The Outlandish Companion

by Diana Gabaldon

  Tommy Mueller—one of Gerhard Mueller’s sons. [Drums]

  Munro—a clerk in the shipping office in Inverness, who advises Roger Wakefield how to sign on as a seaman. [Drums]

  Hugh Munro—a longtime friend of Jamie Fraser’s; an ex-schoolteacher turned beggar as the result of having lost his tongue at the hands of the Turks. He gave a dragonfly in amber to Claire as a wedding present. Later hanged by the Duke of Sandringham’s game-keepers. [Outlander, Dragonfly in Amber]

  Mrs. Munro (Mrs. Gibson)—Hugh Munro’s wife. [Dragonfly]

  Sergeant Robert Murchison—twin brother to William Murchison. “Wee Bobby” and “Wee Billy” were both stationed at Ardsmuir, where they had a reputation for bullying and sadism. Robert disappeared, presumed drowned in the stone quarry near Ardsmuir. [Drums]

  Sergeant William Murchison—an old and unfriendly acquaintance from Jamie’s days in Ardsmuir Prison. Sgt. Murchison was one of a pair of sadistic twins; his brother Robert met a mysterious death at Ardsmuir, for which the Sergeant holds Jamie at least partly responsible. First implicated in the death of Lissa Garver, the woman in the sawmill, the Sergeant is later involved in a smuggling scheme with Stephen Bonnet, involving the theft of liquor from the Crown warehouse in Cross Creek. [Drums]

  Aloysius O’Shaughnessy Murphy—cook on the Artemis. [Voyager]

  Benjamin Murray—Young Jamie’s fourth child. [Drums]

  Caitlin Maisri Murray (m)—sixth child of Ian and Jenny Murray; died shortly after birth. [Voyager]

  Edwin Murray—cousin to Ian Murray (the elder), and secretary to Mrs. Tryon, wife of the governor of North Carolina. Edwin Murray provided the invitation to dinner that allowed Jamie both to meet Governor Tryon (with consequent offer of a land grant), and to sell a ruby to Baron Penzler. [Drums]

  Frederick Murray—one of the young Jacobites executed by Lord Melton’s troops after Culloden. [Voyager]

  †Lord George Murray—chief commander of Charles Stuart’s army. [Dragonfly]

  Henry Murray (m)—eldest son of James Murray (Young Jamie) and his wife, Joan; grandson to Ian and Jenny Murray. [Drums]

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

  Ian Murray (Young Ian)—Jamie Fraser’s youngest nephew, Ian’s destiny seems entwined with his beloved uncle’s. Linked in danger on the occasion of Ian’s birth, when the two narrowly escaped discovery and slaughter by the English army, Ian has been the closest thing to a son that Jamie has ever had. Running away from home to join Jamie in Edinburgh, Ian discovered a mysterious sailor making inquiries, and ended up setting fire to Jamie’s print shop, narrowly escaping death himself. Returned to Lallybroch, he later accompanied Jamie to the seals’ isle off Coigach, and was kidnapped by pirates while endeavoring to retrieve the hoard of jewels concealed on the island. Taken captive to the West Indies, he fell into the hands of Geillis Duncan (aka Mrs. Abernathy, the witch of Rose Hall), and is nearly killed as a blood sacrifice, being rescued by Jamie and Claire from the cave of Abandawe. Arriving in North Carolina, he accompanies Jamie and Claire to River Run, and helps to establish the homestead on Fraser’s Ridge. Helping to rescue Roger MacKenzie (Wakefield) from the Iroquois, he volunteered to take Roger’s place, and allowed himself to be adopted by the Indians, marrying a Mohawk girl. [Voyager, Drums]

  James Alexander Gordon Fraser Murray— “Young Jamie”; oldest son of Ian and Jenny Murray; Jamie Fraser’s nephew. Father of Henry, Matthew, Caroline, and Benjamin. Inherits Lallybroch, as a result of a deed of sasine written by his uncle and namesake. [All]

  Janet (Jenny) Fraser Murray—Jamie Fraser’s sister; wife to Ian Murray, mother of Young Jamie, Margaret Ellen, Katherine, Michael, Janet, and Young Ian (also Caitlin, stillborn). [All]

  Janet Ellen Murray—daughter of Jenny and Ian Murray, twin sister to Michael, elder sister to Young Ian. [Voyager, Drums]

  Joan Murray—wife of Young Jamie, mother of Henry and Matthew. [Voyager, Drums]

  Old John Murray (m)—Ian Murray’s father. [Outlander]

  Kitty Murray—Katherine Mary, third child of Ian and Jenny Murray. [Dragonfly, Voyager, Drums]

  Margaret Ellen Murray—second child of Ian and Jenny Murray, known as Maggie. [Outlander, Drums]

  Matthew Murray—second son of James Murray (Young Jamie) and his wife, Joan; grandson to Ian and Jenny Murray.

