in his grief he becomes convinced that the Indians have hexed his family; in retribution, he kills three Indian women he meets in the forest, including Nayawenne, a Tuscarora shaman who is Claire’s friend. [Fiery Cross, Echo]

  Mueller, Paul—One of Gerhard Mueller’s sons. [Fiery Cross]

  Mueller, Petronella—Daughter-in-law of old Gerhard Mueller and wife to Frederick, she and her first child die in a measles epidemic on the Ridge. [Fiery Cross]

  Mueller, Tommy—Another of Gerhard Mueller’s many sons. [Fiery Cross]

  Mulengro—The last name of the gypsy witch and of Private Koenig’s wife, Hanna, and one of the women recruited by the Austrians to spread rumors of the succubus among the Hanovarian and English troops. [SU]

  Mulroney, Dominic—An Irishman Mrs. Bug knew in Edinburgh, he walked face-first into a church door, causing terrible bruising; Mrs. Bug is comparing Mulroney’s facial injuries to those suffered by Claire. [Ashes]

  Mumford, Lady—Hector Dalrymple’s mother. Still grieving many years after her son’s death at Culloden, she dotes on Lord John as if he were her own son, never realizing the type of relationship John and Hector really shared. [PM]

  Mumford, Lord—The late Wally Dalrymple, Hector’s father. [PM]

  Munns, Mrs.—The MacKenzies’ neighbor, she pounds on the wall when the young couple make too much noise, but Jerry retaliates by pounding back, making the wall quiver and boom like a drum. [LW]

  Murchison, Sergeant William; Billy—An old and unfriendly acquaintance from Jamie’s days in Ardsmuir Prison; one of a pair of sadistic twins. His brother, Robert, met a mysterious death at Ardsmuir, while the sergeant met his own end after becoming involved in a smuggling scheme with Stephen Bonnet and died in a warehouse fire. [Fiery Cross, Ashes]

  Murphy, Mr.—Claire’s first toothache patient in Savannah, who gratefully offers his vacant shop as a place for Claire to practice her craft. [MOBY]

  x Murphy, Tim—(1751–1818) One of the most famous marksmen of the Revolution and one of Daniel Morgan’s handpicked riflemen. He was credited with mortally wounding British General Simon Fraser and his aide, Sir Francis Clerke, at the Battle of Bemis Heights. [Echo]

  Murray, Caitlin Maisri—Jenny and Ian Murray’s sixth child, who died after only a day or so; she was Jenny’s last child until Young Ian was born. Her gravestone at Lallybroch is recognizable as only a small square lichen-covered stone. [Fiery Cross, Echo, MOBY]

  x Murray, George, Lord—(1694–1760) Scottish general and leader of the Scottish forces at the Battle of Prestonpans; he was one of Charles Stuart’s key military leaders, although he was frequently at odds with Stuart’s poor military strategy. [SP]

  Murray, Ian James FitzGibbons Fraser Murray; Young Ian—Jamie Fraser’s youngest nephew, Ian’s destiny seems entwined with his beloved uncle’s. Ian’s family expect never to see him again and are shocked and delighted when he returns to Fraser’s Ridge, where he saves Jemmy and Roger from being savaged by a wild boar. It’s not until much later that Ian tells his cousin Brianna the circumstances of his return: that he and Emily, his Mohawk wife, had a stillborn daughter (named Iseabaìl), followed by a number of miscarriages. The Mohawk believe that pregnancy results when the man’s spirit fights with and overcomes the woman’s; Ian’s wife and the rest of the community therefore believe that the failure of her pregnancies is Ian’s fault, and his wife divorces him in the Mohawk way. Ian is heartsick and has no idea what his life may now become, but fate takes a hand when he finds a young man in the Dismal Swamp, wounded and out of his mind with fever: his cousin William. Ian bundles Willie up and takes him to the nearest doctor, a Quaker physician named Denzell Hunter. An attraction springs up between Ian and Hunter’s sister, Rachel, but both of them try to ignore it, given the deep cultural divide between them: how could a devout Quaker wed a man who has always lived a violent life and likely always will? Their difficult courtship is further complicated by Arch Bug’s vendetta against Ian for the accidental death of Arch’s wife; the old man declares he will take what Ian most loves—and comes close to succeeding, but William saves both Rachel and Ian, killing the murderous old man. When Ian and Rachel finally admit their love to each other and become betrothed, Ian confesses to Rachel that he may not be able to give her a child and tells her about his marriage to Emily; Rachel is shocked but accepts the possib
ility. Ian goes with Jamie and Claire when they join the Continental army at the Monmouth campaign, and Rachel accompanies her brother to help with medical attention for the troops. In the course of the battle, Ian is nearly killed by a couple of Abenaki scouts and almost dies as a result of the subsequent fever. Rachel saves his life, and she tells Ian that she can’t bear for him to be alone with his painful memories and such further evil as the war may bring and that they need to be married, no matter what the difficulties may be. They’re married at the same time as Denzell and Dorothea and later have a son (nicknamed “Oggy”), born on Fraser’s Ridge, where they have come with Jamie and Claire following the turmoil of battle. [All]

