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Excerpt from The Clan Macmillan, 1901: Addresses Given at the Annual Gatherings, of the Clan Society
The name Maolan occurs in the Book of Deer in the possession of the University of Cam bridge, a manuscript version of the Gospels in the vernacular Gaelic of i the period, which cannot be later than the ninth century. On the margin and vacant spaces of the volume are numerous references to the territorial pos sessions of the monastery to which the book belonged, and to the circumstances in which St. Columba founded the monastery. It also contains information regarding the division of the Celtic population into clans, whose names it gives, and also regarding the patriarchal state of society before the feudal system had arisen to obliterate all the ancient tenures and customs. As the Book of Deer belonged to the region where the Macmillans are said to have originated, there is every likelihood that it is to them that reference is made; and if so, the clan can claim a very respectable antiquity indeed. Beyond the casual mention of the name, we have no authentic record of the early origin of the clan, or any trace of the original name which they bore. For it may be presumed that they had another name, the clan - name being a nickname or an official designation. The Dewars were so called from.
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