  Michael Murray (m)—second son to Ian and Jenny Murray; twin to Janet Murray (the younger), older brother to Ian Murray (the younger). Sent to France to be apprenticed to Jared Fraser, Michael is making a success of himself in the wine business. [Voyager, Drums]

  Peggy Murray—widow of one of Jamie’s murdered tenants, who takes refuge at Lallybroch after the Rising. [Voyager]

  Mutt (and Jeff)—Claire’s nicknames for ecclesiastical examiners who conduct the witch trial at Cranesmuir. [Outlander]

  †john Quincy Myers—a hunter and mountain guide who meets the Frasers in Wilmington. Suffering from an inguinal hernia, he becomes a public spectacle when Claire is obliged to repair the hernia on the dinner table in the middle of a formal party at River Run. Back in good form, Myers volunteers to help the Frasers with the escape of a runaway slave, by guiding them into the mountains. [Drums]

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  Nacognaweto—a village chief of the Tuscarora. Jamie and Claire meet him and two of his sons by accident, when Jamie kills a bear the Indians have been following. They become friends as a result of this meeting, and Nacognaweto later brings his womenfolk to call, with gifts of food. [Drums]

  Nayawenne—her name means “It may be; it will happen.” Grandmother of Nacognaweto, the Tuscarora woman is a shaman, the “singer” for her village. She tells Claire of a prophetic dream, gives her guidance in finding and using herbs of the area, and when she is mistakenly killed, leaves her amulet—a leather pouch containing a raw sapphire, among other things—to Claire. [Drums]

  Due de Neve—a French noble. [Dragonfly]

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  †O’Brien (m)—a Jacobite spy. [Dragonfly]

  †Lord Ogilvie (m)—a prominent Jacobite. [Dragonfly] Mary Oliphant (m)—Roger MacKenzie’s great-great-grandmother. Married six times, but bore children only with Jeremiah MacKenzie, her “bonny lad.” [Drums]

  Patsy Olivier—the Frasers’ inadvertent hostess in Georgia after they are shipwrecked by a hurricane; mistress of Les Perles plantation. [Voyager]

  Onakara—one of Ian’s hunting companions, from the village of Anna Ooka. Entrusted by Jamie and Ian with the disposal of Roger Wakefield, he sells Roger to the Mohawk, and later leads Claire, Jamie, and Ian to Snake-town, where Roger is held. [Drums]

  †Due d’Orléans (m)—brother of Louis XV. [Dragonfly]

  Joe Orr (m)—resident near Lallybroch, acquaintance of Ian and Jenny Murray. [Outlander]

  Osbert—Brianna’s private name for her unborn child, later named (officially) Jemmy. [Drums]

  †O’Sullivan (m)—one of Charles Stuart’s companions, later put in charge of the Highland army’s commissary arrangements, to ill effect. [Dragonfly]

  Otter-Tooth—see “Ta’wineonawira.”

  Mr. Overholt—the purser of the Porpoise. [Voyager]

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  M. Pamplemousse11—a minor French official. [Dragonfly]

  Mrs. Patterson—landlady of the Worlds End Pub on the Royal Mile in Edinburgh. [Voyager]

  Paul—pageboy to the Comtesse St. Germain. [Dragonfly]

  Madame de Pérignon—a member of the French Court. [Dragonfly]

  †Duke of Perth (m)—another commander of Charles Stuart’s army. [Dragonfly]

  Peter—a drover; sees monster at Loch Ness with Claire, and later testifies against her at the witch trial. [Outlander]

  Phaedre—Jocasta Cameron’s body slave. Observant and intelligent, she becomes Claire’s secret ally, helping to discover the identity and whereabouts of the runaway slave Pollyanne. [Drums]

  †Philip, King of Sp
ain—the third of the Bourbon monarchs, with ties (reluctantly acknowledged) to the Catholic Stuart dynasty. [Dragonfly]

  †Mrs. Pinckney (m)—a plantation owner in South Carolina, famed for her introduction of domestic silk production. [Drums]

  Ping An (“Peaceful One”)—a tame pelican; Mr. Willoughby’s pet fishing bird, who dislikes loud noises. [Voyager]

  †Lord Pitsligo (m)—a Jacobite supporter, who raised men for Charles Stuart. [Dragonfly]

  †Plato—M. Fleche’s medical assistant.