  Murray, Ian Alastair Robert MacLeod; Old Ian—Jamie’s best friend and brother-in-law; Jenny’s husband; father to Young Ian and his siblings. Factor of Lallybroch. [All]

  Murray, James Alexander Gordon; Young Jamie—Oldest son of Ian and Jenny; Jamie Fraser’s nephew and namesake; father of Matthew, Henry, Caroline, and Benjamin. Inherits Lallybroch as a result of a deed of sasine written by his uncle prior to the Battle of Culloden. [All]

  Murray, Janet Ellen—Daughter of Jenny and Ian, twin sister to Michael, elder sister to Young Ian. [Fiery Cross, Echo]

  Murray, Janet Flora Arabella Fraser; Jenny—Jamie Fraser’s sister; wife to Ian Murray, mother of Young Jamie, Maggie, Kitty, Michael, Janet, and Young Ian (also Caitlin, stillborn). Her joy at being reunited with her prodigal son, Ian, is much tempered by the impending death of her husband, Ian the Elder. Ian Mhor is dying slowly of consumption, and the family is desolated, though comforted somewhat by Ian’s very matter-of-fact attitude regarding his impending demise and the fact that he has time to talk privately with all his children and his brother-in-law, Jamie. Jenny is not comforted, though, and blows up at Claire when the latter confesses that her healing skills can do nothing for Ian’s condition. Following Ian’s death, Jenny surprisingly tells her brother that she means to come back with him to America; the estate is safely in the hands of her elder son, and there’s not room for two mistresses at Lallybroch. More than that—she wants to meet Rachel, the young Quaker woman whom Ian loves, and to spend time with her youngest son, taken from her when he was barely a teenager. She comes home with Jamie, and—past the trauma and stress of Ian’s death—reconciles with Claire. A good thing, too, as this means she’s present to help when Jamie disappears with Lord John and when Harold, Duke of Pardloe, shows up looking for his brother. She’s also present to lend a hand with Marsali and Fergus’s brood and to help hold their family together after the death of Henri-Christian. She returns to Fraser’s Ridge with Jamie and Claire and is at hand to offer support and advice when Claire unexpectedly sees the man who raped her when Hodgepile’s men abducted her. Jenny—who understands Jamie in this regard much better than Claire does—also tells her brother, who proceeds to do what he thinks is necessary. [All]

  Murray, John; Auld John—Ian Sr.’s father and one of Jamie’s foster fathers. He taught Jamie a good many of the old ways, including the prayer to the four airts that Jamie performs on the way back to Fraser’s Ridge after the Gathering on Mount Helicon. Roger meets him briefly when Brian takes him to make inquiries about Jem. [Fiery Cross, MOBY]

  Murray, Joseph Boswell (aka Joey)—Laoghaire’s lover at Balriggan; although they love each other, they have been living in sin, as Laoghaire doesn’t want to lose Balriggan or the alimony Jamie has been paying her since Claire’s return. [Echo]

  Murray, Katherine Mary; Kitty—The third child of Ian and Jenny Murray; sister to Young Jamie, Maggie, Janet, Michael, and Young Ian. [Fiery Cross, Echo]

  Murray, Lillie; Lilliane—Michael Murray’s beloved wife, who died along with their unborn child during an influenza epidemic in Paris. [Echo, SB]

  Murray, Margaret Ellen; Maggie—Jenny and Ian’s oldest daughter. She is raped by her brother-in-law but keeps silent and raises the child as her husband’s, to avoid bloodshed between the brothers and strife within the families. [Echo, MOBY]

  Murray, Michael—Second son to Ian and Jenny Murray; twin to Janet Murray and older brother to Ian the Younger. Sent to France to be apprenticed to Jared Fraser, Michael becomes a junior partner in the wine business, Fraser et Cie, and returns briefly to Lallybroch a widower, his French-born wife, Lillie, dead of influenza. When he returns to France after his father’s death, he takes with him Joan MacKimmie, bound for a convent. Looking out for the young woman helps to distract him slightly from his intense grief for his dead wife—little does he know just how distracting things can get in the vicinity of a novice who hears voices.[Fiery Cross, Echo, SB]

  Myers, John Quincy—A hunter and mountain guide. At the Mount Helicon Gathering, he summons Jamie to help deal with the issue of a thief-taker trying to arrest Robin McGillvray’s son, Manfred. [Fiery Cross]

  Myra—The Hillsborough prostitute who infects young Manfred McGillivray with syphilis (aka “the pox”) and then dies. [Ashes]

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  Nan—A former prostitute at Magda’s, she was apparently a favorite of Harry Quarry when he utilized the facility. [PM]