  Pollyanne—a slave recently acquired from Africa, with a talent for healing and the use of herbs. Living in the slave quarters near the sawmill, she provides both excuse and scapegoat for the murder of Lissa Garver in the mill. In order to save her from execution under the law of bloodshed, the Frasers smuggle her away to the mountains, where John Quincy Myers helps her find a place of refuge among the Tuscarora. [Drums]

  Pompey—one of the slaves working at River Run’s turpentine camp; disfigured in a pitch explosion. [Drums]

  Captain Portis—captain of one of Jared’s ships. [Dragonfly]

  Elias Pound—the young seaman who helps Claire during the typhoid epidemic on board the Porpoise, before dying of the disease himself. [Voyager]

  M. and Mme. Prudhomme—members of the French Court, who attend the Royal stud at Argentan with Jamie and Claire. [Dragonfly]

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  Colonel Harry Quarry12—John Grey’s predecessor as Governor of Ardsmuir Prison. [Voyager]

  Don Francisco de la Quintana—Spanish envoy, sent by Phillip of Spain to assess the Jacobite Rising. [Dragonfly]

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  Captain Raines—captain of the Artemis; drowned in a storm off Hispaniola. [Voyager]

  Madame de Ramage—friend of Louise de Rohan. [Dragonfly]

  Georges, Vicomte de Rambeau—a Court fop with an eye for the ladies; husband of the jealous Vicomtesse. [Dragonfly]

  La Vicomtesse de Rambeau—a noble lady of violent and jealous temperament; much given to the use of spells and poison. [Dragonfly]

  Alexander Randall—younger brother of Jonathan Randall; a curate in the employ of the Duke of Sandringham. Mary Hawkins’s lover, and the father of her child. [Dragonfly]

  Brianna Ellen Randall—daughter of Claire and Frank Randall—and of Claire and Jamie Fraser. Later married to Roger MacKenzie, mother of John Jeremiah Alexander Fraser MacKenzie. [Dragonfly, Voyager, Drums]

  Claire Beauchamp Randall—wife of Frank Randall. A nurse during World War II, she later becomes chief of surgery at a large Boston hospital. Later widowed, but a successful doctor and mother, she brings her daughter to the Scottish Highlands, returning after an absence of twenty years, to reveal the secrets of the past. [All]

  Franklin Wolverton Randall—Claire’s husband, Frank; a professional historian with a deep interest in the eighteenth century. [All]

  Jonathan Wolverton Randall (“Black Jack”)—Frank Randall’s six-times great-grandfather, a captain in the English army; a man of violence and perverse desires. [Outlander, Dragonfly, Voyager]

  William Randall (m)—eldest of the three Randall brothers; a minor baronet, from Sussex. [Voyager]

  Mr. Ransom—a broker who handles the sale of indentured servants in Inverness. [Drums]

  Dr. Daniel Rawlings—original owner of the medicine chest Jamie gives Claire as an anniversary present. Dr. Rawlings disappeared under mysterious circumstances, leaving his instruments and casebook behind. [Drums]

  Master Raymond—a small, mysterious apothecary, who seems to know a great deal regarding secret matters, both political and occult. [Dragonfly]

  Reilly the Leinsterman (m)—fellow prisoner with Jamie Fraser at Wentworth; expert in lock-picking. [Outlander]

  Roberts—one of Stephen Bonnet’s associates, who with his companions, robs the Frasers on their way upriver to Cross Creek. [Drums]

  Mme. Melisande Robicheaux—Geillis Duncan’s alias, while living in Paris following her escape from Cranesmuir. See also “Gillian Edgars,” “Geillis Duncan,” and “Mrs. Abernathy.” [Voyager]

  Janet Robinson—witness at witch-trial. [Outlander]

  Roderick (and Willie)—stable-lads. [Outlander]

  Rodney (m)—a twentieth-century teenage acquaintance of Brianna’s, whose appearance in a photograph rouses Jamie’s fatherly suspicions. [Voyager]

  †Jules de Rohan (m)—cuckolded husband of Louise, Princesse de Rohan. [Dragonfly]

  †Princesse Louise de La Tour de Rohan (aka Marie-Louise-Henriette-Jeanne de La Tour d’Auvergne). Claire’s best friend in Paris; Charles Stuart’s lover, and mother of his (supposed) son, Henri. [Dragonfly]

  Rollo—Young Ian’s dog. Rollo is a gigantic wolf-cross, acquired by Ian as a gambling prize in Charleston. Large, fierce, and devoted to his master, he thrives in the wilderness, and accompanies his master to a new life with the Iroquois. [Drums]

  Sister Marie Romaine—Brianna’s fifth-grade teacher.13 [Drums]

  Ross the smith—a blacksmith from Broch Mordha. [Dragonfly]

  †Mayer Rothschild,14 15—A traveling numismatist and coin dealer from Frankfurt, who meets Jamie and Claire at the house on the Rue Tremoulins in Paris, where he gives them the clue (the gold tetradrachm) that connects the Duke of Sandringham with a Jacobite plot. [Voyager]

  Duchesse de Rouen—a member of the French nobility. [Dragonfly]

  Rufus—an obstreperous slave, frequently in trouble, whose calamitous career ends with a fight with Byrnes, the overseer. By the law of bloodshed, the slave is condemned to death, but he is lynched by Byrnes and his companions before the law can deal with him. Arriving too late to prevent the incident, and unable to save the man, Claire administers atropine, a deadly poison, to hasten his death and cut short his suffering. [Drums]

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  Clarence Marylebone (Duke of Sandringham)—an acquaintance of Colum MacKenzie’s; an English noble whose political sympathies and sexual preferences are highly suspect; he dabbles in coin collecting, murder, and politics, and eventually pays the price of his chicanery, at the hands of Murtagh FitzGibbons Fraser. [Outlander, Dragonfly]

  a sempstress—makes a dress of cream-colored silk for Claire to wear to dinner with Baron Penzler; may then have told one of Stephen Bonnet’s associates about the jewels carried by the Frasers. [Drums]

  Comte Sevigny—French nobleman. [Dragonfly]

  †Thomas Sheridan (m)—Charles Stuarts tutor. [Dragonfly]

  Geordie Silvers (m)—husband to Katherine Murray; son-in-law to Ian and Jenny Murray; father of Josephine. [Drums]

  Josephine Silvers—eldest daughter of Katherine Murray Silvers; granddaughter to Ian and Jenny Murray. [Drums]

  †(‡) John Simpson Jr.—a famous Scottish swordsmith, son of Simpson Sr.

  †(‡) John Simpson Sr.16—a famous Scottish swordsmith.

  Ronnie Sinclair—one of the ex-prisoners from Ardsmuir who takes up home-steading on Frasers Ridge; a cooper, whose skill in making whisky casks earns him his land and shop. The coopers shop is a focus for gossip and news from the surrounding countryside. [Drums]

  Junior Smoots—son of the Blue Bull’s landlady; a lad with an eye for Lizzie. [Drums]

  Mrs. Smoots—landlady of the Blue Bull Inn, where Brianna and Lizzie stay in Wilmington. [Drums]

  Lloyd Stanhope—a landowner from Edenton, who is much taken by Claire at a dinner in Wilmington. [Drums]

  Georgina and Mr. Stephens (m)—acquaintances of Marcelline Williams; residents of Jamaica. [Voyager]

  Lawrence Stern—a German Jewish naturalist who meets Claire in the mangrove swamps of Hispaniola. [Voyager]

  †Stewart of Appin—a Jacobite chief. [Dragonfly]

  †Charles Edward Casimir Maria Sylvester Stuart, the Young Pretender— son of the Old Pretender, James III of Scotland, VIII of England. Heir to the exiled Catholic royal dynasty, and a young man bent on glory—no matter what the cost. [Dragonfly]

  †James Stuart, the Old Pretender (m)— James III of Scotland, VIII of England;
exiled Catholic monarch. [Dragonfly]

  Tom Sturgis—gunner aboard the Artemis. [Voyager]

  Sukie—housemaid at Lallybroch. [Voyager]

  Sykes—one of Lord John Grey’s soldiers at Ardsmuir. [Voyager]

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  Ta’wineonawira—Otter-Tooth; a rabble-rousing Iroquois, of unknown clan and tribe, who tried to instigate all-out war between the Nations of the Iroquois and the white settlers, only to be killed by the Mohawk as a troublemaker. Possibly the possessor of the skull (with silver fillings) that Claire finds buried under the roots of a red cedar. [Drums]