  Nanny Elspeth—William’s dour, stoic nanny when he was a child at Helwater, who frightened him by saying that the dead came down with the fog. [Echo, SP]

  x Nawab of Bengal—(1729–1757) Siraj ud-Daulah, the last independent provincial ruler, or “nawab,” of Bengal before his military defeat in 1757 by Robert Clive and the British East India Company. [PM]

  Nayawenne—Tuscarora shaman who tells Claire of a prophetic dream regarding Claire’s healing power and gives her guidance finding and using herbs on the Ridge. When she is mistakenly killed, she leaves her amulet for Claire. [Fiery Cross, Ashes, Echo]

  Neary, Patrick—A settler on Fraser’s Ridge, one of whose sons, Jamie warns Roger, may be a thief. [Fiery Cross]

  Ned—Bodyguard/bouncer at Magda’s brothel, where William first meets Jane. [MOBY]

  x Newcastle, Duke of—(1720–1794) While mentioned fictitiously as brother to the Duke of Cumberland, he was in fact Cumberland’s uncle. It was reported by Horace Walpole that Newcastle nearly fainted at the funeral of George II and that he was standing on the train of Cumberland’s cloak to avoid the chilly floor. [SP]

  Nicholls, Edwin—One of the attendees at Miss Woodford’s party, he was a drunk, unsociable bore whose lascivious behavior toward his host caused Lord John to punch him, leading to a duel. [CA, SP]

  Nordman—One of the footmen at Argus House, the London home of Lord John’s mother. [BL]

  Norrington, Arthur—An old acquaintance of Lord John and the current head of England’s Black Chamber; an aficionado of ivory miniatures from Japan. [Echo]

  x North, Frederick, Lord—(1732–1792) Second Earl of Guilford, prime minister of Great Britain under George III. He deferred strategy of the war to his subordinates Lord Germain and the Earl of Sandwich. Despite victories at New York and Ticonderoga, Lord North was forced to resign, due to a “lack of confidence” by members of Parliament, after Burgoyne’s surrender at Saratoga and the British defeat at Yorktown. [PZ, Ashes, Echo, MOBY]

  Northrup, Thorogood—A Wilmington merchant and warehouse owner and possible smuggler. [Echo]

  Nortman—The Duke of Pardloe’s butler. [BL]

  Nuckelavee—Hybrid fairy sea creature of Northern Scottish folklore, it often left the sea to feast on human flesh. While it could take on human shape, in its natural form it had a head ten times the size of its body, a single fiery eye, a huge jutting mouth, and arms reaching to the ground that doubled as flesh-and-bone swords. In addition, it had no skin, so its muscles and blood vessels could be seen, giving it the appearance of raw living flesh. Roger is therefore startled when his son, Jem, in some distress, tells him that there is a nuckelavee living in the broch at Lallybroch. Going to investigate, Roger finds evidence that someone has been staying in the broch, but he doubts that it’s a nuckelavee. The mysterious stranger shortly reveals himself to Roger: he’s William Buccleigh MacKenzie, Roger’s four-times
great-grandfather, who has accidentally time-traveled through the stones at Craigh na Dun and, having gone to Inverness in search of some familiar place or thing, has seen Roger—whom he last saw being hanged at Alamance. He’s therefore come to see who and what Roger now is, and when he meets the children unexpectedly, tells them he’s a nuckelavee in order to frighten them off. [Echo]

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  Oakes—The man Richard Brown leaves in command after the arrest of Jamie and Claire for the murder of Malva Christie. [Ashes]

  O’Brian, Tige—An Irish settler and Regulator near Fraser’s Ridge who, along with his family, is killed when their cabin is burned by unknown persons; Roger and Jamie follow the smell of smoke and arrive to bury the dead family. [Ashes]

  O’Connell, Francine, Mrs. (aka Mrs. Francine Scanlon)—Widow of the late Sergeant Timothy O’Connell, who severely beat her. After the sergeant mysteriously turns up dead in an alley, Francine marries the apothecary, Scanlon. [PM]

  O’Connell, Sergeant—One of the soldiers in Pardloe’s regiment during the Jacobite uprising of 1745, who instructed a very young Lord John and others in the art of sneaking up on a foe from behind and dispatching him with a dagger. [BL]

  O’Connell, Timothy, Sergeant—A middle-aged Irishman and lifelong soldier, he rose through the ranks not only by his competence but by his ability to intimidate subordinates with his surly attitude. He is murdered by an unknown assailant. [PM]

  O’Donnell, Kitty—A recently deceased woman in London’s Irish slum, the Rookery. She was so popular that her mother refuses to let her body be buried, and the party-like atmosphere of the Irish wake lasts for the better part of two weeks, much to the dismay of the neighbors. [BL]

  O’Donnell, Ma—Kitty O’Donnell’s greedy mother. So much money is donated during Kitty’s wake that her mother continues it for the better part of two weeks, forcing the inhabitants of the Rookery to live with the smell of decay—until the O’Higgins brothers intervene. [BL]